Ale, the busy boy!

As usual, I have been a very busy boy! We go see Dr. Carew, Mommy's chiropractor, once a month, and I've started getting rather curious. After her adjustment, I hopped up on the seat and got a mini adjustment myself!



We had a super fun playdate for St. Patrick's Day. And of course, what St. Patrick's Day event would be complete without green frosting? I made a good mess of myself.



I enjoyed one of my ladies feeding me grapes. It's not as easy as it looks, being fed grapes!



To be festive, I wore a shamrock sticker on my cheek. It really made my green pop!



We went to a friend's house to scrapbook. Well, Mommy and her friends scrapped while my friends and I played. I found Marley's playpen and tossed Stinky Dog in it, then proceeded to push it all around the house. I just zoomed from one end to the other, made a sharp when I came to a wall, and kept going. I was a man on a mission!



With the weather being as beautiful as it was, we went to the park for a playdate. Lindley, Anakin, and I found a bug and spent quite some time investigating it. Lindley picked it up at one point and it went into its defensive dead pose, so she dropped it. We were so confused, and just kept saying, "it broke!" So that day was referred to as "the day Lindley broke the bug." Of course, as soon as she was gone, the bug got up and scampered off as fast as its little legs would take it!



Hosting playdates at your house means that you get leftovers, like cupcakes with green frosting. I like eating frosting, but it also makes an excellent lotion.



All this time in the sun has started giving me freckles! There's just a small smattering of them across my nose, but it's just about the cutest thing ever.



I like to find random things to amuse myself with, such as Daddy's socks. I like to put them my hands and do silly things with my hands.



I'm definitely all boy...at any given time, I have at least one scrape or bruise! I tumbled down some stairs at the park and got a little scrape on the side of my face this time, but usually it's a skinned knee or elbow. I'm good at pointing out my booboos for anyone who will look. I find it gets me a lot of sympathy from the ladies!



And along with the booboos, I also get into other forms of mischief! Mommy got a little mad at me because I was constructing a road for my truck in the kitchen. It's not that I was constructing it that made her mad, it was how I went about building said road. I grabbed one of my crayons and scribbled some roadway onto the kitchen floor, then scooted my truck along the "road", then scribbled some more, moved the truck further, and so on. It was not easy for her to clean up!



We've gone to the zoo a few times in the past few weeks. I went to see the Lorikeets for the first time! I had a lot of fun. We got a little cup of nectar so I could feed them. I spilled a lot of it, but also managed to give them a bit. But then one bit me, and I had enough of that! So Mommy fed them the rest. But I still got to hold one!





I like having my toenails painted, and if Mommy won't do it for me, I have to do it myself, using whatever I can find, like a pen. Lindley and I had a lot of fun coloring all over each other with pens!



As a two year old, I get very hungry, of course. One morning, I crawled up onto the table to find the leftover pizza. I put a few slices on my high chair tray, then climbed right on in. This is what Mommy found when she came into the kitchen a few moments later. I'm a growing boy, I need lots of food!



We've been having quite the nightmare with bed time. I've figured out how to climb over the baby gate! I start of by just climbing up a bit and standing there and crying. Then eventually I just throw my leg over and hop on down! So we've had to replace my door handle with a knob and a childproof knob cover...

Oh, and for the record, I'm not saying "ow" in the video, that's "help." And neither of my evil parents would help me!





It was my friend Ava's birthday party, and of course, birthday parties mean cake! Lindley and I kind of went to town with the cake, and this is how I ended up....we were just practicing for our wedding!



We went down to Aiken to have lunch with Granddaddy, and went to Hopeland Gardens for a nice walk afterwards. Again, with weather this gorgeous you kind of have to take advantage! We walked by the fish pond, and Granddaddy pointed out some fishies and turtles for me, and I thanked him by finding him loads of pine cones and sticks!



We ended the walk by visiting the ducks! We didn't bring any bread for them, so I guess we'll have to do that next time!



That's all for this edition...stay tuned for the next one!

Alex, the friendly boy!

The best part of coming home is seeing friends again! I was so thrilled to hang out with Lindley and all my other friends after our vacation. We went to Finlay Park for a playdate and really enjoyed the weather! Here Lindley and I are hanging out in Gabe's wagon.



Then we strolled around holding hands for a bit!





We're still in the midst of attempting potty training. I can tell Mommy and Daddy that I have to go, but when they sit me on the potty, I just sit there for a few minutes, then tell them I'm all done. Of course, I pee my pants a few minutes after...and some days I don't even want to wear my big boy panties, I just want to wear my diaper because I know I can pee in my diaper without getting it everywhere! But other days I love love love wearing my big boy panties! They have choos on them, and choos make everything awesome!



I find ways to force Penelope to play with me. Like sitting in her crate! She wasn't too thrilled, but all I did was climb in there, close the door, and relax with her.



Uncle Matt brought me a chocolate bunny in preparation for Easter. I went to town on that baby! I made a good mess, and finally got it taken away after sucking on it and just drooling chocolate all over myself (and the house). But boy, was it good!



The weather has been so gorgeous, we've simply HAD to take advantage of it! We took an afternoon and went to the park with Toni, Melissa, Trent, and Anakin. Anakin and I spent quite some time tossing rocks into the pond. Fortunately, there were no fish or anything else in the pond, otherwise our mommies would have stopped us! We thought it was the funnest thing ever.



The following week, we took a trip down to Folly Beach. The weather was a bit windy (fine, it was super windy!), but we still enjoyed ourselves! It was nice and warm, and the water wasn't too bad either.



Lindley and I had fun digging in the sand and shoveling it around.



Of course, my favorite part was chasing birds! I rand after them most of the time we were there. It's good exercise, and loads of fun!



Lindley, Madison, and I took some time and laid down in the sand. We writhed about and pretended we were swimming!



Afterwards, Mommy and I stopped by her old old work (the steel fabricator) to see her old old boss (Jack). He was so happy to see her again, and was really pleased to meet me! Then Madison and I (and our mommies, too) went to the outlet malls to do a bit of shopping. I got several pairs of new pajamas!



Here I am modeling one of my new pairs of pajamas. Well, the pants anyway. They have monkeys on them. I love monkeys.



At a scrapping day at Melissa's, she set up the water table for us out on her porch. So that meant all us kids were hanging out in various states of undress most of the day! Lindley and I took a break from all the water table playing to relax in Trent's bed with a drink and a good book. Anakin then joined us, but Lindley wasn't having any of that and left me and Anakin in the bed. That wasn't quite the outcome we were expecting!



Oh, and here I am showing off my super awesome new bathing suit! That's the other thing we got at the outlet mall :) I feel so handsome wearing it! Plus, it has a top that goes with it so my tummy and back don't burn...very important!



Alas, it's time for bed...more to come later!

Alex, the spider boy!

The last "trip" of our vacation was a super awesome great one! We started out by heading to the Butterfly Pavillion in Westminster, between Boulder and Denver. We met up with Mommy's friend Dani and her son Landon there. Landon is a little bit younger than I am, but we still really enjoyed playing! We started out looking at fish. We got to touch a sea star, but I didn't like that a whole lot, and wouldn't even try touching the horseshoe crab.



I did, however, get to hold Rosie, the tarantula! First, I sat down with Mommy while she held Rosie, but I wasn't really that excited about her. Then I watched a few other kids hold her, and decided that I did want a turn after all. I casually sat down in the chair and waited for the man to let me hold her. He started out running his fingers over my hand, imitating how her feet would feel. Then I got to hold her! I was so excited! I squealed "bug!" the whole time I was holding her (I now know the difference between bugs and spiders, but didn't at the time!) I got a super awesome "I held Rosie" sticker to commemorate the event.





We then went in for the main event...the butterflies! I wasn't really too thrilled with the butterflies, but I sure did love the puddles!!



Landon and I got really excited over a drain and spent some quality time taking turns standing on it.



I even gave him a sweet hug! He wasn't quite sure what I was trying to do though!





We hung out outside and had a quick snack when we were done. I found these arches...probably for chaining bikes or something, but they made a great tunnel for me and my goldfish!



After saying goodbye to Landon and Dani, we made our way to the most amazing restaurant in the world...Casa Bonita! It's like a theme park, dinner theater, and food all rolled into one! Just approaching it is super cool...doesn't it look like a place you'd want to go?



This was the view from our table. We had perfect seats to see the cliff divers (they dive off a 30 foot waterfall!) and the shoot out between the bandit and the sheriff.



Of course, such a fantastic place has to make money somehow...since they don't charge a cover to get in, the food prices are a tad steep. But the $12 taco salads were remarkably tasty! I liked the lettuce part best.



Scratch that. I forgot about the sopapillas! You get all the sopapillas you can eat for dessert! I really liked the honey too. Yum!



Aunt Chelsea and I really liked seeing the show! I was a little confused, but she explained what was going on!



I even danced a bit to the music that was playing.





After eating, we went to explore a bit! We hit up the gift shop, then toured through Black Bart's cave (it was a little scary, but I did okay with it!) We also visited the arcade, where I played a lot of skee ball and a few other games!



Back in Woodland Park, it was time for Aunt Chelsea to pack! She was moving into her new apartment that weekend. I was a huuuge help. I packed up a bunch of shoes, and emptied out a drawer or two. I mostly just played with things I found though. Like this fantastic hat!



I also found Aunt Chelsea's Halloween costume (she was a bat), and I had a bit too much fun playing with her bat ears!



I also found an awesome box to scoot around on. It was like a broomstick, and I sat Stinky Dog on the end, and he rode there like my little familiar.



And of course, we had to go back to the playground to play a bit more! It was chilly, but since we live in sunny South Carolina, I welcomed the excuse to wear my warm winter jacket that I look so cute in!







And with that, our vacation was over. We had a bit of a delay leaving Atlanta, but since I'd napped almost the whole flight from Colorado Springs to Atlants, I was happy and had fun. We piddled about, had some cookies and snacks, and then finally got on the plane! I was so excited to see Daddy again! As soon as I saw him, I took off and started crying and laughing (when I get really happy, I sob and laugh a bit...I do it when I fall asleep in the car and then get into my bed too, Mommy thinks it's the cutest thing) and yelling, "Daddy! Daddy!" Everyone around me thought it was really sweet. Of course, I am really sweet! I fell asleep in the car and was about to be moved to my bed when we got home, but then I heard the dogs and got excited and woke up all over again!

All in all, it was such a lovely trip! We had fun with Gigi and Grandma Judy, and Aunt Chelsea too, of course. But a week and a half was an awful long time to be away from Daddy and home, so Mommy and I were both happy to be back in our own beds :)