May 26, 2006 Jacobs First Birthday

After his nap it was time for lunch. We went to McDonalds so Jacob could play in the kids room. He tried fries for the first time and liked them. Daddy took him through the tunnels and he looked at me from the top and smiled. He and Daddy went down the slide. Afterwards we went to see Grandma at the rehab. She looked so much better than the last time I saw her, which was right before her surgery. She gets up to walk with help and a walker. She was very happy to see Jacob on his birthday since she is going to be unable to attend his party. We closed the door to her room so he could walk around. Jacob was having fun crawling up and down on the cot in her room. We had a very nice time there and really enjoyed seeing Grandma. On our way home we stopped for ice cream cones from McDonalds. I shared mine with Jacob. It was time for dinner when we got home. At ~9:30pm Jared's parents arrived. We watched Jacob walk around outside and looked at the flowers. We went inside and Jacob opened his presents from Grandma and Grandpa Russell. He got a bright red Radio Flyer wagon which Jared put together right away. Jacob crawled through the box like a tunnel. Once the wagon was together we put Jacob in and Jared pulled him around the house. When he stopped pulling Jacob would move his body to try and get the wagon to move. The other present was a beautiful quilt made by Grandma Russell. It has Sunbonet Sue and Suspender Sam on it and their doing different things like holding a horse wipp, fishing, holding a balloon and several other poses. I think Jacob reconized it because of his wall hanging in his bedroom of the same characters. He kept walking over it or sitting on it and he pointed to different things on it. He hung out their til it was time for bed.

Kimmy