What Are You Thankful For?

Pumkin Pie

Here is how you make pumpkin pie.

Any questions?

When We Are Sick...

About a week ago, James and I stayed home from church. We were both sick with a slight fever and some congestion. I did not wanted to pass it around the children at church. We think it was something Jon brought home when he was doing his peds rotation.

We had a good "relaxing" day. We watched the Mormon Tabernacle Christmas Concert from a few years ago, with Sissel (thanks Doug for getting it for us). We built a tent with furniture, a sheet and some larger toys. Here is James having fun inside of the tent.

James used mommy as a jungle gym and ladder. He was really trying to climb up me to get on the couch. Here he comes. We also played with some toys. Have I mentioned how much James loves this wagon and the blocks that came with it? Thanks so much Grandma Felt for the early birthday present! It has been a big hit.

Up

James is now pulling himself up on things.  He loves to stand. 

He will even inch (more like centameters than inches really) along our couches.  With this new accomplishment, he has  also reached the stage of hitting his head on everything.  He is constantly falling or running into things while crawling around.  He also crawls for real now.  He has realized it is faster than the one-armed army crawl.  I would say it will not be too much longer before he walks on his own.  In this picture he was trying to pull himself up, but was frustrated because the wagon is not stable enough to get all the way up.  Then, he realized he could not get down either.

Fun Before Church

The Sunday after my scope, James was enjoying my dress hanging down as I had my knee up and being iced. It was really amusing to see him wave my dress back and forth, giggling the whole time. Here is a video Jon took of him.

Working Out

Jon and I have started doing Tae-Bo together at nights. I have been so sore, but not in some of the places I have thought I would be sore. Jon and I have set up a rewards program to help us stay focused on exercising. I hope it works. Time will tell. It has felt good to be exercising again. I am surprised at how much I can do with just having had my knee fixed less than three weeks ago.