Big Bang Theory

James loves the show "Big Bang Theory" -- well, more so, he loves the theme song by the Bare Naked Ladies...he now dances for most of the song, then waits on edge for the "BANG!!!" at the end so he can say it, and then asks for "More, More, More!?!"

MAJOR catch up - Month 22

CRAZY BATH TIME HAIR

Family Picture

James will sometimes eat dinner only if he has these glasses on
James in his cute sweater

James' eye up close when Daddy was playing with his camera

Uncle John and James

Climbing on Daddy

LOVING his new Elmo blanket -- I've had this material for at least 5 years and GG put the border on it for me :-)

Messy eater

Conductor wearing a fireman hat

James and Ms. C at one of the after-school programs his school had -- James loved dancing like the big kids to the funny songs

Running/Galloping down the hall at school

Wearing Mommy's shoes is always fun

James is still small -- literally can curl up and fit into a bag :-)

Toddler Camo

Jim got this picture of James this morning -- his very own version of toddler camoflauge :-)

Valentine's Day

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James celebrated Valentine's Day at school with some cool art projects -- a heart with a picture of him on it w/ stickers and finger painting and painting a picture of Big Bird with water colors. I found him a shirt on Friday that says "Little Flirt" on it -- should be big enough for him to wear the next 3 years, haha :-) By the time I picked him up from school though, he had his outfit changed from playing in the sink, so I wasn't able to get a picture....next year! They had a table set up for kids to decorate and take home cookies....James started eating his before I could get the baggie to put it in....he was a mess of pink frosting all over his face and hands (which drove him bonkers)! He really enjoyed it though -- they're so good to the kids there!
The big news of the night though was James' Valentine's present for Jim and I :: he went poop in his potty!!! or, as he said, "James toot" and I think it squirted out on him :-) haha, we made a big deal about it and even made Daddy come upstairs to celebrate (it was before bed). While he was getting re-diapered and pajama-ed, I put it in the toilet and let him flush it and say "bye bye poopies." Very cute and so proud! He's been sitting on the darn toilet for at least 8 months now and this is the first time I've witnessed him doing anything productive on it....so while it may have been an accident, I'll take it :-D

Blizzard 2011

SNOW-MG!!! SNOW-MAGGEON 2011!!! and my favorite :: SNOW-PRAH (YOU get a blizzard AND YOU get a blizzard)!!! We got hit hard with a blizzard that started on Tuesday, Feb. 1, 2011 in the afternoon. It definitely made our drives home interesting -- took me just under 2 hours (normally 50 minutes) and that was only because we get out of school at 2pm and the "blizzard" part didn't start until 3pm. Took Jim's 10 minute drive to 25. Needless to say, there was no school for James or myself on Wed, Feb. 2 - Happy Groundhog's Day to us! Luckily Jimmy can work from home, so it was our first family snow day! When it was all said and done, we ended up with at least 22 inches of snow by us -- with drifts up +4ft high!!! CRAZY -- I'VE NEVER SEEN SO MUCH SNOW AT ONCE!!! James took advantage of his snow day and slept in until after 10am...Jimmy started the attempt to get our garage accessible just after that...took him +1.5 hours for the driveway and then Ben and I 45 minutes for the walkway to the front door (that was where the 4 ft drifts were and I guess we need mail in the week or two, eh). I got James all layered up and he and I headed outside for some fresh air. He tried to help shovel for a bit but got fed up dropping it constantly (mittens = no grip), we would have lost him in the snow piles, so he went next door and took their bubble lawn mower to try and help "mow snow." He screamed when we made him go inside, but I think it was for the best of his health :-) At dinner time James surprised both Jim and I and counted to 5 all by himself!!! And not even 23 months yet! Gotta be a genius if you ask us :-)LOL -- and I know he knows 6 comes after 5...so smart he is! They had to call school off for me again on Thursday because there are just too many schools to try and clear up -- they are literally hauling away snow in dump trucks around here. James wasn't up yet when it was time for Jimmy to leave for work, so James stayed home with me today. We've watched a lot of Sesame Street as he's really not too interested in playing with his mother today...down for a nap now (thus, the blogging) but coughing through it the whole time, so it's not going to last long, unfortunately for him because he was soooo tired, poor Bug.
Sorry, the blogs will now be out of order (I skipped a lot of things between Christmas and today) but I just had to get these snow pictures up asap! Hope you all are safe and warm (it's a brutal 9 out there now with crazy wind gusts still)!!!

Jim's Christmas 2010 Pics

Jim and I went through his pictures from Christmas and these were our favorites! Enjoy!

Christmas 2010

We celebrated Christmas at least 6 different times that I can think of, so we were super busy! It started off with celebrating with Uncle John and Aunt Bailey, then Christmas Eve and Christmas Day both at home and with the Montalbano's, then a pleasant drive to Indy for Christmas with the Gross'. We rounded off our Christmas by celebrating with Aunt Jen and Uncle Dominic :-) We had such a lovely time hanging out with family, and, of course, James got spoiled rotten! He got so much loot, we decided to merge our dining room and living room and made the dining room a play room -- MUCH better for some space to the family room now :-) Here are some pictures from the holiday season...just the ones from my camera though, I still haven't seen Jimmy's :-)