I can't believe it's been a month since I last posted. We've been way too busy! Just after our trip to the ballpark we were off to Denver for four days, home for the week, then to Phoenix the following weekend. Gramma and Grandpa came for a visit and then last weekend we were at the ER with a sick little boy.
We visited Uncle M and Aunt K at their new house in Phoenix a couple of weekends ago. Couldn't pass up an unbelievable Southwest airfare ($25 one-way - wow!) Alex was a terrific traveler, as usual. He loves being in airplanes, trains, buses, cars, strollers. If it moves, he's happy.
Gramma and Grandpa were visiting Phoenix while we were there and flew home with us. They stayed for just a few days, then flew back to Pennsylvania. The next day, Alex suddenly had a fever. The Saturday before Mother's Day found us at the doctor getting treated for an ear infection. We started on antibiotics, but his fever just kept going up and up. Later that day we were back to the hospital, where he got an antibiotic injection in an effort to bring his temperature down. Mother's Day was spent holding a very sick little boy. Late Sunday night the fever finally broke and by Tuesday afternoon he was back to his happy little self. It was a hard weekend.
Today we rode the train into San Francisco for the Taiwanese-American Cultural Festival in Union Square. We ate yummy noodles and rice, watched some beautiful Taiwanese dancers who were from the same county Alex was born in and listened to great music. Alex loved the music, cheering throughout the performance.
Alex's vocabulary has taken off in the last month. Over the course of one week we heard, for the first time, Cheese, Shoes, and Juice. Later he added Socks with the shoes. And speaking of shoes and socks, he's become an expert at removing both shoes and socks from his feet. I'm going to need to get some shoes that buckle - he's onto the velcro and it's impossible to keep the shoes on his feet anymore. Good thing summer is around the corner. We'll be barefoot until winter, I think.
