My Lil' Stinker

I was very much inspired to write a blog about my lil' stinker THE DAY I had my appointment and found out I was having another boy! He was being particularly stinkerish that day, but it really didn't scare me too much about having another boy. Jack will thankfully start out as a newborn and slowly work his way into this age! :)

James has started manipulating us. Here are two funny (to me) examples...

*I was at Target with James one day, and he was in a slightly cranky mood. He told me "No, No, NO!" when I tried to put him in the cart. I put him in anyway, thinking he'd forget about it once we started moving, and he told me, "Onna walk." So, I abandoned the cart and let him walk with me. We got about 20 steps away, and he started crying for the cart. I said, "No, you wanted to walk." and he said, "Cart...Cart...Cart...Onna sit down!" So, thinking that he changed his mind, we walked back over to the cart. As soon as we got over there, he made it clear that he wasn't going to sit down at all...he just wanted to push the cart all along! I couldn't believe that he told me he wanted to sit down just to get us back over there!

*The only other time we've noticed him blatantly manipulating us is at bedtime. I always try to get in at least one yogurt a day, since he doesn't drink milk. Right before bed, I tried one last time. I asked him if he wanted it, and he said no. Then, I said, "It's time to go to bed!", and he said, "Ont yogurt." I gave him a couple of bites and then he wouldn't take anymore. Then, I said again, "It's time to go to bed!", and he said again, "Ont yogurt." and ate a few more bites. This continued on until he ate the whole thing! I opened another one, but I guess that was his limit, because he went to bed after that.

One more stinker story...

I recently wondered if I was ever going to have the classic public meltdown situation happen with James, and it finally happened! I went to Thomas' Kindergarten graduation early with Elizabeth and all of the kids to save seats. James had fallen asleep in the car on the way and woke up in the worst mood ever. I thought for sure he'd be happy once we got inside, because he was with his cousins and there'd be some room to run around. Nope! Not at all! I tried to feed him snacks, but that didn't work. I tried all of my tricks, and nothing was working. Just cries that turned into really loud meltdown cries. Josh was in a meeting, so I couldn't call him. At first I knew we were probably annoying the people around us. Then, I was getting the attention of possibly the whole room...at least half. Now I really feel for people who go through this. Even though it was the first and only time to ever happen, I felt as if everyone were judging me! I was never so happy to see Josh's name as my phone rang. He got out of his meeting early and took James home!


More on what James has been up to...
James has been crawling out of his crib every morning and coming in to see wake us up! We love this and look forward to every morning. We hear the door open and shut, then the pitter-patter down the hall, then he comes over to our bedsides and starts whispering to us. For a while, he said, "Yauren" at my bedside, which cracked me up every time. Now he whispers, "Good Morning". Nothing starts your day out right like snuggling in bed with your sweet munchkin with his sweet morning face!

James has gotten into singing since he turned two, and it's one of my favorite things in the world to hear! The sweetest thing ever to me was when he started singing "Edelweiss". I have sung that to him every night for I don't know how long, and he had not once sung it with me.  He was singing in his microphone and started singing, "Aaaa bise! Aaaa bise!" He knows most of it! I try to get him to sing it to me every day. He also sings "Pee Pup, Pee Pup" (which is "Clean up, Clean up") while he cleans (he must have gotten that from school), "Rain, Rain, go away" when it rains, "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star", "ABC's"...even down to the "now I oh my abc's, next ont choo sing me!", the songs to his tv shows, "Wheels on the Bus", and "If you're happy and you know it".

James has a very good memory and will remember the name of something if I tell him once or twice. He is like my little GPS in the backseat, telling me the name of all of our stops as we pass them. Carbucks (Starbucks), Key Juice (Keva Juice), church...if we are in the vicinity, Gigi house, and on and on! He always is aware of where he is in space and will point the right direction to go home.

Every day, he comes up with two to three new sentences or phrases. It is amazing how much a two year old's vocabulary changes from week to week! Some of my favorites are, "Wha happened??", showing me a boo-boo, saying Please and "Thank you, Mommy" completely unsolicited when I give him something (in the sweetest tone), "I yuh yoo, Mommy". It's so sweet when he puts my name after that! A funny new one from today, "Onna watch choo-choo TB (TV)".

BTW, I put a picture of him sleeping, because he is soo soo soo busy during the day, that it's almost odd to see him so still now when he sleeps! As soon as that little guy wakes up, he's full of action, demands, laughs, words, needs, wants, etc., all day long! I feel so blessed to get to be the one to answer those needs, wants, etc, and really wouldn't know what to do with myself for too long without him!