Simply Alexander

Things I love about Alexander:
- locks himself in the play pen when he wants to play alone
- pretends to drink from a toy cup. He blows air into it as if he's dusting it first.
- helps me with laundry: taking things out of the machine as I put them in. Or taking them off the rack after I've hung them.
- lies in heaps of clothing, blankets or pillows or simply rests his head on the floor to be adorable!
-unilaterally decides something is garbage and puts it in the bin i.e. socks from the drying rack (above).
- plays hide-and-go-seek really well. That's right! Not peek-a-boo! (well that too).
- likes to race towards us (in his foot-propelled car) and crash into a hug.
- talks to me
- listens to me (sometimes)
- he smiles a lot!
- when he sneaks up and tickles my foot, my leg or my side.


Things I don't love, but deal with as lovingly as possible:
- where does all that booger come from?
- helps clean the floor: eating crumbs, sock lint and dust what-have-its from the floor
- reaches up and arches his back when he doesn't want to be held as it makes him slippery.
- he slaps, scratches and bites
- throws a violent and vicious tantrum! Who said terrible two's? I think Alex is advanced by a year. Either that or I 'ain't seen nothing yet'
- when he rolls around on the change table at any given stage of being cleaned.