Precious Cookie

Alex loves to go grocery shopping with me for three main reasons:

1. Samples in the produce department

2. Driving the race car shopping cart

3. Cookie!

About half way through our list, he starts chanting, “cookie, cookie” and points down every aisle towards the registers. We almost always go to Harris Teeter for this very reason. They keep a box of cookies just past the register for “kids of all ages”. It’s pure genius – instead of a cookie in the bakery, you keep reminding your child to be good and they get their sweet reward at the end. Alex is always very happy to devour his cookie while I’m loading the groceries in the car and strapping him in his seat. He even bites the cookie into a crescent moon shape and tells me it’s the moon (sometimes he makes a flying bird instead).

The other day was different, and I’m not sure why. As we were pulling out of the parking lot, I looked back and saw that Alex had proudly propped his cookie on his window sill.

He left it there for the 4 minute drive back to our house.

He still hadn’t grabbed it until I had come around to open his door. Tim said he must have been testing my driving skills. I sure wish I knew what he’d been thinking!

Being Silly for the Camera

In an effort to get out of the house during last week’s bout of illness, Alex and I walked around the mall, rode the choo-choo, and ate lunch at Chili’s Too. Here are a few fun pictures we took while were waiting on our food.

Hide & Seek

Can you find Alex?

His new favorite place to play is between the back buses and the back fence. He figured out he could get there by following Kovu. Notice that his dump truck is back there with him. Silly boy!

Showering with Trucks

Alex has a new game to play while I shower… he brings in Hess trucks from his playroom and simulates crashes with them on the bathroom counter and in the sinks. I always forget about the trucks, then crack up laughing every time I walk back into the bathroom throughout the day. Yesterday, he got a little extra creative and set up a towing simulation on the edge of the tub:

Cracking Eggs with Papa

Check out Alex learning how to crack eggs with Papa!

Easter 2013

We spent Easter weekend with my parents in Spartanburg. For the most part, PaPa and Tim worked on the patio while BaBa, Alex, and I visited with Aunt Beth and my Grandparents. We also took a trip over to Greenville to see my other Grandmother and Aunt Mary. We were quite busy! Since we wouldn’t be around for Easter dinner on Sunday, PaPa smoked a turkey for Saturday night’s dinner and Aunt Beth made a homemade strawberry chocolate chip cake! Yummy!! Aunt Beth gave Alex bubbles and my parents gave him a Mater shirt (you can see it in the first picture), Cars stickers, and more bubbles as Easter treats.

Luckily, the Easter Bunny was still able to find Alex on Easter morning before heading back home. This year, Alex found my old Easter basket!

I wonder if he remembers playing with that school bus all through Super Target a month ago?

The boys were passed out on the way home – Alex fell asleep with his hand still in the Goldfish bag!

We got home and found more Easter gifts from Grandpa Art & Ms. Karen.

Peeking at the next basket of goodies from Great-Aunt Cyndi. He also got a card from Great Grandma & Great Grandpa Strunck.

Helping me re-stuff the eggs!

Building a Patio

Last weekend, we ventured down to Spartanburg to help my parents with the next phase of their stone patio. You can read about our adventures during the first phase here. Since this phase involved lifting lots and lots of stone pavers, BaBa and I supervised Alex while Tim and PaPa worked way too hard. Alex was a huge help – he collected rocks and moved dirt in his dump truck. I don’t know what the guys would have done without him!