James

These are a few of James' favorite things.....

blenders

eating frozen waffles straight out of the freezer

water

watching Stuart Little

Birthday-palooza

James and Abby celebrated their second and first birthdays, respectively, at our new home in Reno. They are such a fun pair and I am so grateful to be their mommy!

James and Abby celebrated their s

the move

Reno, here we come! The movers are coming to take our stuff on Thursday and we'll be in Reno next week! This is it!

Folly Beach

The only bad thing about this tip to the beach was that I left our camera in the beach bag when the tide was coming in and...the camera broke. But at least we still had the pictures on the memory card! We now have a new camera and it's orage! I think the next beach will be at will be at a lake.....Lake Tahoe!

teeth

On Friday, I went to the dentist becuase I was having some tooth pain. I had a dental abscess-- ross! No wonder my tooth was hurting. My awesome dentist said that everyone else would remember that day as the day of the earthquake in Japan, but that I would remember it as the day I had my first root canal. I was SO grateful that he could fix my tooth right then and very appreciative of my sweet friend, Cori, who watched James and Abby for me. I don't think James would've been all that excited about watching mommy lay in the chair with all this stuff in her mouth with a loud drill going. I mean, he used to get pretty worked up about the noise of the vacuum. Now my tooth feels great! Yay for root canals! I learned some interesting things about teeth, like the fact that pulp chambers decrease in sze with age. Based on the size of the affected tooth's pulp chamber, my dentist estimated that my tooth had been dead (maybe as the result of trauma?), but hadn't had any decay for neary 20 YEARS and that it just hadn't caused any problems thus far. Crazy.

Abby has two teeth now and they are so cute.

James utilizes his mouthful of teeth regularly. This is an example of what he did to the oranges through the bag while we were still at the grocery store. He likes totry bananas this way, too, and seems disappointed when the peels don't taste good.

Babies

My two babies are so big! I know it's kind of trite, but seriously, they grow up so fast.

My BIG baby, James is 19 months old now. His favorite activites include:

1. Taking all the shampoo/deodorant/etc containers out of the drawers and lining them up in various places; I call this "organizing."

2. Climing up on any available item.

3. Playing at the playground and swinging.

4. Getting his head tickled by Abby as she reaches out to touch it; he thinks this is so fun and will lean over and put his head in her lap in the double stroller so he can get a good head tickle.

5.Reading his books (current faves include Hop on Pop; Hand, Hand, Fingers, Thumb; and My Little Word Book.

My not-so-little little baby, Abby, turned 8 months old yesterday. Abby has two teeth now. She is just a delight and is almost always happy these days. Abby loves to:

1. Get tickled on her tummy and under her chin.

2. Scream and shriek.

3. Sit up and hold her toys.

4. Chew, chew, chew, chomp, chomp.