My Child

These are just some of my favorites from the last week or so. That kid is getting pretty dang funny. He tries to ride everything!

My Quilt

Here is my new hobby. Turns out quilting is an excellent way to keep your hands busy. So, 5 blocks down, 1 to go before next month when I get the next two. The class is two blocks a month, then at the end of the year we put it all together for a super awesome quilt! So far I am IN LOVE with my fabric choices, even Jeff likes it. This first block is called the Double Four Patch.
This is Nine Patch on Point

Friendship Quilt Block

Kansas Troubles. And trust me, Troubles is an appropriate name.

Dutchman's Puzzle. This one is my favorite so far. I love love love the blue. Will post more as I get them done! (ps, Sandy let's see what you are learning in your class...)

Alex archives

We finally found the cord to upload videos so we have some old ones. This is from last summer. Alex got this ball popper for his birthday and it went over pretty well.

Updates all around

Well, somehow it has been a few weeks since I last posted again. Thus an update of all the random sort. Alex: what to say about that kid. I'm pretty sure the picture says it all. He's growing like a weed and getting a few smarts. He has a deck of 'first word' flashcards that he loves, you can show him 3 or 4 then lay them down in a random order. Then ask him to pick one out for you and he gets it right every time (unless the card for Table is involved. He seems to have a blind spot for tables either on flashcards or when running...) He loves playing with PJ, being as picky about his food as his dad and Grandpa Price.

Jeff: Poor poor Jeff. We had a COLD spell here for a while. I mean it was freeze your nostrils shut COLD. And poor Jeff would have to treck across campus to and from his car/classes every day. Thus by the time he got home to the warmth and the comfort of his couch he was hard pressed to leave it... Did you know you could take beautiful winter scenery pictures from your couch (as shown by the reflection of the ceiling light on the window pane in the pic...)

But on a more serious note, he just finished mid-terms (we find out how he did this next week...) and sinc, and since we joined the gym back in January, has actually been swimming again. Good for him!

As for me, I have been keeping myself pretty busy. I am currently trying to teach myself to sew and have made a few weekend bags (the pic below) that turned out pretty cute. The first one I made for myself and my mom loved it so much she commissioned me to make the second one (the one pictured.) I started taking a quilting class this month and am pretty excited about that. I bought some STINKING cute fabric for the quilt and can't wait to start making my blocks. I also have a recent fascination with sourdough. I have a starter, but as of yet am not quite sure what to do with it other than bread. Not that homemade sourdough bread is EVER a bad thing. But I ordered a new cookbook that should tell me everything I ever needed to know about whatever it is you do with this starter. I'll keep you posted.

Anyway, I think that is about all that is going on here. Other than it has been around 40 degrees for the last week, which is all but a tropical vacaction! Maybe Jeff will actually go outside to take his next scenery pic!

It Speaks!

So, Alex has finally started talking over the last few months. Which is pretty much awesome. Now, I want to be clear, just because he can say the word doesn't necessarily mean that you can understand it. Those two things do not go hand in hand. Here is a list of of the words that he can say that have the highest chance of being recognized as English.

Mom

Dad

Ball

Kiss

Nellie (but only when talking to Nellie)

please

yes

no

what is it?

here it is, or there it is

hi-ya

bye

shoe

sock

hug

Kyle

PJ

Grandpa (I think... either grandpa or yaya...)

baby

Loralei (sometimes....)

fish

more (which was his first real word other than Mom & dad. He ALWAYS wants more.)

That is about it for the ones he says on a regular basis. Pretty soon he is going to learn "Stop shooting me in the butt with your nerf gun daddy." I have $5 on that being his first full sentence. He makes lots of animal sounds and recognizes a few upon sight. He is also learning to pick the correct flashcard out of a lineup. Oh! He just said a new word! OW! Looks like his first sentence might now be "stop shooting me in the FACE with your nerf gun daddy!!"

Anyway, that's pretty much what is going on here. Great, now Jeff is showing him how to shoot the gun......

Merry Christmas

Sorry for the delay but this has been a pretty busy week. Christmas was good, we spent the 24th - 27th at the cabin. Rhianna flew in on the 28th so we had another Christmas the next day.

Alex didn't really understand the concept so we opened his stuff for him and he took an early nap.

He did like his new toolbench though.

Rhianna is a fan of her new dollhouse too. (truthfully she didn't really care about it that first day, but now she must show it to everyone that walks through the door.)

Big Boy Bed

He's still not that used to it but he was pretty excited to get a big boy bed. Julia was excited too because she got to make him this quilt to go with it. And too top it all off, Rhianna was pretty pleased that she gets the top bunk. Some day (hopefully soon) he will stop waking up and coming to get us in the middle of the night.