Alex

I have so many events to post photos about. We just got back from a few days at a little cabin in the woods. Very fun, and we all ended up sleeping in one room together. Alex slept on the air mattress, since he doesn't have the hang of not falling out of a big bed yet. He found it hard to fall asleep each night. The last night we were there he kept telling me things once the light went out.

"Mommy?" "Yes Alex" "I like our little cabin."
"Mommy?" "Yes Alex" "I'm not very sleepy."
"Mommy?" "Yes Alex" "I like the Stinky Cheese Man book."

But my favorite was

"Mommy?" "Yes Alex" "I hope you have good dreams in your brain tonight." (Which was actually pronounced "I hope you have good dweams in you bwain tonight.").

I don't know where he learned about the brain. But I fell asleep with a smile on my face after that.

Why he's mad

Alex has a tiny little Incredible Hulk figure that he got - I think Grace bought it for him from Target. He and I were shopping the other day and he brought it along. He held it up to me and we had this conversation:

"Look Mama, Hulk is angry."
"Yes, he looks like he is. Why do you think he is angry?"
"I think it is because hims pants are ripped."

Could be.

Sick again

I'm just getting my voice back after almost two days of laryngitis, Jim was home sick yesterday with a flu-like illness and still recovering, Alex is on unknown week of his mystery cough/lung problems (probably getting another chest x-ray next week). Grace is currently the only one not sick, though will produce a feeble cough when she feels like her brother's cough is getting too much attention.

I'll get Halloween pics up soon. The dog snacked on the camera cable, so I no longer download straight to my laptop, making posting pics a two-step process with Jim's big computer. Just not as easy as it was before.