12-24-11

James wearing his Christmas glasses.



We hiked up to the "mountains" as the natives call them. Anything I can throw a rock over I would not consider a mountain, but it still had a good view.


James playing with his great aunt Sally.



James loved "Papa Charlie" as he called him.



James is ready to hit the trails.



James' pack horse.



Enjoying Christmas cookies.



This boy is ready for Christmas! He loves the tree and the presents under it.



We made some pipe cleaner glasses, he thought they were so fun!



Still wearing them, doesn't want to take them off.

James will try to put on any kind of shoe or boot. We have even caught him trying on mommies high heels.


Helping decorate the Christmas tree. I think he broke more ornaments than he put on, but he loves looking at the lights. Its the first thing he wants to see when he wakes up.


James loves wearing mittens, he insists on wearing them even if its relatively warm outside.


Our most recent visit to the doctor. James loves it so much, he starts crying before we even get through the doors of the office. At least he was excited about his awesome band aids.



All ready to go swimming. Luckily the pool is heated, although we always end up in the hot tub shortly after arriving there.



We got James his very own little potty, he's pretty excited about it.

California for Thanksgiving and Birthday

James enjoyed pushing a pool stick around, he said he was "lawn mowering".


Blue Pancakes!


The treadmill was a favorite place to play. James loved to go walking on it.


We got to go to Nott's Berry Farm with Papa and Grandma.


In line for the log ride. Too bad we didn't get the picture at the end, James' looked a little scared, but he never cried.


Riding on the train.


Eating birthday cake


Look who's 2!



Eating a cookie in line






Showing papa woody and grandma a pipe he found, unfortunately he tried putting it in his mouth, yuck!

11-17-11

James got a new bike helmet. He loves it. He ran around the house with it on for at least an hour.




Here's James water skiing. He was running side to side like he was in a slalom course, but when we turned on the camera he just ran straight.

James woke up the other morning saying he wanted to eat popcorn, we told him he could have some after his nap, so upon waking up from that, he reminded us again. So we had popcorn and watched Charlie Brown.




I thought he looked so cute, so I took a picture of him.

11-10-11

James was having tons of fun sitting on the toilet!

11-8-11

Sleeping on the puppy book.



Helping make pumpkin cookies.

And eating them.

I like to go "lawn-mowering" around the house.

Here's our little Davey Crockett


We went to our wards Trunk or Treat and James really liked the giant pumpkin.

Going fishing

James is in his "car wash".

After watching his duck fall of the footstool, James decided it would be fun if he did it too.


We love the rain!

For some reason, James grabbed a dish towel from the kitchen, put it in his mouth and ran all over the house with it.

Playing in his house.

10/25/11

James likes to sleep with his legs through the bars. Sometimes he wakes up scared because he thinks he is stuck. He is funny!


James calls this his motorcycle helmet.

James got to paint a pumpkin, he liked putting the paintbrush in the dirty water more than the paint. He's not too happy about the kid trying to steal his sippy cup though.

Holding a paper spider which he thought was great! He didn't want to look at the camera though because he was watching Signing Time. Guess I should have known not to interrupt.


Just relaxing in the easy chair.

James is really in to gates right now, so we made a fence with some boards and he loved it! Here he is walking the fence line, rounding up stray trucks.

James decided that the little ruler case in the middle is his tool box. He goes around the house collecting "tools". Mostly paper clips and stuff like that.

I got the idea to let James play with some old Macaroni noodles...guess I should have known they would end up on the couch, and all over the house.

Riding the mommy horsey

Here are some pictures of our last camping trip...like a month ago...Chris and James are enjoying the water.

The little water fall

Chris hiking with James in our (new to us) backpack.

This not so little guy (don't let the picture fool you it was probably three or four inches long) was sitting right next to me by the water. Good thing it didn't move or I probably would have smashed it.