Alive

Yes, yes we are alive.
I have not been that great at updating recently, so I will try to sum up in 1 post and catch back up. Pictures to come later.
Alex had an amazing 2nd birthday party. Uncle Michael and Aunt Christal came in town along with Nono. Alex and all his friends had a blast on the bounce house and slide. We were lucky and had a great weather day for it, not too unbearably hot for the middle of June. Alex received tons of wonderful presents that he still enjoys today, including a front end loader, bucket wheel, a dump truck he can ride in, tonka garage, t-ball, soccer, and a sand and water box with a very large green excavator attachment!
He is completely obsessed with any kind of loud vehicle, excavator is his most favorite, followed closely by garbage man. I am sure our garbage men love the weekly audience he gives them every Friday morning, screaming HI BIG GARBAGE MAN at the top of his lungs! and yes, he did so loudly the other day from his room, the men looked up and waved, oh and yes the windows were closed!
Aunt Katie came in for a visit and we were able to go to the aquarium again to see the BIG fishes.
I had the realization the other day that I did not have a cell phone until I graduated from college, yet my 2 year old knows how to video conference his Nono and will request to "call Nono on puter" quite often.
It has been very busy with various birthday parties, wedding showers and weddings. Congrats to Johanna and Kacey and Melissa and William.
On my front, I left AutoTrader.com in June and took about a month off before starting my part time job with The Simpson Organization in July. I am working 3 days a week now and really enjoying getting to spend the extra time with Alex.
We have found many new parks and enjoyed numerous play dates with friends.
We took Alex to the Zoo for the first time last weekend. He yelled at the Rhino for sleeping, enjoyed the very tall Giraffes, loved petting the sheep, goats and pigs, was overjoyed with riding the choo choo... but I think his most favorite part was HAIRY DOG! Yes, out of sheer coincidence we happened to go on UGA Alumni day. We were walking along and Alex screamed Mommy Daddy HAIRY DOG, we did not even see him, but Alex has a very keen eye. He gave him a big hug and high 5!
Alex vocabulary is taking off and along with that comes some very funny things, like last week when he attempted to send Daddy to time out during dinner for not giving him mustard in a timely enough manner!
He is a very good eater, not too many things that he does not like.
This is a big few weeks for Alex, he will go meet his preschool teacher tomorrow and then start school next Tuesday. We hope it goes better this year. We have been putting him in the nursery at church and so far so good, many tears but he has not gotten sick on them. In addition, Nono is coming back for 2 weeks to hang out with Alex and give grandma a break.
More to come now that I am getting caught back up.