The Great (???) Rutland Fair

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

First Day Ever!

Jacob started school on Wednesday.  He couldn't wait to go and bounced across the parking lot holding my hand saying, "I'm so excited!"  Dawn said he talked about it all afternoon.  When I picked him up he was pretty tired and less talkative... he told me, "I listened!"  What a good boy!  He also said he played with Carter (apparently they had to be separated because they (mostly Jacob) got a little too excited).  He said they had two cookies and milk for snack and sang songs.  :-)

School...

Tomorrow starts a new chapter for Jacob with his first day of school!  I can't believe it's already time, but he is very ready to go (me- not so much!).  Recently he has become very interested in drawing, writing, and tracing letters.  His fine motor is improving and he can trace some letters.  He usually colors over them after tracing them, but it's a start.  He has also learned quite a few letter names.  He has a place mat with the alphabet on it and likes to talk about each letter and name someone whose name starts with the letter.  He even point out letters on signs when we are driving... "There's an 'M' for Mama!"  The other day he pointed to a 'W' in a book we were reading and said it was an 'M' for Mama.  When I told him it was actually a 'W' he took the book and turned it over and said, "Look, now it's an M!"  Pretty cool, huh?!  I'm impressed.  Among several others, he knows: D for Dada, G for Grammie and Grampa,  O is for Old Grammie, P for Pili, Pops, and Papa, J for Jacob, R for Ryan, S for snow, T for Ted, and Z for Zachy.  When he gets to the O for Old Grammie he says he wants to move it next to the G, for Old Grammie!  He has also started playing some word games.  When I told Ted that Pili was "driving me nuts!" the other day, Jacob said, "Pili is driving you doughnuts?"  "Pili is driving you peanuts? coconuts?"  It was so funny and he knew it!  His counting has also improved and he no longer goes from 7 to 11.  :-)

End of Summer..

 

Preschool Open House

 Today was Jacob's open house at Grace Preschool.  He is in Mrs. Hamilton's class on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday mornings, starting next Wednesday.  He was so excited and had a lot of fun.  I cannot believe our BABY is starting school!!

Car Art...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jacob got a new book from his friends Sumomo and Sou.  He asked me to read it to him, but most of it is in Japanese, so I told him we'd have to bring it to the beach and have them read it to him.  He then proceeded to take it from me and tell me that he knows Japanese.  He started pointing to the words and counting in Japanese.  LOL!

I cannot figure out why my videos won't show up when using Windows Internet Explorer, but will with Mozilla Firefox... frustrating!

July 31

I cannot believe it's the end of July!  Why does summer have to go so fast?!?
 

A friendly game of shuffle board... of course Jacob won! 

 

 

It was very windy... the sand was blowing!