First Complete Sentence

Alexander said his first complete sentence today. For a while he has been saying things that sound like "I love you" or "Let's go" but today he very clearly looked at me and said "I want water" now his water is pronounced "wawer" but he wanted to have a drink. We were sitting eating lunch and he had not had anything to drink yet. I held up his sippy and asked if that is what he wanted, he said please and took a drink. I am so excited that he has now said a complete sentences. I work on sounds and names of things with him every day. Recently we have started to learn the difference between juice and water. He still calls the juice water, but when I say it is juice he then repeats what I said. I am so proud of him.

There are some other cute things he has done lately that I keep forgetting to tell everyone. 1. When we were on our way back to PA from WA I was laying down with him, trying to get him to sleep, and out of no where he sits up, takes out his pacifier, bends down, gives me a kiss, puts his pacifier back in and lays back down. Oh I loved it. 2. The first morning we were back we were, of course, starting the adjustment process. Alexander was a little hyper and was bouncing all over the bed. After headbutting, slapping and spitting in my face I decided it was not a good start to the day. Josh tried to make it better by kissing the back of my hand. It did help, but when Alexander decided that he was going to do it too, my heart melted. He totally copied Josh and then when he noticed it made me smiled he continued to do it several times until I could not laugh anymore. 3 and finally, I have been watching tv online since I don't have a tv. It's nice because I can pause and rewind all I want. Anyway, I decided to watch the current season of Dancing with the Star. After Alexander got up form his afternoon nap he saw I had my computer on. As you all probably know, he is a dancer. If there is music, he is shaking his grove thing. So he heard the music and was getting down with his bad self. After the first song he decided to start watching the show and noticed that the guys were dancing with the girls. How do I know he noticed this, as soon as his brain made the connection he came and got me out of the kitchen by grabbing my hand and pulling me into the living room. Once there, he started swinging my arms and trying to spin himself. I swear he is the cutest boy I have ever been around. I don't know where he comes up with this stuff, but it makes being his mom so much more fun and rewarding.

MHCI retreat

This last weekend Josh arranged a retreat for any of the students in his Masters program who wanted to go. Out of about 51 students 2o came. We had two condos at a ski resort about an hour away. I was incredibly nervous going into it but, of course, I ended up having a good time. I am actually really glad we went because it was the first time I really got to talk with some of the people who we are going to Portugal with. I could go on for a while about everything but I will contain the rest of this blog to just talking about Alexander and how his first snow experience was. He made us laugh a lot because he looked so cute in his warm jacket and boots. I bought the jacket big so we could get more use out of it once we get back, but it worked great this weekend. He was not to sure about the snow hitting his face, and he did not want to walk in his new boots either. He is such a funny kid. It has been amazing though. It started snowing on Saturday around 7 pm and has continued since. The weather report says we should have it all week, so I am totally excited. I love the snow so much, it really brings me a lot of joy to watch come down. I have had my curtains open all day today watching the flakes change in size and quantity. I love that God created snow!! Enjoy the picture of my little chicken legged snow baby.

First Harvest Party

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