Mickey Mouse Swim Party

Last Saturday, we had a Mickey Mouse Swimming Party for Alec!  All of our family came plus lots of Alec's friends.  We rented a huge waterslide and had several other little pools and sprinklers in the back yard!!

Opening Gifts

The nerf gun from Adam and Mandi won the best gift award!

After he opened it, he was uninterested in opening anything else!

"Pow"

Friends at the Party

Blowing out the candles on his Mickey cake!

Loves to swim!

Dustin sliding with Riley and Izzy!!

One of the many crash landings!

Grandmother enjoying watching the kids slide with Arthur

Alec, Will and Drew in the pool

Uncle Art's turn

Mimi's crash landing!

Like Mother, Like Daughter

He's after somebody!

Sonya, Aunt Sissie, Alec, me and Art

Paps and Nana

"Catching" people on the slide!

Whooo, Hooo!

This looks like an accident waiting to happen!!

Two Cool Grandmothers!!

Mamaw

Mason and Warren in the bubbles

At the end of a long but very fun birthday party!!

Play Date

For Alec's 2nd birthday on the 8th, I took off work a little early and wanted to spend a special afternoon with him.  Our first fun activity was the Hattiesburg Zoo.  Next year, we may have to make better plans for our special day, as it was 100 degrees and we both almost melted in the heat!!  But we did have lots of fun and enjoyed our time together!!

Riding the train like a big boy!

He kept wanting to stand up and hang out the side!

Mom and Alec at the prairie dogs

Alec chasing the "ginny??" birds around

Climbing up the stairs to see the tiger!

You can really tell how hot it was in this pic!

His hair is soaked and his face is red!

Down the tunnel into the prairie dogs house!

Sharing his drink with the cat

Had to cool off after we got home!

Water Baby like his momma!!

Happy 2nd Birthday Alec!

This baby LOVES cake!!

We had a fun party for him on Saturday, but I'm still sorting through about 400 pictures so I can narrow it down to the ones I want to post...

Happy 2nd Birthday Alec!!

Happy 2nd birthday, Alec!!  Mommy and Daddy love you forever!!  I can't believe you are two already!

His new "stinky" face!!

Alec's day has started off great so far!!  Mommy made cupcakes to take to school and we even got to stop and see Papa at work on the way to school this morning.  Alec was thrilled to see Papa and climbed right up into the big truck with him!!

More fun to come later!!  Mommy is picking Alec up from school early today to go to the zoo!! 

Birthday List

Here’s my conversation with Alec on the way home from school yesterday:

Me: What do you want for your birthday?
Alec: Sucker

Me: What else do you want for your birthday?
Alec: Cake

Me: What else do you want for your birthday?
Alec: Riley

Me: What else do you want for your birthday?
Alec: Brumm-Brummm

Me: What else do you want for your birthday?
Alec: Tractor

Sounds like pretty easy birthday requests!! I can’t believe my baby will be two tomorrow!! I hope he has a blast at his Mickey Mouse swim party this weekend!!

Since I wasn’t yet a blogger when Alec was born on July 8, 2010, I think I should share our baby story. Here goes:

At my 38 week doctor appointment on Thursday July 3rd, Dr. Kot (my wonderful OBGYN) says for us to check in to labor and delivery the next Tuesday, July 8th. Oh my, I wasn’t expecting him until July 14th but she was on call that day and it was a long hot summer and we would have the weekend to finish up getting the house ready. I even went to work for a full day on Monday, July 7th!!

 We got up early Tuesday morning and checked into the hospital around 6:30am. I was told they didn’t have a room ready so we’d have to wait a little. Shortly after that, Mimi, Nana and Paps arrived at the hospital for the long day of waiting with us. Around 8, I finally got to my room. Dr. Kot was on call that day, so she came in to break my water and gave me my epidural around 9:30 or so. That was fine with me, I felt no need to feel anykind of pain and certainly didn’t want her to get busy and not have time to come do it later! Then we waited and waited and waited. I was in loo loo land and slept for the majority of the day, so I don’t have much to tell about how the middle of our day went. Seemed like it went pretty fast to me, but I’m sure it was a long day for those who were waiting. Finally about 9pm I was fully dilated and we thought for sure that Alec would arrive soon!! My nurse’s name was Matti and she didn’t care much for my screaming and kicking during labor and kept telling me to be still and breathe!! Hello lady, I was in PAIN. Alec was turned sideways and was having major trouble coming out. Matti tried her best, but could not get him to turn. I was having terrible back labor and literally thought he was coming out of my back!! I think Matti called the nurse’s station about 10 times for Dr. Kot to come to the room. If I had heard the nurse’s station tell her one more time that she was doing a tubel and couldn’t come yet, I think I would have checked out in the middle of labor and went to Wesley!! Finally, around 10:45 Dr. Kot came to my rescue. She easily turned Alec into the right position and with a couple more pushes and the help of her vacuum, at 11:00 pm our 8 lb 10 oz angel finally arrived!!

Happy 4th of July!!

We had a wonderful 4th of July weekend at the camp. Mandi and Adam came and spent Saturday night with us, Mimi and Papa. Adam managed to drag Dustin kicking and screaming to the Hollywood Casino buffet Saturday night for all of us to eat supper. Dustin’s dad owned a buffet several years ago in Laurel and so Dustin is definitely burnt out on the buffet scene. Needless to say, he’s changed his opinion about casino buffets on crab leg night!! All four of us stuffed ourselves with several plates of delicious crablegs.

Sweet Smile

The little monkey loves to play on the stairs!

Fishing with Daddy and Adam.

Fun with Aunt Patty

Messy Ribs for the 4th

Cake is his favorite!

Mimi's pretty flag cake

Did they make this by themselves??  I think not!!

Mimi's always up for a splash!!

 

Relaxing on the pier with Mimi!

Nana, Paps and Aunt Patty came down and spent the day with us on Saturday. We boated, swam and ate a lot! After supper, we decided to ride over to the annual Crab Fest in Bay St. Louis. Alec was able to ride some of the kiddy carnival rides and LOVED them!! First he and I got on the little car ride. As soon as it started going, he laughed and made car noises for the entire ride. The carnival wasn’t very busy, so the ride lasted a little longer than I would have liked!! Alec loved it but I was a little dizzy when we finally got off!!

Doesn't take much to amaze these folks!!

A crazy fair ride does the trick every time!

Looking around with Nana and Daddy

Fun on the 4-wheeler ride!

Smiling at his cheering section!

After that, Dustin took him up on the HUGE slide ride. Alec had so much fun and was walking around celebrating his accomplishment when they came down. He was strutting around and high-fiveing everybody!!

Up the big stairs with Daddy!!

Here they come!

Had a blast on the slide with dad! 

He's such a big boy!

We left after that and raced down the beach to see if we could make it close enough to Gulfport in time to see their fireworks show. It was beautiful to see all of the different fireworks that the families were doing on the beach. It was dark by then and Alec was getting sleepy and was a little leery of the beach, since he couldn’t really see it. But he did say “BOOM” a few times!!


Last but not least, Alec pottied at the camp within 5 minutes of us getting there. Guess there’s just something about the camp potty that he likes. He didn’t keep using it, but we’re glad that he thought it was cool again. We’ll see, maybe one day, he’ll think our potty at home is just as cool!!