Sunglasses

James is learning to interact with us and the world around him. Just in the past week, he has learned to share things with us. He hands us objects, and often tries to feed us some of whatever he is eating. He is becoming better at remembering what certain objects are for, or what they do. For example, in this video, he remembers that sunglasses go on your eyes, and he likes to take them off and put them back on us.
These may not seem like big things... but it really is so neat to be the first ones to witness him making each little milestone in his development.
For some reason I had trouble uploading the video to this blog, so I put it on youtube. Here is a link to it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyzONTTnFrg

Shoe Rack and Sunday Shirt!

James thinks it's his personal mission in life to pull things off shelves, out of boxes, etc. It's not that he plays with the things he pulls out... he just finds a certain joy in the action itself. Here he is in our bedroom after he took every shoe off the rack. He was quite pleased with himself.

Here are a few pictures we took on Sunday of James in his Sunday best. I tried to pick one picture of all of these, but I thought they were all so cute that I just put them all!!! 

Fishing trip with Uncle Alex!

• We did a little fishing today at Salem Pond, and it was the first time Alex came with us. The fish were being rather devious and stealing all the bait though, so instead of the highly anticipated 4 large trout, Alex caught one small one (that we let go) and the large one pictured below.