Happy Birthday Alex

Alex turned 1 on May 16th and I was surprised that I felt a little bit sad that she has reached this milestone and now wants to walk and explore without my help! She pushes me out of the way and goes after what she wants. While this worries me that she will be headstrong like I was, I'm happy that she's also showing early signs of independence and a strong spirit - life is in many ways easier if you are a strong personality! We had a lovely BBQ for her birthday, more really for the grown ups to get together and celebrate that fact that I have survived the first year! This is a fun time at her age but also an exhausting one for me, some nights I'm asleep by 10pm after chasing her around all day. In other news, we are slowly (really sooo slowly) getting the plumbing and electricity finished at our house and the drywall will be next, at which point hopefully it might start actually looking like a house that we may live in again one day. This HUGE project on our house has been very difficult for us as a family, so we're looking forward to the day when we can spend a little more time together and actually be able to find paperwork, clothes, underwear and other important belongings!
For anyone that didn't receive an email, I am participating in the Avon Walk for breast cancer in October in New York and need to raise $1800 in donations. I would appreciate any amount in donations, please contact me for ways to contribute.

We're shopping at Target again?????

This is Alexandra sitting in the cart at Target, our favorite store!! She has now grown out of the infant seat that was so convenient to use, so now every time I go to the store I have to unstrap her from the car and set her up in the cart! As you can see though she's stylin'!!! For those of you who know Alex, you know that she immediately tried to climb out so I have her strapped in all kinds of ways so she can't move! In this picture she's trying to make contact with aliens using the antenna on her head. I told her she needs to attach aluminum foil for that to really work.

Our new house

This is the outside of our new house - I know it looks "finished" but the inside has no plumbing, electricity or walls, so we have a long way to go....hopefully by the time Alex starts college it will be finished.

The McCoys in 30 years

First Steps