So this one time last week...

...I was cleaning up our piano room and James had left a bunch of paper and crayons and tape (his favorite things to play with!) on the floor. I was in a hurry so I grabbed the stuff and started putting it into a box full of craft supplies in the closet. Well, the masking tape had a big piece of tape hanging from it that had not been ripped off. I grabbed the whole thing and shoved it in this box. Just as I put it in the box I realized there was something stuck to the end, and that I had grabbed it.....and that it was a LIZARD!!! I was so creeped out that I started screaming and ran away and washed my hands like fourteen times. And then used hand sanitizer. Jonathan got the tape out and discovered that the little guy was still breathing! I'm still a little creeped out just looking at these pictures...

"Tour-quaise"

James is way into art lately. He just LOVES drawing and coloring, especially with markers. (Unfortunately he still has the occasional habit of drawing on his body.....hmm, we're working on that...).

He loves to find cool things to color on, his favorite being envelopes. The other day he asked me if he could color on a box, and I told him to go for it. Best activity ever - he worked on this baby for a couple of hours and covered almost the entire surface with marker. It was pretty cute, and honestly pretty nice, because it kept him so busy!

He did the same thing yesterday on an entire page of a notebook. He used one of his very favorite colors as of late - "tourquaise." He covered the entire sheet with a turquoise marker and was so proud of himself! Cute kid :)

A few more cute pictures

My handsome husband and adorable daughter. She's got him wrapped around her little finger already...

Love :)

Mother/daughter matching outfits! I actually didn't plan this, it just sort of happened...

Gotta love the pants!

My cute happy girl

Pretty Ella Bay