June and July

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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.