Easter Eggs!

The pictures are out of order and I don't have the patience to fix them right now-sorry!:) A couple of Saturdays before Easter, John was off, and so we dyed some eggs. Here is Alex with his handiwork! He loved doing this. Before we got started he asked John, "Daddy, what color do you want?" It was so funny-because I wasn't sure if he would get into it or not.
They stayed like this for a week because by the end of this "dying" day they were all cracked from me dropping them in to boil them and Alex dropping them on the counter or chair. They never even saw an Easter basket!:(

Putting stickers on the eggs. John and I have decided we are "purists" and don't really like the sticker look. But Alex did.

Alex loved knocking the eggs around with the spoon to dye them all over.

He is a HUGE fan of Easter Egg hunting! We have hunted eggs in our closet, bathroom, bedroom, his room, kitchen, living room, front yard, and a little wooded lot across the street, pretty much EVERYWHERE!! He was definitely ready for the church egg hunt.



With his friend Caden eating Cadbury eggs. Alex threw half of his away but their faces were too funny so I had to post it!

What I do with Grammy

Grammy's house is so fun because she has lots of animals! A dog, a cat, and two fish. I love petting Bewuh (aka, Bella)! Sometimes I have to tell Bewuh to "be sweet" or "stop" but I usually love throwing her pink ball to her and getting it from her mouth and throwing it again!:)

Here are my pet fish Dorothy. There are two of them but they have the same name. Grammy picks them up for me to touch. Momma says that will traumatize them but Grammy lets me do it anyway.

Grammy also lets me put my hands in the bowl and pick up all the rocks and pull them out to see what they are. It is so fun!

Momma tells me I'm scaring the fish and they are trying to get out of the bowl but they don't look scared do they?

Leaving Grammy's with my peep. I kept telling momma I was eating "chicken" all the way home! Thanks Grammy! I love you!



Side note on Dorothy the fish-Emily went out of town about 2 weekends ago and we kept the fish at our house. Saturday morning I was cleaning up the kitchen and Alex was looking at the fish. He was just talking and I wasn't really paying attention to him. But I did hear him say, "Dorothy upside down momma." Sure enough by the time I got over there to look there was Dorothy 1 floating. We threw her outside in the empty lot (Are you really supposed to flush them down the toilet?) and went to get another replacement. Sunday morning, Dorothy 2 was also upside down. Don't you think the fish were traumatized??? :)

Mimi's Birthday Party

We had Mimi's birthday party over here on the 29th. I don't think she would mind me saying she turned 79! She is the best great-grandmother anybody could ask for. She will do anything for Alex (and he knows it). She plays with him at the park, on the floor, under the table, anywhere he wants. Hope you had a happy birthday Mimi!

Alex with Grammy and Mimi

Mimi sharing her birthday cake. He likes to take turns now. He'll say, "Your turn. My turn."

Mimi brought her own party favors to the party. So, of course, Alex was helping pass them out.

And he had to help her read her birthday cards.

And he had to help her open her birthday presents.

Emily gave her a ukulele for her birthday. Mimi had one when she was younger. Alex couldn't wait to play it! He stood there patiently (for what seemed like forever to him) while she played.

And then he finally got his turn.:)

The video is sideways and then I turn it up right. Mimi is singing a song that she knows how to play on the ukulele while Alex plays. He calls it the "pink guitar." Check out his moves-I think he's gonna be a rock star!

Dar Dar and Grandaddy's visit

My parents got to come visit for a few days over my mom's spring break. We always eat well when they are here because my mom makes great mashed potatoes(unlike mine) and if I want to try a new recipe she helps me out with it:) Thanks mom! We went to the Amtrak station and Alex got to walk on real tracks and see some real trains. He loved it and thought we were going to ride on one.

He kept Dar Dar very busy! He bossed her around the whole time they were here. She played more football and basketball (in our dining room) than she has in a long time. He told her which ball to hold, which one to shoot with, where to stand, told me where to sit because I couldn't play with them...it was unbelievable! Here they are scoring a touchdown by the door:)

Swinging with Grandaddy.


Saturday morning we met John at the Train Depot in Northport. We had heard that some men get together on Saturday morning from 9-12 and run their trains. Sure enough, there they were! It was so neat to see. Alex loved it because they had Percy and Thomas too!

Kindermusik and other things

Alex at Kindermusik playing the violin. Isn't he great?

Alex and Caden pushing their trains.

Caden, Olivia, and Alex with Mrs. Ally.

Getting ready for his baby sister!:)

Playing piano at David and Kristy's house.

Eating his orange juice popsicle his daddy made for him. He, of course, loved it and kept saying, "tastes like orange juice."

His turn playing the xylophone with Mrs. Laura.

Caden's Visits and a naptime breakthrough! (I hope!)

He actually calls her "Ca-Ca" or "Caden Weez" (Her middle name is Louise) It is so cute! They have hit it off since we first met almost a year ago. Caden has always been so verbal and tells Alex what to do and what he wants. Like any good woman right? Caden's family lives out of town so we kept her for her parents to go out for an anniversary lunch alone and for her mom to go consignment shopping one day. Alex loves when Ca-Ca visits!! Ally got Alex a Thomas the train track at the consignment sale. He loved it! Him and Caden played with it the rest of the time together.



One would play the drum and one would play the guitar and they would tell me to dance. Then they would switch instruments and I had to dance again. They are usually pretty good about taking turns when they want the same thing.

They had to push their chairs together so they could sit by each other for lunch. How sweet is that?

Outside with their new bubble blowers! Thanks again Ally!


***We have been trying to get him to stay in his bed through the duration of naptime hoping that would make him fall asleep because he has not been taking naps well. I also had to include "DO NOT touch the blinds!" because he kept banging them against the window and I know the older couple next door will see him and think he is trying to escape:) Last Sunday-during naptime, he pulled his chest of drawers down on himself as he was trying to climb it. It was one of the scariest moments! Thank goodness it landed on his stool and so did not completely fall on him. We took him to the ER later because he had major bruising on his head. They did a CT scan but everything was ok. Praise the Lord! I had taken everything out of his room that he could even think about playing with. Today, for the first time, he stayed in his bed the entire time and took a 3 hour nap!!! It's the first time since we've moved him to the big bed that I didn't have to go and put him back in or tell him to stop hitting the blinds. I hope today is a turn around for naps!:) Also, we have mounted his chest to the wall now so it can't tip and I feel much better about him being in there.

Sweet words!

A few pictures for you...Alex at kindermusik holding up his frog.

During kindermusik story time...

Alex's Great Uncle Jack had knee surgery earlier this month. We went and visited him one night. Alex said hey and then had to play trains with Great Aunt Betty...

And cousin Abbie...

So in the last couple of weeks Alex has said some of the craziest and sweetest things. I had to write them down so unless you are a grandparent or sweet family member you may want to skip this part.

When we were visiting my parents in Nashville, he would just out of the blue walk up to mom or dad and say, "Roll Tide, Dar Dar! (or Nenny-depending on who it was). It was like he had been practicing it. Of course, they would say Go Vandy right back to him:)

He has a book about Big Al (Alabama's mascot) and how Big Al walks by all of these landmark places in Tuscaloosa on the way to a football game. Big Al walks by Denny Chimes in one part, which is the bell tower on campus, I don't think it has any other importance:). We have some plastic cups from the football games and one of them had Denny Chimes on it. He saw it the other day and said "What's at mama?" I told him, Denny Chimes. He said, "Big Al go by Denny Chimes." It was amazing to me that he had made that connection. I said, "you're right," and then he said, "I go by Denny Chimes." It was so funny!

A couple of weeks ago we drove by a gas station and he said, "What's at mama?" I told him a gas station then went on to explain how you put gas in your car and it makes your car go. So now when you ask him what a gas station does he says, "makes the car go." Super Funny!

He is getting so opinionated and definitely hitting the "terrible twos(thank goodness these "terrible" moments are just in little spurts throughout the week)." I didn't realize they would really hit at 2 but they sure are! He has NEVER mentioned or cared what he wore. A while back I went to put a red shirt on him and he looked at me and kept saying, "no red! no red, mama!" It was quiet comical. YES-I made him keep the red shirt on. I told him he was two and he was not telling me what he was going to wear. He has also started saying, "Unbuckle me mama!" When he is in his car seat and (I guess) doesn't want to be there anymore. Oh well!

He still definitely has his sweet moments. Almost always, (except for a hot dog) when he is eating something he will hold it out to me or John and say, "want some?" It is too cute!
The other day when I was leaving the living room to run out to the car to get something he yelled after me, "Be careful, mama!" It almost melted my heart. He now says it a lot to us...guess he hears it alot from us:)
Two nights ago all three of us were on the couch reading his bedtime book and saying prayers. I prayed and then he said, "Daddy pray." John prayed and then Alex said, "I pray." We said ok and his prayer went like this, "Lor, Thank, mama, daddy, ummm...amen." It was the first time he had ever said a prayer by himself. PRECIOUS!!!! Tonight he said it again and it also included Mimi, Papa, Dar Dar, and Nenny. I guess he will add more names the more he prays:) I'm sure if your name was left off it was just because he was in a hurry to go to sleep:)