This weekend was a lot of fun. Let me first explain the bad luck I hda on Thursday and Friday. On Thursday, my tire was low when I left my field site so I filled it up and was on my way home. I made it about 25 miles and I got a flat tire - really bad section of 3A where there is no breakdown lane and cars are flying by. After an hour, a guy came and put the donut on and had to put air in that as well. That night, Sam spent about 2.5 hours getting me a new tire - very slow at Sears. The next morning, on my way to the office at 6:30am in the pouring rain, got another flat tire! Not fun, but especially for Sam who had to put Alex in the car in his pjs with no breakfast, come find me on the exit ramp just before Route 3, and put the donut on the other side of the car... in the pouring rain. So, after much deliberation, I decided that I needed to stay home and clean the house instead of going to work. I didn't want to risk getting stuck again in the pouring rain with a donut on one side and another flat tire - obviously I ran over something. So, Saturday morning, Sam went and got me 3 more tires so now I've got 4 new tires, we're about $350 lighter, and I had to use a sick day. After all that nonesense, we had a few friends over on Saturday afternoon, and then on Sunday we went on a hike around Ellisville State Park (which is about 3 miles from our house) and Sam did some work on the deck. So, all is well in the world!
Alex fell in love with this toy drill he found in the neighbors yard so he played with it all afternoon and then we gave it back to Ben. I'm sure he'll find it again. It was so hot out on the deck over the weekend I had to make Alex a little tent that he enjoyed playing under. No matter how hard I try to keep the phone away from him, he always manages to get it. He really loves to sit in this beach chair - he can get in and out of it himself and just has a blast reading books and playing with toys in it - ok, so the book is upside down so maybe "reading" isn't the right word, but he's having fun!
I was getting Alex undressed for his bath and he made a break for it before I could get the shoes, socks, and diaper off. I thought he looked too cute so I had Sam get the camera. Of course, I had to add the penguin hat because it completed the outfit :o) Finally I got everything off and he made another break for it - also got ahold of Grammy's tube of lotion and decided to chew on that for a while. Crazy kid!
We were going a little stir crazy in the house with the bad weather so Alex discovered that he loves to play with my measuring cups and spoons - very noisy and very fun! I also decided he needed a bubble helmet when he was getting a bath - too funny!
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