Pictures galore

Here's our recent doings. We went to the Madisonville Wooden Boat Festival. After Alex went on the Pirate boat, the pirate gave him some treasure. Alex quickly chunked it in the Tchefuncte.

Granny...thanks for the playset.

If you all look carefully, you can see the progression of Alex getting the lawnmower up to the top. He's a crafty, smart little sucker.
Alex's New Pictures.....click here

Teaser pics:

Some Pumpkin Patch Pictures

Updates....wow

It's been almost an entire month.

Some cute things Alex says:
*when we go over a bridge he announces it.
*He knows the Tchefuncte River, Mississippi River, and Lake Pontchartrain. You can understand pretty much all of them.
*He says, "I hold you" when he wants us to pick him up.
*He loves tickling and torturing Oreo...still.
*Alex is obsessed with trains, buses, and trucks.

Everything is going fine with my pregnancy. I actually haven't been working since Sept. 28 because I told my principal/boss that I didn't feel comfortable restraining children...which is part of my job because I teach children with emotional and behavioral disorders. So, the solution was to demand that I go on sick leave until a doctor's note cleared me for all duties. They will not accept me being able to do partial abilities. Anyway, 2 lawyers and the union president later, I'm still on sick leave and there's nothing they can do. So, here I am.

In 2 weeks I go back to the doctor, hopefully they'll do another ultrasound but I doubt it since they usually schedule those separately from regular appointments.

Baby #2

On May 15th, 2011

Alex will be a brother!

After a long 11 months we have another baby who will join us in 9 months.

I had my ultrasound today and its heartbeat is 139 bpm.

Some Vids

Alex seems to be a very accurate thrower.


Before he jumps off the couch, he says, "TO Infinity and Beyond".


And this is why the videos are becoming few and far between. I have to sneak them and once he sees me recording, he demands to see the footage.

speaking of this boy

Alex has been wreaking havoc on the dog. He "hugs" him, which really is a choke hold. He pets him nicely, which really is a beat down. The dog walks in circles to try to get away from Alex.

At 6:15 this morning the dog is scratching at Alex's door. Why? If someone tortured me that much I'd want as much quiet time as possible. Not our dog.

this boy

He was throwing a ping pong type ball at the dog's head. I asked Alex to give me the ball. He said no. He walks away, I hear it being thrown into the sink then Alex says, "Ball all gone."

When left to his own devices...

I knew he was just too quiet for too long.

a creative breakfast

Lately when Alex wakes up he comes in our bed. This morning he did that at 8am- which is nice and late- but Patrick and I weren't ready to get out of bed. Alex got out and found something nice and quiet to do. A little while after Alex left our room and there was a long uncomfortable silence, I decided to get out of bed to see what he was up to.

The pantry door was open. Remnants of leftover cake wrapped in foil and some rotten strawberries were on the floor. Alex took them out of the trash can. I do not know if he ate any strawberries but I know he ate some icing because it was all over the floor. He just helped himself to a nice, trashy breakfast.

I guess from now on we have to close the pantry door (it already has a childproof handle cover).

workout pt. 2

We're starting to workout and Alex decided to join us

2.5 year old pictures

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Timeout

The cutest thing just happened.

For almost 2 hours, Alex's dinner has been at the table. He's been playing with his trains. Patrick and I have tried to get him to eat. He's said "NO". We've asked him about every 20 minutes for two hours and it's been "NO!"

Just as Alex was rearing back to throw a pillow at Oreo, Patrick told him not to. Alex did it so he was told he needed to go to timeout. Do you know where Alex ran??? He ran into his dinner seat and tried to start eating.

He tried to drink and eat and Patrick took him out of his chair and made him serve his timeout. When timeout was over he had to apologize to Oreo, so he crept over there, bent down and said in the sweetest voice, "I sawy Oh-we-o." Now he's eating. So all it took was a timeout. What are we missing? Oh yeah, we're not 2 1/2.

Mommy had surgery

I got sinus surgery done on the 7th. It's now the 10th and I'm pretty much pain-free. My pain really was from the packing because as soon as that was removed I was relieved.

I cannot lift things that are heavy....mainly Alex. Today he was in his room and I could tell he just climbed on top of his dresser, which also has his changing pad. I went in there to wonder how I would get him down and lo and behold, he had poop. I suppose he knew he needed to be up there anyway. So I changed his diaper then he asked for a bath.


He also pushed his bed from the wall while Patrick was out so I had to leave that too.

I'm so glad he is able to understand and follow through with directions. I laid down on the couch recliner and the tv remote fell between through to the floor. I already had the legs kicked up and told Alex to get the remote for me. "OKAY", he said, then headed down to get the remote. He did a good job!

Some videos for your viewing pleasure

we have some reading, crying, bubbles, and dog food!

Rash Update

see...told you I'd forget

It's a contact allergy to fertilizer used in our yard. His arms are still bumpy but he is not itching them. The dr bumped up Alex's allergy meds to 1 tsp xyzal a day rather than 1/2 tsp. Also rx'd him some cortisone cream mixed with lubriderm.

A rash?

Sunday, Patrick took Alex outside to play in the sprinkler. Shortly after I noticed a rash all over him. It was like a gazillion bumps...flesh colored...on his arms, legs, and face. He wasn't itching or acting abnormally so I didn't give him anything or call the pedi. We also have an appointment Tuesday for a "well" visit due to our visit 2 weeks ago where he had a really bad yeast thing going on "down there". The doctor also rx'd some antibiotics for his congestion, so that's why we need to go back. I figure while we're there just let her see this new rash thing going on.

I hope he's not allergic to grass. He's played outside tons before...they go outside daily at daycare.

Oh, and he's wearing his 2nd bandaid ever. His first bandaid was put on the other day. He scraped his arm really good and the scab keeps falling off (or he's picking it). So, he's wearing a Toy Story bandaid.

I'll post tomorrow about what the dr says about his rash.

random videos

Fearless!

So some of you may have heard/remembered me talking about this goose sound that was happening when I tried to go to sleep. One night Patrick had to make a cell phone call outside because Verizon service sucks in our house and he called me outside to see what was causing it. I tried to keep the video on him because Patrick said he heard the noise then turned around and the frog had a gigantic bubble in his throat. I wanted to catch it but didn't. Anyway, here's the frog. And to all you city people....listen to all the crickets and crap in the background.



For this video, he was talking and kicking the wall a lot so I decided to try to capture some of the magic. He was in his bed for a good 30 minutes before I took the video.

Told you Granny

Over the weekend, Alex ate his spaghetti that Granny made at Granny's house. I told her that I know he won't eat it at my house. I took video to prove this phenomenon.

ENJOY! We did.

The first video is a close-up and I wish I had remembered to make the other one close-up. Oh well!

And I love how he holds his hand over his eyes.