Update on James

So I know you all want to see new pictures of Mary Martin and hear how she is doing. I promise I will get to that in a few days. I am planning a two weeks old post... In the meantime, I thought I might send a few recent pictures of James and report on what he is up to.

Life for James has not changed much since his little sister arrived. We still have grandma help which means an additional playmate for James. So he is still getting plenty of attention at home. He sort of ignores Mary Martin until we tell him to tell Mary Martin good morning, for example, and then he does. He will kiss her when we ask him to. More often he will share his toys with her - gives her a Thomas train in her Moses basket or gives her a Thomas sticker from his sticker book. Notice the Thomas sticker on his head in the photo. James did "help" me wash Mary Martin the other day - we had to get her "all clean," he said.

Life is all about Thomas the Train and Curious George for James lately. He wants to play with his train table often throughout the day and wants someone to play with him. We watch a lot of Thomas and Curious George. He laughs out loud at George's antics, which makes mommy smile every time.

Things at his day care are going well, though he has been upset to go the last few mornings when grandmas are at home. The past few weeks his classroom has focused on a letter per week - first they did P, then M and then B. This week they are focused on Self Help - dressing oneself, getting their shoes on by themselves, etc. This works out great for us as we have another little one to dress as well.

James' other obsession lately is reading his nighttime books himself. He doesn't want someone to read them to him anymore, he wants to "read" them himself. This does two things. First, it avoids night-night time a little longer. It also allows James to make the story up as he goes.

Finally, James seems to have grown an inch in the past two weeks. I don't know if I was just so worried about my little girl lately that I didn't notice. More likely, I haven't given James his bath in a while (grandma job!) so I didn't have a chance to notice.

I promise an update on MM soon...