Easter

We have been having so much fun this past weekend. Doug's parents came to visit for the Easter Holiday and James had so much fun visiting with Grandma and Grandpa and his uncles. Doug took Friday off and we went down to Provo to visit the BYU campus. James was too excited to take his morning nap so we were hoping that he would sleep in the car. He fell asleep just as we got there and actually took a nap in his car seat for 30-45 minutes. I wish I had a camera! Then we went to lunch at Brickoven Pizza and James had so much fun putting his hands in the pizza and jumping on the bench, again I wish I had my camera.





On Saturday Doug spent a lot of time playing at the park with his brothers. They had a lot of fun. Grandpa took James over to play with his Lightning McQueen. James loved to push it around and play in the grass.

James found this ball to play with on Sunday. He would crawl over to it then throw it to himself and then go get it again. Then he found the vent under the sink. He loves to play with that now and push it around on the tile.

Temple Pictures (and some James)

I thought i would put a few updated pictures from the Draper Temple on. These are from the west side of the building. All the stone is complete and the window frames and stained glass is in.

This is the south face of the building and the stone is nearly complete at this area. Windows are being set now.

The weather has been really nice this weekend, and after a whole week stuck inside we could not resist going out on Friday and Sunday. (Saturday was too cold) When we got back from our walk on Friday the house felt so hot that I had to open the window and back door. I was in the kitchen doing some things, when I turned around I found James out the back door and down the stairs. He was so excited to be outside, but that is the one place that we haven't baby proofed yet so I had to make him mad and take him inside and close the door.

On Sunday we had to keep him home from church (we didn't want to spread his possible RSV germs to all the other babies) so we took him out after Church for a little fun. Doug has been so excited to take Lightning McQueen to the playground at the nearby school. James had so much fun walking all over although he still has a little trouble with his shoes on.

After the park we were finally able to take Doug to see the ducks. There weren't as many but they were hungry. James had so much fun throwing his cheerios to the ducks. I didn't think that he would but he figured it out right away and would grab a handful from my hand and throw it in the water to the ducks. (Occasionally the cheerios didn't make it to the ducks because they went in his mouth instead.)

Wishing for Spring

I think we are all really sick of winter. James and I can't wait for the spring so we can get out of the house. It has been really hard this winter only having one car. This past week has been very warm (high 40s low 50s) so we have been out walking every day. James loves to go outside and screams when we go back inside the house. There is a trail by our house that goes along the Jordan river that we love to walk on. There is also a bunch of ducks that James loves to go and watch, he even tries to give them some of his cheerios. These two ducks hang out in front of our house. They drive Loa crazy.




When we go for walks James has to hold Loa's leash. He grabs on and laughs and laughs. I don't know why it is so funny but it is pretty cute.
James has also been learning to walk. Doug decided that it was time to really work with him to get him walking. He has been using his Lightning McQueen car to help him walk. Now James uses his Lightning McQueen and his Tonka Trucks to walk everywhere! It is so funny/frustrating because he will walk across the room then get stuck on something. He drops to the ground, looks at whoever is near and starts throwing a tantrum so we will come and turn the car around so he can go back the other way.

Happy Boy

We got a new camera so hopefully we will be back to our regular cute videos that I am sure you have missed so much. Here is the video that we took right before the camera broke. Doug is playing with James and he loves it! James' tooth count is now up to 5 when he got a new tooth on Monday on the bottom, so his cute vampire smile is still intact.

Crazy Night

Last night was one of the biggest "struggles" we've had getting James to eat and go to bed. It started when we tried to give him a bottle at 9:00 as usual. He ate for a minute then discovered that if he shook the bottle the formula would splash out onto his face. He thought it was so much fun and his face was covered in milk after a while. Then he decided to try and splash mom with the bottle, but it didn't work to well. After that it was all about playing. He could not sit still long enough to eat anything. He would crawl over, take a sip of his bottle then be off again. He had a lot of things to do like, standing in the bed of his dump truck, pushing a book around the kitchen, climb on the fire place, practice walking, take all the toys out of his toy bin and of course he had to keep coming back for some "sips" from his bottle. Finally after 45 minutes we decided he was not going to eat the entire bottle and put him to bed. It wasn't until I was falling asleep later that I realized the cause of his activity, we had given him a handful of "sugar" cereal.

Doug has been working with James on his walking. He is pretty good but doesn't really have the patience for it. Crawling is much faster at this point and we have too much to do to waste time learning how to walk. He has really done some cute blog worthy things lately and we are missing our video camera.

We got a Wii

Well after waiting and looking we finally found a Wii. We had actually stoped looking and decided to go to Best Buy last night to look at cameras. We saw a guy unpacking boxes and decided to ask. To our surprise he said, "Yes, we do have some. Do you want me to go get you one?" They had just gotten a shipment that night. We had just decided to spend our Christmas money on something else. So last night we played all of the games. I actually beat Doug at half of them, although he will get better a lot faster. It is a lot of fun and my arm is actually a little sore today from playing last night. Now we just have a list of all the other fun games and stuff we want to get.

Enjoying the Sun

We still don't have a video camera but here are some really cute pictures that I have taken of James this week. Doug gave me this body pillow for Valentines Day, I love it a lot, but James and Loa really love it. James loves anything that feels soft and can't seem to keep his hands off of it.

James is so busy playing all the time. As you can probably tell he loves to take everything off the shelves and make a huge mess. In this picture he took all his toys off the shelf and was trying to go in there. He loves "caves".
We have been having a lot of sunny afternoons. Loa loves to find a sunny spot on the carpet and just lay there. James and Loa also like to look out the window. Today they were looking out the window and James decided that he needed to be sitting up like Loa, so he climbed up to sit on top of the couch. It was pretty cute.
One other thing, we have been calling James our little Vampire. Unknow to us, James cut two new teeth. I found them one day while digging something out of his mouth. But they are not the top front teeth like we were expecting, they are the two teeth next to the top front teeth. So he looks pretty cute with a big gap in his teeth. But I see some bumps where the front teeth are coming and his lower gums are white where he looks to be getting two bottom teeth. So soon he should have 8 teeth.