Alex has her third loose tooth. On the way to camp this morning she said, “I hope it comes out this weekend - then the tooth fairy will give me a $100 bill like last time.” I said, “Are you sure? I think it was a $1 bill.” And Alex replied, “It was a $1 bill and $100 bill.” I’m still laughing over that.

Alex got her first bike with training wheels for her birthday. On Thursday, after she got it, Marc tried to show her how to ride it but it was very unsuccessful. We were all tired, Alex was crying, I was impatient, and Marc was annoyed. I thought, “how are we going to teach her how to do this?”

Today, a couple of hours after her birthday party with her friends, she wanted me to take her out to practice riding. I really didn’t want to because of what happened the other night and because it was so humid out. It was way to hot and sticky today to deal with that kind of frustration.

But something happened in the last two days and Alex now knows how to ride. Here’s a video I took. The quality isn’t great because it was with my phone.

Alex has her first loose tooth. It’s almost ready to come out but she didn’t want to yank it out tonight. She didn’t say anything about it and I didn’t notice it until I was brushing her teeth. After school today she was complaining that she was tired and that she had a headache - I think it was must of been the new tooth that was coming in that was making her head hurt.

She got the little tooth box ready that she made in daycare a couple of years ago. Now I just have to figure out what the going rate for a tooth is…

Last night Alex read a book to me!!! It was part of her homework and it was a fairly basic book called On Stage . It had sentences like - “He is a musician. He plays the violin. He is on stage.” She stumbled over a couple of works such as, magician and musician, but otherwise read it perfectly. I had no idea that she could read so well - I think she’s been keeping it a secret so I will keep reading to her.

Alexandra is 5.5 today. When I told her that she asked me if that meant it was her birthday. I said, well it’s your half year birthday but we don’t usually have a party for that. Hopefully I can get a picture of her later on.

Alexandra is 5 years old today!!! She had a birthday party on Saturday but is going to have another party at school today with a pinata and cupcakes. After work the three of us are going to go out to dinner.

I hope to post the pictures of her birthday party soon.

Alex is 2.5 today!!! Just six months ago on her birthday she was barely talking and now she speaks in full sentences - just yesterday she said, “Look Daddy! I did it all by myself.” She is getting very excited about Christmas. We got our tree yesterday and decorated it last night. We also set up the children’s Nativity Set, which she loves!! We didn’t use it last year because she was too little and would have chewed on it but now she loves it and has been playing with it ever since we set it up. She is having so much fun arranging the characters and especially likes playing with the baby and the little animals.

And the tree seems to have caused a “Christmas miracle” this morning. Usually Alex gets up between 6am-7am (usually closer to 6) and comes into our room and wakes us up. This morning I woke up at 7:20am and Alex wasn’t in my room - I was laying there thinking that I should check on her when I heard her door open. I waited but she still didn’t come into our room. So then I thought I better get up and see what she is doing - she always comes and gets me up in the morning. I got up and she was in the living room looking at the tree and playing with the Nativity Set - she just loves it. It is now an hour later and she is still playing (well, she had some breakfast in between). If I had known I would have set up the Nativity Set months ago

Alex will say she is two when you ask her old she is - now I am trying to get her to say that she is 2.5. It’s amazing how much she has changed since she turned 2.

I guess after this one I don’t really count months anymore - Alex will be 2 then 2.5 etc. I remember when I stopped counting days and then weeks. We are having a heat wave and are getting a new refrigerator today so I don’t think Alex and I are going to do anything too exciting. We will probably go to the park before it gets too hot. Plus Alex is still recovering from her stomach virus (she’s much better but doesn’t really have an appetite, which could also be from the heat) and Marc and I still recovering from what we think was food poisoning. We were both so sick on Monday that we could barely take care of Alex. Ugh!!

Alexandra is 21 months old today!!! And she is feeling so much better. Yesterday I took her to the park and hopefully we will be able to go out later - either to playgroup or the park.

Wow - Alex is 20 months old today. Unfortunately I’ve been sick with some sort of stomach thing since last night. Marc is staying home today to take care of her so hopefully they will have fun.