Weekend fun

We had a great day today as a family; Tim and JoElle played soccer outside while Alexa and I cheered as she "scored" goals by kicking the ball through two trees. JoElle helped me to clean up the side of the deck by pulling up all the cannas and cutting down branches/ cottonwood branches and shoots that will not die :) Alexa helped Daddy push JoElle in her swing; Alexa was giggling crazily, she really enjoyed it! They also slid down the slide together.

Alexa eats so much, she can sit in her chair and eat food for at least an hour, if not more. She started signing "all done" and "milk" over the past few days.

Also, when I tell her "no comes los zapatos" rather than "don't eat the shoes", she listens. Alexa loves to book it to the kitchen, even if we are not in there. One day, JoElle and I blocked off the path to the kitchen, so Alexa crawled around screaming her head off! She was extremely upset with us, so we unblocked it, she was as happy as can be! Alexa crawls into the kitchen so that she can play with the fridge letters. She will play with the same thing / toy for 20-30 minutes at a time, all by herself. So very different from the way JoElle was (and is!).

Although Alexa's tummy is slimming down some with how active she is, she is still wearing 12-18 month old onesies, shirts and jeans, she can also wear 24 mo. shirts as well, and she is not even 8 months old yet :)

Ok back to today, we also went grocery shopping as a family, JoElle found a little cart and was excited to be able to push it around and put groceries in it. Alexa did well until the end, I had to hold her. A lot of customers were smiling at her and talking to her, like always :) She loves it! She really loves people, strangers and all (again, unlike JoElle, she never liked strangers much, except around 2 yrs old when she was yell "Hi!" to everyone at Wal-Mart or Kroger).

Right now, JoElle is with Daddy shopping for an air filter for the A/C and also he was planning to take her to the park to play.

Yesterday was a tough day for me, but the kids had some fun. We took them to Nagoya, a Japanese Hibachi grill by the mall. We have gone there once before; both of them love it, they eat a ton of veggies and rice. Alexa eats the entire time, then we have to just leave, because I think she would spend the entire day there eating! JoElle loves the fire, even though it scares her a bit. Our chef was asking what her name was, but she refused to tell him for a good 10 minutes, she finally told him, so he started called her Jo. She thought that was funny. Before he came out to cook, JoElle was singing all kinds of songs at the table very loudly, just enjoying herself! Daddy said Alexa got scared of the fire in the beginning (we were in the restroom) and she started crying, especially when the chef tried talking to her! so he had to hold her :) She loves Daddy!