Tuesday, May 27, 2008

A funny Alexander story

I am so excited to have a funny Alexander story. I hear fun stories about family and friends kids, and now I have my own!!

I was in the office printing up some mailing labels for work and Alexander was exploring the house as usual. I have learned very quickly what rooms to shut the doors and what rooms he can crawl around in freely. Our bedroom is one of those rooms he can do just about anything he wants. I knew he was in there because I could hear him coming in and out of the bathroom and laughing at himself in my full length mirror (he does that a lot). I was concentrating on what I was doing and not paying much attention to him when I realized I had not heard him for at least five minutes. I thought I better make sure he was not in the living room because there are things in there he can pull over on him. So I got up and headed down the hall. As I was walking past my room something caught my eye. Alexander had gotten into the diaper bag, pulled out the bag of snacks I keep in there for him (mind you he took nothing else out), figured out how to open the bag, dumped the entire contents in his lap, and was eating the food by the fist fulls. He had just had breakfast so I could not imagine he was hungry, but it was so incredibly cute. I love how his personality is coming out more each day.


Monday, May 26, 2008

11 months old


After talking with my dad on the phone Wednesday night, I made a last minute decision to go visit my parents for the weekend. While we were up there Alexander turned 11 months old and to celebrate almost turning 1 he stood by himself while not holding onto anything for the first time. I was so proud of him.
He has also really become a ham when it comes to taking pictures. We were playing with the camera and I took several pictures of him with his cousins in which everytime I said smile he proudly showed his teeth. My mom and I laughed a lot because he was being so funny.