Beautiful Father's Day Picture

We left Cleveland at about 12:30 so we could meet Jessica and Boette at the new park between Pitt and CMU. The park has this awesome carousel and on Sunday the rides were free! Josh isn't sure that Jacob loves the carousel---and Josh gets a little queesy. But when the ride stopped I got this great picture! After the carousel ride we met up with Jessica and Boette. They took Jacob to the Zany Umbrella Circus that was performing in the park. Jacob was a little afraid of a woman performing with a rope. It looked like she was going to fall, and he was scared for her. It was also really hot, so Jessica and Boette took him home on the bus. The bus was probably his favorite ride of the whole day. He's still talking about it!

Jacob and the sprinkler

It was hot when we were in Cleveland. After a Father's Day breakfast of popovers and strawberry jam Brenda turned on the sprinkler and played soccer with Jacob. Jacob was a little anxious about the water at first, but as you can see he started tinkering with the sprinkler itself! We forgot to pack an extra shirt for Jacob, so in these pictures he is wearing one of Thihan's shirts! Jacob called it his "dress."

Jacob visits cousin Zarni on Father's Day!

On Saturday, June 17th Jacob, Josh and I drove to Cleveland to see Brenda, Thihan and baby Zarni (Zahn-ee). Jacob and Zarni really got along well. Zarni smiled one of the biggest smiles I saw all weekend when Jacob peered at him. Jacob kissed him several times, and asked many times if he could hold him. Zarni has turned into a very mellow baby. He likes to say "Agooo" and he likes his new swing, and he loves being near his mom and dad. Brenda sings "You are my sunshine" to him and Thihan talks to him in Burmese.

Planting Herbs at the Cyert Center

On June 7th I (Josh) helped the young toddler classroom plant a garden of herbs for them to sniff! We planted Rosemary, Basil, Sage, and Lemon Balm. It was a bit of a battle between the adults and the children. We had to keep them from tearing the leaves off all of the plants, keep them from knocking over the bags of dirt (Jacob managed to topple one), and keep them from shoveling dirt from the pots back into the bags. There were some good moments, however. It was satisfying when I finally got Jacob to sniff his fingers after rubbing sage leaves between them. He was surprised that there was any good reason to sniff his fingers.