Spring is Finally Making an Appearance!

I am so excited that the weather has been nicer lately.I HATE winter with a passion. In fact, if my family didn't live in Maryland, I would have been gone to Florida or California a long time ago. That's how much I hate cold weather. We've defintely had some nice days recent;y, and today turned out to be better than I thought it was going to be too. We were able to get out and take Alex for a walk around the neighborhood,which he loves. He's getting so much bigger now! He's almost 13 months, and he's walking, dancing, clapping and saying a few words already. He's developed quite  little personality of his own lately, and certainly lets us know his likes and dislikes. He's very playful and likes to explore. He especially likes to pet the cats and chase them all over the house. Oscar wants no part of it, but Lexie has actually started to let him pet and she even rubs herself against him in return. It's too cute to watch them play together. We took him to his first gym class at Gymboree Play and Music in Nottingham, and he had a blast. He really enjoyed the ball pit they had and sliding the balls down the swirly slide they had. He also loved the bubble games they played. They sang one song where at the end they blew bubbles in each kids face and sang his/her name, and he loved that part! Okay, so one more week and it's Spring Break time!!! Can't wait! Enjoy your week and the new photos!

Me, Abe and Alex bundled up at Dylan and Daniel's football game

Alex loves pasta and carrots! Don't worry Melinda--the shirt you got him did come clean after this!

Alex playing with Lexie!

            We had a little party for Alex at home in W.MD, but I didn't get to post      any pics, so here's one of him enjoying his second cake!

                      Playing on his new couch we just bought him yesterday!

This is too funny--he's just lounging around with his ninny!

And he's out..in our bed of course...*sigh*

Announcement: Alex started walking!

The Year in Pictures...

I wanted to post a month by month picture show since Alex just celebrated his first birthday--Enjoy!

 

 

 

                                           Waiting for Alex to arrive...March 5, 2008

Alex first ever picture--1 minute old!

1 Month Old

                                                                      2 Months old

3 Months Old

4 Months Old

5 Months Old

6 Months Old

7 Months Old

8 Months Old

9 Months Old

10 Months Old

11 Months Old

1 Year Old!!--March 5, 2009

 

 

Party Time!

Abe and I threw our very first birthday party this Saturday and Alex was the man of the hour--or two hours I should say. We celebrated his first birthday with a small family and friends gathering at our house on Saturday afternoon. It was the most perfect weather we could have asked for, with temperatures around 70 degrees. That's amazing for early March! After having a blizzard on Monday, I was really worried too. But I had no reason to be. We kept all of the windows open and Alex actually had to wear hs Easter vest and a pair of shorts, because his special birthday outift was too hot for the weather. Lots of people showed up and we had a feast and enjoyed eating cake and watching Alex shovel some cake in his mouth. We also had a Blues Clues pinata, which thorougly entertained the kids! Daniel was the lucky winner who released the candy and then all 6 big kids--Dylan, Daniel, Tristan, Rebekah, Matthew and Ava scrambled to pick up candy. Some kids had a strategy (Matthew went for the M&M's and Ava rounded up the Twix), while others just went for anything. Alex got so many nice presents too! We handed out favors, and made special "baby" favors for our three under 1 girls (Natalia, Julia, and Charlye). All in all it was a great celebration of our special little guy! He's becoming so independant lately. Taking a few steps, and saying a few words. He said his first word besides Mama and Dada today. When playing with his Thomas train in the bathtub. He said "Choo, choo!" repeating after me.Now when I show it to him, he says "Choo. Choo!" I can't believe he's 1 already. The year has just gone by so fast! There are many pictures of the big day, so I will make a slide sho, but enjoy the few I am posting with this!

Covered in cake reaching for his balloon

Abe, Alex and Blue before his head was severed

The adorable cake Mary and Dave picked out

Alex with his own little smash cake

I had to post this--look at Julia's little pose! LOL.

We decided we're going to take a picture in front of our birthday flag every year!

Me, Mary and our switched kids

Alex Turns 1!

Alex celebrated his 1st birthday yesterday! I cam't believe it's been a year. Last night at certain points, Abe and I kept looking at the time and saying things like: "Right about now my water breaking." "Right about now we were being checked in" "Right about now we were watchig American Idol and waiting." Then at 10:51 PM, we both looked at the clock and said "Alex was being born right now." It's so crazy to think that a whole year has gone by since then! And now instead of a wrinkly little newborn, we have a little boy who's staking a few steps and crawling everywhere and talking non-stop. We spent the day at work and daycare. Since I turned 25 yesterday as well, my kids were all excited at school to wish me a happy birthday and write it all over the blackboard. I also got a few homemade cards from them and an apple and a teddy bear from two students. Then wwe came home and gave Alex his first taste of cupcake. He LOVED it! And he didn't play around with it either. We put it in front of him and he picked it right up and shoved the whole thing in his mouth! He finished the whole thing in about 5 minutes! Then we went to Chick-Fil-A for dinner and ran over to Party City to order balloons for Saturday's birthday party! Below are a few pictures from our birthdays yesterday!

 Our 1 year old on his birthday!

He wastes no time!

Playing with his birthday present--wooden blocks!

 

A Few Steps...

Bear with me this week, as there will be a lot of posts. There is just too much going on this week to only post once! Today we had an awesome snowday thanks to the blizzard that came sort of unexpectedly last night and this morning. So of course, there are pictures of us all in the snow. Also, Alex took his first steps on Friday evening! It was only 2 little steps, but it was the first time he's taken any steps,so it was really cool to watch. Since Friday, he's taken 2-3 steps every now and then. So he well on his way to walking across the room! We also are looking forward to celebrating his 1st birthday this Thursday, and then throwing a first birthday party for him at our house on Saturday. Luckily, I think it's supposed to warm up, so hopefully some of the 6" of snow will be gone by then. I know the roads will b fine, I just hate for people to have to trek through it to get in and out of their cars and houses. I definitely know how it is to have a birthday during the first week of March--unpredictable! It's always been that way, and now I've passed that tradition down to Alex, since we share birthdays! LOL. There' s been many a surpirse blizzard during the first week of March, and many a sunny spring day! Well, some pictures of our fun in snow today follow! Enjoy and know that you'll be hearing from me later this week again!

Me and Alex in the snow!

Playing in the snow!

Standing all by himself with his 50 layers of clothing on

Alex is now sitting in the forward facing position in his carseat!