Alex and the chocolate ice cream cone...

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Portugal

I love text messaging... Most mornings I get a text from Stan with a little bit of info about his morning with Alex. Last week had two rather funny ones I thought I'd share:

Stan: Alex went Portugal on his own. So he is playing computer games. 
Tracy: ... portugal?
Stan: Potty
(Computer games, nickjr, has been a better reward for success than chocolate or anything else!!)

On making sure he was pinch-proof Wednesday:
Stan: He has on a shirt with a green trex now.
Me: huh... Green trex?
Stan: Long sleeve, olive green shirt. Bright green trex. 
Me: What is trex? Curse auto-text. 
Stan: T-Rex: prehistoric giant lizard.

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Chocolate Mustache

Tried out Wei's Chinese Super Buffet - Alex is a fan (so are we). They have chichen nuggets and ketchup dips... And chocolate cake! Mmm... Chocolate mustache.

Muffin boy

Alex got up this morning wanting a muffin and we are out at home.  So we went to hyvee and bought juice and muffins for breakfast.  

Definately not as good as the muffins mommy makes.  But it was a fun adventure.

Stan & Alex

Dinner table conversation

Daddy, how many fingers do you have?

10! (holding up hands)

Lemme count... 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, pause, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10! How many fingers do I have on these hands... (counts own hands) 10!

Hurry up and eat your dinner, we have to leave soon. Tonight is the night you get to play with Grandpa.

Oh wow! I am so excited to go see Grandpa! When we get to Grammy's house Grandpa will need a hug and Grammy will need a hug too.

Yes! (grinning big)

pizza

Yesterday: On the drive home from school I told Alex that Daddy got us pizza for dinner...

I don't like pizza.
What do you mean you don't like pizza?
I don't like pizza with raisins. (black olives)
Well that's good because there aren't any raisins on it.
Oh... (long pause) what kind of chicken nuggets are on the pizza?
*sigh* The kind that's chopped up tiny.
Ok!

What would happen if I started telling him everything has chicken nuggets in it...

Long hard day

So... It's hard to tell because of the shades, but this is Alex conked out on the car ride home. One minute we were talking, then I heard a big long sigh, when I turned around he was out cold!

Stan carried him into the house where he napped on the couch for about an hour and had to be coaxed awake for dinner! Sweet boy, all the excitement from show-and-tell day wore him out.