Alex's 2nd Birthday Party

Alex really enjoyed his day as a train conductor. We have more pictures on the web gallery also. Hope all is well.

Love,
Derek, Traci and Alex

It's been a while!

Sorry it's been months since we've posted a new blog! We've been having a great summer and Alex is just growing fast every day. He is really learning many new words and improving in his speech constantly. He loves the garbage truck and his favorite thing is the tag on his blanket. He holds it in his fingers when he goes to sleep and searches for it if he needs some comfort. Our big boy has been without his bottle for about two weeks now, but that unfortunately means he hasn't had milk at all since he's refusing to drink it out of any other cups still. We're resigned to yogurt, enriched fruit juice and chocolate milk which he still likes! Go figure! :) Hope all is well with everyone!

Happy Easter!

We all enjoyed a great Easter weekend with egg hunt, a friend's 2-yr old birthday party, church, family bikeride, and ham feast prepared by Derek. What fun! Thank you all for the cute cards and yummy gifts! The weather was really nice, so we felt pretty fortunate for that too. Alex took a 3 1/2 hour nap at school today. Apparently we wore him out! Poor kid!

Lately, he has been learning all sorts of new tricks and his speech has been improving everyday. He can say all kinds of words (maybe just that Mama and Papa can understand) including spoon ("boon"), bike, duck, blocks ("bock"), blanket ("baba"), bottle (also "baba"), puppy ("pa-pa"), etc. He knows that doggies say "Uh-Uh" and ducks quack. He also tries his best to say many, many other words, but most are unintelligible babble! He can give high five's and also knuckles. Sadly, he has also learned what time-outs mean because he sometimes thinks it's fun to hit mommy. Not so fun after all!

Thanks for checking in, and hopefully we'll be posting more regularly again now that things have seemed to settle down a bit and I finally finished my real estate courses too! Hooray! Love, Traci

I believe this was Alex's last day with his binky. He took the news a little hard the first couple of days, but seems to be adjusting well now. It at least added to his St. Patrick's Day ensemble. Hope all is well.

Visit from Koen & Elise

In case you haven't checked the Web Gallery recently, here are a few pics of the cousins' recent playtime at our house here in CA. Koen & Elise got to see sea lions barking in SF, fish swimming in Monterey, and Alex running around the house for a whole week! Tons of fun!

Also, Alex recently had his 15 month appointment and weighed in at 23.3 lbs (25-50%) and is 32.5 inches (90-95%) tall! He also now has all four top front teeth plus two top molars, and 3.5 bottom front teeth and two bottom molars. He also is talking a lot more and repeating words more often. Some regular words are "bye bye," "night night," and "pee pee!" We're so proud!

Fall in California

Seems like the leaves don't know they are supposed to drop earlier in the year. At least it gives Alex something fun to play in. Hope all is well and Happy New Year!