Merry Christmas!

Jolly ol St. Nicholas

Snow day

Alex is makin bank

Akix (what he calls himself) found some coins on the counter today and I told him he should go put them in his choo choo train bank that uncle Butch made for him. Wasn't sure he would know what I was referring to, but sure enough he went right over and  put the coins in his bank. That kid is too smart for his own good!

Hide n seek

To have and to hold

Was looking through the camera and found this cute vid we took of Alex holding Nicholas the first night we brought him home from the hospital. Awwww!

Whatchu talkin bout, Willis?

Raise your hand if you like milk!

Bye bye paci!

Big news around these parts-Alex is officially done with the paci as of about a week ago. Whoo hoo! Not sure how it even happened since we weren't really even trying to break him of the habit just yet. Our goal was for him to be done with it by age 2, but I guess he decided he had had enough and didn't need it anymore so we went along with it.  He did it on his own without a fight and hasn't asked for a paci since. We totes lucked out! Sooooo exciting!

Also, he went pee pee on the potty twice in the last month too. Ahhhhh! I'm pumped! I've been sitting him on the pot every night before bath time for a month or so but I don't think he quite understands the concept. However, I poured some warm water over his ween a couple times and that must have stimulated him enough into actually going pee. Can you believe it? I tried to make a super big deal about it so he knew it was a good thing. Hopefully he will start connecting two and two and we can master potty training early too! So proud of my big boy. :)

These pics have nothing to do with anything but I just think he looks so grown up in them. He's getting big waaaay too fast. He already thinks hes too old to rock in his rockin chair any more and every time we try to rock him he asks us to put him in bed. Breaks my heart. Next thing I know, he will be moving out and going away to college. :(

My sweet lil papoose

Having fun with Danny and Dumpa

Meeting Uncle Dean and Aunt Stacey

Daddy's big helper

Lenny washed all the berries off the car today and lookie look who helped out. :)

Great Beginnings, sad endings

Friday was Alex's last day at Great Beginnings. :( It was really hard to leave; we have really grown to love that place and all the teachers there. They have taught Alex soooo much over the past year! I wish there was a way we could keep him enrolled there, it was a great fit for us. Funny because I was so nervous and uneasy about sending him to a public daycare to begin with. They  definitely changed the way I thought about daycares though. I would recommend that place to anyone.

I was determined to make it out of there without crying but ummmmm, yeah that didn't happen. I was fine until we went to pick him up that last day. His teacher, Ms. Michelle, has become really attached to alex and started tearing up as she was giving us all his stuff which of course set me off too, and then it was pretty much Bawlfest 2013 for both of us. Even Lenny got a little choked up. Just sad that Alex won't see any of his lil friends anymore and sad that ms Michelle and the other teachers won't see him anymore either. 

I found this cute poem online that was absolutely PERFECT for the occasion. On Alex's last day, we gave his 5 teachers (3 past teachers from the infant room and 2 current teachers from the toddler room) a little gift with this poem attached. Miss them already!

Halloween 2013

Although these are a few days late, here are a few pics from Halloween this year. Both boys dressed up as vampires. Alex actually won the costume contest at his school party! His prize was a coupon booklet for McDonalds. Lovesies! 

That night Alex got his first taste of trick or treating. We made it to a total of three houses before he decided he had had his fill. ;) Pretty good for a first timer I guess.