I just realized that I haven't posted a blog in six months. It has been a busy few months, mostly with naps. Now I'm trying to finish up my masters so I can start making Christmas gifts. I have very fun ideas for what time make all the kiddos I know this year. Anyway, here is a few recent favorite photos of Jamesie this summer.

I downloaded Picasa and am in love with it. So far some of my favorites (original and then new)

Showin off his cute homemade pants that go great with his starwars shirt.
I love these boys.

Happy Birthday Scarlett

To start with, Jamesie has a new favorite way to watch tv, curled up and in chill mode.

On to the rest of the post! I finished Scarlett's birthday gift! Now, I have never seen yo gabba gabba but a few google images helped me make this cute bag. I love it so much that I kinda want to keep it, except the strap is too short for me so I guess i will have to pass it along. :)

The front of the bag has spaces to hold markers and a peek a boo from the unibrow guy because as I told Jason, no gift is complete without a unibrow. I hope she loves it and if not Jamesie has offered to take it off her hands. Happy Birthday Scarlett, I can't believe you are already two!

Pants

I made pants for Jamesie!! All by myself because I'm awesome (and modest). Halfway through I decide to be uber impressive and make them reversible. Wow! They aren't finished yet because he isn't awake for me to measure his waist and his height. However, here are the pictures of what they look like right now. Tomorrow I will post a picture of him hopefully being cute in them.

Here is one side. Though I don't know if I will keep the cuffs.
Here is the other side. This side is soft. I want to turn it into sheets. Or just a pillow case.

I made a cute little tag to hide where I messed up the elastic and forgot to hide it in the first place. But apparently it is geeky. And Jason is a jerk.

James is 20 months old today! Dang I can't believe it. Here are some of the amazing things he can do now:

-Yesterday he wanted help with something and said "help please" without prompting from us.

-This morning he wanted out of his chair and said "please get up"

-He pretty consistently will say "hi ___" or "bye ___" to whoever he is talking to.

(Can you tell I'm impressed with his talking skills?)

-He LOVES Bob and Larry of Veggietales, Bob mostly. He is learning to be patient and do the "loading" dance when waiting for netflix to load Bob. He will let us know it is time to watch Bob by saying "Bob," pointing at the tv, and bringing us the proper remote. He is also getting the point where he knows how to work some of the controls and can restart Bob on his own at times.

-He LOVES Ernie and other Sesame Street characters.

-His favorite foods include: blueberries, cake, cookies, cheetos, cheese, and bread. He has become a picky eater though and most nights chooses to skip dinner rather than eat what I make.

-He can identify 17 letters (wow!)

-He sleeps o.k. Not great. Not as terrible as before.

-He loves having a house and a backyard to run around in.

-I think maybe that is all for now.

food blogging for coworkers.

So Darcy and Alex didn't believe that I could make pizza on a bbq. To prove them wrong I thought I would food blog it. :)

So you start with pizza crust dough. SOOO easy. 1/2 c water and that box of mix. Stir then rest for five minutes. (This is two boxes worth)
Next you knead it for a few minutes.
Roll it out all romantic like, it is Valentines day after all.
Prepare your toppings. Or if you are like James, you could just do this stage and eat cold pepperoni for dinner.
Toss it on the bbq. :) (see it does work!) Here it has already been flipped over, I didn't leave this batch on long enough to get the lines though. About 4-5 minutes per side. After you flip it you add the toppings and then close the lid for 5 minutes. Opening it to check on it will slow the melting of the cheese.

Tada! Pizza heart for the hubby and pizza face for the Jamesie.

(Mine was cooked up with sausage, grilled onions, and peppers, much tastier than the boys pizza.)

seriously hearts her kid.

James is developing such an unique and cute little personality. I'm totally loving it and wish that I could capture it all on film so I will never forget.

My favorite things from today:

He found our mini baseball bat. He took the bat over to the sliding glass door and swapped out the big similarly shaped wooden stick for the mini bat as our new security system.

Then we were cleaning up his letter squares and one is missing. So we walked to each bedr

oom and looked for it. In each room I said "nope" and moved on. A few minutes later he walked to each room and in his VERY sweet voice said "no" and then moved on to the next room until all rooms were checked. So cute.

From the last comment it is clear he has learned to say "no" but he hasn't learned it in the obnoxious way. He mostly just says no when he doesn't want more food or what not. So it is cute and nice to have him communicate better.

Currently he is wandering around the house "talking" on my cell phone.

He loves our new house, as do I. It is so nice to give him space to play and run and be silly. He also has room to enjoy his little chair which he loves to lounge in while reading books.

This week we are having Sam stay with us. It will be a nice trial period to see how James does with a dog in the house. Hopefully he will like it since we are getting him a puppy for his birthday this spring.

Also, Jason's mom totally came over and put these super cute flowers in! So sweet!

And now some extra pictures: