Spending time with Grandma and Grandpa Williams

Alex and Grandpa Williams spending quality time together. They are pals.
Alex swimming in the pool. My friend Emily gave me this spring float. Alex just loves it. He truly is my little fish.
Daddy and Alex swimming together. Our family loves to swim!
Alex in his big boy shirt! His grandma took this cute close-up of him. This is Alex at 7 months. Just this week he has starting flipping over a lot more and will scoot while on his back across the room.
Alex at about 5 months old at Grandma's house lounging in the bouncer. Grandma takes awesome pictures of our little Alex.

The Waiting Game

Well, the house is packed and and cleaned and ready to go! So of course the house we are buying isn't going to close on time. It's supposed to close on Monday however it could be one more week and the worst part of it is we don't have a date! No one can tell us not the real estate agent nor the lender. This really bothers me that we don't know when. I live to plan and when I cannot plan I go stir crazy. So I take a deep breathe and be thankful that things are done and spend as much time out of this apartment as possible.

These past couple of weeks

We have been looking for a new house now for the last few weeks and have found one. My life has been consumed with packing and talking to our real estate agent. We should be moving the first week of May probably on my birthday during Chris's final exam week. Good timing eh? Alex can now flip over when on his back too! He likes tummy time more and more and he looks like he wants to crawl. Also he has starting eating rice cereal and oatmeal regularly. I tried him out on peas and carrots this week. Peas took a couple tries before he ate them well but carrots he loved right away.


A silly picture of Mommy kissing baby Alex's feet! Mommy likes to pretend to eat his feet and he gets a kick out of it!

The first time Alex tried rice cereal!

On Monday April 6th Rachael and Emma met up with us. We first went to a community event called Family Fun Van where the kids get to play, have stories read to them, and make a craft. The best part about it is that the kids get a free book as well. At this particular one a representative from PBS gave the kids a magnifying glass and asked a few people if she could take a picture of the kids. The lady chose Emma and Alex as well and we had to sign photo release forms! I thought that was a riot. After we did that we went swimming. The above picture is Alex in his swim suit I bought for him that day since it was his first day in the pool. He absolutely loved it. My little fishy I now refer to him because he kept dunking his face in the water and I really had to watch him. I can't wait to get this kid swimming lessons!

Joshua's First Birthday!

Yesterday March 7th we were able to go to Pat's house for a party for Joshua. Chris is starting a new schedule for work that is 2-12 Friday through Monday and I'm sad to lose him on the weekends! This was our last fun full Saturday together for awhile. Pat can sure throw a great party!
The theme was Mickey Mouse. The Rapier family is all ears!
Joshua with his Grandma Pat!
Joshua and his mommy Ana Paula opening gifts with Shae and Emma as eager bystanders.
My mom Karen holding little Joshua.

Blogging Goals

My Goal with this Blog is not to just post pictures with little captions but to write more too. Tuesday is library day. Alex and I go to the library and get books and DVDs. Today was nice because I enjoyed my little boy so much. He laughed audibly today more than I've ever heard him laugh and when I gave him his tummy time he tried sooo hard to crawl but couldn't quite get moving. I won't be surprised if he starts scooting along within a month or two. I'm also realizing that I need to get baby proofing and I would appreciate any tips that you could give me. Hope everyone is having a great March so far...

Alex in the new Bumbo chair!

Alex loves this new chair!

Visiting Sarah, Steve, and new baby Max!

Sarah holding Alex while mom is holding Max. Don't they look so cute?
Sarah kissing her new baby boy Max. He is so adorable and she looks awesome!
Steve holding Alex!
More pictures with the cute babies.
Sarah let me hold Max. I remember when Alex was this size. Time sure flies and they get a lot bigger quite fast!