Muppets

Last weekend we took James to the new Muppets movie. He does very well for movies... until the last 10 or 15 minutes. It never fails! He suddenly gets a bug up his you-know-what to "go home". But we make it through.

The Muppets movie was GREAT. I love the Muppets!

I skipped over these pictures originally but when I looked through them again they were interesting. He's just a beautiful child. I can't get enough of him sometimes.

I don't remember what we were talking about. We're always talking about something lately. He is just very chatty and entertaining.

He insisted on taking a picture of his lunch. Happy Meal!

More geekiness

I guess James loves the computers at school. I thought about giving him more screen time at home, but I think there is plenty of time for that later. He's surrounded by geekiness :)

WJDN?

We're cuddling on the couch, by the Christmas tree, watching the Lorax!


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Sneaky

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Christmas is HERE!

My small child just left his bed, ran to the top of the stairs and yelled down "HO HO HO Merry Christmas!" He giggled and ran back to his room. How can you be mad at at that?!

He's got Christmas on the brain. The Rudolph song is "singing" in his head. We think Sneaky is peeking in the windows (especially when he's on the verge of naughtiness- I gasp and look at the window. What? What?! And he thinks it's Sneaky that caught my attention. Sucka.)

I blame myself for all the Christmas cheer. We had the great idea of bringing Sneaky back to his memories. We had Friday off and James went to daycare. We decorated and put up lights. We picked up James from daycare and we were all surprised by the lights.

Inside the house the lights and decorations were up (minus the tree still) and there was a note from Sneaky!

Wow. And M&M's. We can't wait to watch the show! (and it was very cute. and it's gotten a lot of play around this house since Friday!)

Tonight...

"James? I'm not James. I'm Santa James!" He seriously said that, with Blankie as his beard.

More Surprises. After talking about Rudolph singing in his head I surprised James with the show, on TV tonight! We loved the first 15 minutes and then he said he was done. Stinker. But look at his short lived joy...

"I know what the surprise is!"

"Ooooh, it's coming...!"

"I was right! Rudolph!"

Silly Nene.

WJDN

"I have a song singing in my head. Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer. It can't stop. It hurts my ears."


I guess they were practicing Christmas caroling today!

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FTMCD (Funny Things My Child Does)

James drew a picture of himself while he was at school. He very proudly brought it home.



A picture of himself in that box of peanuts!

WJDN?

I just did the happy dance with James to the Peanuts theme song! He giggled when I twirled him!


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Famous Mom

James has a famous Mom. I am on the third page of the Coon Rapids Herald :) I found the same article and picture on the district website, here's the link:

Coon Rapids Middle School Starts a Food Shelf

I've been working on this for a while now. We've collected food donations from our school staff and have a group of students who "help". My friend Peggy is one of the counselors who sees a lot of the students in need, and she's the homeless liaison so we are a great team . I love my staff :)

Letter to Santa

James has been forming a mental list for Santa for a while now. Right now he is insistent that he has "just three things" and can't focus on much beyond that. Hey, three is good. I do know that his grandparents and tias will be straying off this list, so no worries :)

Jim helped James with this letter. They cut out the picture of the Lego set from the catalog that we very conveniently just received.



FYI- we have the Lego set and the blanket covered. I think Grandma Laura was going to work on the stamps? I have a few sets on the Amazon list for reference. He has the "Good Work" stamp from Laura that he played with yesterday. This has inspired his want of more stamps. (But not too many more- messy and who knows if this is a passing fancy!)

James wanted to mail the letter right away so his Dad did put the address and stamp on the envelope. They walked to the mailbox this morning to mail the letter.






Jim found an address for Santa and we'll get a response!

I'm Thankful for James

I'm thankful for a little boy that runs to hug me when he sees me!

James is thankful for... Swimming Pools.

Yes, swimming pools.

WTF?!

Poor James

One day last week I picked up James from daycare and he complained right away that his ear hurt. The teachers didn't know anything about it. We went home and I made a doctor's appointment for the next morning. Ten minutes later he was sobbing on my lap that it hurts it hurts it hurts!!!

We went to Urgent Care. Sad faces.

Yup, ear infection. Antibiotics. Almost instantly better.

Actually, a pretty normal little boy after a good night's sleep.

I hope this is the last ear infection, though we've already had TWO this fall.

Dino James

A few weeks ago we took James to the Science Museum to see the dinosaurs. I guess it's a preschool boy thing to like dinosaurs. We saw more evidence of this at James' birthday party where his friends were pretending to be pterodactyls. Oh, and then they insisted on watching the TV show Dino Dan.

Anyway, before the dinosaurs we tried to interest James in the other science-y things. He really liked the hands on activities.

Weighing himself and finding out how much blood is in his little body.

Marble maze.

My future cookie chef can find a cookie anywhere. This is a "tree cookie"!

Ooooooh scary. Mummy!

Playing with magnets.

Ahhh! The dinosaurs!

James loved these puppets. We have puppets at home but it's not the same, I guess. You need a cool prehistoric background.

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Dinosaur poop fossils!

DONE.

More Birthday Party

I didn't take many pictures at James' family party. Maybe I was partied out?

Grandma Rose and Tia ChaCha were good sports about trying out the Lego pictures. I only did the two pictures and then I forgot about them!.... Ooops.

Fun times. Packing peanuts.