Friends visit and My climber

This weekend, our friends Cody and Lauren from Nashville came to visit us! Cody is one of Josh's best friends from college, and Lauren, his wife, I feel like I've known since college. We enjoyed their visit so much! On Friday, my mom came over to watch James around lunchtime, and the four of us headed to Austin. We made a few stops on our way to dinner. We drove around UT (I had never seen it either) and then went into the Texas Capitol building. After that, we headed over to Lake Travis to eat dinner at the Hula Hut. If you ever go to Austin, you need to eat there! Everything I get there is incredible. The rest of the time, we just hung out, went shopping, drove around, played with James, talked, and played games. James loved Cody and Lauren! He let Cody hold him a lot, and although he wouldn't go to Lauren as much (this is typical of him to go to guys over girls), he flirted with her from the minute he first saw her! He stared at her, made eyes at her, and got really keyed up around her. We are so thankful for their friendship and that we got to spend a weekend with them!



















































































I also had to add these pictures of James getting into everything! I know I am posting these a lot lately, but he is giving me so many picture-taking opportunities that I have to take! :) I was trying to cook the other day while Josh was out of town, and James wouldn't stay in his highchair. He is really into handing me a bunch of things right now, so he would go get one thing at a time and hand it to me. Then, he pulled out everything he could get his hands on (everything that wasn't locked up...I don't want to ban him from every drawer) and climbed on everything he could.


I didn't take a picture of this because I didn't have my camera by me and wasn't about to leave him, but yesterday, while I was making my breakfast, James was playing with a toy that makes animal noises in the kitchen. I went into the living room to eat and just listened to make sure he was still playing with that toy. After a minute or so, it got semi-quiet. I could hear his diaper swooshing, so I called him to me. He didn't come, so I called again (He usually will come to me). It got very quiet, so I got up and looked in the kitchen. Guess where he was (he got here in I would say 30 seconds)....sitting on top of the kitchen table with his legs crossed, looking at me like, "Wow...I really got up here!" I said a quick prayer of thanksgiving to God that he didn't fall, with my heart pounding, and took him in the living room with me. It's amazing/scary how fast that happened!! Here's a picture of him on the end table by our couch, that he got on by climbing on the magazine basket.





Another story from today, James woke up saying something over and over this morning. I had to listen closely, but all I could come up with was "boppy" or "poppy" or something along those lines. I even wrote it down so I wouldn't forget, but it was so cute how he was saying it over and over. After MDO today, his teacher said to me, "James kept saying something over and over again today. Something like poppy or puppy?" He has said it all night, too! I think he may just be practicing language, but he must have said it 100 times! I forgot to mention that he is also saying "Uh-oh" a lot. He puts a lot into both syllables and says it every time something falls.

This blog really didn't flow at all, but there were a lot of things I've been wanting to add to here.

Hope y'all have a great week!