It was a Jobe-Kalib kind of day
Monday, March 28, 2011 at 10:58AM 
I had thought that I might go somewhere Sunday, but I felt extremely lazy and Kalib and Jobe had come to the house with their mom so I decided to stay put and hang out with them.
Here is Margie and Jobe at breakfast - breakfast being eggs, hashbrowns, spam and wheat pancakes.
I guess Jobe must have proven too irresistible to his grandma. Regular viewers will note that something is different, here, than in the past. In the past, in such a situation, Jobe would invariably have been focused upon the grandpa that he adores.
Now he is looking elsewhere. At what?
It was the movie, How to Train Your Dragon. I was in Barrow on February 12 when Jobe turned one, but the family took him to The Bear Tooth that day to see this very film on the big screen while dining on pizza. I am told that he sat transfixed all the way through it - this despite the fact that by then, Kalib had already viewed the movie 2,392 times on the TV and Jobe must have picked up on some of that.
Jobe remains transfixed by the movie, but, still, he does not altogether ignore the presence of his grandpa.
As for Kalib, he has now seen this movie 5,969 times - and he watches it again - intently, because one never knows what might happen, this time.
;)
"Yay for the dragons!" Dragons are really good guys, you know - gentle at heart.
After the movie, Jobe turned his attention to the little vacuum cleaner.
Jobe and the vacuum cleaner.
I kept thinking that this was the day he was going to take his first step, and I kept my camera ready.
He didn't take it. Undoubtedly, he will already be walking the next time I see him and I will have missed that first step. I hope his parents get to see it.
What if it happens when he is at daycare?
Reader Comments (8)
Seconds, minutes, hours, days away???
Dragons are the best....love seeing the Boys
From working in a daycare for years ( a long time ago)... I never told a parent that a child took their first steps in the classroom... If they did take their first steps, I would tell them that evening that they seemed very close, and that it should happen soon...
Usually they came in the next day all excited that their child had walked at home.... All parents should have that pleasure for themselves, so I would never rob them of it...
Awww...how sweet ! How old are both , Kalib and Jobe ?
I like Sallahdog's approach. It is very kind. We have to work. We try to capture and hold all those moments in our hearts and minds, because those special moments are what drives us to work even harder to provide as best we can for the children we have created.
Yipppeee.... Got to see Jobe and Kalib :) :)
J - As soon as it happens, we expect to see a text pic.
Twain - Yes, dragons are incredible. Thx!
sallahdog - that is a very good thing to do. We will try to imagine that no one at Jobe's daycare will follow the same practice, so that when we see him walk, we will know it was the first time.
Ramz - your little nephews are three years and three months old in the first instant and Jobe is 13 and a half months, plus a few days.
Debby - Yep. And don't feel too bad about missing those pictures because you got too caught up in the moment. That happened to me just the other day.
Suji - Yipppeee for sure! I will get more when I can, just for you.
i love that vacuum cleaner! jobe;s outfit in the first pic reminded me of some new stamps i bought today - similar vibrant colors - that say Celebrate!