More Birthday Fun!

Birthday madness was still in full effect this weekend, as we celebrated Matthew's 3rd birthday at Rolly Pollies in Severna Park on Saturday, and celebrated Abe, Dylan and Matthew's birthdays at Abe's mom's in Dundalk on Sunday. Matthew's party was an absolute blast and there were little kids runnig everywhere! Rolly Pollies did a really nice job of keeping the kids busy the whole time, and even Alex found plenty to do. He jumped bounced on the trampoline, played on all of the different rubber mats, and had fun on the moonbounce slide with his Uncle Dave. He also crawled around, especially toward the door! LOL. He's always fascinated by the door. I think he likes the bright light. He' still not walking, but he's only 11 months, so there's no worries. He'll walk when he's ready to. On Sunday, we spent our usualy sunday morning and afternoon at Abe's Mom's. We feasted on Abe's selection of onion rings, mozzarella sticks, steak-ums, and chips! At least Ms.Medy made a salad t balance all the oil out! LOL. Abe ate his pineapple upside down cake, and got lots of cards, money, and some points for his Xbox live account. We came home Sunday night and put together his glass case downstairs to keep all of his painted models in. They look really nice, and best of all there's not so many of them on my island in my kitchen! Alex is now clapping and waving. He loves to feed himself and even has a little attitude sometimes if we try to feed him. There's less than a month now until his first birthday. I am sending out invitations this week for his party, which will be March 7th at our house. Keep looking in the mailbox!

Alex clapping

Looking fabulous

On the trampoline at Rolly Pollies

                                                                             Playing with a ball--his favorite toy lately

Buried in the foam pit

Julia likes to blow raspberries now! How cute!

Dylan holding Alex

The birthday boys plus Alex

Alex is looking so enthralled with being outside

We enjoyed the 60 degree weather by playing some football

Matthew getting some vitamin D

Julia playing in the sunlight

Abe's army guarding the spice rack

Daniel on his bike

Ready to play Xbox

 

Maligayang Bati (Happy Birthday) Abe and Daddy!

Yesterday we celebrated Abe's 27th birthday! Maligayang Bati means "Happy Birthday" in Tagolog, and we're both trying to learn some, so we can teach Alex. The day didn't get off to a great start. We spent a few hours the night before at an emergency care place with Alex. He felt really warm Monday night, so I took his temperature, and it was 103.8! So we called his pediatrician, and she told us to take him in and have him checked just in case. They did a strep test, flu test and took a chest x-ray just to make sure, and found nothing wrong except for a red throat and swollen tonsils. So, they said he has tonsillitis and told us to give him tylenol for the fever and keep him home two days. He seems to be feeling a lot better today, despite the fact that he isn't sleeping too well these days. That's been quite a shock for us, since he slept so well from 2-9 months. 10 months has been difficult in the sleep department! I can't believe he'll be 11 months old tomorrow! So, anyway back to Abe's b-day---Abe stayed with him yesterday and when I came home form work, I brought an oreo pie with candles and we (well I) sang to him. Then he opened his gifts from Alex and I. I got him a remote control helicopter (that's what he wanted!) and a new spring jacket. Alex got him a bag of chocolates. Then, we went to Chick-Fil-A for dinner! It was Abe's choice. We also called to wish our nephew, Matthew, a happy 3rd birthday as he celebrates his the same day as Abe. So all in all I think he had a nice 27th birthday. Some pictures from our visit home this weekend and the last few days follow. Enjoy!

 

                                                      Alex is very messily eating his raviolis!

Alex sleeping on the way home

Abe blowing out his candles

Alex with his hair slicked over

Alex and his wild hair!

Playing with his exersaucer

 My grandma is in Florida visiting my aunt Nancy right now, and Nancy sent us this picture. Just thought I'd post it, so all of us back here in cold Maryland, can dream about palm trees...

Alex's First Snow Day!

I just wanted to post a few pictures of Alex playing in the snow today. This is really the first time he's been in the snow. We only stayed outside for maybe 5-10 minutes, but I wanted him to feel the snow and see it. Simce, he was born in March, he's never had a snowday before! He wasn't too impressed! LOL. He just picked it up and looked at it, then dropped it and tared at our little windmill! Here are the pictures I took!

 

Goodbye Bootsie...9/15/1993- 1/24/2009

Unfortunately, I have some sad news to report. My dog Bootise, who lived with my parents died on Saturday. My Mom had her put to sleep, because she was suffering so much with the complications of old age. She had some tumors and could barely walk anymore, but at 15, she lived an amazingly long time for a dog.It was sad, even though I no longer live at home, because she was my dog for so long. I was about 9 when we got her, but Ican still remember riding in my Dad's truck and picking her out from a litter of puppies, then riding back home with her on my lap--fleas and all. She will defintely be missed by our family. In other news this week, Alex is now standing all by himself, but not taking any steps yet. He's talking  a mile a minute too--just not saying anything we can decipher! He mostly calls everything "Dada" or "Didi." Even when he yells at us, he says "Dadadadada!" LOL. It's too funny!! I can't believe he'll be 11 months old next Thursday. He's getting better at  drinking from his sippy. He holds it up to his mouth now, and is learning to tilt it so he gets the liquid. He loves to chew on the rubber tip especially! He also got another new tooth this week. It was his right lower lateral incisor, which is located next to his front bottom teeth. That makes a total of 7 teeth for the little man! Alright, well the time has come for me to turn my pajamas inside out and pray for a snowday! I would advise you all to do that same! Some pics below...

Alex chilling with his sippy

Our little conductor on his train

Cracking up over something

This is what he looks like when he's been busted for playing in the cat water..LOL.

Me and Alex cuddling

Look at this wild boy!

Relaxing on the rug

Alex and Daddy

 

Nephew's Birthday Extravaganza!

This Saturday we celebrated our nephews' birthdays together! Dylan, our oldest nephew, turns 9 on February 6th, and Daniel, his little brother, turned 7 on December 19th. In fact, from December to March is really "birthday season" for Abe's side of the family--After Daniel is Abe's mom, Jan.6th, then Abe and our nephew Matthew, both Feb.3rd, then Dylan, then Me and Alex, both March 5th, then David, March 12th! Oh and My grandparents will have their 60th anniversary this year on March 12th too! It's an expensive and busy time of year! So to celebrate the boys' birthdays, we went to their joint party at Ultimate Playzone in Cockeysville. It's a big gym where they have tons of bouncy houses and playground equipment for kids to just run around and go crazy! Alex really enjoyed himself in the bouncy house they had for 3 and under. He was a little clingy to me at first, but once he warmed up to the noise level, and the giant blow-up creatures, he crawled around in it and fell and giggled and grinned. He also enjoyed going down the slide three times in our laps, and playing with a little lady bug on wheels, while Mommy pushed him around--on her knees!!! He also LOVED crawling around and having so much space to explore! Dylan and Daniel both had tons of friends there and each had their own cake. Dylan had Star Wars of course, and Daniel had Ironman. Matthew didn't stop moving the entire time! And Julia just looked cute and showed off her almost crawling skills! She is 6 months old now--it's so hard to believe! After the party, we went to Towson Mall, and boy has that place changed since I lived in the area. There's a bunch of new restaurants and stores,and Rainforest Cafe is gone. We couldn't believe it had closed. We have a much needed day off tomorrow for Martin Luther King day. According to our nephew Daniel, Martin Luther King Jr. was "a priest who got shot" and when we asked him what famous words MLK said, he said "Peace be with you." LOL. I wasn't aware MLK came up with that! LOL. But seriously tomorrow, we will probably keep Alex home with us,and clean our upstairs closet! I know those size 3 jeans aren't fitting anytime soon, if ever again, so I think it's time to give them up! Some pictures from this weekend and the party follow. Enjoy your 4 day week!

Getting ready for a bath

Sleeping so peacefully in Mommy's arms

Alex and his side-swept hair

Corinne's baby girl, Charlye, is 4 months old now!

Corinne's other daughter, Rebekah, is 2 and as cute as can be!

A close-up of cute little Julia

Alex having fun in the bouncy house

Riding on a turtle!

Abe and Matthew

Mary with Charlye, Abe with Julia, and Medy

Daniel and his friends--Samantha and Armijote

Matthew riding not one, but two ride-ons

Dylan and Daniel with their cakes

Abe has the craziest look on his face here! LOL.

Alex can stand for about 5 seconds all by himself!

 

Cruising and Self-Feeding

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 As you all know, Alex tends to do soemthing new everyday. His newest "tricks" are cruising around and along furniture and feeding himself puffs and yogurt melts. He has become very skilled at holding onto the couch and walking from one end of it to the next. He also holds onto our leather chair, walks to the little table next to it an goes from there to the other leather chair. He's still holding onto everything as he walks, but we know he'll let go soon and take those first steps! Then we'll really be in trouble! Because of this, we bought a new snazzy pair of good quality shoes from Stride Rite. They were on sale for $12.95, which is an awesome price at Stride Rite. We actually had been wearing size 4 shoes on him that we got from Target, but we had his feet meaured today and he measured as a size 5! So we decided he needed a new pair, especially since he'll probably start walking in these shoes. He also starting feeding himself little Gerber Graduate puffs and yogurt melts just a couple of days ago. My aunt Glenna got him a little Cars tray for Christmas, so we just put his puffs in there and showed him how to out it into his mouth and he did all by himself right away. Now he sits in front of the TV with his tray on the floor and just watches TV and eats his puffs like a little man--it's the cutest thing! Not sure if this is a good thing or not, but Alex LOVES television. He'll stop playing sometimes just to watch! He's also just atrted to throw little temper tanturms, which we were defintely not looking forward too. If he wants something and doesn't think we're getting it for him fast enouh or if he doesn't want to be changed, he'll throw his back out and scream at the top of his lungs. I figure if he's started this young, the terrible two's are going to be a lot of fun! I think he's understanign the word "No" as well. His verdict on the word "No"--he doesn't care for it! So another week has come to a close, and we're gearing up for a fun-filled week ahead. Well once we get through Mon-Fri that is! We were soooo excited that our Ravens won Saturday, and we can't wait to see them beat the Steelers on Sunday! That's such a crazy match-up for me, because Steelers are a big team where I come from, but I have always been a Baltimore fan, even more so now that I have lived here for a a little over 6 years. Enjoy your week and go Ravens!

Alex in his snazzy new shoes

Eating his puffs

Giving us a big smile!

Another cute smile

Alex sure does love his ninny and his rockstar hair--no receding hairline on this boy! LOL.

Playing with the phone--with the spaghetti cat on inthe background!

Abe looked away for second and Alex was on the fifth stair chasing Oscar! Yikes!

He loves our cats--this is him "petting" Lexie

Playing in his corner

 

 

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