August Activities

Jakob finished the summer with a lot of fun activities! On August 2nd, we visited his NICU friend, Sophie, and swam in their pool.  Then we went to Thies Farm to buy some peaches and Jakob enjoyed playing on the slide and tire swing!  On August 4th, Jakob started his first day of school in the preschool room.  He loved his new backpack and the transition went smoothly.  He loves the animals in his new room - fish and gerbils!  On August 12th, we attended the International Dinner in his two-year old room to celebrate the end of the International Summer.  We ate yummy food from all the different countries he learned about and watched a video of the summer activities.  

Jakob enjoyed a couple of days with Nana and PaPa on August 14th and 15th.  They had so much fun together!  Then on Saturday, August 16th, Mom brought Jakob to work and he enjoyed sitting in Mama's guest chair in her office and eating his special treat - a donut that he picked out at Dunkin' Donuts!  He was really excited to take a tour of the office and enjoyed coloring on the papers in Mom's office.  So much fun for a rainy Saturday morning!  Other fun activities for the month included dancing in the rain, watching the recycling truck on Wednesday mornings in the driveway before school, playing with the neighbors--Sakhed, Sahasra, Rohan and Navin, and lots of pool time at the condo pool with Mommy!  Jakob has become quite the little fish swimming around on his raft and used his engineer skills to rig the noodle on to his raft so Mom could swim along too.  

Tire Swing at Thies Farm

First Day of School

Watching the Recycling Truck

Dancing in the Rain with Mommy

End of the International Summer Program

International Summer Festival

Riding in the Jeep with the Neighbors--The Three Musketeers

Devouring the Donut with Pink Icing (his choice) in Mommy's office

The newest way to water plants on the deck (when no one is looking)

Learning to drive the car with Daddy

Cool Dude! Enjoying sun bathing time with Mommy

Birthday Festivities

Jakob was very excited about his 3rd birthday, talking about it for a couple of weeks before the actual date. He celebrated on July 24th with cupcakes at school and then presents and an ice cream cone with Mom and Dad. He had another birthday celebration on July 27th with Nana, PaPa and Uncle Joe with a construction zone birthday cake and a trip to the Museum of Transportation where he got to ride the train and look at all of the cars!  He was very intrigued by the water fountain at the museum - his first time seeing and trying one of those. Lots of fun!

Yummy sherbet and vanilla ice cream cone

Opening the Barnyard play set from Noni and Lito

 Thanks Noni and Lito for the cool chair with the umbrella!

Construction Zone Birthday Cake

Happy 3rd Birthday Jakob!

Waiting for the train at the Museum of Transportation

Trying out the water fountain for the first time

July 4th Weekend

Jakob had a big time over July 4th weekend.  We started the celebration on July 3rd with the local fireworks.  We parked in a church parking lot around 7 pm and walked to get ice cream at Fritz' to kill some time.  He enjoyed playing with the neighbors on the playground while we waited for the fireworks to start at 9:15.  He loved the fireworks display, saying "I like those" and "They look like bubbles".   On July 4th we enjoyed playing outside and went to another local church for bounce houses and snow cones.  On Saturday, we went to visit Maddie and Ms. Catrina at the apartment pool where they were staying.  Jakob enjoyed playing with Maddie and found a new love of "swimming" with the raft.  On Sunday, he enjoyed a visit from PaPa, Nana and Uncle Joe.  Mommy made homemade ice cream and peach cobbler and he gobbled it up.  It was an ice cream weekend!  So much fun!

 

 

Mommy and Jakob enjoying ice cream

 

 

Daddy and Jakob

 

Jakob and Mommy enjoying the fireworks

 

 

Enjoying the bounce houses

 

At the pool with Maddie