Funny Man

Alexander is such a little ham. I mean, he is just SO FUNNY. We are cracking up every day. Here are some of his new quirky behaviors. First of all, he does a fake laugh. He just decides he wants to laugh at something, so he forces out this crazy laugh, for no particular reason. It's hysterical (and hard to describe, I guess you need to be here to see it!). Let's see, what else? He learned to wave, but he turns his hand the wrong way, so he waves at himself. He drops things and then holds his hands up in the air, as if to say, "Where did it go?" He can also imitate the sound of Pledge being sprayed as I am dusting the furniture. He makes the spraying sound. It's a riot.

He is also babbling away nonstop. He does say "dada" directed to Erik. So maybe that's his first word? Although he also says "What's that?" and I'm not sure if he said that or "dada" first. So, does he say "mama"? Well, when he is tired, he clings to me and WHINES "mom, mom, mom, mom". He also does this when I am feeding him. He has never said "mama" in a nice way, only in this whining voice. But oh well, you take what you can get, right?

Alex has been enjoying the summer, getting in some pool time at Grandmom and Grandpop Schlosser's house, as well as at his weekly Aquababies class. He spends the rest of his days playing in our newly organized basement play area, chasing around the puppies, and of course being carted back and forth to Lowe's, Walmart, etc. as we work on our projects. Which leads us into our other news . . .

We are FINALLY seeing a light at the end of the tunnel with our home repairs. We have put new floors in the entire first floor, with the exception of our bathroom. We are waiting on a plumber to get back to us with an estimate for replacing our toilet and sink, as well as replacing some low-quality piping that needs to be upgraded. So, we need to tear down wallpaper, paint, and do the floors in the bathroom. That's pretty much it! This entire project has taken longer, and been more expensive, than we thought. We are hoping that we can sit back soon and relax in our nice new house, because we really haven't had the chance to do that yet! It has just been work, work, work.

We celebrated our 8th wedding anniversary yesterday. How did we celebrate it? With a trip to Taco Bell, because it happened to be between the paint store and the wallpaper store. Seriously. But I love a good taco . . .

And that's what's happening on Boomerang Drive this week!

-- Holly