Our Little Tiger

We had a fun Halloween night with our little Tiger! We went to Zack's Mom's house for a festive evening complete with pumpkin shaped cheese balls, lots of yummy food, smoking punch, full-screen outdoor movie, fire-pit, smores, and much more.

James isn't big on hats so he didn't much like wearing the hood of his outfit. He did like how his soft his outfit was though- during dinner he kept resting his head on his arm and snuggling with his costume. So precious!

10 months

My baby is 10 months old!!!

What he's doing these days:

1) pointing

James is loving to point as of the past few days. He especially loves to point at fans and lights. He has also started chattering all the time- especially when pointing to said light fixtures. It sounds like he is saying "see that, see that, see that?"

2) clinging

All of the sudden my son who would go to anyone at anytime, has started to cling to me if someone wants to hold him. He also is starting to cry (aka pitch a royal fit) if I leave the room. On the same note- he loves his babysitter Lilly aka "Putt Putt (what she wants him to call her). He will, at times, cling to her if I want to take him :( But I am thankful that she loves him and he loves her- it is a huge blessing on the days I go to work to know he is happy!

3) bye-bye ing

Bye Bye is his favorite word. He says it anytime we leave in the car or go strolling. Did I mention when he went for his 9 month check up he greeted Dr. Wood with a big bye-bye? She informed him he didn't get away that easy. He is also associating cars with by-bye. Whe we read a book with a picture of a car he points and says "bye-bye".

Other words: Tickle, Mama, Dada, Ball, Dado, Hey Dare (says this when Zack comes home), Hello (says this as he holds his arm up to his ear like a telephone)

4) Reading

He is really loving lift and look books- especially his Peek-a-boo books. He also has a book "My first words" and he loves the pictures of the boy and girl, cat, dog, teddy bear, and car. He is starting to sit still for longer so it makes reading time a lot more fun.

5) No-ing

With crawling comes lots of "No No". After Remote controls and telephones, James is intrigued by cords and outlets. Now when he crawls past the outlet in the kitchen he shakes his head no as if to remind himself. Too funny!

6) Biting

Umm- a couple of days ago he started to enjoy biting- not good. Every time I try to brush his teeth (I usually use a washcloth as it seems (or used to seem) to work better than a tooth brush) he bites down with all his might. You also better watch your toes and legs if he is crawling.

7) Being the sweetest most precious baby- we love him so much!

Are you ready for some football?

Last weekend we went to see my nephew Will play football. Will's team, coached by his father I might add, won the game.....AND WILL SCORED A TOUCHDOWN!!! Baby James had so much fun- he enjoyed being a big boy and playing with all of his big cousins. Lucas and Ross were staying with my parents and baby James really enjoyed watching them. At one point James, my son who never sits still, stood still for about 30 mintues just staring at all the big boys in awe. It was too cute. Below are a few pictures from the big game.

War Eagle

We've got one serious Auburn fan here!! WAAAAAAAAAARRR EAGLE HEY!!!

In other news....Baby James is 9 months!! I can't believe it. Most of the past month has consisted of chasing Baby James around the house, baby-proofing, doctors appointments, looking for baby sitters, so much to catch up on. James has several new "tricks" such as waving, pretending everything is a telephone, throwing his hands above his head when we say touchdown, and he loves to chase his Daddy around the house in his walker.

New Tricks:

Waving Bye-bye

Touchdown Auburn

Telephone

Crawling

Pulling Up

Loves to:

Play Peek-a-Boo

Chase Daddy in his Walker

Tackle his blue bear

Cuddle with his sheep

Anything outside

Babbles all the time. Says Dada the most, not sure if he is associating it with Zack yet. Says "dye" when he waves bye-bye.

He is starting to grab me around the neck and snuggle his head against me when someone wants to hold him. He doesn't cry when he goes to them, but he is starting to be a little more clingy.

He also had his first first cold...so pitiful!! But he is much better now.

Here are his STATS:

weight: 20.5#- 50%

height: 29 in- 75%

head circ.: 48.5- 95%

My Heart

Herbed Chicken and Pasta anyone?

James really wanted to feed himself tonight! He had a blast! I did not have a blast cleaning it up however....

Breaking the law

We had a grand weekend. We went to Atlanta for Erin and Patrick's wedding- which was A.M.A.Z.I.N.G. by the way. The wedding & reception were at The St. Regis hotel, and we had so much fun dancing and celebrating with everyone. In typical fashion, Zack and I arrived at the hotel (rooms were fabulous) at 6pm and the wedding started at 6:30 so we made a quick presto-chango into our wedding attire and off we went to the wedding...and in my haste I left my camera... so I have no pictures to share.

Another wonderful thing we did was to visit family and friends in Atlanta. So as we were leaving the St. Regis, in search of a Starbucks and heading to Karen and Corey's, the navigation system quits working. We pull over to the side of the street and try to figure out what is going on (bc there is NO way the 2 most directionally challenged people in the world are going to make it from Buckhead to Roswell to Tucker without a navigation system!!). Next thing we know here come the flashing lights. Well, Mr. Policeman comes over to the car and demands we put our hands in the air. Seriously? As he approaches the truck, our hands in the air, he questions us why we were pulled over to the side of the road. Well apparently he wanted to make sure we were not casing the neighborhood to rob the houses in Buckhead- which we were obviously not. Anyway, he laughs and sends us on our merry way.

We had so much fun visiting with Karen and Corey- Shae is full of tricks and Mason is just too precious. Then we went to Jane and Andrew's. Their new house is wonderful- and we had the best pizza ever, which Jane "invented" by the way. We also got to taste some of Andrew's home brew which was really good (and I don't even like beer). Apparently his beer is low on hops, high on malt, and high on deliciousness in my opinion (this gives it a nice smoothness and it doesn't have that after-bite most beers have).

Speaking of beers- did you know it was only within the past few years that I knew beer has an "s" when plural? I thought it was like deer- 1 deer 2 deer. Well apparently not!! And how did I find this out you ask? Well when we counseled patients at the VA during my 4th year of pharmacy school we would often times need to find out how much alcohol the patient consumed on a usual basis. Then, after each session, we would type up these detailed SOAP notes in which I would I would write "so and so consumes 3 beer a night" - well the folks at the VA thought it was hilarious- which I guess it kinda is!! Oh well you live & you learn.

On the way home we got to visit with the Courtney, Scott & baby Hattie again because I left my purse at their house on Saturday (I sure am glad I did!!) I think Hattie looks like a perfect mixture of Courtney and Scott. Since I've been unusually focused on alcoholic beverages this post, I thought I'd mention that Scott is making Lemoncello- I think he even has a blog about it.

We sure had fun visiting with everyone, but I was so glad to see my precious Baby James when we got home- we were only gone a day, but I sure did miss my baby!!

Since I did not take any pictures of our wonderful weekend I thought I would leave you with some pictures of someone who is so cute it is a crime :)