James's 9th Birthday

We celebrated James's 9th birthday with my family a couple of weeks early so that dad could be there to celebrate.  He came home from Colorado for a few days so we decided to have our family party for James while dad was in town, and of course James had no problem celebrating early ;)

Then on James's actual birthday, we went to Classic Skating with Steve's family and with Rose (James's birth mom) and her daughters.  He had a blast running around with his cousins.  I think we'll have to do this every year for his birthday.

Happy birthday my sweet 9-year-old boy!

Poor Solo

Solo is not having a good year already :(  She had surgery about a month ago and she just finished he medication and grew her fur back when a German Shepherd decided to come over and show her who's the boss.  Luckily James wasn't there, but poor Solo got it pretty bad and he even got me in the leg a bit as well.  (Man dog bites hurt!)  She had to have surgery and the vet had to shave her fur off again in multiple places, and she has to do another round of antibiotics.  If my little bit hurts like crazy then I can't imagine what Solo feels like.  

Ice Skating

We had to postpone our yearly Christmas tradition of outdoor ice skating because of the bitter, bitter, cold weather that we had in December. It usually is cold when we go ice skating so we just bring along some hot chocolate and doughnuts to warm us up, but this year it was just too cold out to even think about being outside. (Especially for our family visiting from warm California :)  Now here we are in February and it's 60 degrees out...we didn't even have to wear jackets to ice skate this year!

Stomp!

For an early Valentine's Day gift, I took Steve and James to see Stomp perform.  James LOVED it!  He was clapping and cheering louder than anyone else in the entire audience.  He got souvenir drum sticks after the show :)