Sunshine!

Ok, it rained like 25 days in a row and then all of a sudden...............

There was the sun!

And it was warm and we HAD to go out on the boat.

The boys love it

We can't wait until summer

Presidents day was beautiful as well, and we thought it would be a great day to have a picnic on the beach and visit mom-b

A beautiful weekend.

Last weekend was beautiful, and we had Baby Roe all to ourselves.  Gigi and Pops took Kirby to Sarasota on an adventure to visit his cousins.

I took the opportunity alone with only one kid to take some pics of our little/ big boy.

I really do feel like he is just growing like a weed, he seems bigger now than he was just a few weeks ago when we took him for the weigh-in.

We go in again on the 28th and we are expecting to see more progress!

I can't believe we are already talking about his 2nd birthday party!

Ted and Kirby have decided that we can't call him "baby Roe" anymore because he is getting to be a big boy.  I think this name change will be the hardest for Kirb, who says Ba-roe like it is one word.

How big is Roe-Roe?

So big!

Roe is totally talking up a storm!

I don't remember Kirby talking as much at this age, or maybe we just couldn't understand him. Roe repeats everything and says most things pretty perfect.

Here is Kirb at 21 months.

Differences:

More hair, Kirby looks like less of a baby ( maybe because of the hair)

Similarities:

Same clothes.... there is no way Roe is THAT SMALL, kirb is wearing the same stuff we are now?!?!

They are both insane climbers, no fear.  And they both have a heart of gold, i feel so lucky.

  They are both so sweet

Roe is totally obsessed with anything sporty, again, this did not come from me.  Since you all know i am obsessed with anything that doesn't involve a ball flying through the air.... which is usually magnetized to my head.

Roe loves to watch sports center, which i think is kind of crazy.... but he's a boy.

The best part is, when watching Sports Center, he usually yells,  Go, go, go  Goooooo Gators.

so cute

On to Sarasota

Sweet Lola.

Two Crazy Cousins eating a yummy lunch

Pictures are a little bit out of order.

On their way home Gigi and Pops decided to stop in St Augustine for lunch and a visit to Ripley's Believe it or not.

First stop the Pier for lunch.

Feeding the birds

Believe it or not

Arrrrrrrgh

out of order...

Kirby and pops walking along the boardwalk

And back to Sarasota.

Best Buddies

goofy

Thanks Gigi and pops, Kirby had a blast!

Puff the Magic Dragon

This year Kirby's class has a magical dragon who travels by backpack home each week with another lucky child.

There are 20 children in K's class, every Friday we say " maybe we will be the ones to bring Puff home this weekend" and every Friday in carpool there would be Puff in the loving hands of another child.

Another Friday where Kirby would be crushed.  Well seeing that this would be the 23rd week of school, we knew it had to be coming up.

And on Friday I had one happy little fella.

Puff and Kirby played Lego's.

Baked some special cookies for baby Roe.

Made some posters for the St. Marks Fun Run.

Puff took turns sleeping with the boys.

On Saturday we had a babysitter and Puff got a little crazy.

Sunday was the day of the "Big Accident"

Puff was invited to a cook-out/ birthday for a friend who was in town. We (mom) thought it would be a wonderful idea to take some close up pics of puff breathing fire.

BAD IDEA

Puff.... the class mascot, the beloved puppet of Mrs. Mahoney's class, got injured under my care.

We were able to write a clever story about how Puff definitely learned his lesson about going to close to the fire, we rushed him to the Dragon Dr, who put a cast on his injury.

oops

This is a picture of Roe eating his first peanut butter cracker.

Since giving him the cracker i visited the PETA website and have been once again shocked to know some of the crap they put in out food.

I am learning so much, and looking back don't know if i should have given him that cracker.

Processed foods have so many hidden ingredients.

Do you know that Skittles have pork? 

So do some apple juices... enough to make me want to start juicing and never but anything else in a package.

ewwwwwwww

Off to a good start

I would have to say that 2011 may be looking up for the Alexanders!

We have had two very good, promising appointments after a string of terrible ones.

Today we FINALLY were able and get part 1 of the EE panel for allergens.  They tested him today for food only, 28 different foods.

He cried a little, but just because he couldn't see what they were doing.

Ted and I had to keep him calm and still for 15 minutes while we anxiously waited for the results.

I kept looking at his back, like i may be able to decipher what was what, and predict the changes we may have in store.

Then we heard this loud buzzer, which we HOPED to be the "times-up" buzzer but also seemed like it may be a fire alarm, and nobody was turning it off....... should we evacuate?

no, times up :)

Then..... miracle beyond miracles.  They started reading the results.

Roe tested negative to egg, soy, and nuts.

WHAT!?!?

I'll tell you what, WE get to give Roe some more food!  YAY!!!!

 Milk was bad, real bad, worse than the histamine control that they has for the positive, and we have two more to add to our list of foods to avoid. Beef and Pork (strange? huh)

We still have questions that are unanswered like, why were Roe's Eosinaphil #'s are so high, why he isn't gaining weight on real food, and why food hurts his tummy so much.

I guess it's all one step at a time.

Thank you for your continued prayer,  what a huge answer to prayer that we were able to add more food, when we thought today was going to be all about taking more away.

Thank you.

2# 5 oz

Super Star!!!

That's right.... Roe gained 2 lbs 5 oz since December.  Yay, we are so excited, i have nothing bad to say about either of our appointments today except Roe's mommy should pay more attention to the rules.

I gave both Ted and my mom this big speech about not giving Roe any benadryl or allergy meds for TWO weeks before the much anticipated appointment this morning.

So can you guess who the IDIOT who gave Roe 1/4 tsp. Zyrtec Saturday night for his runny nose.

Yup.... it was me.

Soooo the allergy testing has been postponed until next Wednesday.

Besides that he has been put on oral steroids, and a Proton Pump Inhibitor.

All good happy news around here today. Thanks for your prayers.

What's happening around here

Kirby and his buddy Dylan had a great time playing last week.

We are hopeful that our appointment on Monday the doctors will say that Roe has gotten bigger, he certainly is feeling like he weighs a ton ;)

Things are good, I guess around here no news is good news these days. 

We have had a beautiful couple of days to follow a icky few,  Kirby is a champ at riding without training wheels and can make it down the whole block without tipping or stopping.

I think i can speak for the entire Alexander family when i say we are ready for some boating weather.

And by the looks of the last day or two we may be going out this weekend!

Thanks to everybody for the continued prayer.

Mom-b's Birthday

Everyone who checks this blog to see pictures of the crump and roe may want to skip this post...... They were at home with the babysitter.

Ted and I wanted to enjoy ourselves without having to chase around two little rug rats.

This week my beautiful grand-ma "mom-b" celebrated her 90th birthday.

There were many friends  

and family, there to help her celebrate.

uggh.. these sideways pictures! 

My brother John and my adorable niece Margaret.

Who, by the way, was the HIT of the party.

Me and Mom-b

the yaya's

My family

The Girls

Me and cutie pie.....

even on my self appointed "time-out"  i couldn't resist a few minutes with this little angel.

1...2....3....Go

 and off he went,  Kirby has taught himself to ride his bike.  Teddy took off the training wheels a while ago and i think Kirb just got tired of not being able to ride his bike,  so yesterday he got out the bike and after about 4 total hours of pure determination he took off down Ivanhoe.

Yay