Last update was close to the end of Summer 2018 and now it's almost Summer 2019. Let's rewind and start our update with Jacob's TENTH birthday and our Sherman family beach trip to Bethany. We were so fortunate this year because we saw ALL of Mike's family's kid cousins in one week (that's 10 kid cousins - Jacob is the oldest at 10 and Amelia is the youngest at 3.5)!
Just in case you're wondering this is a homemade 2 layer chocolate cake, with chocolate icing, Kit Kat bars surrounding the perimeter of the cake, and the top filled with M&Ms. Yep.
What a lucky Nana and what lucky grandkids!
Here's the whole MD/NY Sherman/Wulfow crew
Silly Millie
Uncle Harris and Aunt Jane brought Joel and Jen's kids Henry, Ada and Oliver to the beach for the day!
Another summer's end. Next, back to school.
Anne, Mike, Jacob (10), Owen (8), Amelia (3.5)
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For the (birthday) record books:
At the start of this new decade, Jacob has grown a LOT. Literally. He had a big growth spurt this year. He applied to be a 5th grade patrol at his school which he did every single day through rain, sleet, heat, and snow - walking himself the half mile to school, standing at the corner being genial and telling children when to walk or not. He also continues to love love love sports and this year we made the inconvenient decision to allow him to play soccer, baseball AND flag football for the fall. We continued this plan into spring, with a short basketball season claiming our weekends in the winter.
Perhaps I say this every year but at least he's consistent - Jacob is full of life and energy and persistence and curiosity... He can talk to anybody and does 😉 and is really one of the kindest souls, which is slightly in conflict with his almost constant effort to antagonize his younger brother. He loves to write, loves history and math, and of course PE. He hates eating breakfast foods (which makes our mornings interesting), and his favorite food is either tacos or really any form of cheese and bread or a burger with a special mayo he concocted and has been working to perfect. He keeps us on our toes and fills our lives with lots of love, laughter, ideas we would never have thought of, questions we often don't have answers to, a side of aggravation and shaking heads, all while feeling so lucky that he gets to be our Jacob.
