Tuesday, October 31, 2006

Happy Halloween!

Well, I was going to put up a picture of James in his Halloween costume, but I've been trying to upload the picture for hours now and it's bedtime!
Our internet connection here is horrible.
However, we went to an international Halloween party here at the apartment complex tonight, which turned out to be pretty fun. And James was so cute, of course!
All is well with us here, although we've been pretty busy lately and frustrated by this lack of ability to share all the wonderful pictures we have with all of you. I promise to try again very soon. Keep checking, we'll get it eventually!
Love to all.

Tuesday, October 17, 2006

Numbers

James' height: 25 1/2 inches

James' weight: 15 pounds, 10 ounces

Ben's guess as to what James' weight would be: 13 1/2 pounds

Susan's guess: much more accurate, as I'm the one who carries him most of the time

Number of outfits that no longer fit our little mister: at least 5

Number of 3-6 month outfits I finally unpacked yesterday: at least 20

James' prospects for fall fashions: cute times 10!

Length of our walk yesterday: 2.5 hours

Length of that walk that I had to carry James: 1 hour (approximate)

Weight resistance added to my workout: excellent!

Thursday, October 12, 2006

Bevo BBQ

This is how James managed to get through the day at Chad's this past weekend:


Here is James kissing the mommy back! How cute can he get?


Here is a family photo for those who keep asking us to include ourselves in the picture...Although I'm not sure why, as obviously James is cuter!

So those are only a couple of the very fun pictures we have now. Luckily we have Jerilyn to take pictures for us, as we do not get our camera out often enough!

For those of you who don't know, this past weekend was the OU/TX game and Chad grilled steaks for everyone who eats meat and we had a friend come up from Florida and two from Georgia and one from Oklahoma to celebrate with us so it was a big party! Lots of fun.

In other news....James went to the doctor for his check-up today...95th percentile weight and height, 90th in head circumference, so he's well-proportioned as well as large compared to other babies, which we knew....But, I'm taking guesses for his height and weight...let's see what you know about 3-month-olds! I'll post the answer in a few days with more picures, hopefully.

Love to all!

Thursday, October 05, 2006

Beach Pics, at last



Monday, October 02, 2006

AT THE BEACH!

In the car on the way home from Wrightsville Beach last night, Ben said to me, “James is really lucky. He got to go to the beach when he was only 3 months old! I mean, I think I was 16 before I ever saw the ocean! How old were you?”

To which I had to reply honestly: “Six months…”

Oh well. It was very special to get to go to the beach and I’m still slightly amazed, after a quarter-century of complete landlocked-ness, that the beach is only about 2 hours away from here! James slept through most of the ride there, and was perfectly happy in the carseat after he woke up until we got there, which is a huge breakthrough. This was our first longish car trip since we drove 3 days to get here and I was worried it might bring back some of the traumatic memories James has and be a bad experience, but it wasn’t, thank goodness. On the trip back, he started crying right as soon as we got on the highway, so we pulled over and walked around a handy Food Lion for 30-45 minutes and then put him back in the seat and he fell asleep and we got home without incident as well. Yay!

At the beach, James seemed to enjoy walking in the sand…But NOT the actual ocean water. The water was really nice and warm to us, but I thought it might be too cold for him and wasn’t even going to put him in…but Ben wanted to sit at water’s edge with James in his lap and just barely touch his feet down into the water…and James was perhaps a tad bit freaked out by this new experience. Plus it was his naptime, so probably he was just thinking “What are you people doing and why aren’t you letting me sleep?” Next time I’m sure he’ll like it more.

Other than that, James and I spent a lot of time stretched out on a blanket on the beach, with protective umbrella covering for his delicate little skin, but again, I got slightly burned, but only in a very strange pattern on my feet where apparently the sunscreen didn’t stick. Oh well. Someday I’ll figure this out, and for now, it sort of hurts to try to put on shoes. At least I can say I figured out beach-breastfeeding, which was a little more of a challenge since James wanted to lie down to nurse but the beach was not flat. But we did it! I think if we can nurse there we can probably do it anywhere. Go us!

For dinner we went to an apparently famous place called “Dockside” and I had some grilled tuna, while Ben had….a hamburger! Apparently it was delicious. And that’s pretty much our whole day yesterday, except that when we got back home, we were all 3 so dirty and sandy that we all got in the shower together and I held James tight while Ben washed him off, and THAT? He really loved that. So shower=fun and ocean=not fun, for now.

This was a really busy weekend, actually. Saturday my Uncle Robert and cousin Kyle came to visit, and James seemed to really enjoy Kyle’s company. Now, Kyle is a great guy, but I’m also thinking maybe James was into his beard, since his daddy also has a beard….? And Friday night we had a little BBQ party with Ben’s *Convective Storms Group* which was also lots of fun. All the girls love James, of course! And it was nice to be busy and have lots of social interaction over the weekend, which sometimes is more limited for me and James during the week.

Okay, that’s all for now….I’ll probably post more beach pictures when we get the ones Jerilyn took. Then you can see all of us together! Peace and love.