Mothers Day and my birthday were great. We had a great brunch with Grandma and Grandad and then Carl took me out to dinner that night for my birthday. Here is a picture of Alex and I on Mothers Day/my birthday.
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We also did Relay for Life this month, which I am one of the organizing committee members for my company. It was really busy but was a wonderful time, even Alex had a great time walking around and visiting with people.
I also held a play date with 2 friends from high school Jill and Sam and their girls Turner and Cate the Sunday after Relay. We had a great time visiting together while the kids played.
This last weekend was Memorial Day. We enjoyed a cookout with our neighbors and also some time visiting our friend Wendy who was recovering from surgery and I went baby shopping with my friend Michele and her husband Hilly. We took Alex to the pool for the first time on Sat afternoon and he loved it, we took him back again on Mon morning. He was not a huge fan of his float on Mon, mainly because he realized he can't splash as big [he is definitely Carl's son], but he LOVED the water. We were getting ready to go to the pool on Mon and I asked him if he wanted to go down to pool to splash and he started kicking his feet in his highchair and smiling huge! Here are some of my favorite photos, I know I know Auburn folks, I just could not resist, he looked too cute in daddy's hat.
Our biggest news for May is that we have a real WALKER now! He has been cruising very fast on furniture for quite some time and with his walking toys, but over the last few weeks he has slowly started to let go and go from couch to couch - then from couch to table, but as of this last week, if we set him down standing and walk away he will walk to us! He has even started to choose to walk over crawl in the house, pulling up on the coffee table then walking all the way over to the kitchen. I think the fact that he is now in shorts and he was scraping his little knees gave him the motivation to get up off them. The funniest to me is he still loves his push toy, but now he walks with it and when he runs into something - picks it up - turns around - and keeps going... he is even learning to steer it before he hit something too. He is also trying to turn every piece of furniture in our house into a push toy - our laundry basket is his most favorite.
He loves to play in his room and bathroom. When we come in at night, he surveys the family room toys, then takes off for the stairs to go up to his room and make sure everything is still there where he left it. He loves to go up stairs himself - then when he gets to the top, he looks through the rail to see the bottom then claps proudly! We are using our gates to full advantage now.
I am now in my new job full time, which is great, but is why I have not had more time to update the blog. It is taking some adjusting, I think it is actually more strange to go to a new job in the same company than it is a whole new one. I am very busy, but am really doing things to make a positive change which is cool.
This next 2 weeks we will be preparing for Alex's first birthday which I am very excited about.
I hope everyone had a great holiday weekend.
