Life...

I know, I know its been a while!

Life has been busy, with the typical day-to-day things & the extra things like holidays thrown in there, life hasn't slowed down at all...and come to think of it, neither has Alexa! :)

She seems to change each day, growing "older" somehow. From the words she says to the things she does, it never ceases to amaze me what she can come up with! A couple days ago Micah caught her climbing up the bar stools so that she could reach the cookies that were sitting on the counter. Then last night while I was making cookies for our church cookie exchange on Saturday morning, Alexa wants to sit & watch. Micah was out helping his dad so I picked her up & let her sit on the counter next to the mixer & she just loved watching it spin. Every time I added something she would look at me and say "cooking Mommy, ooooohhh YUMMMMY!" with this goofy grin on her face & she'd pat her tummy. When the mixer was done she decided she was bored watching me roll the dough into logs so she moved off the counter & stood on the bench next to it. I have an old crystal cream & sugar set, that I picked up at a garage sale,sitting next to the coffee pot on the counter & she instantly found this entertaining. She took the spoon from the sugar & in the empty cream pourer she started swirlling the spoon as if she was mixing things together. After each mix she would taste the spoon & then she'd pick up a pen & pretend to jot notes onto the pad that was also laying on the counter. I sat watching her do this for about 10-15 minutes before she caught me looking at her & had to offer some to me "taste Mommy taste, yummy yummy," she'd say. We certainly have a little goof-ball on our hands!

The other side of Alexa, however, is definetly a stubborn little girl! She will NOT say sorry! At just about 18 months old, she has the strongest will of anyone I know! (Could it possibly be due to the fact that both mommy & daddy are stubborn too? Nah!) :)

All I can say is based on her current ability to apologize & admit when she's been naughty & wrong, we are in for a LONG road ahead of us! The silly part is -- it is NOT as though she doesn't know how to say the word, or that she's not old enough to know it -- as some people have tried to tell us -- she is simply too stubborn. When we catch her being naughty we will call her on it & say "Alexa, what did you do?" Her answer..."Naughty, I trouble, I trouble, naughty!" Hmm...if she can say those words & know that when we are upset with her she's been naughty & is in trouble...please tell me, what reason, other than her stubbornness, is there for her inability to say sorry? None that I can think of!

Here are a few of the latest pictures we'd snapped of her, boy does she think she is funny! :)