Daddy's Shadow...

James is Jon's little shadow...he is literally always at Jon's heals. When Jon was home recovering James was in his glory. All day he followed Jon around. "Helping" whenever he could.

I love these pictures. Jon was busy prepping the front step to be re-painted and James picked up a little scraper and started helping.

I tend to think that there is a silver lining in everything. We found many silver linings about Jon having surgery. One of the best silver linings was that Jon was able to spend almost an entire month devoted to the kids. Both of the kids benefited from that...and probably Jon, too. Sometimes it is hard on everyone that Jon is away so much...so that month of recovery time was a blessing.