First Steps!!!

Well it is offical, James is now walking!!! He will take about 6-7 steps from mom to dad or his highchair to other things. James gets so proud of himself being able to walk and than falls down and giggles :) I can not believe how big he is getting and how fast they grow up! It really brings tears to my eyes when I think about how little he use to be! He took his first few steps about a week ago and we have been working with him ever since each day he gets a little better. Don bet me that James would be walking before he was 10 months and I hate to admitt that I was wrong he was right but I dont mind being wrong on this one :)

New Recliner

The recliner that we bought before James was born has worn out real fast! We have decided that we are no longer getting fabric furniture. We already had a green leather chair that had been great with having a little kid around, so we decided to get a leather recliner. Our old recliner sounded like it was going to fall apart when rocking James in it :) We love the new recliner so far and hope that it will last a lot longer than the old recliner!!

Daddy's Little Helper

Our heating element went out in our oven so we decided to save some money and fix it ourselves. James thought that he would help too!! After some great team work from all 3 of us, we get it working again!!

Ear Surgery

After many, many ear efections and anitbotics were are going to put tubes in James' ears. His surgery is schduled for June 14th. I have always been against tubes but after seeing my son in so much pain & after him failing his hearing tests and talking to the ENT, we have decided it is the best thing for him. The ENT told me that if we dont get this problem under control or fixed James could have hearing loss & speech problems in the very near future. I am very nervous about putting him under but I am trying to remind myself that this is what is best for him and will help him feel better!! I had to laugh, when we were at the ENT's office and I found out that he failed his hearing test, I said to the ENT ohhh that is why he doesnt hear me say "No". The doctor said I wont be able to fix that, you will have that problem the next 17 years! :)

Memorial Day Weekend

Don & I loved that fact that we got three days off in a row to spend time together as a family. Saturday I took James to the Farmers Market & ran the Sam's Club & Babies R Us, which James was a champ all the places I took him. Saturday night we enjoyed a nice dinner as a family at Lone Star Steak house, than went and got frozen custard at our favorite place in Des Moines.

Sunday we spent the day with Andy & Ashley. We went to the Zoo & than off to their place for a BBQ. They have a little puppy that James fell in love with & Sprocket (the puppy) fell in love with him. We didn't get home from their place till around 4:00 he than took a nap from about 5-9:00. It took us about 20-30 minutes to get him awake enough to feed him, I didnt even change him into his PJ's he went right back to sleep till 6:00 AM.

 Monday we spent the day with Don's mom Jo. James took a nice long nap in the morning, which was nice it gave Jo & I a chance to catch up on everything & Don a chance to relax! James enjoyed swimming in his pool & loved seeing Don's hunting dog a Irish Setter named Pete. We all had a very nice relaxing weekend, even though I felt like we were on the go the whole time it was worth it!! It was really nice to spend some quality time with my son.

James & Dada checking out the cow

James & Mama feeding the Giraffe

James' favorite thing at the Zoo

James just chilling after the Zoo

James & Sprocket playing

Swimming at Grandma & Grandpa Sharr's house

Farmers Market

James & I ventured downtown this morning for the Farmers Market. This is a rare event for me since I had to work every Saturday. A met up with a few of my co-workers down there. The weather was perfect, I was a little worried with all the people that are at the Farmers Market every weekend how James would handle it all, but he did great. He loved seeing all the dogs and other babies and thanks to my friends Laura & Diane I was acually able to eat some of the yummy breakfast food that is always down there at the market. I ended up coming home with tomatoes, aspagus & strawberries. I also found these super cute steel iron sunflowers that you can stick in the ground or in a planting pot. I am hoping that I can make it to the Farmers Market one last time before the end of the summer. I would like to hit it up over the 4th of July than they will have there sweet corn and watermelon....YUMMY!!

Swimming is SO much fun!!

The weather was finally warm enough for us to go get James his first pool. It was around 85 degrees here on Saturday, so we pack up the house and hauled the pool and James down to Grandma & Grandpa Sharr's when I got off work to try the pool out. I thought that forsure that James would not like the pool since it took him a long time to warm up to liking baths, but he LOVED it. As you can tell from the pictures Don introduce him to it very slowy & didnt just put him in it :)  It was so much fun to watch James giggling & playing in the pool, although the dogs thought that it was a drinking pool for them :)