Pumpkin Patch

Alex and I didn't have anything planned today so we went to a little pumpkin patch in Bryan. Alex has been obsessed with pumpkins lately. We watched an Oso where they make jack-o-lanterns. The episode it called Pumpkin Eyes so every time Alex sees a pumpkin, she calls it pumpkin eyes. She even asked us to sing a song about pumpkin eyes so Josh changed up the words to "Hungry Eyes" (from Dirty Dancing) to "Pumpkin Eyes" and Alex loves it! lol

I wasn't sure where it was and if it would be open so our first mission was just to find it. It was open. It's actually part of a little farmers market type area. They have tons of fruit and veggies, plants and local products. They have a building next door that is full of pumpkins as well as a hay maze! We spent an hour just looking around and playing. Alex loved it! Before we left, I let Alex pick out a few things. She picked out 2 mini pumpkins, a pint of tomatoes and a container of fresh ground peanut butter. She's kinda random but I love her! :)

Baby Do Dit

Baby Do Dit is Alex's favorite new phrase. She wants to do everything herself. She loves getting in the car and climbing in her car seat all by herself. I have to make sure we leave a few minutes early because it takes her for ever and if I try to help, she tells me, "no Mommy help, baby do dit!!!" If I am making her breakfast and moving a little too slow, she will take her plate off the counter and take it to the coffee table and start eating. At the mall the other day she got out of her stroller and decided she wanted to push it. I tried to help steer and she moved my hands away, "baby do dit." Every morning we climb into our bed and she brings all of her babies and we snuggle while she drinks milk. She used to make 3-5 trips back and forth to bring everything she wanted to our bed. She got smart and realized I can do it in one trip, so she will say, "mommy help" so I will carry everything for her. For as independant as she is becoming, she still has her snuggle, wants to be held moments. While we were shopping yesterday, she insisted I pick her up and carry her. I guess that's what I get for not bringing her stroller! She is becoming anti-highchair and likes to sit in booster seats or just in a chair.

She will carry on a full conversation with me and I LOVE it! I absolutely adore this age! She loves talking on the phone and we call Nomi at least one a day and usually more!

She refers to herself in 3rd person all the time. She usually calls herself baby. On our way to dance the other day, we talked about her being a big girl while she was there. (The last few weeks, she'd flipped out and I would have to sit in the corner of the room for her to participate.) She informed me, "Alex no cry, big girl!" She stayed true to her word, she didn't cry and I didn't have to sit in the room!

Her second 2 year molar broke through. We are now waiting on the bottoms and all of her baby teeth will be in!

Busy Busy Weekend

We have been go go go since Friday! Cooper had his yearly checkup, then we took him to Aunt Linda's for the weekend. This is the first time Alex went with me to drop him off and she was not happy that her Cooper boy was not coming home with us. She kept repeating, "Cooper lay down, Cooper home please!"

Once Josh got home from work, we loaded up the car and headed out. We made a stop for dinner, then drove to Dallas. We stayed with my Aunt Martha and Uncle Greg Friday night. Alex slept about an hour on the way there. As soon as we got there, we put her down. She stayed awake until we went to bed close to 11. I woke up at 5:15 Saturday morning and got ready. I woke Alex up at 5:45 so I could get her dressed. We drove to NorthPark for the Susan B. Komen Race for the Cure. My Aunt Martha is a 4 year breast cancer survivor and this was her 4th year doing the walk. This was my first year to do it. It was absolutely amazing seeing over 20,000 people gather to walk for such a great cause. It was CRAZY crowded. Alex did pretty good considering she was going on about half the sleep she normally gets.

There were just as many people behind us as there were in front of us!

Our Team!

Alex supporting the cause!

After the race we went back to Aunt Martha's and loaded up our stuff to head to my parents. Alex was out within five minutes. It didn't take me too much longer. We made one stop to grab a bite to eat because I was starving! When we got to my parents, we relaxed! Alex got to run around outside, swing and pretty much just drag Nomi all over the place. That afternoon we were sitting inside and I looked out and saw what I thought was my Uncle Bill's dog. It was! He and Lynda were in the area so they stopped by and stayed for dinner. After dinner we started a bonfire outside. Alex had fun helping Nomi put sticks in the fire pit before we lit the fire. We thought she would be more interested in the fire, but she ended up getting sidetracked by a bottle of water with a straw and a lounge chair she figured out how to side down!

Alex crashed that night and not much later, the rest of us did too! We got to spend Sunday relaxing, watching football and playing outside. We ended up getting home close to 10. We had a great weekend that I wish would have lasted longer.

Busted!

Alex spent the weekend with Grandma and Grandpa. We had a great (for the most part) weekend! Friday we went to a Makers Mark bourbon tasting & dinner with the Tracy and Katie. The food was delish, the bourbon, not so much...but I also can not stand the taste of bourbon! After dinner we went bowling. We had an early night and Josh and I were in bed by 10:30!

Saturday we relaxed most of the day then headed to Houston for a friends birthday. We went to dinner then back to the hotel. A big group met us at the bar/club there and we closed it down! It was soo much fun!!! That is until the Sunday morning when the valet brought our car around and the windshield was busted! At first glance, I thought the windshield was wet then I realized it was broken. Needless to say we were not too happy! The hotel is filing a claim, but so far we haven't heard anything. It looks like someone took a hammer or something to the window. The glass is cracked all the way to the edges on 3 of the 4 sides. I am worried about driving it so Josh and I are trading cars until it is fixed. After the drama from the morning, we headed home to get ready, drove to Waco to meet Ter and Ray at 11:30, had lunch, drove back to CS, picked up a gift for a birthday party, then headed to the party at 3. It was a LONG day and we were beat by the time we got home. We were sooo happy to see Alex. We both missed her so much! She has been so sweet and snugglie since she got home!

Bad Blogger!

It's been like a week since I've updated. Josh's parents and cousin, Dawn, spent Friday night with us and my mom spent Monday night with us. We have a busy month ahead with lots of family time! Alex is spending the weekend with Grandma and Grandpa. She is super excited about it and we are looking forward to a weekend filled with dinner with friends and another friends birthday party!

Tuesday when we got home from running errands, I noticed our cable wasn't working. I reset our box and it still didn't work. I called our provider and while I was on hold I noticed our internet didn't work either. They told me there was an outage and it should be back up soon. By 5 it still wasn't working so I called again and spent an hour on the phone. When Josh got home he looked around and noticed our line had been cut when the builders we doing something on the house next door. Long story short, after many phone calls and getting the run around, we finally have cable and internet again after 3 days.

On a better note, Alex's sleeping is getting sooo much better! She is sleeping in her bed and only crying for a few minutes (and a few nights not at all) before she falls asleep.

Nomi got Alex some styrofoam sword like things from Target. We had so much fun playing with them with the lights off. Best $2.50 gift ever!

A Few Tidbits

Friday night we helped Kate celebrate her 2nd birthday! Candice picked a "night at the movies" theme and it was sooo cute! They had a huge screen set up in the backyard so after it got dark we could watch a movie outside. It had been beautiful weather all day and right as the party started, it started raining. :( They brought the screen in and the kids still got to enjoy Tinkerbell. Candice had bags of popcorn for the kids and a whole candy bar set up for the adults!

Alex and Kate with their bags of popcorn!

cake and ice cream!

The adorable cupcakes Candice made with marshmallow "popcorn"

So, these are the only things occupying Alex's bed at the moment. She is still sleeping on the floor, but we have to make sure Piggy, Popi, Bean and Mono are all sitting at the edge of the bed watching over her. Naps are still totally hit or miss. If she naps, it's usually not until 3ish and that is after trying for 2 hours to get her to go down. I've noticed her attitude has changed since her sleep issues started. She is throwing more and more tantrums, she is cranky and gets totally out of sorts at the smallest things. At lunch yesterday, she actually got frustrated and threw a chip at Josh. I decided we need to get the sleep issues under control because it is making Alex a different child. I am totally fine if she is ready to drop her nap, but we have to work on her getting a good night sleep. She is still waking up at some point almost every night screaming and crying. I was flipping through a book on toddler and pre-school sleep issues at B&N the other day that I am going to buy this week. We need some changes in our house, I am at wits end!

A Fun Friday

Alex and I didn't have anything planned on Friday except a few little errands. After we made our stops, we went to Toys R Us. I let Alex have free reign to go look at anything she wanted. We ended up spending over an hour there just looking around. She had a few favorite things she kept going back to. We already know at least one of these is going to be a Christmas present!

Alex and the pink Barbie Mustang

Dancing around with an umbrella

The kind of creepy dog that would react when you pet it.

Alex LOVED it and kept giving it kisses.

After an hour we left empty handed. Alex never asked for anything and didn't even object when it was time to go. We met Josh for lunch and Alex ate GREAT! I was soo happy because lately she barely eats anything for lunch. She ate a decent portion of my sandwich, some chips, soup, tomatoes and a pickle! We had to stop at the store for milk so I let her pick out a cupcake since she had such a great day!

Any guesses what flavor she picked?