Alex's party

Alex has a great time at his party today. He said "Birthday" all day and was so excited that he barely took a nap. He got lots of fun toys including: a doodle pro, color wonder markers and coloring books, books, puzzles, a big Lightning McQueen, cars pajamas, a radio flyer wagon, a basketball hoop, a tip tractor, Lightning McQueen backpack and some great clothes. He was overwhelmed with all the fun toys and with everything that we unwrapped, he said "open" and wanted to play with it right away. He made sure to play with every toy before bed and we read his new books before bed too. It was lots of fun. He even ate a hot dog because John was eating one. I guess we should have John over everytime that we grill.

He did not potty very well today. We think that he was overwhelmed with all the party hoopla. He did go potty after the party was over, right before bed, and exclaimed "I did it!". He is up to 11 stickers now. That is pretty good for just two days.

Kate was great. She was in a good mood at the party and let most anyone hold her. It was lots of fun.

Alex goes Potty!

Alex went potty for the first time in his potty today! We rewarded him with a car because we could not find our stickers. The he went six more times! It was amazing, we even tried some big boy underwear for about a half hour. Fortunately we got some more stickers and were able to start a potty reward chart. It was great fun for Alex to flush and wash his hands. He enjoyed picking out his sticker and putting it on the chart. He is such a big boy. Kate was very patient with all the time we spent in the bathroom reading books while Alex went potty. She is so good at sitting and playing. We got her some fisher price balls to play with today and she had a blast.

Alex's Birthday

Alex turned two today! We had a quiet morning and he got his presents from Mom, Dad and Kate. He got a kitchen, a shopping cart and "Flo and Ramone". He loved them all and made us all some cookies in his kitchen. He drove Flo and Ramone all over. We went swimming in the morning and Alex had lots of fun jumping in the pool.

Irrational Fears

Last night and tonight, Alex started showing some crazy fears. He is definately expressing himself and will let you know the he "don't like it". Last night about midnight, he got scared form the lightning. It took us a half hour to get him back to sleep he was so worked up that we thought he was going to wake up Kate. He has never shown fear of lightning before. Then tonight, he decided that he was afraid of the vacuum. We had Kate pretend push the vacuum around and then he decided that he was no longer afraid and proceeded to vacuum much of her room. He was actually hiding in the corner and would not come out and kep saying "don't like it" over and over. Being almost two is bringing new experiences.

I just LOVE this picture that I took of Kate. She is so innocent and serious looking. It is just a perfect picture. It is funny that when I look back at Alex most all of his pictures are smiling and I used to not like the photos of his not smiling. With Kate, I love the serious pictures of her and the smiling pics do not seem as cute. Each child has a different personality and it is fun to capture them on film just showing off who they are. Kate is getting much more clingy to me. She cries at daycare when I am out of sight. If I reach down to grab the diaper bad and she can not see me, she cries. She did that tonight when I had to go upstairs for a stamping event. She definately misses her mama and I miss her too!

Great Grandma

We got to se my Grandma Todd today. She saw Kate for the first time and had lots of fun with Alex. She and Lori came up for a visit. Alex had so much fun playing cars with his great grandma. He was giggling and laughing hysterically. She said that she wanted to take him home. It was so much fun to watch, we should have gotten out the video camera. He gave her lots of hugs and Lori too. He was quite the charmer today. Kate did well also. I am glad that they were both in good spirits. That is not always the case when they do not see people very often.

I love you

Alex learned how to say I love you tonight. He is such a nice boy. Kate is making all sorts of babbling noises. Her new thing is stifening up her boy and yelling like a bear. It is really funny. She is getting so big and so grown up. She is showing a lot of character and personality lately. She is truly fearless. She even got Alex to finally play with his McQueen shake car. He would not go near it until she played with it first. Hopefully her fearlessness will continue.

Two teeth

Kate has two teeth now. She is biting everything. She has even bit me while nursing several times. It is defiantely time to quit. Those little teeth are VERY sharp. She seems to be getting them in the same order that Alex did. These first two appeared at about 5 months. I have not seen any others in sight yet, but she is drooling alot. I think she would be glad to have nore teeth because she seems to want to eat everything that we are eating. Her favorites are peas and squash. She likes every vegetable, but fruit is really a struggle. She often sticks her tongue out and the food comes with it. She has the craziest tongue that I have ever seen. She also likes to squinch her eyebrows when she has fruit. There have been times lately that she tastes one bite and then closes her mouth and refuses to open for more. It is a good thing that we always feed her the oatmeal first!

A new sound

Kate learned how to make a new clicking sound today. She has been doing it like crazy. It is so cute. She is also a good sitter. She can sit alone for a long time now and she only tis over once in a while. She is getting so big. I bought some sandals for her this weekend and her foot was almost a size two already. I think that she is getting the same crazy feet that Alex has. He is a size 7, double wide right now. He has huge feet and Kate's are starting to get thick on top. Bummer.