Late 12th Birthday Celebration

 

The Walking Dead

50 mile bike ride

Cool kids - Silverstone Weeblos

Bike Training

Jacob and the 11 year old scouts are training for a 50 mile bike ride with their leaders, Brother & Sister Winder.  This was their first 10 mile ride.

 

Harry Potter turns 11

Jacobs birthday was so fun to plan. He really wanted to use the Harry Potter theme because he's been breezing through the HP books and loves them. We also wanted to heat up the pool and have a pool party - so we did both. The boys swam while we barbecued. When they were done eating we had an amazing game of quidditch with brooms from the dollar store - this seriously was the hit of the party!
Jacob is such a funny kid.....he almost always wakes up first in the family.   We have the birthday tradition of singing to the birthday person early, hopefully waking them up.  Well we gathered all the other kids and tip toed into Jacobs room.  Just before we started singing he popped up and said "Finally.....I've been waiting for you guys...."  It was so funny......  What a great day Jacob!

Jacob is 10 - Wow!

Jacob said he couldn't sleep the whole night before his birthday because he couldn't wait for us to wake him up singing happy birthday with presents in tow. This has been our family tradition since I was a kid. Our kids love starting their birthday day off this way too.
He was super excited when he opened our gift, a gift certificate to game Xchange where he could buy a Wii game that he has wanted for months. I caught him right when he was saying...."you guys got it"This picture just makes me laugh. After playing with his friends, getting all hyped up, we had cake and ice cream. Jacob was yelling, "sing to me, sing to me...." reminiscent of the phantom of the opera.....still cracks me up. All of the boys at the party are from Jacobs cub scout pack. One of their favorite cheers is the superman cheer..."is it a bird? Is it a plane? It's a bird"....and they splat their hand on their head pretending its bird poop! So they started making cheers about the cupcakes, which is what Jacob requested over a cake, unfortunately one ended up all over Jacobs face.
They were crazy, loud and hilarious. I think they all had a great time.

We Love our Cub Scouts

Jacob is so creative

Look what Jacob made out of an Apple. He is super creative! He loves to draw and is REALLY REALLY good. He got an idea from my new favorite obsession (PINTEREST.com). He spent quite a bit of time on this pirate skull. I think his work is amazing!

Jacobs Pinewood Derby

Jacob came home from scouts one night with tears in his eyes and told Sam and I that he had told his scout leaders he would not be participating in the pinewood derby this year because, quote "we are too busy, my dad has busy season and my mom teaches zumba now" awwww tear! I told him of course he would have a car for the race and there was nothing that would keep us from giving him the time he needed to be part of the derby.

Now, last year was our first experience of making a car together. Jacob drew on his block and then we hacked at it and let him sand it all off. I did make the mistake of putting the weights on the bottom of the carriage so when it hit the end of the race ramp, it sort of bottomed out - oops!

This year Jacob found a design he liked online and got some help from our good friend Val Hancock, who also made Ryan a car while he was at it. He was super proud of how it looked and he did really well in the race.

Scout Camp - 2011

Remember when.....

...my babies were little

Cub Scout Day Camp

Scouting About

Jacob LOVES Boy Scouts. There's 5 boys his age that are good friends and attend scouts together. We drive carpool with three of them and I'm here to testify that they're a rowdy bunch and I honestly don't know how the Wilcox's control them for den meetings. I have *often* yelled at them on the way home from school to "SHUUSH UP" because I can't hear myself on the phone, and Baili just rolls her eyes now and tells me to hurry it up to get them all home. lol

However.....I love that they are good kids and have great bonds with each other. I think having good friends in your life is so important. It's nice that Jacob has a core group of fun boys to do stuff with.

We had a great time at Blue & Gold Dinner this year. The scouts were each arrested and put in Jail until someone "vouched" for them and they got out. Jacob was awarded the "MOST STITCHED UP award" because of his recent visit to the hospital for stitches.

I CAN READ!!!!

Jacob is pretty sure a miracle just took place. He read a whole book after school today! I have to say I was impressed! He's such a smart little guy and passed off his sight word soldiers for kindergarten last year....... But a whole book - what just happened????

Five Little Monkeys!!!

He read it like 4 times.......

I'm in shock and the boy is a genius!