Daycare

We don't use much of daycare now that Jim is able to put James on the morning bus and then meet his afternoon bus (or I'm home by then most times too).

But when Jim was out of town a lot in October I did use the school daycare in the mornings so I could be timely or be at morning meetings. James didn't mind. It gave him time on his 2DS game system or he played in the computer lab.

I felt bad that he was sitting alone on this first day--

 

But he was comfortable by the second day and joined the other boys just to watch their gaming.

 

I'm glad we don't need the daycare often but it came in handy!

 

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Random Summer moments

Ice cream sandwiches are a new favorite.

 

I bought a similar blanket for myself and James just HAD TO have one too. He calls it his Blankie 2.0!

 

He grew these from seeds at school!

 

Rainy day and our neighbor still waters his lawn. It keeps us very amused.

 

James had to go to a few days of daycare while I went back to work in mid/late August. He wasn't thrilled but he made it through :)

 

 

Super nice to put up my feet and watch James play!

 

This is not the droid you are looking for!

 

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Birthday Friends

Do you know a Mario cake is impossible to find locally? Jim found these custom icing sheets online, and you put them on a plain, smooth white cake. It was quite a chore peeling it from the backing sheet, but we did it.   With love!

His party was Mario themed, when possible. I did find a giant moustache balloon, thinking that was close enough.

James invited a few of his buddies from school, from New Horizon, and his buddy Ryan (my friend's son). It ended up being the perfect amount of energetic boys. Oh, and we hired our babysitter Abby to help!

The problem with a cool cake is that every boy had a specific character they wanted on their piece. James chose Mario, of course.

And then the gifts happened. Chaos!

After we were done in the party room we headed out to play!

I didn't approve of the gun play.

Air cannons play area.

Do you see James up there?

Best buddies James and Ryan jumping!

And then the best part of the party... The bumper cars! I liked this area because all of the kids were contained (: and this is how the parents came back and found their children- all under control! Ha!

This is our favorite picture. James is having a ball and Russell in the background has his feet up, not a care in the world!

Happy birthday to James and thanks to his friends for a great party!

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Halloween 2013

I'm still trying to catch up on my blog. I am home sick today, it's a snowy day- perfect for down time and keeping warm in bed.

So James was Mario this year, as if there was any other costume he'd choose! He is Mario obsessed!

I loved his moustache and poofy stomach!

 

Jim carved Mario themed pumpkins, of course!

 

 

 

It is usually just the three of us that go out trick or treating. We do a quick lap of the neighborhood and James is usually satisfied with that. We were lucky that it was not a terrible, cold night. It was chilly but not unbearable.

 

Our neighbors had interesting pumpkins too. A Minion!

 

Every once in a while we'd run into a huge grouping of kids. I think that might be the way to go as James gets older. He'd love to run house to house with friends.

 

So my workplace is the best. There is always a group costume and this year it was organized to be characters from Despicable Me- Minions and Gru! I'm in there, far to the left. What a fun day!

 

I took a look back, with James, on his costumes from ages 0 to 5. He didn't remember most of them, but had heard about them.

I couldn't easily find a good picture from his first Halloween. I always loved this photo effect as Yoda though..

Age 1- Batman! He didn't appreciate the mask so we mostly did without it.

Age 2- A mailman! He had pretend letters in his pouch that he gave to a few neighbors. It was so cute.

Age 3- A ghost! Simplest costume ever! A cheap Walmart sheet and we were good to go! This professioinal picture is from New Horizon.

Age 4- A spooky pirate!

Age 5- A sand trooper? Some kind of Star Wars character. He carried around a blaster gun, but of course that wasn't allowed at his Kindergarten school party.

 

 

 

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So we really enjoy Halloween around here!

 

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