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!

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.