The TV shows have been put on hold (and hopefully a few extra pounds) this last couple of weeks. Jacob's class came home with an assignment to build an Egyptian pyramid after a unit they studied in school. It was kind of fun, and a lot more work than the science experiment from earlier in the fall. He didn't wear the hat the whole time... It's got a sarcophagus with a mummy inside, canopic jars that the internal organs go in, and stuff to take with them to the afterlife. Jacob has a friend who lived in Egypt, his stuff will be way cool. Who knows, he may have authentic items (hopefully not the organs - yikes!) Now if only they would let us talk about what the Christian takes with him to the afterlife...Jesus!
The braces may look familiar - we are onto set #2. This is normal for the cleft kid. After two surgeries, one to repair the cleft and one bone graft to hold his teeth, teeth being pulled and a final set of braces we are beginning to see the end after 10 years. God has been gracious to us in Jacob's case. His mouth and bone structure looks good, his voice is normal, and he has a good attitude! Hopefully this will be the last of the major things, of course they always offer to fine tune him but we think he is pretty fine the way he is, we'll see down the road.
We also had a orchestra concert postponed from before Christmas with Frosty the Snowman and everything! Jacob plays the violin and has one more concert this year. He was fiddling pretty hard, almost looked like Charlie Daniels! He will probably move onto chorus next year (jr. high) like Laura and Blake did and give up the violin, but that's ok, we like his voice.
