Blockhead

Don't even think about building a tower of blocks around Alex these days. He hates them! Check it:

Block towers? NOT UP IN HERE!

What's weird is he is fine if you build a pyramid. When you stack them up on top of each other and make a tower though, he flips out. Weirdo!! Clearly he gets these crazy antics from his father.

Uh-dorbs

I can't tell which view I like more. Do I like this moose jacket better from the front....

Or from the back with those cute lil antlers???

Too cute to decide! Gotta love Crazy 8!

Monday already?

Earning his keep

Taste the rainbow

Janine and I have been doing weight watchers and trying to eat better for the past month or so. We are actually doing really good with it too! I'm proud of us.

I have never in my life eaten so many fruits and veggies (all 0 points). The other day, I was stacking up my lunch to put in my bag, and I realized I had a plethora of color in my lunch that day. Check it out. Pretty much covered every color of the rainbow. Cool!

Alexander Chunkanoski, aka Picasso

We tried our hand at finger painting for the first time this weekend:

"Hmm, what is this brightly colored goo???"



Already on the face in 2.2 seconds.



"I don't know about this Mama!"



 

Starting to get the hang of it now.  Sidenote: Man...this dude is BUFF! Check out those pecs!

 



"Ok this is really is fun! You were right mom. (as usual)"

Wouldn't be my son if he didn't try to eat it...

"Ta-daaaaa! What do you think of my masterpiece guys?"

My funny Valentine

Happy Valentine's Day everyone! I had a great day today. They had a special "Valentines Lunch with Mom" at Alex's school, and I was so excited to go eat lunch with him that I almost couldn't stand it. Haha. They really went all out at this shindig, too. They even had a chocolate fountain! How cool is that?

After lunch, I took Alex home with me since I was off work today. These kind of afternoons mean the world to me. I love spending time with my precious lil boy! We played ball for a bit when we got home (his new obsession), read a book, then laid down and took a nap together. He is the best cuddle bug around! Xoxo. When he woke up from his nap, we visited with the neighbors for a bit and then I took Alex over to Granny and Grumpas. They watched him this evening while Lenny and I went out for our Valentines dinner. Great day all around.

Happy V Day peeps!



CHOCOLATE FOUNTAIN!!!!





Alex "made" this for me at school! So cute :)





Our Vday spread. I made the chocolate covered strawberries for Len yesterday.



My lil eleFUNt

The many faces of Alex, Part III

Well we knew this day would come eventually...

Alex is in Jax's food and water bowl constantly these days. He makes such a mess playing in it too! He just HAS to splash water everywhere and he's not satisfied until the entire kitchen floor is covered. Oh well. A little water never hurt anyone, right?

I have yet to see him try and put the food in his mouth (usually Jax scarfs it down quicker than Alex can even grab it), but Lenny said he saw Alex try to eat a piece o kibble one day. And umm...Lenny just let him do it too! Ugh. BOYS.

So much for being childproof...

I was cooking dinner the other night and gave Alex a bottle of Ibuprofen to rattle and shake around. He was having loads of fun with it and shaking til his heart's content! A few minutes later, I realized it was quiet and I looked over at him. This is what I saw:

Childproof bottle, my butt!!! As you can imagine, the first thing he tried to do was put one of the pills in his mouth. I hollered "NO!" and then he dropped it. Then, much to my surprise, he actually started picking up the pills one by one with his pincer grasp and - get this - PUTTING THEM BACK IN THE BOTTLE. Do you believe that? I didn't even know he could do the pincer grasp, let alone know to put those pills back in the bottle! It's not like that hole is huge, either. He pur at least 4 of them back in the bottle, then I helped him out with the rest. Sheesh. He's a regular Einstein! <3 nbsp="">

BTW, yes I realize that an Ibuprofen bottle probs isn't the best toy for a 10mo old baby to play with. It was a one time makeshift thing, OKAY??? Don't judge.