I'd better make a list of all the songs that James can sing. Jason was also able to sing songs very well at an early age (18 months), and James certainly has that trait as well. There are songs that I am not even aware that he knows, and he will just be singing them away one day and I'll think to myself, "when did he learn that one??"
Hymns:
Standing on the Promises
I Love Jesus
Brethren We Have Met to Worship
Marching to Zion
Sweet Bye and Bye
Buy the Truth
Other songs:
All 8 songs on our Mother Goose CD, including:
I've Been Working on the Railroad
Down by the Station
Where Do You Work, John?
Happy are the People
Be Ye Kind (also his first Bible memory verse!)
Clap Your Hands
Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star
This Little Light of Mine
This is Real Life
Wednesday, June 27, 2007
Thursday, June 21, 2007
The Measure of Their Stature
Jason has a very nice posture grid at work; it's so easy to measure the boy's height on it!!! James is 2' 8", Joel is 3' 3-1/2".
We have joined the Summer Reading Club at the Library. If the boys each read 20 hours or more before the end of July, they each receive a free ticket to the Circus (yes, the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus!). So we are reading away. Right now Joel and I are reading Winnie the Pooh, with others mixed in, of course. James loves our Raggedy Ann Book, and Goodnight Gorilla. These aren't very long, but we have been reading them almost daily along with others. He's doing pretty good, and this is a good opportunity for him to learn to sit and have story time. He'll sit down with a book on his own just fine, but when he has to sit and listen it's not as enjoyable for him at this point. His already (somewhat) impressive vocabulary is growing by leaps and bounds now. Words like "soldier" and "Pollyanna" just pop out of his mouth and that's fun to hear!
James' favorite shoes, his crocs, are already too small for him. His feet are growing so quickly right now! It's a little sad too, because he is so proud of those little shoes. We bought him some flip flops and he does like them, too, or is adjusting pretty well. He didn't want to have anything to do with flip flops until Joel was wearing flip flops again this spring. Yet, the crocs were still his favorite, with boots a close second. Perhaps we'll get him some boots for his birthday since his favorite pair have been retired.
We have joined the Summer Reading Club at the Library. If the boys each read 20 hours or more before the end of July, they each receive a free ticket to the Circus (yes, the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus!). So we are reading away. Right now Joel and I are reading Winnie the Pooh, with others mixed in, of course. James loves our Raggedy Ann Book, and Goodnight Gorilla. These aren't very long, but we have been reading them almost daily along with others. He's doing pretty good, and this is a good opportunity for him to learn to sit and have story time. He'll sit down with a book on his own just fine, but when he has to sit and listen it's not as enjoyable for him at this point. His already (somewhat) impressive vocabulary is growing by leaps and bounds now. Words like "soldier" and "Pollyanna" just pop out of his mouth and that's fun to hear!
James' favorite shoes, his crocs, are already too small for him. His feet are growing so quickly right now! It's a little sad too, because he is so proud of those little shoes. We bought him some flip flops and he does like them, too, or is adjusting pretty well. He didn't want to have anything to do with flip flops until Joel was wearing flip flops again this spring. Yet, the crocs were still his favorite, with boots a close second. Perhaps we'll get him some boots for his birthday since his favorite pair have been retired.
Wednesday, June 13, 2007
Weighing In
Today I finally got the scale out and weighed the boys. I have needed to do it for some time for record-keeping purposes, and I should be doing it more often to track their growing. Joel is 39 pounds, and James 27 pounds. If only measuring their height was so effortless....
Joel has named the Beast from Beauty and the Beast, "Janeandthomas". I have no idea how he came up with this, but apparently "Beast" just isn't a good enough name for the poor beast.
A sad occurance has happened to Joel: he cannot wrap his arms all the way around me anymore! I told him that it was only temporary, and soon enough he would be able to again.
James is a little vampire right now. He has four little points sticking out of his gums where his eye teeth have cut through. He should be finished getting teeth for a time; not that it's really been an issue. He toughs it out real well. The last of his molars are useable now, finally coming in at about 20 months. You can see them quite well, especially when he gives out a nice big belly laugh, which he loves to do.
We got the pool out for the first time this summer yesterday, and the boys had a blast! Since the yard is sloped, one side of the pool is always much fuller than the other. So I let them run the water until there was about 5 inches of water in one side, although empty in the other. This was convenient for their exiting the pool whenever they got the notion to bring rocks and pebbles into the pool to wash them. They entertained themselves with a couple of buckets, some rocks and plopping down into the water and splashing as much as they wanted. Joel finally decided that I should get into the pool. I told him that I wasn't going to get in that day, but I would put my feet in. He began (what looked like to me) washing my feet, similar to a communion service. But he said, "Mama, I'm baptizing your feet."
Joel has named the Beast from Beauty and the Beast, "Janeandthomas". I have no idea how he came up with this, but apparently "Beast" just isn't a good enough name for the poor beast.
A sad occurance has happened to Joel: he cannot wrap his arms all the way around me anymore! I told him that it was only temporary, and soon enough he would be able to again.
James is a little vampire right now. He has four little points sticking out of his gums where his eye teeth have cut through. He should be finished getting teeth for a time; not that it's really been an issue. He toughs it out real well. The last of his molars are useable now, finally coming in at about 20 months. You can see them quite well, especially when he gives out a nice big belly laugh, which he loves to do.
We got the pool out for the first time this summer yesterday, and the boys had a blast! Since the yard is sloped, one side of the pool is always much fuller than the other. So I let them run the water until there was about 5 inches of water in one side, although empty in the other. This was convenient for their exiting the pool whenever they got the notion to bring rocks and pebbles into the pool to wash them. They entertained themselves with a couple of buckets, some rocks and plopping down into the water and splashing as much as they wanted. Joel finally decided that I should get into the pool. I told him that I wasn't going to get in that day, but I would put my feet in. He began (what looked like to me) washing my feet, similar to a communion service. But he said, "Mama, I'm baptizing your feet."
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