Boys will be boys

A couple of weeks ago I noticed some dark bits around James's face and went on a hunt for the source.  I learned that James was eating the bugs out of our sliding glass door tracks.  After much talking, and seeing the mortified look on my face, I thought the "don't eat bugs" rule was registered in his mind.  However, today I heard some slurping and went to investigate.  I found James with his face down LICKING those same door tracks, picking up all the dirt and bugs.  Oy, what's a mom to do?

Catching Up

Chris is currently out of town attending a friend's wedding in CA.  Since I am stuck at home (I try to limit my trips out with the kids by myself until Lily is past this screaming phase.  She HATES her car seat!), I decided it was time to catch up on the ol' blog!

Lily is now over 9 lbs, and still quite a tiny, little peanut!  She is still in newborn clothes, and I'm very impatient for her to grow a little more so I can put her in her cute 0-3 months outfits! She started smiling back in mid-May, and I can usually catch a bunch of those beauties right after she's eaten.  She is a great eater, but we are still working on sleeping. Fortunately, she still sleeps at night pretty well.  During the day is difficult because there are some days where she just doesn't nap at all.  And right now if she's not sleeping or eating, she's probably crying.  Oy, those are fun days! I'll be happy when she hits about 4 months and this colic starts to disappear.  Besides the colic, she is absolutely a beautiful baby!

James has still been meeting with a lot of specialists from Kids on the Move.  {I want to give a shout-out to that program! They are absolutely amazing and offer some of the greatest opportunities for James.  I am so thankful to have stumbled on this program!}  His vocabulary is quite large now, but he is still working on articulation.  His articulation is pretty much non-existent! He just makes up sounds he thinks works :)  Soon we'll also be enrolling him in a "Floortime" class which will help him have more creative play, and give me tips on how to help him do that.  Right now his free-play is EXTREMELY structured and he doesn't ever branch out of that type of play.  He is all about lining things up, and repeating the same movements with his toys over and over.  He sometimes gets frustrated with me when I bring in some imaginative play.  I'm excited to see how this class helps both of us!

Besides that, not much has changed! We did sell our Hyundai and purchase a new car (well, new to us!), but I'll blog about that later.  For now, we are enjoying our weekend in the sunshine and impatiently awaiting Chris's return and the arrival of his mom! She will be coming on Sunday and we CANNOT wait!

Silly James

James has been quite a riot lately.  Here are some of his more favorite things to say:

He loves to put his finger to his mouth and say "Hmmm, let's see."  Then he throws his finger up into the air and yells, "I got it!" He then says the name of an animal and acts that animal out around the room.  My personal favorite is "rangaroo!" (Kangaroo)

Sometimes when he's being especially silly, I'll tell him that he is such a happy boy.  He then looks at me and tries to hide his smile while saying "No, I sad..."

He calls our suburban the "Kool Kar".  I think of "Ks" instead of "Cs" because it just sounds cooler...

James has been so sweet to Lily.  Whenever she cries (which, let's face it, is pretty much all the time) he finds her pacifier and tries to stick it back in her mouth.  He calls it her "sy-sy".

When we were at Costco and Lily started to cry, James turned around, lifted up her car seat cover and said "It's OK Lily" while rocking her car seat.

James has finally gotten a handle on the barter system.  Sometimes it's the only way I can get him to eat his lunch or dinner.  Whatever works, right?