What we did today

Well hello.  I had a nice post typed up and almost ready to publish yesterday, but apparently the blogger app doesn't auto save and my writing vanished.  So we'll try again today.

It's a quiet day.  James and I are hanging out together.  We had a nice long walk this morning; I am loving the outdoors these days.  Joe is working in the mountains this afternoon, building a deck (a brief little job in addition to his new sales job, which he loves, in case you were wondering) and I'm sure it is just lovely up there.  This afternoon I made myself coffee with vanilla and milk and sugar; (!) it was so yummy that I thought about making another one, but then I looked at the clock and opted for tea instead.  

Jamesie is So Cute.  I was changing his diaper and he grabbed my arm and tried to put it in his mouth (no luck there, little buddy).  And then when I picked him up he gave me kisses.  Or started chewing on my chin.  It's the same thing at this stage, right?  He's gotten extremely intense and alert and wants to grab at everything--salad tongs! water bottle! paper! books! the couch!  His hair still sticks up ; the lady sitting next to us at church commented "I saw his hair and I thought there was a piece of fuzz on my glasses!"  But we comb it down sometimes, and then it looks like this: 

Speaking of James and cuteness, Sarah posted some pictures of him on her blog today.  There are some really good ones in there.  He looks like his Grandpa Morgan.  But he still has Langemann eyes--pretty crazy how that works!

This afternoon James and I took a quick ride down to Matthew and Christy's place to meet the newest little nephew.  He's SO TINY!  Precious.  I guess it's easy to forget how small a newborn really is (though James was never quite that small.)  I am so blessed in my sisters-in-law.  Christy was one of my closest friends before either of us were married (AND before I was seriously interested in her brother Joe, just for the record); we spent a lot of time together and talked about singleness and all of that.  Now we're both having babies and our babies are COUSINS!  It's amazing to me.  Such a huge blessing.

I'm sitting out on our patio now.  James is in bed, but earlier he joined me for a bit (see below).  It's beautiful out here.  The blossoms survived the cold and are just lovely.  Joe is working late so I have some quiet time; when I am done here I will work on my crocheting project.  We're having French toast for dinner (we love that stuff and we don't have a sleep-in morning this week, so we'll just have it for dinner instead) so I don't have much prep.  It's nice.  I love springtime.  I can hear a bird singing.  

I'm going to sign off for now, with a few more pics...

James in the Bumbo, outside with Mommy

The view from the patio

Listening to me practice...

...maybe this way is more comfy?  Don't worry, I was watching him carefully.

He likes my water bottle so much that we got out some of his.  He loves them but hasn't figured out that you're supposed to suck on them.

So good at sitting up!


Little singer boy

And just because he's adorable.  :)