Jacob's 1st tooth

Jacob lost his first tooth tonight! It was his bottom right one. He was wrestling the pillows on our bed when one of the pillows caught his tooth and ripped it out. Jacob said the tooth fell into his mouth so he fished it out with his hand. He promptly said, "Look mom." He had a look of shock on his face. I of course was super excited. I think he was very surprised it came out because his eyes were wide and he was not smiling. When I looked in his mouth at the hole I could see it was bleeding quite a bit. I believe the tooth would have stayed in his mouth another week or so if it hadn't been pulled out. Anyway after his mouth stopped bleeding he was excited about his tooth.
As he was showing me the tooth again he dropped it. It landed on the rug, which is creamed colored! After looking for the tooth for a while I vacuumed it up with the vacuum. He proceeded to drop it a couple more times but we managed to find it.
We put the tooth in a fancy glass so he wouldn't lose it anymore and the Tooth Fairy would be able to find it.

Garbage sculpture

Jack brought home a "garbage sculpture" today from preschool. It was basically a paper cup with two que-tips sticking out of it held there by play dough. It was a nice little piece of abstract art. He was real happy with it.
When Jacob saw it he was intrigued. Jacob thought all the stuff was neat but wanted to know what it was. Jack replied, "it was garbage sculpture." Jacob asked again, "Ya, but what is it?" Jack repeated his answer. Jacob could not comprehend it wasn't something. I could see that he just needed to be something. He suggested to Jack maybe he should draw a face on it so that it could be a bunny, but Jack said no its a sculpture.
I can see both strength and weakness in Jacob's struggle to understand the garbage sculpture. His strength is that he works towards a complete representation of something. He needs the practical, concrete; he can use that to achieve much in life. His weakness is his struggle to understand why anyone would create something that does not attempt to represent reality. He is potentially missing great beauty in the world just because it isn't "real."

Halloween

Halloween 2013 was wonderful! This is the first year that I felt childhood in my house. All day long Jack and Jacob kept asking when we could go trick or treating, when Dad was going to be home, when we could go! I could feel their anticipation for trick or treating. They could hardly do anything because they were so looking forward to trick or treating. I remember as a kid thinking time took so long for exciting things like trick or treating or Christmas to actually happen. I think these are the years the boys may actually be able to remember.
This year Jacob was a rocket, Jack was Robin and Amelia was a princess. Each one of them was very proud of their costumes. If Jack saw someone he knew he would pull his mask up and say, "Its just me Jack, not really Robin." because he was convinced he truly embodied Robin. He is so cute!
Jacob and I made his costume this year from a box, tin foil, duc tape and construction paper. It was just up his ally to create his own costume. As we walked around several "big boys" told Jacob that they liked his costume. It made me happy for him because he had created it himself. He even had some grown-ups compliment him on it.
Amelia of course was a super cute princess. She would "princess spin" around. Almost every door said, "oh aren't you cute." After about the hundredth time she put her hand to her chest and said, "me cute!" This was Amelia's first Halloween of actually trick or treating, well she did fabulous! I brought the stroller just in case but she only briefly sat in it,. Most of the time she refused to sit in it and would have trick or treated all night if I had let her. I bet she walked for over an hour. Of course the person who wanted to ride in the stroller most was Jack.
As soon as we got back the kids dived into their candy. I don't even think they made it 6 steps into the door before flopping to the floor and digging in. We let them eat a bunch that night and watch Charlie Brown's The Great Pumpkin cartoon. It was a great Halloween!