Molars!!!

Just a quick note to share a cute email conversation from today. I can check my email from my phone and thus frequently check it throughout the day at work; today I had an email from Desiree, the daycare provider. All it said was, "Did u know james has molars cutting......" I responded with, "I did but he seems to be doing okay with them. Do they seem to be bothering him at all?" And the response was, "He seems ok but drool was literally pouring out of his mouth earlier,never seen anything like it before :)" So proud of my little man... a champion drooler!!! So, just to fully inform, James's bottom left molar has come through barely, the bottom right one is just starting to poke through, and the top two are just beneath the gums but not poking through at all yet. Other than the periods of insane drooling and the occasional finger chewing, you would never know that he was teething! (I am about to curse myself here and I may pay for it tonight but...) James has been sleeping fabulously!!! He is going to bed a little later at night (about 7:45ish) which I am LOVING (especially during the summer!) and sleeping in a little later (about 7am or 7:45am yesterday!) We'll see how it goes but I am keeping my fingers crossed that he gives me an extra 30 minutes of sleep in the morning!!!! Guess that's about all I have time for now, off to bed to work tomorrow!
P.S. James is at such a WONDERFUL age and we are enjoying EVERY MOMENT!!!!! I love that little man SO MUCH!!!!

A few more quick, cute pictures...

We celebrated my birthday with a fun, relaxing trip to Jack's Urban Eats (amazing salads!) where we got to enjoy the fresh air and sun on the patio! That was followed by a yummy trip to Nujo (yogurt place) where Michellie joined us for a delicious dessert! James LOVES frozen yogurt of course (who doesn't!). He was a true Slade boy... finished his yogurt then started "helping" Mommy with hers!!!!

Last weekened as we were getting ready for the day, James went into our closet and pulled down one of Daddy's shirts. I took this as James wanting to put it on so we did exactly that. A little big still but so cute! He also put on Daddy's work shoes but those are hard to see under that lovely dress... I mean shirt!

For a little fun this week, we decided to set up the smaller of our two tents in the living room. (This is why living room furniture is over rated!) James loved it!!! We tried to take a nap in there a few afternoons but the lying down and saying "nigh-nigh" lasted about 3 seconds! Maybe another time!!!! It ended up being the good night reading spot!

My two boys are so cute!!!!!!!!! Love them to pieces!!!!!!!!

James's "1st" Haircut

James got an "at-home" haircut from Daddy a few weeks ago but we decided it was time for a "professional" one. It was a rainy weekend with nothing better to do so we took off to a cute little kiddo haircutting place in Granite Bay for what we hoped to be an uneventful haircut. The place was amazing and James was a perfect angel!!! (What else would you expect out of my son?!?!) Here are a few cute pictures...

Isn't this place the cutest!!!!


James chose the old fashioned Coca-Cola truck.

Such a cutie ba-tutie!!!

Crazy "before cut" hair. (It just needed a little trim.)

Sorry, no after picture right now because I took the rest of the pictures on my phone. But, no worries, he is still just as cute!!! Maybe even cuter!!!! (I am definitely not biased in any way, shape, or form!)

Memorial Day

The Slade family usually does a Memorial Day camping trip hosted by Scott and Sarah to help celebrate all the birthdays around that time! Well, Scott and Sarah slacked on their duties this year (i.e. were extremely pregnant and not allowed to go anywhere because Sarah was about to POP!) so Josh made reservations for us to go camping at Icehouse. It's a beautiful area on the way up to Tahoe but unfortunately still a little too beautiful with snow on Memorial Day!!! We were watching the weather and decided it was going to be a little too cold to take a 13 month old camping; luckily, the California State Park system made the same decision and cancelled all reservations until June 12th due to "excessive snow". Good choice!!!!

Instead we decided to join Mom and Dad at the cabin in Arnold instead. At least if it got too cold there, we had a heater, wood burning stove, and indoors!!! We had a great time and got some great pictures!!!!

James helped Daddy start the fire to keep us all warm. James knew that our wood burning stove was "HOT" and told us all the time! (One of his favorite words!) Unfortunately, we forgot to tell James that the neighbors' stove was also hot so he decided to find out for himself. He touched the stove with his fingertips and cried for a few seconds. We rinsed his hands under cold water and thought that everything was okay. Unfortunately, a few hours later James started SCREAMING!!!! We realized that he had blisters on the tips of three of his fingers so we got them wrapped up and he was feeling much better other than having big bandaids at the tips of two fingers!
"Hi!!!"

James and Grandpa chilling on the couch! I think I have a very similar picture with James and Uncle Doug from last year!

G-ma-ma teaching James how to splash in puddles! Thanks G-ma-ma!!!!

James was a big helper with fixing the refridgerator!

The fix-it team!!!!

"Right here Grandpa! Let me help you!"

"What are you doing Daddy?"

"Ummm, hello Daddy!!!!"

"Dadddddyyyy!!!!"

"I'm going back to Grandpa (if I can fit through here!)"

Luckily they had the help of the little guy to get the refridgerator back in place. Notice the use of only one finger on James' right hand (the two middle ones had bandaids on them so he couldn't use them!)

Blackberries!!!!!!

Kisses for Grandma before bedtime/naptime!

A good little hike before heading home!

The weekend was highly productive... fixed the refridgerator, fixed the deck (and did an amazing job!), raked the yard and burned, pulled weeds, played lots of games, ate lots of yummy food, and enjoyed the beautiful outdoors!!!

It is way past my bedtime so it's off to bed for me!!! I will try to get more caught up tomorrow! Love to all!!!!!

Tackling!

When I picked up James from daycare today, Desiree asked me, "Has James been tackling his friends?" Unfortunately, the answer was "yes". It seems that James has taken a liking to hugging which is absolutely wonderful if you are Mommy or Daddy or another adult size person who can maintain their balance. However, when you are another little person who is still working on their balance, hugs don't always go over so well. It goes a little something like this.. James runs over to a friend and gives a big bear hug, James and friend lose their balance, James and friend end up lying on the floor scrambling/wrestling to get up! Oh my! And, of course, Josh is always thinking football!!!! Oh my!!!

Mmmmooooo!!!!!

More Mommy bragging!!! It seems like James is doing something new every day and it is so exciting to watch!! I had a wonderful time just sitting on the couch watching James and Josh playing tonight. A few highlights...

- James brought a book over to Josh then ran over to the couch and starting hitting the couch to inform Daddy that he needed to sit on the couch with James and read the book. So cute except for the fact that it only lasted for about 2 pages before James was off and running again!

- Josh was trying to get James to say "mmmooooo" for the cow sound and James said it!!! It was darling! (Even cuter was Josh saying, are you going to put that on the blog? You need to put that on the blog. Then reminding me again tonight to tell everyone that James said "mmmoooo" tonight!

- James helped me build a tower with the mega lego blocks. So cute!!!

I guess that is about all for tonight! Josh and I have a ton of stuff to do to get ready for a trip to the cabin this weekend! I just don't feel like getting off the couch!!! I will keep trying! Love to all!!!

The Mysterious Missing Water Bottle

The story of the missing water bottle... I hadn't seen James's dinosaur water bottle since our kayaking trip on Sunday. Since I had last seen it when kayaking, I looked in the truck... on the floor, under the seats, in the carseat... no luck. So, I stood on top of my car to look in the already hung up kayak... no water bottle. Checked James's backpack... not there! Where could the water bottle have gone??? I finally mentioned it to Josh and he informed me that it was in the fridge! No way! So I opened the fridge door, moved the orange juice aside, and, lo and behold, there was the mysterious missing dinosaur water bottle! Who would have thought that I put it back where it belonged!?!?! Moral of the story... I think I need to go to sleep early tonight!