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!

 

Alex's First Haircut!

      Alex had his very first haircut on Saturday at Cartoon Cuts in White Marsh. I can't believe what a big boy he looks like now! He looks more like a toddler and less like baby. I thought I would be a little sad to see his baby hair go, but surprisingly, I was very glad to see how clean and handsome he looked when it was done. I am also so glad he can finally see again! His bangs were so long, the poor little boy looked like a sheepdog! He has been pretty clingy to me lately, and I had to sit in the barber chair with him, but other than that he did a great job during the cut. The worst part about it was the itchy little hairs we both had all over us when she was done.She gave us a little certificate and a little baggie with some locks of his hair to keep for his baby book. I was surprised that his hair texture is different now that it's been cut. It's much more like Abe's texture, and a little more coarse than mine. Regardless, he looks so handsome and like such a big boy now! I just can't believe he'll be 1 year old in two weeks! Enjoy some of the before/after shots of Alex's hair.

 

 

Daddy Daycare today...

FYI - This is Alex's Dad (Abe, for those who don't know ^_^)

Alex wasn't feeling too well yesterday, and Ashley had to pick him up from daycare a little early yesterday.  This morning he was still having a little diarrhea and has already went through a set of clothes.  So today, we decided that he should stay home and not spread the bug (if that is what he has) to anyone else at daycare...enter Daddy Daycare!

Aside from his morning bottle, Alex has already had a bowl of oatmeal and is now eating some Cherios and juice...all while watching Dora and Diago.  I must say, that "Backpack" song is pretty catchy...

ANYWAYS, I was in the kitchen washing dishes, and as usual, Alex decided to join me.  Well, 2 minutes into washing dishes I hear some banging against the wall.  I turn around, and low-and-behold, Alex has decided that he didn't like where his high chair was and wanted to move it!  Here is a picture of the culprit in action, and as you can see, Lexie looks disturbed as well as confused

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Ok time to go. Lexis is rubbing her teeth against my fingers as I type (totally nasty) and Alex has turned over his plate and is clapping...so that usually means he wants more!

Peace ya'll...Paalam!

Valentine's Weekend and Other Adventures

Hopefully everyone had a great Valentine's Day and President's Day! We were busy over this long weekend, but had a great time. Saturday we went to our nephew Daniel's soccer game in the afternoon, then hung out with Abe's mom at our house until travelling to his brother Dylan's game in the evening. We picked up some 5 dollar footlongs and Abe's Mom brought over chocolate dip and strawberries for dessert.It was so good! Alex even got his first taste of chocolate later that night, and begged for more! LOL. He llokedso confused when we gave it to him, like "something this amazing exists?" Game report: Daniel's team won by a lot, but unfortunately Dylan's team didn't. Sunday we did a Jillian Michael's workout in the morning. Both of us! A friend at work was telling me about a workout on Comcast on- demand that was really good, so Abe and I tried it out. Man--it kicked our butts. I'm still pretty sore from it! We went to Target in the morning, while Abe got his hair cut, then cleane our messy closet downstairs. Only one more closet, and we will have them all done! Yay! Then, today we sent Alex to daycare and celebrated Valentine's Day and our birthdays by going down to the harbor and eating at an awesome place called Fogo de Chao. It's a Brazilian Steakhouse, and the food was amazing! I have never tasted steak like that before. You flip a card to red if you don't want them to bring steak and green if you want more steak. It was really cool. Then, we walked around the harbor and did some shopping before we returned home and picked up our boy! Nowwe're just relaxing around the house and dreading work tomorrow. Enjoy thepictures below, and one last look at Alex's rockstar hair. We're probably getting it cut for the first time next Saturday. :(

Dressed in his red shirt for Valentine's Day!

As soon as I get the exercise mat out, Alex rolls around on it! LOL.

Having his first plate of Macaroni and Cheese

His first taste of chocloate was a little messy!

Abe and I at Fogo de Chao

                                       He loves to play in our kitchen when we're in there