Big Week of May 16

The week of May 16th was a big one! On Monday, James went pee on the potty at school all by himself :-) He enjoyed Gym Stars on Wednesday :-) On Thursday, in the middle of bath time (which has become very eventful and unpleasant for James recently out of the blue), James told Daddy "I go potty" and he sat and...went potty on the toilet :-) On Friday, he picked out the Monsters, Inc "DVDV" to watch (1st movie he's sat and watched through) and WENT TO BED WITHOUT THE BINKIE!!!! :-) I told him his binkie went in the garbage truck with his friend Mikey's, he was pretty distraught, but has been doing well....a month later he has FINALLY stopped asking for it when he gets overly tired/cranky :-) This kid has a steel trap for a memory, I tell ya!
Above :: our neighborhood fox was ticked after a huge storm that morning and was cleaning herself off in the neighbor's back yard
Below :: James "insisted" that JoJo "make foot pretty" like hers -- his first "ink" tattoo (we've randomly put temporary tattoos on his booty before to make his teacher's laugh, hehe

James loves to help put away the dishes -- you gotta be quick to keep up with him though! One of his best chores along with "clean up" (which he has a song for)

James loved to watch the men pull out the ugly bushes from between the columns....prepping for (eventually) the new front porch that we want to add on (update :: just got the call today, permit has been approved, I rock and should be a contractor, I tell ya, first try). This whole project got delayed because the sewer pipe broke at the foundation and we had a LOT of sewer water in the basement (a separate post)...ended up being a good thing we dragged our feet a bit until summer on this because the sewer line comes out the front of the house and they would have needed to cut up our brand new concrete to get to it! Now we have a nice, long, gravel-supported sewer pipe with clean out valve outside to hopefully avoid this again!

Had them remove a bush-on-steroids from the corner (couldn't keep up with it) and move the rocks from up front to back here -- I think I'd do well with "gardening" in the southwest, as I LOVE this -- the less gardening, the better!

We survived the rapture and went to dinner at the Grand Victoria Casino Buffet with Gma Chele and Uncle John....thanks for getting stuck in an elevator there and taking us with your passes, Gma! Yummy :-)

Above :: James got my camera, not too bad!

Below :: TROUBLE -- but SO DARN CUTE!!!