Alexandria has had a pretty eventful start to summer, and we have LOTS of plans to go!  The day after mommy's last day of work we had Grandpa's wedding rehearsal followed by the wedding and then cousin Joe's graduation party.  Alex got to meet a lot of aunts and uncles and her Great-Grandparents for the first time! It was an exhausting weekend for her, but lots of fun too!  

The next week was our first "real" week of summer. We spent the first two days recovering and waiting out thunderstorms.  Then we went to the zoo with "auntie" Jill!  Alex LOVED all the tanks.  Fish and sea lions were fascinating for her.  We also went to the Children's Zoo to pet goats and look at chickens and got to see the brand new Great Bear Wilderness (which was totally cool).  

Alex is "crawling" around like crazy.  She still isn't on her hands and knees, but she moves pretty darn quickly anyway!  She still loves petting the doggies, and chased Coco (Aunt Angie's dog) around their kitchen yesterday!  It's a good thing Colby's pretty patient with her.  April just tries to avoid her.  We're getting lots of giggles and smiles and silly baby talking (usually with her tongue hanging out).  Her little personality is coming out more and more.  She's such a silly little baby! 

Look for videos and picture gallery updates!

Alex loves bath time.... most of the time.  She loves squirty toys (though she doesn't know how they work and gets very confuse when biting them results in a mouth full of water), bubble books and duckies! We've tried giving her a bath in the big tub a couple of times.  At Nana's house she loved it.  She even liked laying down in the tub and letting the water run in her hair (shallow water of course).  At home we have a much more slippery tub and she fell over while trying to reach a toy.  This did not make for a very happy baby. So we went back to her own smaller tub.

Last bath time Alex decided she was going to go bobbing for her toys.  You know... like you would bob for an apple. She was not so happy when she realized this meant her head was under water.  It only took a second for both Auntie Jenna and Mommy to rescue her, but it was enough to make for a very scared little girl.  Luckily after getting Mommy soaking wet while getting hugs, she decided she'd go back in the tub and finished up her play time and washing up.  

Today we had an interesting time.  After a very fun evening, Mommy decided we should end our day with a nice bath and play time.  We got Alex all ready and while Mommy was filling the tub, baby sat on the rug and squealed... then peed...  Yup.  Time to wash the rug.  As Mommy was doing some last minute preparations, she sat Alex on her knee.  Then placed Alex in the tub and found a nice big poop on her knee.  YUCK!  She quickly took them off and donned the robe hanging near by and proceeded to wash the baby's hair.  Yes... she forgot that that poop had to go somewhere!  When it started floating around Alex, Mommy quickly filled the rinse cup with clean water and tried to get the soap out of Alex's hair!  One cup down and only a little fuss, 2 cups down and the poor baby had water all over her face and was SCREAMING.  Mommy swept her out of the tub (and found the rest of the mess...ewww....) and tried to console a now cold, wet, and scared baby.  

Needless to say, bed time was not as peaceful as we would've liked!  If we keep this up, Alex is going to start HATING her bath time!

It's been a very busy month, and a very long time since I posted anything!  Alex has learned a whole lot of new skills lately.  She holds her own bottle on every feeding.  She even reaches for the bottle as soon as it comes out of the fridge and sometimes grabs and dives on it before she's sitting/laying down to drink it!  She can roll over in both directions, but seems to forget this sometimes...especially at night.  We've woken up to panicked screams many times in the past week because the baby is on her tummy!  She also LOVES to sit up on her own and play.  I think she could sit up all day!  She's a very silly little girl who still loves to be upside down, talks a TON (usually with her tongue out), and squeal at the animals.  Colby will come play with her when she squeals, April will usually let her pet her, but only if we're nearby.

Alex had her very first cold, and it did unfortunately get a little serious.  She spent 2 weeks coughing with a little stuffy nose.  After a trip to the doctor, a trip to the ER and another week culminating in a morning of wheezing and fussiness we took her back to the doctor.  They listened to her lungs again, and diagnosed her with bronchioliitis.  Apparently, babies who get it are often between 3 and 6 months.  There also seems to be some correlation between this sickness as a baby and future problems with this type of illness as well as Asthma.  It's too soon to tell if Alex will have this problem.  Luckily we found it before it became even more serious.  It was not caused by RSV nor did it become RSV which is common and potentially fatal in infants, but she did spend about a week on a nebulizer every 4-6 hours, had to take a daily antibiotic and steroid!  A nebulizer is basically like an inhaler for adults, but babies and young children can't inhale the medicine that way so they wear a mask and breath in the vapors for about 15 minutes each treatment.  The poor little girl was so miserable and not herself for nearly 3 weeks.  

Since she recovered, Alex has been her sweet self again!  She's almost sleeping through the night (except for the occasional panic being on her tummy).  Every day while Mommy's at work, she spends her day with Auntie Angie and her cousins.  She loves her cousin Gabrielle, and now has a new little cousin, Caleb.  Auntie Jenna stayed with them for her spring break, so Alex got to see a lot of her too!

This week, Mommy had spring break and we had lots of fun!  So far we've been swimming at the indoor water park, gone to the playground nearby, and the zoo!  We still have 3 days of potential fun, including Easter!  I'll be posting new videos and hopefully pictures too!  Here's one of her playing with her Grandpa in Bob Evans!

This is Alex's latest.  She was doing it yesterday as if she was mad about something, though after witnessing her doing it for the last 10 minutes, and now the smell coming from her general area....maybe it's her new "poopy face"?  You have a to wait a little bit, and listen carefully put you can hear her breathing really loudly from her nose!