Every family seems to have one kid who keeps the grown-ups on their toes. You love them to pieces, and you also check what they’re holding before they sit down to eat.
In Carrie Underwood’s house, that kid is Jacob.
Carrie won American Idol in 2005 and became one of the biggest names in country music. She married retired NHL player Mike Fisher on July 10, 2010. They have two sons. Isaiah was born Feb 27, 2015. Jacob came along on Jan 21, 2019.
The family lives on a farm in Tennessee. Hello! magazine calls it a “400-acre Tennessee ranch home,” which gives two boys a whole lot of room to explore.
From the start, Carrie could tell her boys were wired differently. Isaiah was the cuddly one. Jacob, not so much.
“Jake is the opposite,” Carrie said in December 2020, when Jacob was almost 2. “He’s always been like, no, put me down, leave me alone, you’re in my way. So he might be a little more independent.”
She called him a “rough-and-tumble, bull-in-a-china-shop kid. He wants to climb.”
Even Isaiah’s friends noticed. Carrie shared that Jacob already has a nickname, and it didn’t come from his parents.
“One of Isaiah’s little friends that is kind of around them calls him ‘Jake the Trouble Make,'” she said.
Her verdict? “And I would say that is accurate.”
Taste of Country caught Carrie talking about Jake’s personality and that nickname, so you can hear it straight from her.
Carrie on her youngest son’s wild side
She admitted the hardest part of raising him is keeping a straight face. “When he thinks he’s being funny, that’s when he’s gonna do the naughty stuff. You can’t laugh at him, but it’s the hardest thing in the world not to laugh at him.”
Fast forward to early September 2024. Jacob was 5, and he gave his mom a moment she could never have planned for.
Carrie posted a photo to her Instagram Stories. It showed the family’s dinner table, and sitting right there next to where they eat was a raccoon tooth. Taste of Country noted it was on the table “roots and all.”
Carrie added a nauseated face emoji and these words:
“Sentences I never thought I’d say…’Jacob, can you please remove your raccoon tooth from the dinner table?'”
So where did the tooth come from? Taste of Country said it’s “not clear where the tooth came from and how it was acquired.” That part of the story is still a mystery.
Moms everywhere can relate. Most of us have found something strange on the table, though maybe not quite that strange.
For a look at the family’s home in Tennessee, Carrie gave the gardening channel Epic Gardening a tour of her big greenhouse project.
Carrie’s greenhouse build at home
There’s good news for anyone worried about Carrie’s dinner table. Back in 2020 she said Jacob was softening up. “I feel like he’s getting a little more cuddly the older he gets, and he seems to be getting a little sweeter.”
Jacob turns 8 on Jan 21, 2027. Isaiah is now 11. After the raccoon tooth, it’s safe to say the nickname from Isaiah’s friend still fits.