Can you guess what we Had for Dinner?

(and yes the IS a huge bruise on his head… he is 100% BOY) :)

Our Little Rabbit

Tonight we had BLT’s for dinner (one of my favorite meals). When both Matt and I are in the kitchen at the same time, we usually let James sit on the counter and ‘help’ us make dinner. Tonight we discovered that we have a little rabbit in our family :)

James LOVED lettuce- especially the crunchy part

He also liked tomatoes, but he went back to eating the lettuce

(side note: Just FYI in case you were curious, James has a band-aid on his finger and then we put Duck tape on top to make sure it stays since he sometimes wants to take them off)

Thanksgiving Craft

So I DEFINITELY have the holiday 'itch'.

For the first time in my life I am listening to Christmas music BEFORE Thanksgiving..... and I LOVE it!

It seriously puts me in a more cheerful mood!

Don't get me wrong, I still love Thanksgiving- in fact, James and I did a craft today to send to our loved ones :)

We made lots more turkeys than are shown above, and I wanted to take pictures during the process, but a little boy with a messy hand does not mix with a camera.... so this will have to suffice. James loved doing this craft though. At first he was unsure of the squishy feeling, but as soon as he realized he was "stamping" his hand on paper, he LOVED it.

I also wanted to make the fingers different colors, but that was too hard with a 14 month old... maybe next year :)

Early Happy Thanksgiving!!

James’ Hideout Spots

In our house, particularly our living room, James has his own spots that he likes to be. Randomly he will go to those spots, sit down and do nothing. I think its really cute and don’t mind him having his “me” time.

I gave James a stick of cheese and he immediately went to ‘his spot’ and sat down.

“Hey mom! You caught me!”

“You can’t get me!!”

James’ other spot in the livingroom

100% Boy

James loves to mash up his food in his fingers whenever possible

James loves to take his bat everywhere and he tries to hit everything that he can (he is still learning what things are okay to hit and what isn’t okay to hit)

He loves to stand on things

James loves to bang on things and make noise- here he is with the Jack O Lantern lid banging it on the countertop

I love my calling :)

We may be small in number, but they always make me smile :)

The 18th Anniversary of a 7th Birthday

This past week we went to a birthday party for one of Matt's friends entitled, "Gabe's 18th Anniversary of his 7th Birthday"- I thought it was a cute way to say 25th birthday :) To celebrate the occasion, he had a logically themed "Dinosaur Party". This was perfect because James had  a dinosaur costume that he wasn't able to wear for Halloween (that story will be explained in a later post). Here are just a few pictures :)

Here is James still at the house after he got dressed into his costume

All ready to go to his first college-costume-birthday party :)

James with the birthday boy Gabe... Gabe is acting like a dinosaur :)

Mallory, Bradley, Matt and James

HAPPY BIRTHDAY GABE!