About 2 days ago, James took my phone and started saying dadda. So, I called Josh up and told him that his son wanted to talk to him. James always pretends he's on the phone and talks his baby talk, with the phone up to his ear. Well, when he heard daddy's voice he got so excited and had the biggest grin. I kept on telling him it was daddy. Well, as Josh always talks on the other line and gets James excited, James suddenly said "HI DAD!" Then I thought that it might have just sounded like it, then he said it again.... "HI DAD!" Josh and I were so stocked. He had said his first sentence all by himself. Josh was one proud daddy too, since it involved him.
James has taken off just in the last month with his animal noises too. Anytime he sees a cow on the milk carton he starts to moo his little moo. Then when we are reading books (his favorite are animal books lately) he will always make the ruff ruff for the dog and he knows how to hiss for the snakes.......He even likes snakes better since he got to touch one last week. His most used words are momma and dadda. Every night when we read scriptures and there is a picture of Jesus, he points and says "US", it's so dang cute. He knows how respond if he doesn't want something by shaking his head no, he folds his arms the majority of the time during prayer, he knows what the words "away" means when it is clean up time (it's great, he can clean up some of his toys and even take his own dirty diaper to the garbage- he actually really likes to put things in the trash for me. He drinks completely from a sippy cup or glass now and he gives the best hugs and kisses ever.
His best hugs are when he wraps his arms around you and pats your back. He can point to his nose, eyes, ears, teeth, hair, feet and hands. He thinks belly buttons are the coolest. Ever since he was young we would blow on his belly and make him laugh, and now whenever he sees bare skin or pulls my shirt up to see my tummy, he places his cute little lips on the belly button and blows. Just today, he made that funny loud noise, I thought it was a fluff, but it was him blowing on his cousin's tummy. He thinks it is so funny and he is the cutest thing to watch.A few weeks ago, I actually let James have his first real marker time. I just let him figure them out and he prefers them over crayons any day. Yet, he thinks it is fun putting them in his mouth and biting off the end or drawing on himself. So we have started a little art scrap book for him. He seems to get a little better each time, with my supervision of course.
His favorite thing to do every single day without fail is to go out to our backyard and see the horses. He loves to pull out the grass and feed it to the horses. He can now say "Hose" for horse, and he always points in the right direction. It is a pretty fun backyard. All the neighbors share everything and there is just tons or area to roam. He likes jumping on the tramp with me or with his small cousins, but once his bigger cousins come on, he wants off.
Then there is a sweet sand box about 10 by 8 feet and it is full of fun trucks and toys. Lastly there is a little playground area in the back of another neighbors yard and we have been told to use it. So going outside, into the backyard is always loads of fun. He could spend hours out there, sometimes I have to pry him away from all the fun and he just gets so sad to go inside.
Our little man is quite the jokester. He is always making us laugh and it just comes so natural to him too. He even laughs at himself. Well, whenever I wear my sun glasses he gives me a certain look, almost a look of "you think you're so cool". He's tried them on a number of times and just goes off laughing. It is pretty comical. He sure keeps us smiling everyday. Here we are all decked out in our shades, ready for summer or even spring to come and stay......but when?
WE LOVE OUR BABY JAMES, he is growing up way to fast. I try to treasure these small moments and just spend as much time as I can with him. He just melts my little heart!
He is almost 18 months and is weighing 26 lbs, fitting into 18month-2T clothing, wearing size 3 diapers, still loving his blanky and constantly playing with trucks, cars or balls. The other day he was putting on princess shoes with his other boy cousins, and Josh had a hard time with that. I don't see any girly vibes coming out, he is just loving the whole shoe thing. Anytime he wants to go outside he will go and get his shoes all by himself and the majority of the time they are always matching. I have a pretty smart boy on my hand, what can I say.
About 2 days ago, James took my phone and started saying dadda. So, I called Josh up and told him that his son wanted to talk to him. James always pretends he's on the phone and talks his baby talk, with the phone up to his ear. Well, when he heard daddy's voice he got so excited and had the biggest grin. I kept on telling him it was daddy. Well, as Josh always talks on the other line and gets James excited, James suddenly said "HI DAD!" Then I thought that it might have just sounded like it, then he said it again.... "HI DAD!" Josh and I were so stocked. He had said his first sentence all by himself. Josh was one proud daddy too, since it involved him.
James has taken off just in the last month with his animal noises too. Anytime he sees a cow on the milk carton he starts to moo his little moo. Then when we are reading books (his favorite are animal books lately) he will always make the ruff ruff for the dog and he knows how to hiss for the snakes.......He even likes snakes better since he got to touch one last week. His most used words are momma and dadda. Every night when we read scriptures and there is a picture of Jesus, he points and says "US", it's so dang cute. He knows how respond if he doesn't want something by shaking his head no, he folds his arms the majority of the time during prayer, he knows what the words "away" means when it is clean up time (it's great, he can clean up some of his toys and even take his own dirty diaper to the garbage- he actually really likes to put things in the trash for me. He drinks completely from a sippy cup or glass now and he gives the best hugs and kisses ever. 
His best hugs are when he wraps his arms around you and pats your back. He can point to his nose, eyes, ears, teeth, hair, feet and hands. He thinks belly buttons are the coolest. Ever since he was young we would blow on his belly and make him laugh, and now whenever he sees bare skin or pulls my shirt up to see my tummy, he places his cute little lips on the belly button and blows. Just today, he made that funny loud noise, I thought it was a fluff, but it was him blowing on his cousin's tummy. He thinks it is so funny and he is the cutest thing to watch.A few weeks ago, I actually let James have his first real marker time. I just let him figure them out and he prefers them over crayons any day. Yet, he thinks it is fun putting them in his mouth and biting off the end or drawing on himself. So we have started a little art scrap book for him. He seems to get a little better each time, with my supervision of course.
His favorite thing to do every single day without fail is to go out to our backyard and see the horses. He loves to pull out the grass and feed it to the horses. He can now say "Hose" for horse, and he always points in the right direction. It is a pretty fun backyard. All the neighbors share everything and there is just tons or area to roam. He likes jumping on the tramp with me or with his small cousins, but once his bigger cousins come on, he wants off. 
Then there is a sweet sand box about 10 by 8 feet and it is full of fun trucks and toys. Lastly there is a little playground area in the back of another neighbors yard and we have been told to use it. So going outside, into the backyard is always loads of fun. He could spend hours out there, sometimes I have to pry him away from all the fun and he just gets so sad to go inside.
Our little man is quite the jokester. He is always making us laugh and it just comes so natural to him too. He even laughs at himself. Well, whenever I wear my sun glasses he gives me a certain look, almost a look of "you think you're so cool". He's tried them on a number of times and just goes off laughing. It is pretty comical. He sure keeps us smiling everyday. Here we are all decked out in our shades, ready for summer or even spring to come and stay......but when?
WE LOVE OUR BABY JAMES, he is growing up way to fast. I try to treasure these small moments and just spend as much time as I can with him. He just melts my little heart!
He is almost 18 months and is weighing 26 lbs, fitting into 18month-2T clothing, wearing size 3 diapers, still loving his blanky and constantly playing with trucks, cars or balls. The other day he was putting on princess shoes with his other boy cousins, and Josh had a hard time with that. I don't see any girly vibes coming out, he is just loving the whole shoe thing. Anytime he wants to go outside he will go and get his shoes all by himself and the majority of the time they are always matching. I have a pretty smart boy on my hand, what can I say.
Here we are digging for fossils.
Daddy, Mommy and Jamesy will go back when he's big enough to enjoy it even more.
Pirate Island was so much better than I thought it would be.
We made it another FHE activity. Talk about a great and fun atmosphere for everyone. 
My favorite part was our server. He had the whole pirate thing going, even his accent. James didn't know what to think about it, it was a little scary for him. His favorite part was shooting with daddy and playing on the Farris wheel and the little playground ship.
Our little dude loved the Farris wheel. He went on it about 5 times and only wanted more. He's such a big boy he could do it all by himself. He is becoming more independent (sad but true) and doesn't need mamma's help as much.
