Mama's Boy

Okay, he's also a Dada's boy but I'm writing this blog :) (Jim is invited to guest blog but he has yet to take me up on that offer. I think he will after this public challenge!)

But James is a Mama's boy on this particular evening because he shares my love of ice cream. We were running an errand last night when he told me that our next destination was for ice cream. No problem, mijo! So we went to DQ for a cone.

You might say that I love my photo subject. I think I took 100 or so pictures of this boy just eating his ice cream cone. He's a photogenic boy but these are the best pictures. I probably should have stopped after a few pictures but he was just fun to watch!

Hello ice cream! Come to Nene...
















We moved outside when James got a little restless.


I need help! I am melting!










Uh oh! I spilled!




James is full. And has chocolate face.






Funny moment.
James and I were reading books and he has this favorite Elmo book that has removable pieces, kind of like a puzzle. I pretended that I couldn't put the pieces back in and needed his "help". Here is our conversation:
Mama: I can't do it!
James: Yes you can!
Mama: I think I need help.
James: It don't go here. It go here!
Mama: Oh thank you James!
James: You welcome Mama. I fix it.

I love that he is encouraging, nice, and polite :)
And hopefully when he says "I can't do it", I'll be able to tell him, Yes you can!

The Big JC inspired me

Ana (ChaCha) and I went to a movie on Saturday morning. We saw the Julie/Julia about Julia Child. It was really good! We both have read the book that the movie is based, I just re-read the book this month so it was fresh in my head. I liked it because Julie found something she was passionate about and went wild with her dream. Yup, wild. 524 French recipes in 365 days? That's crazy wild.

So here's my goal. I'm going to bake all the cookies and cupcakes in my Martha books. Ha! I wish. But I did pull out the Cookies book to look for a recipe I could make but unfortunately I don't have any unsalted butter in the refrigerator. What kind of baker doesn't have unsalted butter?! Oh well. Another day. But I am dreaming of those Coconut macaroon sandwich cookies.

Today I ran across a PBS special highlighting the best of Julia Child's show, The French Chef. One show was all about omelets so I watched and learned. I paused the show and tried Julia's technique. Success! I can do it!



It looks just like Julia's! The second omelet did NOT. I think the pan was too hot and it browned too much. Oh well. But I swirled and flipped like Julia. Yay.

We didn't do too much this weekend. We had that crazy awful storm last night and today we went to Ikea. We bought James some new furniture! A kid sized table and chairs, and a storage unit for his toys.

Well, I start work this week, kinda. James starts his new daycare next week!

501 posts!

I didn't even notice!! Okay, so this includes the blog entries that I imported from babysites.com, but still 500!

Tornado warnings

The silly thing was that I didn't know there were warnings until I saw someone on Facebook post about the tornado sightings and whatnot. So I switched to live TV and yup, headed right for us. The storm system was creeping closer and closer so at 9pm Jim went to get James and we headed down to the basement. I had gone downstairs to set up pillows and blankets in a little dark corner and James half-slept though the storm. He babbled a bit, tossed around in the pillows, and then finally I saw a foot disappear around the corner. James started to climb up the basement stairs. The worst was over and done, so Jim took him back up to bed.

We're still watching the news. This makes me so anxious.

Boom Boom Pow

"Boom! Gotta get. Boom! Gotta get."

I guess I need to change my ringtone because James is singing the Boom Boom Pow song. He spontaneously broke out into song after his bath and I cracked up!

Another gem: "Mama! Get off the couch!" James said this to me because he wanted to jump on the couch and obviously I was in the way. I made him say this nicer before I would move. I'm hoping he isn't also commenting that I'm a lazy bum. Oh well.

James has a new show that he is obsessing over, Imagination Movers on the Disney channel. Its another nonsense show. They sing and dance, so maybe that's the appeal.

To distract James from the TV we painted with watercolors. Dada gave up pretty fast, but I kept at it with my amateurish attempts at a family portrait. I think James painted some fish, or at least that's what it looks like to me!



My scale is all wrong- James is as big as Jim, but I'm tall and skinny! And look at my Bob Ross tree! My paintbrush was happy.

Happy Feet

I guess we're on a dancing theme. That last video just cracks me up.

In this first video I caught James dancing. We were playing outside yesterday and he left my view (I was gardening!) and when I turned around the corner to find him, this is what I saw.

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Because it was a rainy day we needed to play inside. I brought out the chalk mat and James had fun jumping, drawing, and just keeping me busy!









Deep concentration.


After dinner, I made popcorn while Jim got James all "cozy" in the basement for movie night! We chose Happy Feet because we thought James would like the penguins and dancing.


James was all about the popcorn!




Joining in the dancing. This was a tense chase scene between the sea lion and the penguins. I thought James was scared but he laughed and ran around the room as we watched.






Well, movie night was a success. We did get through the whole movie but James did lose interest for a little bit and got up to play pool. He came back to the couch to sit on my lap and we finished watching. And then Jim and James got up to dance with the credits!

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We try to have fun at our house!

Best Video EVER!

Just looking through some oldies but goodies!

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What's James doing NOW?

The force is strong with this little one!

What's James doing NOW?

Its a rainy day picnic of grapes and cars!

Lions Park

I don't know what's going on with our little boy. He hasn't wanted to golf or play outside. He is content to watch TV, play with cars, color, or play with Legos. I am glad that he's not just focused on one activity (golf!) but I'm anxious to get him outside and in fresh air.

We went to the Lions Park in Coon Rapids because I like the playground and there are big trees for shade. I brought the golf clubs along, thinking that I'd hate to be without them if he all of a sudden wanted to golf. He usually does at the park.

Nope, no golf. Just lots and lots of climbing and exploring.

I was surprised that he climbed all the way up to the "tunnel slide". And even more surprised that he went down all by himself! He's such a big boy! :)