{"id":224,"date":"2014-09-01T18:43:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-01T18:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carla.romere.com\/?p=224"},"modified":"2014-09-01T18:43:00","modified_gmt":"2014-09-01T18:43:00","slug":"a-beautiful-imagination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carla.romere.com\/?p=224","title":{"rendered":"A Beautiful Imagination"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_230\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-230\" style=\"width: 576px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/carla.romere.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/20140831_111400.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-230 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/carla.romere.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/20140831_111400-e1409596757952-576x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Jacob Henry Welter\" width=\"576\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-230\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jacob Henry Welter<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>My nephew, Jacob Henry Welter, just may have the most active imagination I have seen recently anywhere. My sister bought a new iPad Air yesterday. They come packed in a couple of layers of Styrofoam that are the same size as the iPad itself. As Donna was unpacking her iPad, Jacob saw the two sheets of Styrofoam laying there and asked if he could have them. He then disappeared for a little while. He came back and had created the world&#8217;s very first iFoam!! He had put the layers together along with the clear plastic sheeting that came with the screen protector for the iPad and had created his own iFoam!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_226\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-226\" style=\"width: 576px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/carla.romere.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/20140901_062546.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-226 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/carla.romere.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/20140901_062546-e1409595602984-576x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Front of iFoam\" width=\"576\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carla.romere.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/20140901_062546-e1409595602984-576x1024.jpg 576w, https:\/\/carla.romere.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/20140901_062546-e1409595602984-168x300.jpg 168w, https:\/\/carla.romere.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/20140901_062546-e1409595602984-393x700.jpg 393w, https:\/\/carla.romere.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/20140901_062546-e1409595602984.jpg 1836w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-226\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Front of iFoam<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>He had drawn on it the camera, the back button, the home, button, and every other button he could find on the real iPad and had duplicated that on his iFoam. Even included the front-facing camera.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_225\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-225\" style=\"width: 576px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/carla.romere.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/20140901_062557.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-225 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/carla.romere.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/20140901_062557-e1409595547855-576x1024.jpg\" alt=\"The JJ. H. Welter iFoam\" width=\"576\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carla.romere.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/20140901_062557-e1409595547855-576x1024.jpg 576w, https:\/\/carla.romere.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/20140901_062557-e1409595547855-168x300.jpg 168w, https:\/\/carla.romere.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/20140901_062557-e1409595547855-393x700.jpg 393w, https:\/\/carla.romere.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/20140901_062557-e1409595547855.jpg 1836w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-225\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The JJ. H. Welter iFoam<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>He named it the JJ. H. Welter iFoam in honor of his mother&#8217;s incredible infatuation with JJ Watt of the Houston Texans. Then he proceeded to &#8220;play&#8221; on his iFoam for HOURS yesterday evening. He even periodically came and put it next to my laptop &#8220;so it could charge.&#8221; He wrote apps. He wrote games. He got input from everyone in the house as to what Super Hero they wanted to play in his &#8220;game.&#8221; The first game he named &#8220;Clarence the Butt Cheeks.&#8221; I have no clue where he got that name, but in some form or fashion it included Super Heroes. He took pictures of the sunset. He took &#8220;selfies.&#8221; He amused himself with that for HOURS yesterday.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_227\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-227\" style=\"width: 576px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/carla.romere.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/20140901_065949.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-227 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/carla.romere.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/20140901_065949-e1409595655660-576x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Jacob Counting His &quot;Apps&quot;\" width=\"576\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carla.romere.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/20140901_065949-e1409595655660-576x1024.jpg 576w, https:\/\/carla.romere.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/20140901_065949-e1409595655660-168x300.jpg 168w, https:\/\/carla.romere.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/20140901_065949-e1409595655660-393x700.jpg 393w, https:\/\/carla.romere.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/20140901_065949-e1409595655660.jpg 1836w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-227\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jacob Counting His &#8220;Apps&#8221;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>When he got up this morning, I told him that it had finally &#8220;charged,&#8221; and he scurried over to get it and check on his apps. He counted them and said he had 32 hundred thousand apps! When it was time for them to leave, that was the first thing he made sure made it into the truck to go home. He left his beloved basketball here, but the world&#8217;s first iFoam made its way back to Porter, Texas, this morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My nephew, Jacob Henry Welter, just may have the most active imagination I have seen recently anywhere. My sister bought a new iPad Air yesterday. They come packed in a couple of layers of Styrofoam that are the same size as the iPad itself. As Donna was unpacking her iPad, Jacob saw the two sheets of Styrofoam laying there and asked if he could have them. He then disappeared for a little while. 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