We Heart Our Dentist!

James and Zephyr went to Longmont's top pediatric dentist today. It was James' first "real" visit where he got his teeth cleaned, flossed and a flouride treatment. 

Both kiddos did great and Tim said that James' teeth are perfection. 

Total Randomness

We have been having a great week with Jenny, Ian and Zephyr here. James absolutely adores all of them and is very happy to have them staying at his house. Every morning when he wakes up, the first thing he says is, "Are my friends here?" I have been doing a pretty poor job of taking photos, which is very unlike me. And it is not too often that Zephyr wants to be right next to James, so pictures of the two of them are few and far between so far. So here is a totally random sampling of what we have been up to this week. We went to Boulder on Monday and walked around campus and Pearl Street in the sweltering heat. James wore his CU gear and sang the CU fight about 376 times. 

James and ZP enjoying some play doh time in their jammies.

This is how we found James sleeping the other night. I vividly remeber sleeping with my legs crossed just like this when I was younger.

Zephyr and Ian joined us at the pool on Tuesday while Jenny met up with a friend. James did a good hippo impression most of the time and just laid on his stomach in my lap while Zephyr kept Ian busy exploring the pool.
Being a crocodile with John.
Taking a potty break. We don't do public restrooms unless completely necessary.
We went to concert in the park this week and Melanie and Alex met us for a picnic. James is a big fan of Alex, and after singing Alex all the lyrics to California Girl, the feeling was mutual.
Tim with his biggest fan, Colin Haley.
James doing what he does best-mooching off other people's desserts.
We went up and had had lunch in Ft Collins with Bess yesterday and Jenny wanted to take Zephyr to Build a Bear. Clearly I couldn't take James in there without getting James something so I told him he could choose an animal to make as well. Well, ZP decided she wanted nothing to do with making her own bear and was content to just browse through the store. Not my kid, he knows a good thing when it is offered to him. So I was bamboozled into buying him the most expensive animal in the store (the buffalo at Uncle EE's suggestion) and he pickes him out a CU shirt and a hard hat to wear. It made James pretty happy though, when we left he said, "That sure was a special treat!" Cousins:

Here are J and Z giving the buffalo a bath after stuffing it.
Making the buffalo a birth certificate, James named him Ralphie Frank.
A very happy and spoiled little boy. To top it off, we went and got gelato right after this :-)
Today I took James to visit his preschool which he starts next week while Jenny, Ian and Zephyr spent the morning in Boulder again. We are having a great time together and the week is flying by. 

Green Thumb

One of the benefits of having our own garden is that James will eat anything that he has helped to grow including; radishes, carrots, zucchinis, cucumbers and tomatoes. Zephyr has particularly enjoyed helping us pick vegetables this week. Her favorite-carrots.

Showing off the tomatoes we picked to roast for our pasta dinner the other night.

Enjoying some carrot eating in the buff.

A Day on the Farm

Jenny and Zephyr got into town yesterday and are spending a week with us before they head to Durango for their annual trip with Ian's family. We went to the farmer's market this morning (where we gave James his own money to buy whatever he wanted and he chose an apple pie) and since it wasn't too hot out we thought it would be a good day to take the kids to the farm as well.  We had been to Sunflower Farm in Longmont once last year and really enjoyed it, so we were excited to share it with Zephyr. Last year James was terrified of feeding the animals and wouldn't even try it, but this year was a whole different ball game. He jumped right in and fed the goats, sheep and llamas.



The farm is kept up really well and there is a ton for the kids to explore. James was a big fan of all of the farming vehicles he could climb on.

There is also a tree house to climb that looks like it should be some kind of liability nightmare, but James was able to navigate it pretty well with Tim's help.


Checking out one of the tire swings with Zephyr.
James insisted that he wanted to ride a horse. We were pretty certain that once we waited in line and he got close to one he would lose it and change his mind, but he once again proved us wrong. Between feeding the animals and riding Cinnamon the pony, maybe he isn't as cautious as he used to be!

Fun in Denver

Tim has had a strenuous work week of 3 days in a row off so far, so we took off to the condo to have some fun in Denver. We decided to take James to the museum for the first time because he has started to get interested in dinosaurs. I had pretty low expectations because I have never taken a little kid there before and thought he might be bored. Well they had a ton of hands on things for toddlers and James loved everything about it. Every section we went to he would say, "Wow, this is SO cool!" He enjoyed the animal dioramas, the space exhibit, the discover healthy area and the dinosaurs. We also took him up to the roof to reminisce about our wedding 5 years ago.

Flashback to 5 years ago:

In front of the T Rex

With another flashback to 5 years ago:

James wearing an astronaut suit while playing in the space exhibit.

We stayed in Denver last night again so that I could go out with all the girls I used to teach with and then this morning we met up with our old crew (Holland/Riley, Erin/Alec, Lacey/Drina, Anne/George) for a playdate at Belleview Park. James and Alec had a heart-meltingly sweet reunion which involved shouting each other's names out while running torwards each other, giving each other multiple bear hugs and then not letting go of  the other one's hand the rest of the morning.

Seriously, these two are so sweet together.

The park has a train and a petting zoo. Tim was a champ and took the kids to both of the attractions while I got to sit and visit with my friends.
With George, Alec and Riley after the train ride.
Checking out some sedated animals in the farm. Gross.

Tim actually works this afternoon and the next two days so we are back to the Mont for our regularly scheduled lives. Jenny, Ian and Zephyr get here this weekend so I am sure we will be packing in a lot more fun activities over the next week.