Just hangin' out

I'm posting lots of fun pics from our past week. As my title states, we're really just "hangin' out" but having the best time. Nothing out of the ordinary going on in our lives right now - just enjoying where we are and watching these precious boys grow every day! John-Mark is now fully sitting up on his own and he appears to be really close to crawling. He gets up on his hands and knees and rocks back and forth and he can even "scoot" a bit. Yesterday he pushed himself up from his hands and knees to sitting on his bottom! He's starting to get tired of his toys that keep him "stationary" and you can tell he just wants to get up and go - Lord help us :)
James is talking more and more and we are becoming more aware everyday that he understands EVERYTHING that is going on around him. He's been cutting a couple new teeth and he's been a bit "fragile" we like to call it. (side note - we think John-Mark is starting to cut his first teeth as well - another thing about having them so close together I never considered - they teeth at the same time which makes for a lot of whining at times!) James can get really upset over little things when he's teething. Tonight we were eating dinner and he was being very impatient and whining and Jeremy said, "do need to go sit in the green chair?" (which I wasn't sure he really KNEW what that was, but oh, he does!) He looked at me and then started sobbing! We both started dying laughing! Poor baby - no sympathy.
He constantly goes and stands and the fridge and does the sign for "more" while saying "mo, mo" - he's finally started saying please as well - he was quite stubborn on that one!
Since the weather has been nice we have been taking long walks down our drive way to the mailbox (it's about 1000 ft long) and James has a wonderful time exploring every stick and rock along the way. He's started putting his hand up and saying "hand" when he wants to hold hands - too sweet :) He is also in a very "mommy" phase right now. He loves to say my name all the time and even cries when I leave sometimes - which makes me sad but it's also kind of sweet - I know it won't be too long when he'll run off and leave me in the dust!
Okay - enough with the stories here are some pics:
Last week we went to Huntsville for a few days and stayed with my mom. First we went to Red Robin for lunch and when we walked in and James saw all the balloons he was so excited "boons boons!" He actually cared very little about eating and just wanted to play with the balloons. Then when we got home we set up the air mattress and boy did they have fun with that! Between the balloons and the air mattress it made for a great day!

The boys got so hot bouncing on the mattress we had to strip down to our diapers :)

Pooped after a long day of play - "Calgon - take me away!""Look at me mom, I can dunk!"

Good Morning John-Mark!

Daddy and James taking a walk - look at my little man (sniff, sniff)

I decided to take John-Mark's 6 month pics myself - here are a few of my fave's: