Today CJ and Alexa will both be seeing their first in the theater movie. Horton Hears A Who, which is at our cheap theater which has $0.50 matinees on Wednesday.
I’m really excited, and very nervous that I’ll spend the whole time playing with Alexa in the lobby. My mom and dad are visiting and my mom is going with us, so she can stay with CJ at the movie if I have to take Alexa out.
Hopefully we all have a good time!
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CJ is just about as under the weather as I am, and last night we were both lying in my bed together watching The Price Is Right on TV. He likes the big spinning wheel, I found.
I kissed the top of his head and asked him “Are you feeling better, baby?”
And he looked up at me very seriously and said “I not a baby. I CJ.”
How fast they grow up…
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I just love this age. Well, I love any age. But still.
Alexa has taken to yelling what i can only surmise to be “Hug!” and then running full-tilt into our legs (or, just running into CJ) and grabbing us as hard as she can. It sounds like she is yelling “Ha!” but I think it is hug. 
It is so cute and it just makes my heart melt. I love this age.
She is exactly the right height to headbutt Matt in a delicate area. I don’t think he’s quite as amused by it.
This morning CJ tried to explain to Alexa that he did not want to hug right now. So instead, she knocked him over. 
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Alexa has a cold, and yesterday developed the barking cough I know all too well as croup. She was sleeping upstairs in her crib when CJ got home from school, and I had the monitor on downstairs so I could hear her if she needed me. As CJ and I played, every so often, we would hear a cough over the monitor.
And every time, CJ would ask me where the dog was.
I finally convinced him the noise was Alexa barking, not a dog. So CJ happily exclaimed “Alexa is a dog!”
He seemed happy about this development.
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Alexa likes to chew on things. Well, not just things. Everything. She is seriously orally-fixated and will shove anything and everything in her mouth. For being so interested in chewing, you’d think that at 16 months she would have more than 4 teeth, but I digress.
One of her very favorite things to chew on is cardboard. Board books, boxes, any thing she can find that is cardboard, she will gnaw on, and if she gnaws a piece off, she’ll very carefully scoop it out of her mouth and drop it on the floor. Little wet cardboard piles… yum. We of course do not let her chew randomly on things, but sometimes she gets away with it. She’ll even rip parts off of bigger books to find the cardboard part she can chew on. Niiiiiice.
CJ is not on board with this phenomenon at all. It is really funny to watch a three year old try to explain to a one year old that she doesn’t want to chew on a board book, but try he does. He tells her no, says “Yuck” and makes gagging noises, but she blissfully ignores him. So yesterday he brought out the big guns.
“Alexa, that not cookie good!”
She still ignored him, but I know where his food priorities lie.
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