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Wow...time moves fast. It has been about three solid months since I have updated James blog. It has been an excellent summer for James in terms of fun and growing up. I will hit the highlights and drop some new pictures out there for all to see. The summer months seem short in the North, so we tend to spend alot of time outdoors in our family. We hike, bike, fish, ski, boat, camp, play in the pool, go to festivals, visit with good friends and a million other activities and this summer has been great for all of the aforementioned activities.
James is growing up so fast. He is running, climbing, talking (although some words are a little rough yet) riding a tricycle and generally being two years old. He has mastered stairs, gotten a bigger bed (he has almost grown out of his porta-crib) loves to read, can build puzzles, has learned some sign language and loves to dance to most types of music. He has truly grown the past couple months. We have taken James to many events and happenings this summer and will list some of the highlights below.
Summertime brings lawn cutting and this has been a bit of a wet summer, so there has been plenty o' lawn to cut. James loves all things man, such as heavy machinery and the lawn mower. He has a set of ear protectors that are like Daddy's and we cut the lawn together every week. He really enjoys riding on the lawn mower and even feels relaxed enough to fall asleep while cutting the lawn occasionally. Summer also beings about boating and water related activities. James loves the water and likes to spend time on the boat. He has gotten his sea legs so to speak as he can navigate the boat with out too much trouble. He really likes to feed the fish behind the boat with what ever snack he has at the time. We have had some great boat days this summer and the girls on the doc love to visit James when we are there. He has many friends at the marina and loves to see all the kids.
There have been some great days home with Mommy as well. Our deck offers a vast variety of water toys to play with and James loves the water! He has a little pool (and a big pool for swimming with us), a water table and many bowls, buckets and bottles to fill. He helps us water the flowers and finds great fun in getting our feet wet with a bucket of water. He loves water the most and he takes every advantage to play in the water.
We attended his cousin Alex's Graduation Party and had a great time playing with the other kids and running around. Great times and fun with his 2 cousins. Of course the coolers were filled with water and ice and he found his way into them to play with the water.
On to the Webster Firemens Parade and Carnival - James loved all of the big trucks and fire trucks. He had fun playing with Uncle Tim as well. He thought that the giant cone was great! He received a firemens hat this year and still has it. He is still a little young for the rides, but enjoyed watching the bigger ones go round and round and up and down. The term "Oh Woooowwwww" was a frequent one at the carnival.
Finally as we head into August, we visited some good friends at Star Lake in the mountains and had even more water fun. We enjoyed riding a motorized dock to the sandbar, having a camp fire and throwing rocks into the water. It was a nice place to stay and James met some new friends as well as cought up with some old friends. He also got to play with some new toys and met a new doggie. Upon our return, we attended a friends birthday party and enjoyed another campfire. Met some new firends played on some heavy machinery and ran around crazy. The last weekend adventure was a trip to visit his cousion Noah and the family and had yet another campfire that eve. We gave kisses, high fives and hugs to his younger cousin and even got a lesson in sharing his snack cup.
This has been an excellent summer of learning and fun! While we are a little over half way through the summer, we have a trip to Virginia comming up, a boat camping weekend planned and our anual trip to the Moose River Plains for a week of camping in the wild. That will all transpire in the next three to four weeks.
I will try to post all of the August fun at the end of the month.
Sunday, August 2, 2009
Sunday, May 3, 2009
MAy 2009
May 2009 - It is only May 3, but James figured out how to get out of his crib today. So...I just finished contructing his big boy bed and Mommy just put him to sleep in it. We are a bit nervous on how he will do with it, but he crawled out of his crib twice today so we figured it was time to make the leap before he hurt himself. Both times we had been watching the video monitor so we saved him from getting hurt. Figured that wouldn't last long. Happy Big Boy graduation day mister!
April 2009 - Gotcha Month
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April is Gotcha Month and it marks an outstanding milestone of James being home now for 1 year. It has been an excellent year. Mommy and Daddy are very blessed with a young man that is truly a joy. He has changed my life in terms of my world views and touched my heart as I aspire to be a good Daddy. To say that Mommy and Daddy love this young man is an understatement!
James has had an outstanding April with only a little slowdown from strep throat. He has healed nicely and didn't seem to cause him much trouble.
The month of April started with our local Guatemalan Families getting together for Easter where a surprise visit from the Easter Bunny was a big hit! Grandpa came with Daddy to the gathering as Mommy was at a wedding shower and Daddy had just had his appendix out and could not pick James up. We had a great time and we received an Easter Basket from the Easter Bunny to take home. There was a good turnout for the well organized event with good food and games.
Onto Great Wolf Lodge in Canada where we had three days of fun splashing events! Uncle John, Aunt Chris and Jack visited on the first day and we had an excellent time in the indoor water park. The giant indoor water park, indoor arcade and talking animals can keep kids of all ages busy for three days with no problem. The lodge caters to not only the kids, but their parents as well. We had an efficiency sweet, but the food in the lodge was great. We did not know what the cost structure was for meals so we packed and planned to eat all of our meals in our room, but the first night we had a nice dinner with John, Chris and Jack. A very filling vacation with highlights that included, a 5 ft wave pool, talking trees - bears - moose and raccoon, story time with the animals, and most of all some quality time with my family in a relaxed atmosphere.
Easter - we made some Easter Eggs, but James was sick with strep throat so we just took it easy on that actual day and stayed home. It was a special day none the less.
Nice Weather begins to arrive! James and I cleanup around the house in prep for the summer and James loves to ride on the tractor and in our plow truck (Jeep). James has also begun to learn about using chalk to draw on the driveway - he was a little aggravated as the driveway is sloped and the chalk kept rolling away. He did a great job!
April is Gotcha Month and it marks an outstanding milestone of James being home now for 1 year. It has been an excellent year. Mommy and Daddy are very blessed with a young man that is truly a joy. He has changed my life in terms of my world views and touched my heart as I aspire to be a good Daddy. To say that Mommy and Daddy love this young man is an understatement!
James has had an outstanding April with only a little slowdown from strep throat. He has healed nicely and didn't seem to cause him much trouble.
The month of April started with our local Guatemalan Families getting together for Easter where a surprise visit from the Easter Bunny was a big hit! Grandpa came with Daddy to the gathering as Mommy was at a wedding shower and Daddy had just had his appendix out and could not pick James up. We had a great time and we received an Easter Basket from the Easter Bunny to take home. There was a good turnout for the well organized event with good food and games.
Onto Great Wolf Lodge in Canada where we had three days of fun splashing events! Uncle John, Aunt Chris and Jack visited on the first day and we had an excellent time in the indoor water park. The giant indoor water park, indoor arcade and talking animals can keep kids of all ages busy for three days with no problem. The lodge caters to not only the kids, but their parents as well. We had an efficiency sweet, but the food in the lodge was great. We did not know what the cost structure was for meals so we packed and planned to eat all of our meals in our room, but the first night we had a nice dinner with John, Chris and Jack. A very filling vacation with highlights that included, a 5 ft wave pool, talking trees - bears - moose and raccoon, story time with the animals, and most of all some quality time with my family in a relaxed atmosphere.
Easter - we made some Easter Eggs, but James was sick with strep throat so we just took it easy on that actual day and stayed home. It was a special day none the less.
Nice Weather begins to arrive! James and I cleanup around the house in prep for the summer and James loves to ride on the tractor and in our plow truck (Jeep). James has also begun to learn about using chalk to draw on the driveway - he was a little aggravated as the driveway is sloped and the chalk kept rolling away. He did a great job!
Saturday, May 2, 2009
January thru March highlights
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Well...It has been a few months since I have updated James blog - he has kept us running. Wow - there is quite a few things to write about. I will be brief and just hit the highlights. On Thursday January 1,2009 - Mommy made her now famous hangover turkey dinner and we had our neighbors Jamie and Robin over for dinner. Onto to see Adam and Carmen and the boys on Friday January 2, 2009 - James had a blast as he and Luke ran around for hours. James also was able to see a couple real horses and loved them. On Saturday, we went to visit Daddy's college friend Laura at her new house and flirted with Laura and Bobbi. It was an exciting few days! The end of the month of January resulted in a lousy stomach bug that was painful for both James and Mommy and Daddy.
In February our town hosted a winter carnival with snow sledding, snow shoeing, hiking, food, snow man contest and a snow sled dog team that we loved. James was mesmerized by the other kids sledding down hill. James loved the snow and made a couple of snow balls to throw. Mommy took James to the Sandbox indoor play area while Daddy was working on Monday the 16th. There are many activities and fun things to do and James joined right into the ball crawl and a bouncy house. Good fun was had! A major milestone was accomplished as James was moved from the babies room to the toddlers room at his daycare. The bigger kids have been playing with James and teaching him new life skills. He is really showing signs of growing up and comes home with new things he learned every week. At the end of the month James had a sleep over so that Mommy and Daddy could go to a 70's theme party that Greg and Collen hosted for the completion of a major kitchen renovation. It looked great and mom and dad looked groovy in their 70's attire.
March was another month of fun! It started out with the Saint Patrick's Day Parade in the city of Rochester where we saw many fire trucks which are our favorite of all big trucks. The biggest accomplishment was the finalization of the re-adoption as we had the hearing on the 18th. Way to go James, you name is now official and you new york state birth certificate is on the way! The worst part of the month was for Daddy - an emergency appendectomy landed Daddy in the hospitol the weekend of the 21st and another 8 weeks of recovery time during which I couldnt pick James up at all. That was the toughest p[art for Daddy as Mommy had the complete burden of taking care of James needs while I recovered. What a trouper Mommy is!!!!!
That is the major highlghts for the quarter. Many new and exciting adventures to begin this summer for the family.
Well...It has been a few months since I have updated James blog - he has kept us running. Wow - there is quite a few things to write about. I will be brief and just hit the highlights. On Thursday January 1,2009 - Mommy made her now famous hangover turkey dinner and we had our neighbors Jamie and Robin over for dinner. Onto to see Adam and Carmen and the boys on Friday January 2, 2009 - James had a blast as he and Luke ran around for hours. James also was able to see a couple real horses and loved them. On Saturday, we went to visit Daddy's college friend Laura at her new house and flirted with Laura and Bobbi. It was an exciting few days! The end of the month of January resulted in a lousy stomach bug that was painful for both James and Mommy and Daddy.
In February our town hosted a winter carnival with snow sledding, snow shoeing, hiking, food, snow man contest and a snow sled dog team that we loved. James was mesmerized by the other kids sledding down hill. James loved the snow and made a couple of snow balls to throw. Mommy took James to the Sandbox indoor play area while Daddy was working on Monday the 16th. There are many activities and fun things to do and James joined right into the ball crawl and a bouncy house. Good fun was had! A major milestone was accomplished as James was moved from the babies room to the toddlers room at his daycare. The bigger kids have been playing with James and teaching him new life skills. He is really showing signs of growing up and comes home with new things he learned every week. At the end of the month James had a sleep over so that Mommy and Daddy could go to a 70's theme party that Greg and Collen hosted for the completion of a major kitchen renovation. It looked great and mom and dad looked groovy in their 70's attire.
March was another month of fun! It started out with the Saint Patrick's Day Parade in the city of Rochester where we saw many fire trucks which are our favorite of all big trucks. The biggest accomplishment was the finalization of the re-adoption as we had the hearing on the 18th. Way to go James, you name is now official and you new york state birth certificate is on the way! The worst part of the month was for Daddy - an emergency appendectomy landed Daddy in the hospitol the weekend of the 21st and another 8 weeks of recovery time during which I couldnt pick James up at all. That was the toughest p[art for Daddy as Mommy had the complete burden of taking care of James needs while I recovered. What a trouper Mommy is!!!!!
That is the major highlghts for the quarter. Many new and exciting adventures to begin this summer for the family.
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