Summer Fun

It's hard to believe that it is already July.  We have been having so much fun this summer.  Alex is at the age now where he can really enjoy a lot of new things.  We have been having fun taking him lots of places and experiencing many new things.

Enjoying bubbles in the backyard.  Notice Boo in the back round hunting mice. 

Doing a little bit of swimming.

Going with some cousins and aunts to Wheeler Farm. 

Alex is loves animals and is not afraid to run up and touch them (this can be good and bad).

Mindi took this sequence of pictures.  She had Alex feed the horse, then things went south...

 The horse tried to swallow Alex's entire hand...

 He is shocked...

and then mad and needed to be rescued.  We are actually lucky he didn't lose any fingers.  We will stay a little further back next time!

This week Brandon and I took Alex to the Dinosaur Museum at Thanksgiving Point.  Alex often has us read him a book about dinosaur bones so we thought he would love it.  We were right!

Alex pretty much loves any where he can be loose and run free.  Since we were inside and it wasn't very busy it worked out perfect. 

 Building a dinosaur.

We thought this was funny.  They had a sand and water pit where the kids could dig and find little toy dinosaurs.  This was the most crowded place because all the kids loved getting their hands dirty and finding the toys.  Alex on the other hand did not like getting his hands dirty (he gets that from Brandon) and was much happier at the hand washing station than playing in the dirt. 

However, he did enjoy digging in the sand to find the dinosaur bones.  He is a funny kid!

This 4th of July was a little bit crazy.  I woke up the night before feeling very nauseous and sick.  It lasted through most of the holiday.  Alex hadn't been eating very well for the few days before but we thought he was just teething because he was still acting normal.  However, at my parents house he ended up getting sick.  We decided to brave the fireworks anyway.  Alex was definitely more interested than last year but still not super impressed. 

Here we are waiting for them to start. 

Even though it ended up being a long night we had a lot of fun and we were so glad to be together as a family.