Even more teeth!

So, I've realized my child has a crazy long tongue! When we feed her if we get the spoon close to her mouth, she will stick her tongue out to feel the spoon! Today I was eating Skittles and she came to me and opened her mouth for me to give her one, which I didn't, and I blew in her face because she usually thinks it hilarious! She must have like it because smacked her lips and kept coming back with her mouth wide open for more Skittle scented blows...crazy kid!

Anyway, this week, 2 more teeth have popped up. All four of her first molars have broken through the gums and her first bottom lateral incisor finally popped through yesterday. Kinda weird, she got her molars first, but at least the first one finally showed up! So the tooth count is now at 11! I've noticed that with each pair of teeth, the left one shows up, then the right one a few days or weeks later.

Alex is turning into a Piggy Sue! This morning she had breakfast around 7:30, a cereal bar for a snack around 9, some puffs around 10 and by 10:45 she was fussing and whining in the kitchen for lunch so she has 2 helpings of white turkey chili! She knows exactly where we keep her snacks because she will stand in front of the cabinet fussing and pointing to it until I give her some. Most of the times, she has her snack bowl in her hand and hands it to me to fill for her. Demanding little thing! If I ask her if she wants milk, she goes to the fridge to try to open it and if I am making her waffles for breakfast, she tries to open the freezer to get them out for me! It's getting bad. When we were at the grocery store Monday I actually had to sneak the puffs and goldfish into the cart because if she sees them she will fuss and try to turn around to get them the rest of the time we are at the store!

Syvie's Birthday Party!

Before we headed home Sunday, we made a stop in McKinney for Sylvia's First birthday party! I haven't seen Amy or Sylvia since a few days after Syvie was born. I miss Amy! Amy and her mom went all out on the decorations and it was soooo cute! Alex loved playing with the other kids!

Alex and Syvie!

The birthday girl and her adorable smash cake!

Alex loved everyone singing Happy Birthday and started clapping!

Alex, Cash, Syvie and Remi...all doing their own thing!

Happy First Birthday Sylvia!!!

Poker and a new car

Friday night we hosted a poker night at our house. It was for one of Josh's departments. We had pizza, cookies and played poker. I am happy to say, I was not the first person out...I was the 3rd! Josh was the second. Alex had fun watching everyone, until it came time to go to bed. She had a fit and screamed and cried in her crib until she finally fell asleep. Night times are getting pretty bad. She used to be great. She'd entertain herself in her crib until she fell asleep, now it's more like screaming and crying for anywhere from 5-30 minutes before she finally crashes. I don't know what the deal is, but it's getting old. The first few nights, I'd go in and out making sure she was ok...after realizing she was perfectly fine, we just started leaving her there to CIO, but I know she is perfectly capable of self soothing and going to sleep on her own so we will keep letting her CIO until she gets past this phase.

Saturday morning we were up bright and early to head to Dallas. We left the house by 8am. I was in my car with Alex and Cooper and Josh was alone in his. I went straight to his parents in Grapevine while he headed to Richardson to get his new car! He got a 2010 Mustang and he LOVES it! I love the new car smell!

While Alex was napping, Josh and I went to Southlake Town Square to walk around and window shop since it was so pretty. We sat outside and had some gelato! yummy!!! We had dinner with his parents and his grandma came over Sunday morning and we all had breakfast before getting ready and heading out! Cooper is staying with them for the week since we'll be back up next weekend! This is the first trip we've taken 2 cars to and from Dallas and I HATE it! I love having Josh in the car to sing with me and get on to me for playing on my phone the entire time instead of talking!

New Playroom

Ok, not really a room, but don't tell her that! Last week I cleaned out Alex's closet. There were a ton of clothes that no longer fit her, stuff that I just pile up when I don't have time to hang it or fold it and well, it was just a mess! I cleaned out her built-in shelves and put some of her board books on the bottom shelf and 2 Boppys on the second shelf. She goes in her closet everyday now to read. She pulls the Boppys down, sits on them and reads her books. She loves it! The only bad part, she can see her shoes on the shelf and fusses and points at them until I lift her up to pick out a pair to put on.

A little cut

Alex's hair was getting really really long! Her bangs were constantly in her eyes if I didn't pull her hair back and even if I did, it would still slide out of the rubberband and fall in her eyes. I decided to give it a little trim. Not an easy task to do alone, but I was armed with a cup full of puffs and Handy Manny!

I mean, there is just nothing cute about this!

The after...a few days later! She still needs to get a real hair cut sometime, but this will do for now!

16 Months Old

Alexandra is 16 months old today! She is still into everything. With her new found ability to open doors, it forces us to keep all the rooms picked up since she now has the run of the house. A few of her favorite places are the laundry room, where she turns the washer and dryer off and on, the office, where she loves playing on the keyboard and with the mouse, and our bathroom, where she loves playing in my drawer where I keep a ton of cheapie jewelry that she puts on. She knows when she isn't supposed to do something because she will look at us and shake her head no, but it doesn't keep her doing it 2 seconds later.

She LOVES dancing! She bounces, steps side to side, spins circles and tries snapping her fingers. She loves dancing with Josh, he will hold her and she will put her hand up so he can hold it while they dance...she may have seen dancing with the stars one too many times!

She and Cooper are soo cute together. They play all the time. They take each other toys to play with. Alex is very bossy to Cooper. If he is in her room and she doesn't want him in there, she will push his rear end until he gets out. If we are going outside and she doesn't want him to come she will push him away from the door, or if she wants him to come, she will push him so he goes outside.

She is getting good at understanding us. If I ask her if she wants milk, she will go to the fridge and try to open it, if I ask her if she wants to watch Oso, she will go to the coffee table and try to open the drawer where we keep the remotes. When I close the blinds in her room and turn on the white noise machine, she hauls butt out of her room so she doesn't have to take a nap.

We are working on self feeding with a spoon. She will pretend feed herself with a spoon, but if there is food on it, all she wants to do is pick up the food off the spoon with her fingers to feed herself.

She has gone back to waking up at night every few nights. We will have a day or two where she sleeps all night, then a night she wakes up. It is usually pretty easy to get her back down, I'll rock her for a few minutes the put her back in her crib and she will go back to sleep. If Cooper comes in to check on us, it's a different story. She gets all wound up and wants to play with him. I am still praying the up at night is due to teething. She was sleeping through the night every single night until she started cutting teeth.

While she was at Nomi's she started taking 2 naps a day again, since she has been home, she's back to one!

She seems to be at a standstill with growing. She is still wearing 12 month pants, jammies and dresses. 18 month pants fall off of her. She had to move into 18 month tops because 12 months were too short. She can actually still wear some of her 9 month onesies, pants and dresses.

every once in a while, you can catch her winking at you!

Her monthly chair picture!

Her bitty baby is wearing one of her preemie outfits that she used to wear!

I can not believe she was that small!

At Last

Josh and I made it back from Vegas last night. We had a blast. We started our vacation a day early by heading to Austin to see my best friend, Shannon, and her husband Neal. We went to The Hula Hut for drinks and Homeslice for pizza! While we were in Vegas, we ate, gambled, shopped, ate some more and gambled some more. I' m not going to lie, it was nice to try and sleep in (even though I was wide awake at 6am every morning), not be on a schedule and just enjoy spending time with each other, but I don't think being away from Alex for 4 nights is something I'll be doing again any time soon. We were kinda lame and spent a lot of time in our room, relaxing, watching TV and I read a book. We pretty much stayed in in a 2 block radius from our hotel. We have both been to Vegas several times so we didn't feel the need to sight see or anything. I had so much fun just eating! We had some great food and dessert with dinner every night. I think I gained 5 pounds while we were there since we would eat huge dinners at 9:30 or 10, then go to sleep.

Even though we had a blast, I missed my baby girl. It wasn't a bad miss, like I wanted to go home immediately, but I just missed holding her. I got tons of pictures every day. I loved seeing what she was up to. I knew she was having a good time with my mom, so that put me much more at ease. I could not wait to get home to see her. We got home around 7:30 and Alex was beyond tired. She was in the kitchen so I went in and sat on the floor. She kinda looked at me like she didn't know what to do, then came to me and hugged me. She stayed with me for a few minutes then wanted Nomi. We let her stay up a little later to play then she was more than ready for bed. She was up at 5am so I brought her to our bed and she slept until the alarm went off at 6:30. It was soo great to have her back in my arms. We spent our day just playing and hanging out. She was soo sweet and giggly, but didn't want me out of her sight. It's weird going 5 days without seeing her. She looks more like a little girl than a baby to me now. I guess I never noticed as much because I was so used to seeing her every single day. Josh and I are looking forward to our weekend at home with our pumpkin and no plans!

While we were gone tooth #9 popped up! She now has her first top molar on her left side.