Big Girl Bath!

Alex got to take her first bath in the tub this weekend! She has always used the baby tub but since she is so good at sitting up unassisted, I decided it was time for the "big girl" bath tub! She loved it. About half way through the bath she decided it was more fun to lay on her stomach and splash around!

She is still army crawling all over the place! She has now gained the confidence to move off the blanket and rug. She's now moving towards the front door and the dining room! Cooper likes to stand over her like he is keeping an eye on her. He is such a protective big brother!

Alex also had blueberries for the first time yesterday. She gobbled them up! Yesterday, I mixed them with oatmeal and today with yogurt! The little munchkin will be 8 months old next week and I am so excited! We are going to start doing 3 meals a day and I have a whole list of new foods we are going to start introducing! She is starting to get the hang of finger foods. Most of the puffs make it in her mouth instead of her lap and she is able to get little pieces of banana in her mouth!

Alex and I had the best day yesterday. She took a short morning nap which ended up working out great, because we got to go take care of my ticket, get Josh's car registered and pick up a few things at Target before we met Erika and Dane for lunch at 11:30! Alex got to sit in a high chair across from Dane so she kept looking at him and watching him eat. She was great! From there, we went to the park and Alex got to swing! She loved it! She kept kicking her little feet and smiling! I loved the park because they have that kind of pressed rubbery stuff instead of sand or rocks on the ground. Alex sat on it just rubbing her hands over it to feel the texture. She was so amused watching Dane on the slide! I sat her on it while holding onto her and let her slide part of the way down. She had the biggest smile on her face! Our busy morning wore the little bunny out! She fell asleep about 2 minutes after we got in the car. She got in a 2 hour nap before we had to leave again for my follow up with the eye doctor. When Josh got home we went to World Market to get some coffee then picked up dinner at Jason's Deli. I love Alex and Mommy days!

Wonderful Weekend!

We had so much fun this weekend! We headed to the lake house Friday afternoon and as soon as we got there, the guys wanted to go to the gun range since it was so warm out. The guys took off and the girls stayed at the house with me and Alex entertained us! She had a really off night Friday. I think it was all the excitement of new people. She went to bed around 7:30 and when we went to sleep at 12:30, she woke up and decided she didn't want to sleep. I fed her and she finally went back to bed. We were thinking since she was up for about an hour, she may sleep in. Haha, nope, she was up at 6am! She stayed in bed with us for a little while, then just got antsy so we got up. Everyone headed to the gun range on Saturday. I stayed behind with Alex and Cooper. We spent some time outside on the dock. Alex is such an outside girl! When everyone got back we played a ton of new games! Simon, one of our friends, has about 300 games so he brought a selection. They were all more obscure games that you wouldn't find on the shelf at major store. Overall, we all had a great time hanging out, eating and relaxing!

bath time, bathing suit and more bubbles!

We've been spending some time outside since the weather has been so great here! The girls love it! Alex loves looking around at everything and trying to eat leaves! She always has such a serious look on her face like she is about to start asking questions!

We took a few new bath time pictures yesterday. I think we are getting close to retiring the baby bath and moving onto the regular bath tub!!!

When I was blowing bubbles for the girls I noticed Cooper wasn't around. Anytime I am on the floor with the girls, he is usually right there in the middle! While the girls we napping I decided to blow some bubbles for Coopie. I quickly learned why he was MIA during bubble time. He is not a fan of bubbles! He kept backing away from them as they got closer to him. He even barked at them! As they landed, he would move in to try and sniff them, but as soon as his nose got close, they would pop! What a chicken!

I had to try Alex's new bathing suit on her! She looked adorable! I love it!

We have a busy day ahead of us. I am getting the oil changed in my car, so Josh is meeting us up there to take us to lunch so we don't have to wait around for it! From there, Alex and I are going to Sam's, HEB, and maybe Target! I want to get her some shorts since it has been so warm lately! Plus, I just love going to Target! I am in charge of the grocery shopping for our trip this weekend. We are heading to the lake house around 1 tomorrow with 6 friends, 2 dogs and a baby! That means, I'll be spending tomorrow morning packing for all of us, trying to load up the car and praying that Alex takes a nap in the morning so she won't be a fuss bucket on the road!

Thankfully Alex is napping now to get ready for our afternoon of errands!!

One more reason to love the iPhone!

Soo, if I'm doing this right, I should be able to post from my
iPhone! Like I said IF I'm doing this right!! I really don't see a
reason why I would actually need to post from my phone, but it could
make road trips just that much more fun!!

**it worked and I can add pictures from my phone!!!**

Bubbles!!

While I was at Gymboree yesterday, I bought a little container of bubbles! Alex loved them! She was more interested in the bubbles that landed without popping then the ones that were floating around. She kept trying to touch the ones that landed. Abby didn't seem the slightest bit interested in the bubbles. In fact, when I put her in the Bumbo, she was more interested in her toes than the bubbles! All good things must come to and end. I realized Alex was no longer interested in the bubbles when she started chewing on the Boppy tag!

I finally went in for a LONG overdue appointment with the eye doctor. (I haven't been since we moved to College Station, almost 2 years ago! YIKES!) The bad news is, my eyes are now worse than they were before, I guess that can be expected, I am getting older! Good news, I have a brand new pair of contacts to try out to make sure I like them before I order them...and with them, my vision is better than 20/20! Who knew that was possible? In addition to the bubbles, I got Alex a swim suit! It is the cutest thing I have ever seen! I can't wait to see her little chubby legs in it! She also got a new dress! I had 3 picked out I wanted to get her, but they only had one in her size. I may have to order the other ones! I can not wait for it to get a little warmer so she can wear all her cute little dresses! I tried a pair of shoes on her and decided, this may be a shoeless spring/summer. She hates putting shoes on. She curls her toes so I can't get them on her!

On the Move!!

Alex has been pushing up on all fours for a couple of weeks now. She does this when she is playing on the floor, laying in her crib or when I am about to pick her up. She can roll anywhere she wants to go. Today, she really started army/combat crawling! She is very good at staying on the blanket, rug or just off the edge, but I have a feeling in the next couple of days, that's all going to change!

In addition to her combat crawl, we are working on sitting. She will for several minutes if I put a Boppy around her to keep her from falling back, but she gets bored after a few mintues and rolls onto her tummy so she can reach more toys. She can sit unasissted for about a minute, but ends up falling backwards if the Boppy isn't there!

We had a great time at the James' last night! They grilled steaks and shrimp, made twice baked potatoes and veggies. Everything was soo good! I ate way too much! We played Wii for a little while to work off dinner then dove into the brownie pudding! It was sooooo good! I did try to make it healthy by pairing it with fat free vanilla ice cream! After dessert, I thought I was going to puke I was so full! Alex did great over there. She played in the exersaucer while we ate then I got her ready for bed. She is great about sleeping as long as she is in a crib. Thanfully, Abby let Alex use hers! She woke up for the ride home, then I put her back to bed and she fell asleep about 15 minutes later. She has started doing this fake sleep. I always go in her room to check on her and her eyes will be closed and she is in the position she usually sleeps in, the second I step foot in her room her head pops up, and she looks at me with bright eyes and a huge smile, as if to say, I'm not really sleeping, I was just resting my eyes for a minute!

Daddy's Girl

I know I've said it a million times, but Alex adores Josh. If he is with her and I'm not home, she will not nap and she will not go to bed. I like to think it's because she sees me all day long and really just can't get enough of her Daddy time!

Alex seems to be changing her schedule, and I am not happy about it. Instead of her 2 long naps she is taking 3-5 short cat naps. By cat naps, I'm talking 20-45 minute naps! No matter how tired she is, she will roll around in her crib for about 10-15 minutes before each nap. It makes for tough days, because once she wakes up from a short nap, she'll be good for about an hour and a half before she is ready for another nap. Tonight, she got really fussy around 6 so I decided to let her take a nap instead of trying to keep her up until 7, when she usually goes to sleep. (The pictures above were taken around 5:45 and she was already getting fussy, that's why she didn't look to happy.) She slept for about 15 minutes. The short naps are also messing up her feeding schedule. She takes 4 bottles a day, her last one being about 20 minutes before bed. Yesterday she took her last bottle at 5, ate solids then I offered her 4 ounces since I couldn't stand putting her to bed when it had already been 2 hours since she ate. She didn't take any of it. Tonight, she took a bottle at 6, ate carrots, sweet potatoes and rice around 7 and we'll see what she does before she goes to bed.

After I saw how much she loved being on the hardwoods at Erika's the other day, I moved Cooper's toy basket so she would have about 2 feet between the edge of her blanket she plays on and the wall. She LOVES it! She scoots off the blanket and slides around on the tile.

We have a fun filled weekend. Some friends are coming over tonight so plan out some of the details for our trip to the lake house next weekend and then we are going to play some games. Tomorrow we are going to the James' for dinner! The Sorensens will be there too and we have all been asked to bring our Wii remotes!! When Sheena was over the other day we watched the Barefoot Contessa make a chocolate brownie pudding. She described it as a molten chocolate like cake so I'm making it to take for dessert! Josh loves brownies and I love gooey chocolaty anything! Sunday we plan on sleeping in...we'll see if Alex allows us to. Once she is up, she's up. I wish she would at least once go back to sleep if we put her in bed with us!

I end with a (very grainy) video I took of Alex and Josh "dancing" with Cooper! Enjoy!