A Girl and her Dog

Alex loves her Coo Coo. She tells me every day he is our buddy. I asked her where we got Cooper, she told me her Daddy got him for her. I had to break the news that Coop was around before she was! Alex is forever feeding Cooper. She will sit on the floor with her snack and give one to Cooper for every one she eats. The day I took these pictures, Cooper went down the street to play with another dog about the same time I took Alex in to nap. She was hysterical and would not sleep until Cooper came home. If Alex is eating Cooper is right by her. The other day she told me she and Cooper were holding paws, when I looked, she had her sweet little foot on Coopers paw!

Spring Break

Our last day of Spring Break was soo much fun! We saw Kate and Candice pretty much every single day that week. The last day, we went to their house in our jammies with some breakfast stuff. The girls played dress up as soon as we got there, then we made pancakes for breakfast. Candice and I got to sit around, eat and visit while the girls played. We got there around 9:30 and sat around in our jammies until almost 2 when we finally headed home! I hope to keep doing this over the summer so we can have a day every once in awhile to just relax!

Date Night

Alex and Josh had a date night on Thursday. It was totally unplanned. I had plans to go to a Mary Kay party and Josh and Alex were just going to hang out. She told me that afternoon that her Daddy was taking her on a date to Chick Fil A then to Red Mango. I mentioned it to Josh and he decided to take her out! She loves her Daddy date nights. I love seeing my two loves enjoying their time together!

Slacker!

I have been neglecting the blog lately! I have soo many pics from Spring Break to now that I haven't shared, so my goal is to get several postings done today (now) and schedule them to publish over the next few days! I'll start with today and work backwards!

We started our morning off with soccer. Alex still loves it and is probably one of the best ones in the class. She is still the only girl, but totally blows the boys out of the water! lol Honestly with our class, it isn't too hard. Of the 4 boys today, one sat in the car screaming and crying most of the time, another sat on his blanket eating a snack and the other two played in the sand. The hard part for Alex is not getting a snack in the middle of practice when she sees the other kids eating whatever they want. I'm trying to teach her a little patience, so she has to wait until the end to get a little snack.

I've been talking to her this week about what activities she wanted to do this summer. It changes every single day. I asked her, do you like dance or gymnastics better? Dance. Ok, so if you only could do one what would it be? Gymnastics! Finally today she told me she does not want to do gymnastics this summer. I asked her several times because registration started today. She always said no, until we talked to our friends in the next soccer class and they said they were doing gymnastics, then Alex HAD to do gymnastics too. Registration opened at 10am, I was there at 10:30, we didn't leave until noon! It was CRAZY! There weren't that many people ahead of us, but each parents was signing up their kids along with friends kids. I heard some people sign up as many as 10 kids! Everywhere else we go has a window where the current students can sign up, then they open to the public. Gymnastics does not, which stinks! Half of our friends ended up at one time half of us at a different time, thanks to a family of 3 year old triplets that swooped in and filled the class we wanted! Oh well! I guess next year, we have to go earlier! I decided Alex will only do gymnastics for the first summer session. The last 6 weeks of summer we are taking a break from EVERYTHING! I want to be able to go where ever with out worrying about missing an activity.

So far our summer includes 6 weeks of gymnastics and a week of Princess dance camp!

Dallas and the Arboretum

Alex and I drove to Dallas Monday afternoon. We had a super fun, busy 24 hours! We headed straight to NorthPark to meet my friend, Josh. I haven't seen him in years and it was great to catch up. Alex loved him and asked non stop where, "mommy's friend, Josh" was, not to be confused with "my Josh, Daddy" as Alex started calling her Daddy-o! From there we went to visit Shannon, or Aunt Shan, as Alex called her. We got to visit for a while, then we went to the dinner and did a little more shopping at the Galleria. Then we went to visit my grandparents, Shannon's parents, then made it back to Shannon and Neal's to crash!

Tuesday morning, we met Amy and Wendy, along with their kids, Sylvia, Collin and Graham at the arboretum. It was beautiful! The kids loved looking at all of the castles. They had face painters there so Alex picked a purple butterfly, then we had a little picnic. It was a great day with friends!

One Weekend, 4 Grandparents!

Friday afternoon we headed to the lake house! We were planning on driving up that evening, but Josh decided to take off early so he could get some work done on the floors so his Dad wouldn't have to do as much. Alex, Cooper and I played outside for a while so we wouldn't be in Josh's way. Alex picked every flower she could find! We went to dinner at a little cafe in Edom called The Shed. It was sooo good! Saturday morning Grandpa and Grandpa showed up with breakfast! We ate, then the guys headed to Tyler to pick up some flooring while Grandma, Alex and I watched Beauty and the Beast. When they got back Alex, Cooper and I went to my parents house. I picked Josh up when he was done helping his dad. We spent the rest of the afternoon outside playing! Sunday morning, Alex took Popi outside so they could play even more. We spent the day picking more flowers, blowing bubbles and riding the "magic carpet!" (cardboard, pulled around the yard by Popi!)

Hot Shots!

I signed Alex up for Hot Shots soccer a few months ago. She has her first class on Friday. Coach Rachel teaches some basic fundamentals of soccer and they work on coordination and following directions. Alex was the only girl in her class, but she didn't seem to care! (Her other girlfriends are in the class after hers.) She had so much fun running, kicking and hopping around!

Bunny hopping through the ropes!

instead of hopping sideways, Alex decided to incorporate a little ballet and chassed through the ropes!
I can not believe how big she looks in this picture!

She LOVED playing red light / green light

team huddle!