Bruises, Parties, and a Near Escape from a Fire

We have had a very uneventful week, with nothing to write about, followed by a very eventful weekend! On Friday night James was walking around, that is pretty much all he does now, and decided that he needed to go play in his room. He climbed the stairs, opened the gate (it was not locked) and was playing in his room. I was putting groceries away and Doug was doing something downstairs. Suddenly we heard a loud noise and one loud cry come from James' room. Doug went to investigate and found James laying on the floor next to the changing table with his shampoo bottle laying on top of him. Not knowing what happened and hearing no more cries from James he brought him downstairs and sat him on the couch. A few minutes later I looked at James and he had this huge swelling on his forehead and the beginning of a bruise. I am actually surprised that it has taken this long for him to get a bump on the head. We decided that he was probably walking around and fell hitting his head on the corner of the changing table. On Saturday we went to Myra's birthday party in Logan. We left about ten in the morning and James slept for about 40 minutes in the car. We got to the park about 11:30 and James played, with no nap, and without being too grumpy until we left to go home about 6:00. He then slept for about 30 minutes and woke up to eat his first hamburger from Wendy's, which he loved! We thought he would be so tired that he would fall right asleep when we put him to bed, but he was still playing in his crib when we went to bed at 10:00! James had so much fun playing with his cousins at the park. He had fun opening his birthday present from them, and Lexi just had to help! He loved eating cake so much that when Myra was sitting next to him with a cupcake he just reached over and grabbed a handful of her cupcake! She didn't even get mad at him. It was so cute I just had to have a picture of them eating the cupcake together. Later when Chad had a cupcake James ran over to him and did some of the best begging I have ever seen!

A little background to this next part of the story. We have often gone in the 1/2 bathroom on the main level and smelled a very odd smell. We tried very hard to figure out what it was thinking maybe it was smoke from the neighbors whose garage is on the other side of the wall, or something coming out of the vent. It didn't smell like smoke really, I had even thought maybe there was a dead mouse or something in wall. But we never could exactly figure it out. Once we got home James got a cute hair cut. (I will put pictures on another blog.) I told Doug to just put he hair on the floor because I was going to vacuum. So after his hair cut and a bath Doug was feeding James some applesauce and I decided to vacuum upstairs. Usually I use an outlet in James' room but I thought it would be a lot easier if I plugged it in the bathroom so I could reach all the rooms without switching. I was almost done with James' room when I heard shouting from downstairs and Doug ran up and unplugged the vacuum. We went downstairs and the 1/2 bathroom was filled with smoke with more smoke pouring out of the outlet. Luckily Doug was downstairs and started to smell that mysterious smell and was able to turn it of before it caught on fire. It was pretty scary to think that we have lived here a year and a half and never knew about this problem. So Doug took off the outlet cover and the outlet and the wire connecting to it were completely burned. Luckily I live with a handy man and we were able to immediately go to Lowe's and get a replacement. We talked about replacing all the outlets and light switches when we moved it but never did it, so now we are really going to check and replace them all.

We have had a great Mother's Day! James had a new nickname, Monkey Doodle, and we have gotten lots of comments on how busy his is at church. His new favorite game is to climb the stairs like a big boy. No more crawling up the stairs for him, we have to walk. So his new favorite game is having Mom help him climb the stairs and when we go up Mom says "Up" and when we go down James says, "Dow" it is pretty cute. He also loves to give leg hugs. He always walks up to us and wraps his arms around our legs. It is so cute. We just love having James around. He is such a fun kid!