James

James loves being outside and he loves fishing and loves looking for bugs, I mean he LOVES them and I LOVE that he LOVES them.  It means he is outside and running around and exploring.  The other day Katelynn was napping, I was feeding Carrie and James was outside digging for worms.  He stayed outside for a LOOOONG time, maybe an hour and a half or more.  And he found a ton of worms!  We still have them somewhere, waiting to take them fishing.  Also, we were in Utah looking for a van this past weekend and one of the places we  went had a mud puddle.  Wouldn’t you know, there was a caterpillar in that puddle.  We took it with us to the next place and he had it in a cup outside the door.  He was devastated when we left and someone had thrown it away.  At the same place, he got a balloon, a huge orange balloon.  As we walked outside, it popped.  He was sad for about 30 seconds, he looked at the string in his hand and the popped balloon on the end and said….This would be good for fishing and he stuffed it in his pocket.  Later that day, we visited the new mall in Salt Lake which has a creek running through it and it also has live fish in it.  He wanted to pull his new fishing line out and go fishing in the mall.  I have to say he was fairly disappointed when we told him he couldn’t do it and he couldn’t take any of the fish home.

Water collects fairly often in the gutter in front of our house and when it does, he is outside fishing.  He checks everyday to see if some water run off has gathered there.  If it has, he gets his chair and his fishing pole and sits out there and fishes.  Well today, there was water.  He came up with a brilliant plan to stop the water from draining, he built a sort of dam with rocks and dirt.  And he made a bridge over it. 

Also, while we were in SLC, we went to Tucanos.  They serve lots of meats and have a really yummy salad bar.  James is a bit of a picky eater so I was very surprised when they came around with chicken hearts and James wanted one!  I was more surprised when he popped it in his mouth, chewed it up and swallowed it!  Another thing, he had eaten a chicken wing and decided he wanted to bring the bone home for his puppy( it’s a stuffed puppy).  It’s in the car, I think we’ll have to get it out tomorrow.

Also, he has a new nickname for all of us.  He used to hate it when I would call him dear or honey.  He would say , “ Mom, I’m not a dear, I’m a boy!”  Well now if I call him honey or dear, he says, “ Mom, call me sweety-heart & I’ll call you sweety-heart too”  He’ll say “sweety heart mom” which I think is so cute!

He also builds fake fires everywhere.  I think we had 3 or 4 piles of sticks and logs in our backyard a couple weeks ago.  And in the front there are a couple too.

He is certainly one of a kind and I LOVE it.  I’m going to try to write down more of the really cute things that he says because I think every time I hear him say something that I want to remember it in 10 years or 20 or whatever.

We have a book from the library about dinosaurs and there are some pretty big dino names in there.  Today while we were eating, he started saying some of them-I can't hardly remember the names, so I was pretty excited that he learned them!  Did I mention that we have all sorts of "bones" and "fossils" in our yard.  Fish ones, frog ones, I don't think we've found any dino bones yet though.  The bones(rocks) are piling up on our front porch.  

 Here's our favorite fishing spot lately.  It's Ryder Park or Pond or something.  It's just about a 10 minute drive through town.

 He loves Carrie, loves holding her and likes to "watch" her for me when  I have to go in the other room to do something.

 We tried making silly putty with glue and liquid starch-it was fun stuff, but it didn't ever really turn into silly putty type stuff.  And the food coloring that I put in it came off all over you when you played with it.

 James and I went to get frozen yogurt the other day.  It was a pretty fun trip and I think he liked picking out a flavor and all the toppings he wanted.

 Oh yeah, check out that huge orange balloon. Katelynn had a green one.