11.14.09 Weekend

At day care they put Aquaphor on James' face, wrists, elbows and knees at every diaper change -- he got some of it on his hand and then rubbed his hair -- needless to say, we got a very fun hair-do out of it when I picked him up! Some people pay lots of money to get a do like this:-)

The best $3 spent -- found this toy table at a garage sale this summer...he loves to pull himself up on it and bang with the plastic stackables...he has, however, become afraid of the noises the tops make when they spin around and around (the music is kind of creepy) so we leave it turned off.

The glass coffee table started to be a teether for James -- so it got moved to the basement. James now has a lot more room to move around in the family room to play though!

As a result of learning to pull himself up, I've walked in to the room with James waiting for me (sometimes very happy, this particular time though, he was ticked). He looks like he's in jail sometimes :-) I'm hoping he doesn't learn to teethe on the railing because I don't know if we'll be able to figure out how to protect it!

Happy baby after a nap!Who needs toys when you have Kleenex (see a few posts ago) and diaper boxes? James really liked being pulled around while sitting in the box. He also liked to pound on the box to make music and figured out how to use the box as a walker.

In the afternoon we met up with Amanda and her mom at BW3s to watch the Illini football game (they lost to Northwestern...booo). James did pretty well at the restaurant -- just had to have lots of toys to distract him :-)

Family photo-op! Go Illini Go!!!

Gunnar, Ada and Davin met us up after Davin's 2 month doctor appointment...he's getting big and it will only be a matter of a few short months I'm sure until Davin is bigger than JamesE!

We went to IKEA with Amanda for some browsing and then headed over to Dom and Jen's to watch the boxing match (Pacquiao vs. Cotto). James was a trooper and stayed awake WAY past his bed time to watch all the pre-fights and the main event. I kept trying to get him to go to sleep but he wouldn't have it, he was having too much fun playing.

James looked so little in the blow-up Bengals chair -- he wasn't too much of a fan at first but Albert was quite persistent in getting him to enjoy the chair....it worked!

James getting the low-down about boxing and its greater intricacies from Albert.

James was getting tired but just wouldn't go to sleep -- even had his binkie and PJs on but just wouldn't give in to the tired bug.