James in the Pool

Jeff and I played with the photo (see the blacked out image below) and it looks better. We will still try to get some better shots next week but this will do for now. James is swimming (sort of). As Jeff said: "At least he doesn't have a death grip on his Mom in this one."

James on the Swing!

Here is a very short video of James in the swing at the park. If you turn the sound up, you will hear him giggling away. He seems to think this is a lot of fun so we will have to take him again.

James is 10 Months Old!

Here are some photos from James' last week. The first is not a good photo. We will try to do better next Saturday. It is from Jamie's first Bubblers and Splashers Swim Class. He seemed to like it well enough. He was pretty clingy during the class but by the end there were some giggles. I am hoping next week will be better. There are 12 classes in total so we will see how it goes. In this photo, I am not sure you can tell, I am holding him and he is "swimming."

James is now 10 months old. He looks like a real big-boy! We put him in his first Spring Outfit. This is a very cute brown and yellow plaid shorts overall set from Lauren and Ian. It will fit through the summer and he looks very cute in it so we are glad that it fits. It is hard to tell now what will fit when!

James has started standing on his own much more. He still has to pull himself up to a standing position on the furniture but he needs to less and less. Once he is standing, he has started taking his hands off the furniture and just standing there. This works until he wants to go somewhere and then when he tries to move, he usually falls over. But, standing alone is the big milestone that he has passed now. Once he figures it out a bit more, we figure he will take off walking. He is also trying to stand without help. He gets one foot under him and pushes up with his hands on the floor but can't quite get the second foot under him to get up. Once he figures that out, there will be no stopping him. He also now has his 2 front top teeth! They have completely broken through the gums and are visible (but only up close--no photos, maybe next week).


James' first swim class. We'll try to get a better picture next week.


James standing like a big boy.

Sitting with my ball! I love my ball.

See, Mom. It's a ball! (Doesn't he look BIG here!?!)

I told you, I like my ball. And I can stand and play with it too.

Happy boy!

Tipped! I'm okay!

Penguins! I like my penguin counting book!

Hi, Mom! Let's Read!

Penguins 1 2 3!

So, that is a day in James' life. We are enjoying some better weather and hope we will be able to spend more time playing in the park.

Fun At The Park!

These photos are from April 4th. It was the first nice day in April so we took James to the little park down the road. He climbed on the wall and went down the slide. Both of those were not very interesting to him but he really liked the swing.

Yeah, whatever Dad!

Hi Mom! Dad and I were going on the swing. It was fun!

Rock-climbing? Maybe...

Hi! I'm a good stander.

Hi Dad! I'm holding on to the wall.

Yeah! Swings!


He-he-he! Swinging is fun!

James Playing Peekaboo

This morning, James was standing by the couch looking up a Jeff and he kept pulling the sofa pillow over his head and then popping his head around at his Dad and grinning. Peek-a-boo! It was the cutest thing! He has played peek-a-boo before but this is, I think, the first time he has done it this way. I managed to get a bit of it on video before my camera died. It is pretty sweet. And, as you can see, James is still a morning boy!

Drumming on my Drum

Here is James drumming on his new learning drum. It does the alphabet in English and French so when you hit it, a new letter appears. He doesn't get that part yet but he certainly loves to whack the drum and see the lights. He also likes to turn it upside down and see the bottom (I think because that is where the sounds come from and he is trying to find the music). He just loves it (so thank you to Auntie Lauren for the Christmas gift card--we finally figured out what to get with it!).

James' New Drum

James has been growing like a weed lately. Suddenly, he seems quite a bit taller and thinner so we think he has had a growth spurt. We have all be sick since mid-March and are just now feeling back to normal. James was a snotty little trooper through the whole thing. James is still cruising around the furniture. He sometimes seems to want to let go of the furniture but he isn't quite ready. He just isn't steady enough to be on his own. He loves reading books and shows us the book he wants. Tonight, he was holding "Moo, Baa, La, La, La" in his lap and he said "Moo!" Then, when Jeff was reading it to him, he said "Baa." We were pretty impressed. They were distinctly different sounds from Ma-Ma and Da-Da which he has been saying for a while. We will see if he does it again at the right time before we get too excited. James also has a new learning drum. The one he got from his cousin, Oliver, died and he loved it so much that we got him a new one as his belated Christmas present from his Aunt Lauren. Here are some photos of him drumming. They go with the videos above.

Cool, Mom, my drum arrived.

Drum, drum, drum.

I love my drum!

I also love the remote! (This is James looking like a big boy in his green hoodie and matching green frog shoes for Great-Aunt Lona).

What? Can't I play with the remote this time?