sprinkles

"Look, it's love!!"

Things heard in our home.

James is quite the conversationalist. For example:

that soun uh-dea! (that sounds like a good idea!)

spexxors a watt (I took pictures of my friend's son, Wyatt)

in the chicken (the kitchen)

liza-phone (xylophone)

no, that's mine mommy!! (yes he is sometimes a bit jealous)

You look like a dinosaur! (he said this to my mom...he was pretending to put crackers in her mouth, then would pull them away at the last second - so she was opening her mouth trying to grab them.)

Go fast, clock!!

Me used to sit here! (while visiting my Grandma's house, where we used to live)

I blowing in the wind! (I love this one. He was holding hands with me and Jonathan and would lift up his legs and swing between us.)

Those are french fries. (the dotted yellow line on a toy road for his cars)

I build clippers with Benj. (now this is a strange one. He has some wooden train tracks, and there are a few pieces that fork into two tracks. For some reason, he calls these pieces "clippers." Uncle Benjamin came over and built a train track with him.)

Clip a cracker (when you break a graham cracker into smaller pieces)

I do this trick Grandy show me. (His Grandy showed him how to pull his arms inside his shirt and pretend like his arms were missing. He got a big kick out of it!)

Telephone poles, Mommy! (who knew he knew what telephone poles were called?!)

Sleeve foots (my child is pretty clever - this means pant legs)

James: Someone coming today?
Me: Nope, I don't think anyone is coming over today.
long pause.....
James: Plano students?
Me: No, not today! Today I am just going to hang out with James!
another pause....
James: No, hang out with plano!

Teach me piano, teach me piano! (This was so cute. Read more here.)

Me: Eat your chicken - it'll make you big! It's yummy.
James: No, it's not. It make me litterer!

No want chickenrole. (suspicious of my chicken casserole...)

Me: James, take a bite of your banana.
James: No, it's creepsy.

James: I want juice.
Me: We're drinking milk this time - milk goes better with ems anyway! (m&m's)
James: No, it goes with a cookie.

Me have tears in my room! (he was crying in his room)

There's Pooh in the chapter book! (he LOVES chapter books! I read Winnie the Pooh to him and he was RIVETED for 45 pages. He would have listened to more but I stopped reading!)

overheard

This is something I overheard James saying as he played by himself the other day - pretty funny!

we have no diapers in our house
there's diapers in the dirt
we drive on some
our wheels on some
the dirt...the dirt...oh, the dirt!
we goin' to sleep in this. go to sleep go in this. ohh...naps. two naps. two naps, mommy!
I so tired! I too so tired! I go a sleep sometime, was I sleepy

My James.

Today my sanity slowly slipped away as James held up M&M after M&M, saying, "What's dat?? He asked with each one.

He wonders "what's dat" all the time. Constantly. And he loves to do things by himself. "Self!" he says.

In fact he climbed into his high chair by himself, while I was on the phone, and when I heard little yelps I ran into the kitchen, and there he was, feet barely touching the ground, his little white t-shirt stuck way up high on the high chair. As sad as it was I couldn't help but laugh out loud, it was pretty funny. I asked him afterwards "where does it hurt?" to which he responded by poking out his round little belly as far as it would go. I kissed his tummy and all was well.

Seriously though, this kid is a keeper. He's all about being happy lately. He constantly says "I happy!" or "Daddy happy!" The past two days, though, if I exhibit any sign of any emotion other than happiness (be it frustration, exhaustion, determination or just plain being bugged), he gets a major pouty face and says, "Mommy? Happy?!?" I have been working on keeping a happy face, despite my inner feelings. If Mama ain't happy, ain't nobody happy....am I right?

Here's a fun conversation:
me: "James, do you feel sick?"
James: "No. I happy."

Today James was a hyper little doggie who wouldn't take a nap, crawling all around the house licking things. "Dog food!" he said. Of course.

He wanted to go somewhere really badly today..."Go sumpin'! a-Go sumpin', Mama!"

It was quite the day and I am quite the exhausted Mama...but I wouldn't trade it for anything :)

"i happy."

...those are the sweetest little words that come out of our little buddy's mouth almost every single day. James - I happy, too! How could I not be happy with such wonderful, happy guys in my life?

should be sleeping...

...but instead James is up in his bed happily yelling words that he knows. Kind of cute, really.

LELLO!!
GREEN!!
DOOR!!
BANKEEK!!
YEAH!!
CARS!!
HOUSES!!
BOOK!!
MAMA!!
DOGGIE!!
BOOK!!
BANKEEK!!
BED!!
FOOT!!
MINE FOOT!!
ouchies!
mmmmmmmmmMUAH! (apparently he kissed his foot)
TRAIN!!
BALL!!
BOOKS!!
TRAIN!!
TRAIN TRACKS!!
BED!!
RED CAR!
RED BOOK!
BROWN!!
WHITE!!
BED! BED!
BOOK!
DOGGIE! MINE DOGGIE!!

hiding

Yesterday evening I was doing the dishes. James played with cars on the floor while his Daddy played some Bach preludes & fugues on the piano (I love my husband!). After a few minutes I looked up and realized James was gone. Where was he?

I started looking around the house and couldn't find him anywhere. I knew he had to be in the house somewhere, but since I couldn't find him I started to get worried. (Have any other mommies noticed that it is so hard not to worry about your kid? It's like you become a mommy and your worry switch immediately turns on. I often still go into James' room while he's sleeping at night to check if he's breathing, like I used to do when he was a little baby - anyone else do that?)

Jonathan helped me and we started searching, and we searched pretty much everywhere, and no James! We were calling to him, saying, "James! Where are you?" No answer.

Suddenly we heard a faint little voice, so we again said, "Where are you?"

Daddy opened the door to our walk-in closet, and there was our little guy, grinning ear to ear and holding a giant red ball. It was actually hilarious, I wish I had had my camera with me to take his picture, standing there with a huge red ball, waiting for us to find him.

He said, "In da door! Holding da ball!!"

Phew. I told James that he scared me, and he smiled and said, "Yeah......I happy."

What a silly billy.

overheard

I just told James he had 5 minutes to play before nap time...and as he played with his cars on his Radiator Springs rug and narrated everything that went on, I couldn't help but write it down because it was so entertaining. My family will especially get a kick out of this:


Go down a-Bapa's car...down a-Bapa's car...go down a-Bapa's car....

A-go down a-Annie's car...down a-Annie's car...down a-Annie's car...

Hounk hounk! Hounk hounk!

Go down a-Annie's car....and dis way....and dis way....

Go backwards! a-Carrrrs

Red light....red light! Red light a-Annie's car.

Go down a-Annie's car. A-park. A-park-a right there. I home!! I home a-Annie's car a-Giki's car!

Oh, harder......aaaaahhh, oohhhhh (apparently a car was trying to get over a bump)

A bump! A bump! Annie's car a-bump! a-wheels too! 3......4......5.....Go!! Bapa's car right there. Home! Home, Bapa's car! Bapa? A-go-a-Giki's car. I home too! Yay! Sump sump sump! (which means "jump")

Bapa's car! Bapa's car red! Oh, a-Bapa's car red! Ahhh!! A-on top a-Bapa's car! Uh-oh....inside! Inside....look inside!

Beep beep! Beep beep! Beep beep Bapa's car!
Beep beep beep Annie's car! Beep beep Annie's car!

Go down, cars! Go down, cars! Go down cars!
Go up, car!

Bump!
A-bump! A-bump! Down a-bump!

A-stop-a red light.


Ahh, I love it. Life with a little boy is great. Now to get him to bed so I can finally take a shower and get dressed for the day!

we've got ourselves a BIG boy!

It has been a BIG couple of days for our James. He got a toddler bed and a potty! (and a haircut - but that was AFTER these pictures!) Wow, what a big boy!


Jonathan put the bed together and James loved it so much, and we ended up taking the crib right down. So far so good - James loves his new bed! He loves climbing in and out all by himself. Although he didn't nap today, he went right to sleep in his new bed last night and stayed in there all night, and he went right to bed tonight.




He also has tried to go potty twice today (and kinda sorta did go potty - and was SO pleased with himself, saying, "I did it!! I did it!!") and is so excited about it! We are basically just taking our time and letting him get used to it, but hey, if he wants to try, I am all for it!

Wow, my baby is a big boy, I'm not quite sure how I feel about that! What makes me so happy though is that several times a day he'll say, "Mommy? I happy." And that makes me the happiest!

when he should have been sleeping...

...James was up in his bed saying this:

a-Go a-Giki's house!
a-Go a-Giki's house!
...
I ready!
...
Yeah!
...
Mommy, a-go a-Giki's house!
a-Put a-coat on!

enough pictures, mama!

sometimes you are just done.

our sweet little man

excuse the plethora of pictures - but seriously, isn't he just the sweetest little guy??

James sings!

My mom will be the most excited about this post. Lately James has been quite the singer, but won't sing for anyone but mommy and daddy. He knows quite a few songs and we sing every night before bed - some of his favorites are Sweet Baby James, Godspeed (Sweet Dreams) by the Dixie Chicks, I Love to See the Temple and Jesus Wants Me For a Sunbeam.

I cannot believe he let me record him singing, he usually pushes the camera away and won't perform :) Here we are singing our opening song for our family home evening lesson - which turned into three opening songs since we were on a roll and I wanted to document his adorable singing.

p.s. note his amazing harmonies...what a musical genius....

never posted

I was just going through some old posts and found this that I never posted - a list of cute/funny things that James said. I'm glad I wrote these down because (even though it was only a few weeks ago that he said them) I completely forgot about some of these! (Ah, the memory of a mommy - you swear you'll never forget each little moment, but you always do.)

cokes on (coats on)

move dose! (move those)

suck (he still uses this one, this is his word for truck - love it. I should also note that his word for jump is "sump")

man-a-walking (this is a game my Dad played with me when I was little, and James likes to play it; it involves making a little man with your fingers and making him walk up your arm and up over your head - sometimes we have to do this over and over and over again!)

hold me! this is probably the cutest thing he says lately, and even though at times it can get exhausting, it makes me feel great :) he really started using this a lot after I had a few good friends over (on different days) who brought their children/babies, and James just wasn't so sure about his mommy holding/interacting with other babies and kids.

blah blah blah - ahh, I completely forgot about this one. This was James imitating me talking on the phone. You can see how he feels about his mommy's phone conversations...

house! pants on! house! pants on! Ah yes, crying for me to put his pants on and take him downstairs. Good times.

too much Wii?

A few minutes ago, I was upstairs in our room and Jonathan was downstairs playing his new Super Mario Wii game (SO much fun!), when I realized that James was crying from his bed. I switched on the baby monitor in our room to see what he was saying. As far as I could make out, this is it: "Play game too, please!!"

I had Jonathan turn down the volume, and James immediately went back to sleep. :)

p.s. James needs more votes!! :)

dance moves

Tonight as I was putting James in his pj's we were singing songs - his new favorite is "Jesus Wants Me For a Sunbeam" - he sings along and knows almost every word! Now how did my baby grow up enough to be able to sing a song?? We then started to sing another song, and he was singing along for awhile. Then all of a sudden he just stopped singing, looked up at me, and with a big smile said, "Dancing!" and started to wave his hands in the air and shake his little body around. (He is also known to whip out his "dance moves" during the closing credits of Gilmore Girls whenever his Mama watches it.)

p.s. James needs more votes!! :)

don't let the bed bugs bite...

Conversation with James last night before he went to sleep:

Me: "Love you!"
James: "Wuh-woos!"
Me: "Sleep tight!"
James: "Sleep tight!"
Me: "Sweet dreams!"
James: "Sleet beams!"
Me (trying to keep up this cute conversation by coming up with something else he could repeat): "Don't let the bed bugs bite!"
James: long, long pause, nervous look on his face, then said something like, "Mama, bugs????"

Poor kid thought there were bugs in his bed. Oops. I had to try and explain that it was just an expression, but how do you explain that to a 2-year-old? Way to go, Mama.

Vote for James!

The polls are up for RLT Photography's "Adorable Baby Contest" - and we think James is pretty darn adorable (yes, we are his parents and are biased, but still - don't you agree?;))

We'd love it if you could take a second and go vote for him! Just go to RLT Photography's blog and vote for James' picture (this one, shown below...). If we win, we get some sweet prizes!

Thank you, friends!!

Our Handsome Two-Year-Old

Aren't these photos just priceless? Our buddy boy sure is growing up. I just tucked him into bed a few minutes ago and said, "Sweet dreams!" to which he replied "Sleet beams!"

**Stay tuned...once the voting is up for RLT Photography's "Adorable Baby Contest" I'd love it if you could all go vote for James!!

our adorable James :)

We had the opportunity to get some wonderful photos of James taken on Friday by a talented photographer, Ryan Thompson. He was our wedding photographer, and he also took my family's pictures about a year ago. The photos turned out SO great. You can view them here on Ryan's website. (My favorite is photo #102!) It is actually part of RLT Photography's "Adorable Baby Contest," so in a few days you all can go and vote for James as the most adorable baby! :)