My Boys

Here are some pictures of my boys! They are the cutest ever, I am so lucky :)

Jonathan got to feed James a bottle the other night, and it was so cute because James was holding onto Jonathan's fingers the entire time.

James and his Daddy enjoy some fun study time together this morning. James is practicing up for when he'll be in school. What a smart boy!

Notice Jonathan's hair - this was taken this morning before I cut his hair!

Our "Lil Hero!" I just got this outfit for James. I couldn't resist because it was so cute, and very cheap! Mervyn's had a huge sale and I got him a bunch of clothes for about $2 each! He is one stylin' little boy.

James is MY hero, because he is starting to sleep longer at night! The other night I fed him at 10:30 and then we went to bed. When he woke up in the night, I woke up feeling a LOT more rested than usual - so I looked at the clock and it was 4:30! Wahoo! Then the next night he slept from about 9:30 to 4:30! I am liking this a lot :) I never realized, before I was a Mom, how happy I'd be to be able to sleep until 4:30 am.

Here is my cute little guy having some tummy time. He wasn't quite in the mood to roll over or lift up his head much, but as you can see he was VERY content.

James and his Daddy having a nice cuddle this afternoon. It is so nice, after Jonathan's long work/school week, to have a day when they can spend some more time together. This picture was taken AFTER I cut Jonathan's hair -
doesn't he look nice?

Father and son enjoying a book together. (Well, I guess the son is asleep, but that's ok.) We're startin' him early, he's gonna be a smart kid! :)

James and the Judge

Yesterday James got to visit his Grandpa Gibbons in his court room for the very first time. It was very fun! Grandpa got to show James off to all his clerks and coworkers. What a proud Grandpa!

Family Time

The fun thing about living a block away from my parents is that we get to see them all the time! . . . . And they get to see James all the time! Here are some pictures from the other night.

James and Josh - best buds!

Two of the nicest boys around!

My good friend Anita came to visit the family!

Grandpa and James enjoy some tummy time together.

The proud grandparents! James is "talking" up a storm these days, making tons of cute noises - this is what they were listening to in this picture!

Our Baby is Growing Up!

James is changing so much every day! His latest accomplishment is that he can roll over from his tummy to his back! It happened about a week ago, when he was six weeks old. Jonathan and I were actually not even there when it happened! I was picking him up from work while my parents and Josh played with James. When we got home, they all looked at each other with guilty faces and said, "should we tell them?" They felt so bad that we had missed it! But the next day, he did it again, about ten times in a row! It is the cutest thing ever. He purposely lifts up his little arm and then he rolls! We think he's a genius :)

Here are some fun pictures I took of him with my cell phone. He is starting to hold onto things if you put them in his hands, and Grandma got him the funnest toy the other day - a little red telephone that rattles! He also has some keys that she gave him. We were playing with his toys the other morning and it was so much fun! It looks like he's a big boy all ready to go out - he's got his cell phone and his keys.

What a happy guy!

Every little boy needs a baseball cap!

This is one of my favorites - he totally fell asleep in this position and stayed like that for awhile. What a funny guy!

Uncle Josh is getting to be quite the pro at getting James to sleep. James just loves his uncle. The other day Josh was holding him and James just stared adoringly into Josh's eyes for about half an hour. It was the cutest thing ever. Here is James in his big boy hoodie!

My baby!

Buddies

James and his Daddy are great buddies! They are my boys! James loves being with his Daddy, and Jonathan is great at making James happy. This is going to be a pretty busy semester for Jonathan - he is working full-time and going to school full-time, in the evenings (it is his last semester at BYU! He will graduate in April, and is going to school at the BYU Salt Lake Center this semester).

He just got his very first full-time job! He works for a company called Alpine Technical Services, and his official job title is "Engineering Service Technician." Sounds pretty important, huh? Yeah we thought so too! He can tell you more about what he actually does at his job, but as far as I understand it, it has a lot to do with chemicals and water purification and reverse osmosis and all kinds of random stuff like that. So far he loves it! (Today was his second day - we'll see how it goes from here!) He has loved all of his chemistry classes, and he loves learning new things and doing hands-on kind of stuff, so I think this job is perfect for him.

Anyway, so Jonathan is gone for about 12 hours a day now, so James and I get to be buddies all day long! Sometimes we go over to Grandma's house and hang out with Grandma and Grandpa and Uncle Josh (they just live a block away! I can't wait for the weather to warm up to try out James' stroller!). The other day, on Jonathan's first day of work, he got home and said hi to James and picked him up, and James gave him the biggest smile ever! I guess he missed his Daddy and was so happy that he was home!

Here are my cute boys having a nice cuddle.

Father and son!

Here is James in the fleece coat/snow suit thing that my Aunt Bonnie gave him. It is still a little big, but he is growing fast and it actually fits him pretty well!

James likes to hang out with his Uncle Josh - here they are having some tummy time together! Look how much a little boy grows up in 16 years! I can't believe that James will be that big someday. By the way, you gotta love James' striped green fleece pants. They were a hit with Grandpa, who was laughing about how silly it would look if GROWN-UPS wore clothes like that!

James loves his uncle!

James and Mommy - I was trying to take a picture of the two of us. We were playing on our bed while Daddy did his homework, so I was trying to take some pictures of both of us myself. The only problem was that James kept looking at me instead of the camera!


I think he is punching his Mommy in the eye and trying to lick or bite me, but I don't think he meant it. He loves me, really!

This one turned out pretty good! It looks like he was copying me, how I was holding up my arm with the camera.
Me and my baby!

Sweet Baby James - in a cute outfit my friend Mandy gave me! So today I got out this box of "bigger" clothes that I had been saving for James - and he already fits into half of them! He's six weeks old today, and he is beginning to fit into the 3-6 month clothes already! What a big boy!

Flashback to Pregnancy

So the other day I was looking at my Mom's pictures on her computer, and I found some pictures of me from when I was VERY pregnant. I was HUGE! I think these were from a few days before James was born. I was pretty darn ready to have the baby!

Me with my sister Annie. Isn't she gorgeous??

Me with my sisters Annie and Liz (Happy Birthday the other day, Liz! Love ya!)

Here I am, just WAITING for James to come out! I was pretty much done with the whole pregnancy thing by this point.

The LOVELY side view. One of my favorite things about not being pregnant anymore (other than my beautiful baby boy, of course) is that now I can button up my coats again! Hooray! (And just in time for winter!)

And, just to refresh your memory, here I am skinny again! Yay! This is me and Jonathan on our 2-year anniversary that we had a few weeks ago! This was also the day that I discovered I fit into my jeans again. :)

Why I Love the Dollar Store

During the holidays I was doing some Christmas shopping, and I went to the dollar store for some stocking stuffers. I found the cutest baby pajamas ever! James tried them on for the first time last night and they are my favorite! Who knew that Dollar Tree had such cute baby clothes! I think I'm going to go back and get some bigger sizes, because this boy isn't going to be able to wear anything for too long before he outgrows it!

James modeling his dollar store "Construction" pajamas

On Mommy's lap

A bird's-eye view

I love James!

James waves to the camera!

Our Big Boy

Look at our big boy! This outfit used to be HUGE on James - and now he fills it out quite well! He is getting so big! As James' Grandpa Gibbons says, "He's as big as we are!" James loves to stretch out like this, and if you stand him up he'll stretch out his legs and hold most of his weight!

And, he is acting quite like a big boy by playing the piano with his Daddy! How grown-up! I wonder if he got any of those piano genes from his Mommy and his Daddy? It looks like he's a natural! :)

James loves hanging out with his Daddy! They have so much fun playing the piano and flying like an airplane, and all kinds of other fun things!

Thanks, Grandma and Grandpa Boster, for the great outfit! James loves it!