Poor Sick James

James has a cold. Poor kiddo. He's been reading a lot of books, drinking a lot of juice, and generally being pretty pitiful.

Welcome Baby Colt!

Congratulations Darren and Danielle on your perfect little son!

Random James Updates

James spent a good part of the car ride to Grandma Becky's house yesterday practicing saying "seatbelt."
It went about like this:
Seat beht
bet
bewt
beewwt
bewt
seat bewt
seatbewt!!

He spent several minutes today making his Buzz Lightyear climb up me, saying "Buzz doing? climb...Buzz climb! Uh oh, Buzz falled."

Also, he likes to sleep with books. I found him like this on Saturday when I went to get him up from his nap.

 

Not ten minutes ago, I was in the kitchen and James came up behind me, put his hand on my butt, and said "Butt. Butt biiiig." 

He is so grounded.

A Boy and A Booger.

James just tried to give me a booger. When that wasn't successful he tried to put it back in his nose.

Awesome.

Some Random James-ness

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.

The Stats

I know you're all just dying to hear (read?) about James's 2 year checkup. Once again, the doctor mentioned that he's a very smart boy and pretty far ahead on his language skills. I guess average two-year-olds don't speak in 3+ word sentences (for example: "Light, side look bunny house" meaning "I'm taking this flashlight and going outside to look for bunny houses"). Anyway, here goes:

Height: 35.5", 77th Percentile
Weight: 27# 10oz, 48th Percentile
Head Circumference: 50cm, 82nd Percentile

Yeah. He's tall and skinny and has a big head. It's rather weird to me having a tall kid, as when I was growing up all of us were always a lot lower on the growth charts. I think my little brothers (bwahahaha, I crack myself up) were both consistently in the 25th or thereabouts.

When James Learned to Talk Back

Yesterday James was nibbling on one of his toys. I told him to stop biting that, and he looked at me with a twinkle in his eye and said "Not bite. Taste."

I think my laughter may have negated my authority with trying to get him not to bite his toys.