Jacob ate carrots for the first time today, at 27 weeks old. Unlike avocado, which he also tried this week, Jacob enthusiastically smeared the rice cereal-carrot goop all over his face, including some that made it in his mouth.
A very, very happy birthday to you, Amy!
(Since we are about to move, I didn't want to give Amy anything hard to carry. So this blog is Amy's birthday gift: for the next year, I will add one (or more) new photos of Jacob each week.) We all love you, Amy. Many happy returns of the day!
love, Mike
Note: this blog was started in October 2006. All previous entries are backdated to the day they were shot.
Jacob shows off his fabulous hand-knit roll-neck sweater, made by his aunt Sarah using wool from organically-fed hand-sheared sheep raised on the coast of Maine. Not yet 26 weeks old, and already the boy dresses to drool. If only his parents dressed so fashionably...
During a day hike on Governor’s Island, Jacob and Amy watch the sunset over Lake Mendota.
One afternoon after work, while Amy was in class, Jacob and I took self-portraits together in my office studio. (Unfortunately, Jacob would only look at the camera when someone stood behind it and made peculiar noises!)
Since an early age, this boy has shown an interest in other people's mouths; is there dentistry in his future or is it just a passing oral fixation?
Jacob meets baby goats on Kate Barnes' farm in West Sidney, Maine. He also enjoyed the chickens, cows, cats, dogs and sunflowers.
Jacob covets his mother’s bowl of cereal during breakfast in Vassalboro. At almost seventeen weeks old, Jacob has yet to try solid food, but he certainly pays attention to it when we eat!
Our family is in Maine to be with my ailing father-in-law John during the final days of his life. Yesterday, Jacob expressed how we are all feeling at the moment. Tonight I am sitting up with John, doing the 11 to 3 am vigil as he sleeps.
Jacob sits in his swing and plays with a bandana. He is 12 weeks old now and he has gotten good at grasping on to things. Does he have any idea what he is doing? Possibly.
Jacob lays in his crib and stares up at his new mobile. At eleven weeks old, he seems fascinated by how it starts and stops. He has started spending as long as 45 minutes every morning after he wakes up, happily babbling to himself and watching the mobile.
We had a family picnic dinner beside Lake Monona in Yahara Place Park. Jacob is almost 11 weeks old and likes to stare up at the trees.
Jacob and Mike celebrated their first Father's Day together with a feast at Bluephies and some mutual admiration.
