‘Jacob’s Creativity’

If you compress into one thought the entire world of Disney, Pixar, VeggieTales, PBS Kids, Jimmy Neutron, The Boss Baby, songs on Q99, Wheel of Fortune, WDBJ7 from 6pm – 8pm, Wallace & Gromit, and years of our family adventures, you’d have one very creative imagination. Jacob will take all of these and create stories, puzzles, posters, and adventures.

He will sit at his computer and make the most elaborate characters from different areas and put them into different backgrounds. He will add his own words to it, print it out, staple them together, and then bring them to me to read reminiscent of our reading together when he was a toddler.

Jacob will sing songs to the best of his understanding. At times, he will change the words wanting you to catch him. He will laugh and sing the correct version. Sometimes his creativity will be ill placed. One beautiful summer day, we were driving with the windows down in a small town of Buena Vista. We were stopped behind cars at a traffic light when a female mail carrier walked past us. She waved, but Jacob did not see her and started singing Hall & Oates Rich Girl. Except, the line he sang was perfectly awkward. I hung my head low thinking she would be offended, she laughed, and Jacob kept singing.

Jacob loves to destroy ballpoint pens. He takes the ink and uses it to decorate walls, carpet, his hands, and his clothes. He will take the springs and stretch them as straight as possible using his teeth. He came into the bedroom and calmly said, “I’m stuck.” Patti went to the garage and grabbed my wire cutters, and I became a dentist for a split second. He is alright of course, but this incident will not stop him from doing it again.

Our world is never dull. Jacob has a brilliant personality. Come visit his gallery, he is a true artist.

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