"Tweet, Tweet"

Alec and I have certainly had an adverterous afternoon!!  While we were outside playing, I noticed I kept hearing birds in the flowerbed by the driveway.  Well, one of the birds ran out of the flower bed and into the garage.  Uh oh, little bird, Harley just spotted you and he wants to eat you!!  Harley chased the poor bird into a shelf in the corner of our garage.  I knew I had to get it out because I didn't want it to stay in the garage or Harley to hurt it.  So with Alec in tow, I started trying to catch the bird.  I finally caught him and as soon as I grabbed him, he started screaming as loud as a child!!  Well, I'm not a bird expert but quickly realized this was a baby bird and the momma was coming after me!!  Thankfully, she must have realized I was helping her baby and she let me take him back to the flower bed.  Oh but wait, Alec and I have to get a picture of ourselves with this cutie before we turn him loose!!

Don't worry, no birds were harmed in the making of this blog!  After we put him back into the flowerbed, he takes off down the hill towards the road like a lightening bolt with Harley on his tail once again.  Harley caught a glipse of the momma bird across the road and took off after her while Alec and I are still helping the baby.  I caught the little bird again and this time put him up in a tree so he'd be safe from Harley!

  

So we're walking back to the garage after setting this little friend free and what do I see??

Another little friend!!  Agghh!!  Thankfully, this one ran back in the bushes before Harley or Alec spotted him.  We must have a nest of babies that are trying to fly in our flower bed!  I sure do hope they all learn to fly very soon!

After dinner, we went back outside to check on our little bird friends again.  Well, the one in the tree had escaped and was running down my neighbor's driveway.

Alec is constantly saying, "Tweet, Tweet" during this entire adventure!

 Mom and Alec after the bird hunt!

After dinner, Alec and Harley thought it would be a good idea to dig some old food out from underneath the oven with a spoon.  I told them that was nasty, but did they listen to me?   No!!

"Guess we shoulda listened to mom!

This marshmellow is GROSS!!"

One more thing from this week, Alec took his first "Big Boy" nap on the couch this week.  I think this is the first time he's napped anywhere other than his crib or his mat at school since he was an infant.  We came in from playing and he snuggled down to watch Dora with a blanket and his juice and the next thing I knew, he was sound asleep!

CHEESE!!

Amen!!

Alec and I just got home from the Sumrall baseball game.  I know I already posted today, but this is too cute not to write about.  During the prayer before the game, Alec kept saying, "Amen, Amen, Amen" over and over again.  Hopefully he's still young enough that it's cute and not disrespectful....  And then again during the National Anthem, he's still saying, "Amen, Amen, Amen."  I suppose that anytime people are being quite and still, he thinks it's a prayer and he should say "Amen!"

Little Boater Boy

With warm weather almost in full swing now, we are trying to get in as much boating time as possible!  Alec loves the boat this year.  Two weekends ago, Dustin had drill and Alec and I went to the camp with Mimi and Papa.  This was Alec's first time in the boat this year and he was a little unsure of it at first.  Everytime we got near the boat, he said, "No, no, no, no."  But once Papa cranked it up and Alec realized that it actually went somewhere, he loved it!!

Waving at the other boats with Mimi and Papa.

Of course, we always have to nap in the boat!

Doing a little fishing with Mimi.

He's so cute!

Momma's getting some sugar!

Silly time with Papa!!

Papa helping Alec slide at Second Saturday in Bay St. Louis!

Dustin and I took our boat to Lake Mike Conner in Collins over the weekend.  Didn't catch any fish, but we had fun!

Helping Daddy Drive

Playing under the dash with  Harley!

Alec also got invited to his first "Skating" birthday party two weekends ago.  It was for Landon Ross's fifth birthday.  Alec was a really good sport about "skating" around!

First time on skates!

Playing with Landon and Aiden

One night last week, Dustin was in the driveway and I was finishing up supper.  We both thought the other one was watching Alec.  He came into the kitchen with an empty baking soda box a few minutes later, and I thought, "Humm, wonder where he got that."  Well, I walk out to the carport to this MESS!!  He'd found and emptied and entire box of baking soda on the carport and was finger painting and making snow angels with it.  Guess that's what we get for not keeping a better eye on the little booger!!

I got the sprinkler mat out of the closet for Riley, Drew and Alec to play with one afternoon and they had a blast!  Running, jumping and spashing.  It was kinda chilly but they played in the water for over an hour!!

Best Buddies Splashing Around

Everybody's having fun!

I had to put this one up at it really captured our mood!

What would a fun afternoon of playing be without a bowl

of ice cream with your best friend?

Go Bobcats!!

I took Alec to his first Baseball game last night. It was a HUGE game between Sumrall and Oak Grove with around 4000 fans coming to the game. This one was hard for me, I graduated from Oak Grove and have always been a Warriors fan, but this time, Alec and I had to put on our blue and gold and cheer for Sumrall. Riley and Drew’s daddy, Andy Davis, our neighbor is one of the coaches and we had to pull for his bobcats. Sumrall beat Oak Grove 9-0 and has a 62 game winning streak. They currently hold the state record for longest winning streak and may even beat the national record later this year. Alec, Drew and Riley had a blast playing with balls and running around. This may have been Alec’s first ball game, but it certainly won’t be his last!!!

Alec with Riley

These two buddies look like they are up to no good!!

We're so thankful that Alec has such sweet and cute friends!

I am pretty sure this was the only time Drew sat down all night!

The boys think this girl is really talented and can catch two balls at once!

The future Bobcat pitchers!

My baby is growing up!

Go Bobcats!!

Easter Eggs are Everywhere!! 2010

Acting Silly in our Bunny Ears!!

Literally, Easter eggs are all over my house!!  Alec is the only young child on both mine and Dustin sides of the family.  (Hopefully not for much longer!!!)  So, needless to say, he was given SEVEN easter baskets full of eggs, candy, clothes and toys on Easter.  Next Sunday, all of the eggs are going back into the closet until next year!!  I'm going crazy with these eggs all over my living room!

We won't have to buy new baskets for several more years!!

Easter weekend was very busy for us!!  Thursday Alec had an Easter Egg Hunt at school.  He had to bring 6 filled eggs and a picnic lunch for them to hide eggs and eat a special lunch on the playground.  I think he had lots of fun, he was very excited about all of his new eggs, or as he calls them "balls" when I picked him up from school.

Sorting through his eggs from school.

Sunday was a very fun day for us too!!  We got up early and went to early Church and Sunday School.  Then straight to Mimi's for lunch with my family.  Grandmother has not been feeling well, but thankfully, she was feeling great this weekend and made a HUGE outdoor flower bouquet for mom's patio. 

Grandmother and Papa Don

As usual, Aunt Sissie was full of fun!!  She brought silly string and a ginger bread Easter house to make with Alec.  This was Alec (and Dustin's) first time playing with silly string and they enjoyed spraying each other!!  My family have always been silly string fans so it was time for Alec and Dustin to join into the fun.

Aunt Sissie teaching him  how to spray it!!

Of course, Dustin had to chase him with the silly string!

Tickle time with Uncle Treless

After a wonderful lunch, Alec and Aunt Sissie started on their gingerbread house.  They had lots of fun, however, Alec just wanted to eat all of the jelly beans and wasn't thrilled with having to put them on the house.  But he did give up a few of them to put on the house.

Gingerbread house making!

Sharing some jelly beans with his Great-Grandmother.

Of course after eating all of the candy at Mimi's, Alec was having nothing to do with a nap once we got home.  My plan was for Alec to take a nap and then we'd tell the Easter Bunny to come over while Alec napped.  I didn't want Alec eating candy before church, so the Easter Bunny waited to come to our house.  Well, Alec didn't like that plan, so the Easter Bunny had to work fast while Alec played in the carport with Dustin.  The Bunny hid several dozen eggs in the back yard for Alec to hunt.  Alec didn't exactly get the concept of hunting the eggs.  He thought he was supposed to eat whatever was in the egg before he went and picked up any more.  So, he was a SLOW egg hunter.  Thankfully, Riley and Drew came home while he was hunting and helped him gather up his last few eggs!!

Opening his basket from the Real Easter Bunny!

Look mom, more jelly beans!!

Riley and Drew are on the hunt too!

Then Alec helped Dustin and I spread dirt in the yard and take care of our flowers.  He's becoming the best flower waterer ever!!  Even though he likes to play in the water more than put it on the flowers!!

My watering man!

Nana, Mamaw and Grant came over for a cookout Sunday night, and of course, brought more Easter baskets!!  We also dyed eggs on the back porch.  I didn't read the "stain warning" on the package of egg paint so Alec and I looked like purple people eaters with our hands stained from the paint for the rest of the day.

Alec wore Dustin's suit from when he was little to church today!!

He looked like a little man!!

This was such a fun holiday to celebrate with Alec and I loo forward to many more fun times in future years!!!