9 Month Copy-tiger

James is a tiger (Chinese zodiac.) Instead of being a copy-cat, these days, he is a copy-tiger.

Here are some videos of James trying to do things we do.

First, James has been sticking his tongue out at the world since he was born. You can't really tell in this video, but we are sticking our tongues in and out at him and he is copying us. Often times he will do this while we are shopping or while he is crawling around on the floor exploring.


Second, here is a video of James and Garrick playing with the top. James liked to try and grab the top's handle and it would spin in his hand. Right before we took this video, James would literally scream in delight when Garrick would rev up the top.



This video shows some of the first voice-copying interactions we've had with James. When he was just a couple months old, he would try to imitate our lips, but then he stopped for a while. Now he is starting to imitate our sounds a little more. It's really fun!!!



Finally, here is a little sample of how James crawls now. He still seems to prefer the army-style scoot, but he crawls a lot more often. His crawl is rather interesting though... he still uses his right foot to propel himself forward - really quickly!!

Fishing in the afternoon

This afternoon was not too cold and nice and cloudy, so we decided to go fishing for an hour. We went to Salem Pond, a nice little lake near Spanish Fork, about a 5 minute drive from our house. We stood out on a neat little dock that had a bench and I tended James and helped watch the poles while Garrick did all the work. James thought the fish were interesting to look at - he stared at them quite curiously.

He almost immediately caught a lovely little trout that we threw back because it was so tiny. Later we caught another kind of small one and a larger one that we kept. Yesterday Garrick fished at the same pond and caught two nice trout and we had them for dinner. They tasted great!!

Here are some pictures: