The Very Hungry Caterpillar

Yesterday, Alex's class had a performance of "The Very Hungry Caterpillar." Alex played the slice of cherry pie. He loved his costume, which he colored, and that his dad was there. He was less interested in going on stage without his Daddy. Ergo, we won't be sharing any video of this performance.

Alex the Performer

We're big Justin Roberts fans in our house and recently saw Justin and The Not Ready for Naptime Players in concert. Last night Alex started a new game -- being Justin Roberts. He grabbed a microphone (a plastic wand), got on stage (his area rug), and declared "I am Justin Roberts!" Then he proceeded to make up songs to perform. He even invited me up on stage and gave me an instrument (a pair of binoculars) to play along. Fun stuff!

Solving Bigger Puzzles

We all like puzzles in our household, and I recently found a "family puzzle," which is a 400 piece puzzle with regular-sized puzzle pieces and larger-than-normal pieces. I figured that Dave and I would enjoy it now and that in a few years Alex could do it with us too. Well, Alex saw the box, wanted to know what it was, and decided to dive right in. He liked sorting the edges from the rest of the pieces and did a great job helping us put together the outside of the puzzle. Now, every night before dinner we work on the puzzle a bit. Alex has taken to it really quickly and has amazed us with how well he can find and place pieces.

Alex and Dave working on the edge pieces.



Alex putting the last few outside pieces in place. The funny part is that he had all the pieces together but decided to take them apart and put them in one at a time rather than put the whole group in at once.

Alex's Imagination Story

At school, Alex's class made Imagination Stories. They each drew a picture and told the teacher their story, which the teacher wrote out. Here's Alex's story. I'm not quite sure what to make of it, but I'm glad it has a happy ending.

There was a monster. There was a butterfly. The monster hit the butterfly. The butterfly hit the monster. And then they were nice.

Happy Birthday Grandma!

This weekend Grandma C. came to visit so we could help her celebrate her 80th birthday! We had a lot of fun while she was here.

The birthday girl!

Grandma and Aunt Laura playing Candyland with Alex.

Cousins! Carolyn and Alex on the couch.

Putting candles on the cake.

Blowing out the candles. (Alex got to help since his half birthday was earlier in the week and because Grandma is very nice about things like that.)

Alex loves AJ's iPad.

Alex took this picture of Carolyn and me. What a great shot of us!

Goodbye hugs for Carolyn and AJ.

Big goodbye hug for Grandma.

3 1/2

Today is Alex's half birthday. We celebrated with a special dinner, half of a cake, an Elmo balloon, and some new books.

For those of you familiar with the They Might Be Giants song "Seven," Alex shouted "We want cake! Where's our cake!" while waiting for the cake.

Yum!

Our Little Journalist

Dave pulled out the recorder, amp, and microphone for some entertainment on one of our snow days. I thought I was going to record some singing but ended up getting interviewed.