Where did my baby go?

All of a sudden I don't have a baby any more. Yesterday we went to the park and he went down a big slide all by himself, no help from us, the only thing that he has trouble with is when he gets to the bottom he wants to do it again so he tries to climb up the slide rather than going up the stairs. When we would put him on the younger kid play park, he would walk about fifty feet (twenty-five feet each way) around this big mountain wall thing to get to where the big kids were playing. When we kept taking him back to the little kid park so that he would stop getting run over by the big kids he climbed the mountain wall and succeeded in getting to the top after falling down it a couple times.

The other day when I was feeding him Raman noodles he kept trying to get down so I thought that he wasn't hungry and put him down. He went over and picked up a big person fork off the floor (yes my house is AMAZINGLY clean) and tried to climb back up into his high chair to finish eating with HIS new found fork; his small utensils just don't suffice.

His ornament on the tree has to be where he can get it, take it down and put it back on without any help from me. If he discovers I have moved it up to where he can't reach it he will get me, bring me over and give me a lecture until I get it down for him. This is okay with me because this way he only touches his ornament and leaves all the other glass ones alone. There was a little problem yesterday when the library had an ornament that looked like his and he kept trying to get it down- because every tree must have at least one ornament you can touch right?

He now likes to watch noggin now that aunt Calixta has taught him about it. And unless she taught him he figured out that if he pushes the "F5" bottom he can play it over again without my help from me.

The list goes on and on: he needs to wear his new shoes (which are too big and he can barely walk in), he needs his coat on, he wants his shirt off, he wants the whole apple not a piece, the door/window needs to be open/closed, he wants to be in his own chair, he want a nap now and he's not standing up from the middle of the floor to go to his bed, I need to vacuum the floor-with his help of course, he needs a wagon ride, the stuffed nativity needs to be on his table-and all in a row along the wall.

I had thought that when he started to demand all of these things he was going to turn in to a little brat and start to throw tantrums but he just calmly looks at me and starts to explain how thing are with a LOT of hand gestures for as long as it takes until his dense mom gets it. So I ask again where did my baby go?

Alex and alex

While I was finishing making the wagon pillow case (I'm FINALLY done) Alex was watching the baby and they had a great time.

C is a Wonderful Letter

I haven't been writing blogs because I have been so sad that we were not going to be able to be with our extended families that I just didn't have anything good (or I should say positive) to say. Now I can say that we had a wonderful time and we hope that you did too, and that you start to feel better soon.

Christmas Trees and Chocolate

We went to go and get our Christmas tree last night and we had a great time picking it out. alex would run up and down the ales yelling at the top of his lungs with his hands spread out like wings; I think that our excitement of getting our first real tree spread to him. We were outside so nobody seemed to mind; if anything I think that it got them more in the Christmas spirit. Then we came home and got it set up without all the trouble that I remember encountering as a kid-what went on back then? and alex likes to sit in the corner behind the tree and just look at it-I haven't gotten a good picture of it yet but when I do I'll put it up.

And then Christmas time has brought a new love to alex's life- chocolate. He doesn't really eat that much food, so I don't ever really give him any candy. But as he was helping me put the chocolate out for Christmas I gave him a piece and now he is always pointing at it and with a wistful voice saying, "cha cha cha cha cha" he will even go so far as to grab my hand and pull me over to get it. I wish that "after you have your dinner" would have more of an effect on him.

Cat

While we were on our way to aunt Linda's we stopped on the side of the road, so that alex could get out and strech his legs, and pulled into a church parking lot. There was a little cat that would follow alex around and want to play so much that the little boy who usually follows animals anywhere so that he can play with them got to the point where he was pushing it away. And you get to see the "moose on the loose" outfit.

Phantom of the Opera...

My family went to go and see The Phantom of the Opera last night and I wanted to make sure that I would ask them how it went so I have been walking around and singing "the Phantom of the Op-ERA". The red part is sung kind of low alternating between two notes and then the purple is sung really loud in vibrato (at least that is how I have been doing it all morning while I was picking up). Then I sat down to pay some bills and alex was walking around picking up toys and then putting them down before going to the next toy and doing the same thing with it and the whole time going da da da AAAAAA! The "da"s the same note but quite and the AAAAAA really loud. I can't wait 'til Alex comes back from football so that I can tell him how much potential his son is showing to be an opera singer, I'm sure he'll be so proud. What could be better than playing with you kid?

Smile....

I hope that you are all having a nice day!

I Wanna Be Like Dad.

I have so many blogs that I wanted to write over the past month that when I think about them it becomes a daunting task. Because of this I avoid writing new blogs because I am skipping so much other stuff that I want to write about first. That is all in the past. I'm just going to write about what I am thinking about at the moment because I think that makes for better blogs anyways. So just know that we have been doing stuff, but when we do stuff we don't have time to write about it so you only get to here about the boring everyday stuff. Sorry.

alex likes to copy everything that his daddy does. I'm sure that this will come as a shock to some of you but occationally Alex likes to lie on his back and throw a ball in the air or bounce the ball off the wall. Little alex is pretty good at the bouncing the ball off the wall, but have you ever seen a one year old lie on his back and try to throw a ball horizontally? It is extreemly entertaining but unfrotunally resulted in several hits to the nogen; I think the funniest part to watching this unfolw was that alex had to be laying down right next to his dad in order to copy correctly so he would sit down next to him and then scoot him self as close as he could get before he started to throw the ball.

Alex had to work a 24 hour shift on Halloween and then go straight to his 12 hour shift on Wednessday, we missed him so much (and that is why he is not in the Halooween pictures), but alex missed him the most. When Alex got home little alex followed his dady around and tried to do everything that he did (he also would freak out if his daddy went out side or even left the room without him). Alex was cleaning out a grass burn on his leg; to do this he stuck his foot in the bathtub and poured peroxcide over it. While he was sticking his foot in the bathtub he nocked a cup that was sitting on the edge of the tub into the tub.....so alex pushed all of the shampoo on the edge into the tub. Then alex tried to lift his leg up and get it over the side and into the tub like his dad, the problem being that he is like 4 feet shorter than his dad and can't get his leg up that high but that didn't stop him from trying. So after trying to get his foot in for the entire time thtat his daddy was in there he followed his dad into the living room where his dad started working on an application...alex went to his table and sarted working on his own stuff. As you can see in the picture below, it was cute.


Then this is a movie that I thought that you would enjoy.