It's been way too long......

Sorry for the lack of blog posts lately. It seems like when the evening is over, I don't really feel like sitting down at the computer and blogging. We've been spending a lot of time lately outside, that is when it isn't raining. It seems like it's been raining a lot lately which makes us feel like it's still winter in some ways. To make it worse, they took the pool cover off about a week ago and it is all ready to jump in to. However, it hasn't officially opened. Thankfully Alex only repeated "pool" those first few days. He literally cried at the window (we put a chair up so he could look out) and he just kept saying "Pool, pool, pool, mama, dada, me...." It was cute, but got old so fast. :) We're hoping that it opens this weekend and we can finally see how much Alex will actually like it this summer. I'm hoping we spend most days in the pool as it gets warmer.






We've also started to make our weekly trips to the zoo again. It is a little different this year as Alex is old enough to look more at the animals. He's enjoying that more now.

We spent Mother's day at my parents house and Alex found a new love for Papa's tractor! He LOVED it. I think we may have a farmboy (at least during planting/harvest season).













Alex has been working so hard at his speech lately. He's really making a lot of progress. It is still very difficult to understand him, but he is really trying to talk to us more instead of doing the pointing and closed mouth sounds. He is trying to repeat a lot of what we say. He's added quite a few words to his repertoire. Some of those words include: ball, bird, all done, all gone, milk, please, rocket, blue, yellow, wall, teddy, bunny, and some others......

I asked Alex to smile, and this is what I get.....


This is what I wanted....


And a few videos for your enjoyment. This first one is of Alex being swung by daddy in his pjs. He LOVED it!


Fun with the phone at the zoo.