Hats and ducks

We have this adorable hat. James is pretty good with keeping hats on, but he wouldn't keep this hat on at all. It wasn't until we showed him how he looks with it on that he started to leave it on. He is so funny.

We finally caught him doing Pat-a-cake on video. It is amazing what he is learning.

Here is a video of him making a duck noise. He also will say what a dog says, but we haven't caught that on video yet!

Christmas

We had a huge snow storm right before we left for Christmas, so we took the opportunity to play in all the snow. We put trash bags over James' legs as make-shift snow boots---it totally worked! Here is him all geared up for our little jaunt.

Christmas at the Connecticut Fackrell's!

We had such a fun time visiting Kyle's family! It was good to be with family, and fun to have a break from regular routine. Here is the group!

Here is James' newest face that he makes...I can't imagine where he learned to give this look.

Sisters-in-law wearing the aprons I made.

We did so many fun things on this trip. We went to the Yankee Candle store...it had a pirate ship to climb on...and a bunch of other fun things to do!

Kyle and his brothers and Dad.

We went to this really cool restuarant, but before we got in we had some time to kill in the mall so Kyle took James on escalator rides.

We spent some time playing on the Wii, which James really liked.

James also learned a new word and I caught it on camera.


James' newest dance.

Cute pictures

So, when we titled the blog "Kyle, Tawnya, and James" we should have just titled it "James". Anyway, here are some cute pictures. Snow day! It didn't last long, but is was fun to have one snowy day.

This bear was a gift in a white elephant gift exchange we did...we were quite surprised to come home with a bear twice James' size, but he loves it.

James has started mimicking us more.It is amazing to see him learning so fast. Here is him sweeping...
Sorry this video is a little dark. James kept bringing me my purse and wasn't satisfied until I helped him put it on. It took me a little while to figure out what he wanted!

Here is a video of him sweeping with the big broom.

Happy Birthday James!

Wow! James is one year old. It is amazing how fast it has gone by. What a blessing it has been to have him in our lives.

So I took a video of the birthday song and the eating the cake, but it is too long to put on here. Anyone know another way to post a long video?

Here are the cupcakes I made...

He wasn't in a great mood until he saw the cupcakes.

Here is James just before I took the tray away and cleaned him up.

Presents! He was mostly uninterested, but that was because we gave him this basketball hoop first. He just wanted to play with it and not open any of the other presents. Eventually we persuaded him (by hiding the basketball hoop).

This adorable outfit was from Grammy and Papa Ferrell. I LOVE this. He is so cute.

Anything with a beat...

I tried to catch some of the times that James dances. It doesn't seem to matter if it's music or not as long as it has a beat!

Music

The breadmaker

Piano music

His own singing...I think

Kyle clapping

He also has danced to the clicking of the shopping cart wheel, the printer, the sound of me grading lemon peel, and this blog entry.--Funny kid.

Didn't see the camera

So as soon as I said he wouldn't walk for the camera, he did!

Hiking and more...

Here are some pictures from hiking. We took a couple days to go visit Kyle's cousin Tyler (and Jenny and Carter) in Roanoke and the weather was so nice that we went out hiking!

This is one of my favorite pictures of me and James so far.

Thats all for today....Next post: James' 1st birthday!! (Unless we get a really good walking video before then--he refuses to walk when I get the camera out.)