In a true demonstration of his neat-freakiness, James ate an entire bitty cupcake without making a mess. (
Lovely Confections is a marvelous, marvelous place, by the way. Mmmm, cupcakes.)
James has also gotten way into books. I wonder where he got that? Anyway, it's pretty common to go in and get him up from his nap, or first thing in the morning, and find at least a couple books in bed with him. He likes to read to his animals, and I went in this morning to discover that he had at some point during the night gotten Curious George ("Dorge") to cuddle.
Earlier this week, Chris caught James in the act of snagging a book. He went in to get the boy up from naptime and found James standing on his tippy toes pulling a book off of his shelf. James turned, saw Chris, dropped the book and ran back to bed where he promptly laid down and pretended to be asleep, even saying "Daddy! Sleeping." Not so convincing, but cute nonetheless. We have since explained that he can get books down all he wants and won't get in trouble.
No matter how many times we tell him that he's two, if asked his age James will reply "Freee!" (three) with great enthusiasm. He completely gets the concept of "one" though, and just told me this evening that he had "one teat" (one treat; in this case, a jellybean) in his hand. He even told me that the treat was "cuer byoo" (color blue) when I asked him what color it was. Smart cookie. Of course, he's been running around just holding his treat instead of eating it, but as long as he's happy I won't complain.
