A lot of two's

Two days ago my hubby celebrated his birthday and in two days my baby will turn two. It is always fun to have birthdays come in two’s. Alex has already had two parties and I still don’t think he has a clue. Of course both of those parties were combined with his daddies so maybe when he is the center of attention he will enjoy the day.

He is not a baby anymore though he loves to still be cuddled. Last night he crawled into bed with me somewhere around two and it took me a while it register there was a little boy sleeping next to me. He was not happy when I put him back in his crib and it took two more times and a gate before he settled back to sleep. We are trying to get back into a schedule since our trip, so I put the kids to bed at a decent bedtime but they took over two hours to go to sleep. Unfortunately I think Alex got out of bed more than two times tonight, it was more like twenty. This is going to be a fun year of terrific twos.

As for Scott, I hope he had a good day. I got up some decorations up but we were recovering from our drive and trip so there was no cake/ice cream on his special day. He is a wonderful husband and great dad. Alex jumps to hug him anytime he comes home. He really didn’t want to do the whole drive to Utah thing, but he really was sweet to drive and then fly back home to work while we played. We missed him this last month and are glad to be back home. Be looking for more updates, but it may be a day or two.

Happy
Birthday Boys!

Salt Lake Party

Houston Party

Eat my bubbles!

That is the kind of trash talk you hear at swim meets these days. My kids thought it was funny. It was fun to hear them learn all the team cheers and have some team spirit. After 8 weeks we have a lot of stories and a million pictures. Here is the recap...Swim Team.

I think it came with a warning?

A few years ago I bought the coolest slicer from Pampered Chef with my birthday money. I was so excited! My sister in-law had one and I loved it. Can you guess the first thing it cut? My thumb- I guess I wasn't holding it right and my thumb slipped over the blade cutting a diagonal line from the top middle down to my corner of my nail. Luckily back then we lived .2 miles from the ER, but 6 hours and a few stitches later I returned home. No dinner was served that night. I thought I would always have a lopsided thumb, but now you I don't even notice it. My thumb has grown back nicely, although I have no feeling on that side.

The next Thanksgiving it took out Scott's thumb. Well who wants to spend Thanksgiving in the ER, so we just did our best to bandage it tight to stop the bleeding and Scott managed and suffered for the next few weeks.

Since it has been years since either of these incidents, I am sure you can guess where this is going. We had a third incident this week. Joshua has acquired the new job of unloading the dishwasher once a week (minus the glass and now anything sharp). A sharp blade was tucked underneath and he held it just right and whacked half his nail off. I thought for sure it would be another ER trip, but after a Popsicle, we got a good look. Then we put pressure on it for a while as Josh ate a bowl of ice-cream. Then after consulting with the family Doctor (aka Uncle Craig) and sending him a photo I used my rusty nursing skills to bandage the thumb up. Joshua got a piece of gum for that procedure.

Now that we have digressed to just a band aide it doesn't seem that big of a deal. But he was glad to have a no-swim pass for a day. He is getting better at the swimming, but 8 weeks of swimming 5-6 days a week has not been his favorite. We are on the count down. One more practice and one more meet, then swim team will be over.

On a side note-- At first I went to the Pampered Chef site to get a picture and they have made some cool improvements. I also noted that all extra blades are now stored in their own enclosed casings. I guess our warning only applies to the older models.

**Here is the first installment of our family vacation...The Beach.**

Mr. Personality

A month ago today I was in Epcot enjoying fireworks! Where are my pictures you may ask? Well, I put a little teaser up on the family page and played around with some video, but it is a huge project that has hit a major complication.

Meet Mr. Personality.


This little guy who has been flying under the radar as the sweetest baby in the world is approaching his 2nd birthday and finding his place in our family. This past week he mastered escaping the play pen. He has gotten out before, but usually only when he was really mad or when the play pen was close to something that could give him leverage. This week I tried to set up a little schedule of school time/reading time with the older group and that became playpen time. Alex lasted two days and realized he was not where the action was.

Normally his nap time is my work time since I don’t get much done with him either in my arms/or hanging on my legs. This is really a fun phase. :) But with kids at home we are still adjusting, so it took me a little bit longer to clean up morning stuff and lunch before I sat down for me time. However with his new skill nap times are taking a hit because he realized that if he can climb out of the play pen why not try the crib. It is a little bit higher but really all you have to do is lower yourself down.

So I am going to have to find a different time to work on those photos that haven’t been touched recently. In the meantime at least I processed Preschool Graduation, and the Triathlon that I participated in a few weeks back.

Those will have to do for now; in addition to the little clip that I uploaded of Alexander’s new favorite word. It is actually more of an expression. Alex makes the best face- but it is so unpredictable that I had a very hard time capturing it. He will purse his lips together and say “OOUUU” when he hears or sees something that surprises him. He really likes rumble noises like the other day when a tractor when by cutting the grass. I was finally able to catch him because we had a thunder storm and that noise at least became a little predictable. This little kid is talking in 4-5 word sentences now, of course I don’t catch 75% of it, but he knows what he is saying and he can repeat it syllable for syllable.