Happy Friday

Today began with a surprisingly happy boy despite a slight cold (his first one so far) and major teething pains. Here's a recap of James' day. As most of us know, cutting teeth is tough work and side effects include excessive drooling (see left). However, now that James can stand around his excersaucer on his own (with some spotting by mom), he has many more activities to take his mind off his painful teeth. Of course, this means that in the evening when it's bedtime, the pain is much more noticeable and sleep in our house is more elusive than the jackalope. After the lunchtime nap, James and mommy went to the mall to meet up with Maggie and her mom to do some shopping. James has been going shoeless since his most recent growth spurt and this needed to be fixed! His new favorite past time is holding on to mom and dad's fingers and tromping around the house, the yard, the mall, etc etc. New shoes were a MUST. James (and mommy, well, maybe mommy more) LOVED the new shoes we picked out. He was the hit of the Clarks shoe store and mommy found herself trying on pair after pair of her OWN shoes while the sales people played with, and were entertained by, James in his new shoes. They offered to come over and babysit; an offer that was VERY tempting.
We're all hoping for the sleep fairy to sprinkle some much needed sleepy dust over the Hartigan house tonight as tomorrow is the daddy/baby swimming lesson debut. Happy Friday!