the alphabet

a fan of the company leap frog for a long time, I was pretty excited when Alexander received Scout as a birthday (correction, Christmas) gift last year. a talking dog that says your name, sings songs with your name and knows your favorite stuff? how cool is that? so I was pretty darn excited to see they made magnetic letters (which we planned on buying) that are better then normal - they talk! plug one into Scout's dog house and he tells you the sound it makes!



Alexander loves it and is already driving me crazy with the alphabet song it plays - over and over again!


big boy shoes

today we got Alexander some regular shoes with a regular sole for when he wants to walk in adverse weather conditions; since he always wants to walk! you can see how many people it takes to get them on a tired little boy!





and these are the shoes he got!

sickie boys

Well, it was bound to happen, and so it has. Our lil boy has a cold. Daddy caught a cold at work last week and Alexander started coughing last night. Mommy stayed home today to help with taking care of AAA since Daddy's still feeling under the weather, although a lot better than the last couple of days. Although Daddy feels terrible that AAA got sick and we're bummed AAA isn't feeling well, we're hopeful that with lots of rest, liquids, positive thoughts and TLC, our silly monster will be all better soon! (By the way, did I mention that we're on our 6th consecutive day of rain!)

the largest river in the world

some of you (all three of you) may have seen an amazon.com widget appear and disappear in the post section the other week as I played with the programming. having finally figured out what was wrong (as is typical, it was me) the widget now lives where it should be, in the right side column. under the media links. the widget contains stuff on Alexander's wish list and while it'd be awesome if he got everything off of it, what would be even cooler is if you used the widget as your window into amazon.com. assuming i've got the links on the page correctly, they'll take you as well.

why the special link? if you're gonna buy something at amazon.com anyway, why not help us get a little bit from it? every purchase you make using our associate link nets us a tiny percentage of the purchase. add that up enough times and we're talking about a good deal on diapers - no more napkins Alexander! you don't pay more, or get penalized in any way, but amazon.com recognizes that we as associates, proselytized you into amazon.com buyers!

obviously this isn't a huge deal - I don't expect that we'll be turning around and purchasing a new tv or something from all the dough rolling into our account. but a few extra bucks now and again would be pretty cool when we're talking about offsetting Alexander's expenses.

thanks!

and check out this great deal on a PS3:

i'm walking! (almost)

for a few weeks now Alexander has been motoring along the couch and bed - holding on to the edge and scooting along. within the last week or two he's decided it's time to get moving and while holding onto someones hands loves to walk around. but, this particular toy is probably his favorite right now - aside from playing fun music, it affords him some freedom to move around - albeit not much considering we have to follow closely (apparently the skill of stopping and turning and balancing, come sometime after the skill of moving my legs forward).

[quicktime]http://dinaandphilip.com/site/wp-content/video/walking.m4v[/quicktime]

skeleton

the other weekend we went to an actual pumpkin patch where you can actually cut your pumpkin off the vine (assuming you get there early enough!) Alexander got dressed up for the occasion!

climbing his way to success

i took this video almost a month ago, forgot about it (i have quite a bit of video like that!), but have got it uploaded now. i took this one morning with bad lighting when he was determined to climb the stairs. you can see here he's pretty fast - imagine how much faster he is now. plus he thinks he's some kind of expert and can stop and turn around when he wants. [quicktime]http://dinaandphilip.com/site/media/Media/stairs.m4v[/quicktime]