One-Year-Old School

Summer=Insects

 I need to quickly get updated on one-year-old school because two-year-old school has already started!

bug eyes

bugs that grew

 helping bugs escape from a block of ice

G is for grasshopper

I is for insects

I am sure I didn't take pictures of many of the activities we did for our insects unit but oh well!

PA

At the end of July we went to Pennsylvania for my grandfather's 90th birthday.  While we were there we had a family reunion also.  We hadn't had a family reunion in probably 20 years or more so it was neat to see everyone again.  James loved seeing and hanging out with his Mama Syl, Papa Cal, Aunt Missy and Uncle Dave, and Aunt Cassie.  It is neat to see him really getting to know our family that we don't see very often and remembering them and talking about them when we are at home.

Big boy room

We wanted to move James to a big boy room this summer because we thought he could probably handle it (although we were a little scared) and we had bunk beds my parents gave us that we wanted to go ahead and use.  We didn't have any real reason to rush and get it done but we were excited about getting the junk out of the room and transforming it into something cute.  We started working on the room and got everything set up but were waiting on mattresses for the beds.  James was so excited he wanted to sleep in his bed without a mattress.  I decided to capitalize on the excitement and let him sleep in the bed on a camping pad.  He did really well!

Here is the completed room:

Grasshoppers baseball

In July, we went to a Grasshoppers baseball game.  James was the all-american kid eating popcorn and a hotdog as he watched the game.  He still talks about the fireworks they shot off when someone scored a homerun!

July 4th

I have a lot of catching up to do on our blog from our busy summer.  I will be working on that over the next few days because we have some exciting things going on now that I want to blog about...gotta catch up first!

For the 4th of July we went to Lake Anna to Lee's parents lake house.  We got to go with our great friends, the McCutchens, who are currently foreign missionaries so we don't get to see them very often. One of Lee's and Tim's other great friends met us there for a day.  All three men have little boys now so it was fun to get the little boys together and start the next generation of friendships!

ESPN party

 Since James was about 18 months old (maybe younger) Daddy has come home from work and watched ESPN.  James started expecting this to happen and asking for it.  He has learned the names of the people who are on PTI and Around the Horn.  It is really quite strange!  Well, anyway, when it came time to plan his party ESPN seemed to be a good choice!

the decor

balls made by James (lacing, pasting, painting)

pictures of all his "best friends"

ESPN logos and signs

 

the food

cake pops because they are oh so cute (but a major pain to make)

blowing out his candles (with a little help from Mommy and Daddy)

you can also kind of see his birthday shirt that I made for him

James is 2!

James had a big day on his birthday.  Unfortunately I wasn't smart enough to bring my camera to document all the fun but I thought I would at least write about it.  Lee and I both went into his room when he woke up and sang happy birthday to him.  He swayed and grinned from ear to ear.  Then, his buddy, Corbin, came to play.   We played outside with his favorite girls, Eva and Lucia.  We had a bounce house, sandbox, slide, and basketball goal.  It was big fun.  Then we had to leave to go eat lunch with Daddy at Lindley Park Filling Station.  Then it was time to go home for a much needed nap!  Daddy came home a little early from work and we opened his presents.  He got some tools like Daddy's!

For dinner we went with our neighbors to eat Papa John's pizza and Feeney's for dessert.  Then we came home for some more bouncing.  A very full, very exciting day!

The next day James went to the doctor for his 2 year check up.  He weighed 27.5 lbs. and was 34 1/4 in. tall.  He had to have blood taken and get one shot.  He didn't cry for any of it.  We were so proud of him and his bravery.