Beach Baby

at the park

Happy

I always know when Alex is really really content. I can hear him playing or in his room jumping in his crib and he is saying "happy" and then squealing. I love that he just knows and says that he's happy. I remember the first time he said that spontaneously. . . he wanted me to let him put water in a cup to water the plants. I gave him the cup and walked over with him to fill it up and on the way over he said, "happy". Sweet.

I have to say that Alex loves frogs...but this...um, obsession(?) didn't start at the fair. He loved the huge singing and dancing frog he saw there at a kids program but before that he got a book from his tios Mike and Sarah and that's where it started. Frenchy the Frog. He practically has that book memorized. He also got a frog bowl from them that he has to eat his cheerios out of EVERY morning. If it's not washed, it has to be washed because that's how we have to do breakfast. He sleeps with the Frenchy the Frog puppet that came with the book. I have to ask him every night if Frenchy can sleep in his bed, then he has to tell me no and laugh....then I have to make Frenchy cry and finally Alex consents to sleeping next to his frog. It has become a ritual. So, we've decided that for his birthday, we're going to have a frog piñata, and a frog cake and froggy things. We talk about his birthday on a regular basis. He tells me who he would like to invite...Asher, Linda, Uzzie, etc. and then he tells me he would like both toys and candy in his piñata. He gets very excited when I tell him it'll be a frog piñata. He says Party, oh BOY!

Little Man

Alex loves playing in his "houshes" that we build him with cushions from the couch or anything else. He also loves playing with one of his two best friends Uzziel. Here they were watching Ice Age together.