Duba

Duba
Last night (Jan 29) I (Josh) was reading a book called What do you do? to Jacob. On the last page of the book it says "What do you do?" When we got to this page Jacob pointed at the 'W' at the beginning of 'What' and said "Duba" - his word for 'W'. He then said "wuh...wuh," the sound that w makes, which he learned from a little refrigerator toy his Grandma Gregson gave him.

Bye Bye

After an exciting birthday morning, which involved waffles with lots of syrup, opening an airport from his Aunt Jessica, and a vintage Fisher Price airplane from Nana and Papa, and his Jay Jay books, clothes and pictures from Grandma, a book from his friend Charlie, and a soft Bunnie from Aunt Brenda and Uncle Thihan, and a plane with legos in it from Dick and Janet, and an alphabet book from Mom, and then a trip to the Science Center with Silas, Jacob spent about 45 minutes in his crib before finally settling down for his nap.

He woke up at 3:30 and played with Mom (me) while I cleaned the kitchen and tried to put the Brio airport together. At one point Jacob said "Bye Bye" and headed towards the front door of the house. I said, "where are you going?" And he said "to work." It made me sad, but it made me laugh, too.

Birthday Trip with Two 2-year-olds

On Sunday, January 29th we assembled Jacob, Silas, Kathy, Josh, Kellie, Mike, Jessica, Boette, and Bob and Martha (Kellie's parents) for a few hours at the Science Center. The Lionel trains were a crowd favorite. Jacob crawled under the railing to get closer to the trains and another little girl, about 8 years old, yelled at him, saying "don't do that." Jacob burst into tears and was pretty sad until he and Josh started wandering around the Hollywood science exhibit.

On the fourth floor we found water. We took a lot of pictures up there. After about an hour we went down to the cafeteria and had cake and cupcakes. The boys were more excited about having the cake than they were about eating it. Jacob smeared his all over his jacket. Silas got frosting in his hair. It was wonderful for our two families to be together to celebrate this important milestone!

Jacob's Birthday Flight over Pittsburgh

The picture on the bottom right captures how Jacob spent most of our flight time on Saturday afternoon. He stayed glued to the view out the window, pointing out times when he say "moke" (smoke) and "vagas" (waters). He seemed a little frighted for the first 30 seconds after take off, but afterwards he really settled down. He was extremely sad when he had to get out of the plane, and even more sad when we had to leave the airport.

In the second picture (above) our pilot, Shannon, is holding Jacob so that Jacob could play with the steering gear. She worked hard to make him happy and comfortable. She brought him a cushion so he could see out the window, and she let him play with the dashboard for a long time when we were on the ground.

Why a Jacoblog

As Jacob Lawrence Newman's second birthday started to get closer I realized that I would like to be able to share pictures and stories about Jacob with his family members---especially his Grandmas, Grandpas, aunts and uncles, who live far from Pittsburgh. And so today I initiate the Jacoblog. It's a blog all about Jacob Lawrence Newman, born in Pittsburgh, 24 January 2004, at 12:01 PM. Hopefully Josh (Jacob's dad) and I will be able to add to this, every week or so, to keep Jacob's family in touch with our family. This might also be a cool way for us to keep track of Jacob's life for ourselves, and as a record for Jacob, too.

This morning was a pretty cool morning with Jacob. He started making a fuss in his crib when Josh got up to take a shower. I came in to get him up and he said "Hi" and "book." I took him over to his books but then he didn't seem interested in them anymore. So we went down stairs to have breakfast. While eating breakfast he pointed to the cookbooks next to his high chair and said "cookbooks." When I was cracking eggs into the pan he said "crack." After I gave him his medicine he said "thank you." We watched the "whale song" episode of the Jay Jay the Jet Plane, and we got him dressed for school. He grabbed Josh's coffee off the dining room table right before we left for school...but Josh had put a lid on it so it didn't spill too much. Jacob said "coffee." He is very interested in our coffee, especially since we got a latte machine for Christmas. Josh put Jacob into the back seat of his car and Jacob climbed into the seat all by himself. It was a good morning. I was grumpy (Josh called me the "grouchy lady bug") but Jacob was super sweet and fun.