I went to mommy's work's Christmas party today. It was so fun. I went in bouncy castles and slides, ate lots of candy, cookies, deep-fried mac n cheese and a hot dog. There was a kid's stage with holiday music, face painting and caricatures, and a toddler area with cars and trucks and lots of toys. I had so much playing for four hours straight that the last picture is what I looked like after I was in the van for about two minutes - conked out! love Jacob
Mommy bought me a new shovel and I finally got to use it last weekend when it snowed in Calgary. So I got daddy to go out with me so we could shovel the sidewalk and the driveway. I thought shoveling seemed pretty easy so I don't know why daddy thinks it's a pain in the butt. After we were done shoveling we got to make a snowman. There are no final pictures of the snowman because it never really got finished (I think daddy needs a bit more practice - it's been a while since he's made a snowman). I can't wait for it to snow again so I can use my shovel. love Jacob
Mommy and daddy took me to see a movie at the movie theatre! We went to see Madagascar Escape to Africa - I loved it! We went with my friends David and Thea and my yaya came too. I sat on a booster seat, and got my own popcorn, pop and chocolate egg. Except dad put my chocolate egg in the drink holder and it fell through the hole and then rolled down between all the seats so I actually never got to eat my egg. I got a little restless halfway through the movie so mommy took me to the potty but then I came back and watched the rest of the movie. I keep talking about going to the movie theatre so I think we're going back again to see Bolt next week. love Jacob
I had Jacob in Edmonton for a week and we were busy. Everyday we played hockey. My nephew cut down a hockey stick for him so it was a better size for him to whack the ball than those little wussy sticks he had. I had to use those. We went over to the neighbors one night and Trudy had this black basket full of cat toys for her kittens. Well Jacob loved this basket. He immediately chucked the cats toys and started calling it his hockey helmet, and was wearing it on his head. We kinda chuckled and when we went to leave he wouldn’t part with the basket, so Trudy told him he could take it home. He insisted on sleeping with it. Well the next morning when I took him out on the driveway to hit balls, he wouldn’t play hockey without his helmet. So I had to get the basket and he wore it on his head. He slept with it, bathed with it, and held it while he watched T.V. He also wouldn’t let anyone try it on. No one! I remembered that I had a blue LA baseball helmut of Rob's in the basement, so I got it out, cleaned it up and gave it to Jacob a couple of days later. He loved it. Now he relinquished the black goalies helmet for me to wear and he put on the blue one. We play hockey on my driveway, so I really did not want to wear his helmut but he insisted. Now is that passion or what?? So now the neighbors have proof that I am a basket case. I also had to dump the recycle blue box so he could shoot the puck into the net. He shoots he scores. love Jacob's baba.
Ok I have never laughed so hard in my life as when Jacob went on his first roller coaster ride (he's in the middle taking it all quite seriously at this point). The roller coaster actually went pretty fast and he was holding on so tight to the handle and swinging around the corners with his head jerking from side to side. My cheeks hurt from laughing so much. He loved it! He actually wanted to go on the big roller coaster at Calaway Park but I told him he's not big enough yet. This child has no fear of rides but yet he's scared of any little animal that crosses his path (ok I was the same when I was little so I can't blame him - and I think his dad was scared of animals and rides!) Well we thoroughly enjoyed our season's pass to Calaway Park and will definitely do it again next year! love Jacob's mommy
Hi everyone - Here are some picture from my recent visit to Sparwood, B.C., to see my baby cousin Cameron. Sparwood has the biggest truck in the world, which I was very excited about. Here's a picture of Cameron and I sitting in the huge wheel! It was a really good visit and I had lots of fun hangin' with my cuz! love jacob
Ok much belated again... Mommy's fault - she said it's because she's pregnant but she always has these big gaps in my blog. This is us at the Turkish Festival and unfortunately you can actually see the date so we're really dating ourselves. This is our ode to our Turkish friends back in London - Ozgur, Basak and Burcu! Mommy says I'm half Turkish because I went to Turkey when I was in mommy's tummy and I went again when I was three months old. Mommy also ate a lot of Turkish food while she was pregnant and after I was born because our Turkish neighbours would always bring us food. Well the Turkish festival was alright - it was their first year so we'll see how it is next year. But mommy and I ate lots of gozleme (which is like a tortilla with feta and parsley) and I loved it - YUMMY! After the festival, we went into Prince's Island Park and I played at the park for a long time. It was a very nice day. love jacob
Howdy pardners! Today I went to the Calgary Stampede - the greatest outdoor show on earth. For everyone that's not from Calgary, it's 10 crazy days filled with rides, rodeo and lots of drinking (I was just drinking water). Mommy and daddy took me to kiddieland where there were lots of rides. I went on a helicopter, motorbike, rollercoaster, a topsy turvy boat, merry go round, jeep and a huge slide (where daddy looked more scared than I did coming down). Most of the rides I did on my own but daddy came with me on some of them. We had burgers and french fries and mommy had a frozen banana covered with chocolate (she doesn't recommend it as the chocolate wasn't great quality...) But they have tonnes of fun food like pizza on a stick, deep-fried oreos, pretzels, fiddlesticks, elephant ears, fresh lemonade and I can't forget the mini donuts! Well for anyone reading this outside of Calgary - come visit us next year for the Calgary Stampede - we'll have a blast! Don't forget your cowboy hat. YEEHAW!
My Daddy bought this shirt for me when we were living in London, England. He was doing some work in Istanbul, Turkey and picked this up for me as a gift. It was too big but he knew one day it would fit. And today it finally fits!
This popcorn sweater I'm wearing is my great aunty nancy's sweater from when she was a young gaffer like me! My uncle jonny and my uncle jesse used to wear it too and now it's my turn! My great aunty nancy (or nanti as I call her) is holding me in the second picture. Aunty nancy came for a visit from Vancouver for the weekend and it was so nice to see her! love jacob
