Alex's birthday weekend!

Thursday I was getting dinner ready for the boys as Alex and I were going to a Great Lakes beer tasting and the sitter, Marissa, was due to arrive any minute. I overheard a conversation between Evan and Avery - they were in our family room sitting a the cocktail table playing with Duplos. Evan said "Avery did you fart?" Avery emphatically replied "NO!" Evan said "Yes you did Avery, yes you did! Good job Buddy!" and gave him a big hug as he was laughing.

We had a crazy, action packed weekend! I already mentioned Thursday. Friday we made Alex a special breakfast of ham & cheese spoon bread. Evan then went to play with Uncle Trace & Cason while the other two and I went to Costco. Then we picked up Evan, went to Target to get cards & gifts for Alex. Every year since Evan was born the boys have gotten a CD for Alex with a song that had meaning. This year it was Trace Adkins, Definitive Greatest Hits for "You're Gonna Miss This". There are some days when we need that reminder ;o) Then we met Alex at Blue Taj for lunch. The people there were great with the boys - they loved it that they loved the Tomato soup with a coconut base and brought us a second bowl for them. Friday night Alex and I went to see Cracker, Big Head Todd and the Monsters, Blues Traveler and Barenaked Ladies! It was uptown at the NC Music Factory - great venue and we ran into friends there - it looked like it was going to storm - but ended up being a lovely evening. Saturday we all went to Brecken's birthday party at Sports Connection. Then at 5:00 we had friends over and Marissa came back over to watch the boys, Sloan, Caitlin & Ryan. I hired Curtis, Beverage Manager at Duckworth's to do a beer tasting. Alex was very surprised. He had guessed a beer tasting, I said no, he guessed wiskey, I said no, Scotch, ok! He was very excited about it telling everyone what we were doing... he even was trying to gather enough glasses for it and making sure they were all clean. But he wasn't too disappointed - especially when one of the beers was Dogfish Head 120. It was a great evening!

This morning Evan asked me to look in his ear. I said ok. He asked if I saw a rainbow in there - I replied, no, why should I? He told me he had dreamed of rainbows, Buzz and Woody and also wondered if I saw them in his ear. Sadly, I did not.

Owen is continuing to take 3 steps or so at a time. Today he decided he could open the back door and go outside - they definitely keep me on my toes - to say the least. Speaking of... I must go as they are throwing pretend food all over the kitchen...