JAMES-ISMS

I used to keep a running list of the cute and funny things James has said in the sidebar of the blog. Then the list got so long that I moved it to it's own page. If you haven't noticed the change, the link is there at the top, just under the title. It gets updated pretty regularly, without mention on the main blog page. We are seriously loving this age and stage of his development, and we honestly laugh and smile at the random and adorable things he says all day long, every single day. It's getting to the point that I can hardly keep up with his James-isms, and find myself forgetting to jot them down for the blog. Thank goodness for our archived Facebook statuses! Here are some gems just from the past 24 hours...

Driving home from daycare yesterday, a time of day that lately has the sun at the LEAST perfect angle for our kiddos in the backseat, James started to pitifully yell/whine "My eyes! My eyes!" Honestly, it was Oscar-worthy. We were cracking up (but still managed to hand him his sunglasses and help him get them "On top of the ears. On top of the nose." as he instructed.

Also on the way home from daycare yesterday (after a stop to refuel the Jetta - with an awesome savings of $0.20 off per gallon!), we were trying to teach Cora some of the animal sounds. And James was helping. He took over at one point and was just quickly answering all our questions before Cora even had a chance to think about them (not that she has answered us correctly for any of them yet, but we're working on it). Then, as we paused to come up with the next animal (because we'd already gone through all our usuals), James chimed in with "Mommy, what does the duck say?" That's right, now HE is quizzing US! And when I didn't answer right away (because I was looking at Jay with a shocked smile that he would turn the game around on us), he said "Come on Mommy! What does the duck say?" Ha!

This one he's been doing for a while, but it still makes us smile. More often than not, if James is in another room playing, then he comes back in to where we are at, he will announce himself with "Here comes the James!" All we can do is smile and tell him "Thanks for the warning buddy".

This morning, Jay served each kid half a banana and half a bagel with cream cheese for breakfast (we've started getting them up earlier and feeding them breakfast at home on weekdays, since the daycare "breakfast" seems to have turned into more of a "breakfast snack" lately). Neither wanted the bagel. After James finished his banana, he asked for more, so I gave him half of mine. After he polished that off, he asked Jay for his banana. Jay told him he'd already had an entire banana and that he should eat his bagel. Well, James didn't like that idea, so he told Jay to "Share Daddy! SHARE!" And thus Jay only got to eat half a banana this morning as well.

And this is not necessarily a James-ism/quote, but the boy had us practically rolling on the floor with laughter when we called him for dinner the other night and couldn't find him, and he popped up out of the toy box-turned-shoe storage box in the living room. It started with an innocent "Hi", then became a game of trying to scare us and Sissy once he realized he was so hilarious. I tell ya, this kid is just TOO much sometimes...