I guess it's a little late

But here's your FHE idea for today!  It's so dear. 

And hopefully your kids aren't prone to crawling all over the couch and fake burping...they might get more out of it that way.  Even if they are that way, I defy them to not take a little something away from this.

Yeah...

...we know him.


















We also (obviously) occasionally buy into blatant commercialism.

And we often dance.

Almost Like You Were There

A casual afternoon throwing rocks into Lake Michigan.

Which throw of Jacob's has the best form? How about the best face?







I have two words for you: wind up.

Here's Nicholas's simple, drama-free throw.



And, in honor of Father's Day, here's the father of my children giving his best impression of the pitching stance of Bronson Arroyo (Arroyo's pitch is right at the beginning).



These pictures were taken by Matt's brother Garrett (Unkie G) on his fancy new camera. The camera has a sport mode with which one may take several pictures per second. Perhaps a regular video would show as much, but the frame by frame has real charm.

Garrett is moving to Australia to get married (to Rhada). We are so happy for him, but sad for us as he'll be pretty far away. We love you Garrett and Rhada! Congratulations!














Garrett's camera and skills also captured this precious picture of Nico. Sigh.

One Man Band

Jacob's been a very musical boy lately.

He sings the typical LDS-child canon: "I am a child of God", "As I have loved you", and "Popcorn popping on the papercut tree". He also likes to sing requests (demands) to the tune of "Sing a song". Example: "I want some milk, I want some milk, I want some milk, milk, milk, milk, milk, milk." Sometimes he even replaces a few "milks" with "please". He makes a mother proud.

But now, but now this mother is extremely proud. I have always enjoyed some good-natured scatting. You know, adding a little drum or guitar never hurt anyone. It's not a cool habit, but I guess it's a part of my make-up that I'm passing on to my young.

I really like his choice of song. You will too. I've embedded it to the right for your enjoyment sans Jacob's enhancements. (Notice how in the middle of the first video Jacob takes a break to exclaim, "car transporter!")



Here he is being traditional and singing with the words a bit.



He is one cool scatting cat.

Peek-a-boo

With a bit of interpretive dance to boot!

(And don't worry, I actually do put pants on Jacob.  Just not on that day, or very many other days.)

Hardy Har Har

My Body Makes Music!!!

That's right. But don't worry, this is not one of those posts. It's merely the first line of Jacob's new favorite song! It's called "Mi Cuerpo" [My Body]. I have used this song in every Spanish class I've taught. Here's the translation:

My body, my body, it makes music;
My body, my body, it makes music.
My hands go [clap, clap, clap],
My feet go [stomp, stomp, stomp],
My mouth goes "la, la, la",
and my body, "cha cha cha".



He's bilingual!