Home Depot

We recently found out the Home Depot has a free workshop every first Saturday of the month.  We went this month and they just happened to be making cars.  James had a blast!  He loved pounding with the hammer and helping daddy.  The thing he loved most though was racing the cars.  He did not want to leave the racing cars.  We probably watched for 20 minutes before we could drag him away. The pictures aren't the greatest.  I forgot my camera.  Thankfully my mom was there and was taking pictures with her phone.  Thanks mom!

Lately

Just a few things that have been happening lately.



Finger painting with shaving cream turned into James painting everything.

We went to the park, but he was not a fan of the swings.

He just wanted to run around.

We also went to the duck pond with the Johnansens.

We went out to eat and James got a balloon dinosaur which he loved and is cuddling.

Sometimes he plugs his ears and starts yelling like he doesn't want to listen to me.

With the cold weather we had to get creative.  He loved dumping the noodles and beans.  I loved it too until he started throwing them.

Cutie pants in mom's sunglasses.

Our neighbor Paisley and James are good friends.  They get along well and sometimes even try to kiss each other.
 

James has learned to love dinosaurs.  Maybe its due to the fact that we go to the dinosaur museum. A lot.  Either way its pretty cute. Side note, every time James watches this video he always roars like a dinosaur every time I ask on the video.

 

 

James and Katie love to play together.  It was so cute seeing them dancing.

Cars, cars and more cars

One of James' most favorite things in the whole wide world is cars of any variety.  Whenever we go outside even if its just from the house to the car, he always points at the road and says, "Car!"  or "Bus!".   All the smaller vehicles are cars and the bigger ones are buses.  He loves to drive his cars and "buses" around all day.  And every time we read stories he always has to point out the car in the picture.  Recently we introduced him to the movie "Cars".  He feel in love and will actually sit and watch it for a half an hour.  Seeing that he has never cared or been interested in watching tv or movies ever before in his life, this is quite a game changer.  We had tried for awhile to at least get him to sit for just a few minutes to watch a movie but he was always too busy and had too much to do and too many toys to play with.  Now I can actually cook dinner without him trying to climb up my legs.  Awesome! 

Because James loves cars to much, I thought it would be a fun idea to make a cardboard car for him.  James colored and decorated the box while I cut out the lights and wheels.  I put it all together then stuck him in it.  As evidenced by the picture, he hated it.  He did not want it around his neck and he didn't like that he was somewhat confined within the box.  Oh well.  Maybe someday he'll warm up to the idea.