The first four years

Four years ago on June 9, 2004, Alexa was born in California. She came home with us about 6 weeks later. One year.
Two Three.
And FOUR!
My dear Alexa,
We are so happy you share your life with us. You have the most cheerful, outgoing personality. You reach out to strangers in grocery stores and doctors' offices and no one can resist taking your hand or smiling at you. This year you have begun to "talk" to us with your sign language. You love to eat many vegetables and fruits, but do not like breads. You adore the park and cry when we drive past it to Bible study. Curious George and other stuffed monkeys are your good friends and you play with them for hours in the laundry room. You adore books. We can't wait to see you grow in the next year,
We love you,
Mom and Dad

More Pictures

We have a lot of pictures from Sunday. Here are some more of Alexa with Auntie Holly and me.



(It is hard to hide a big person behind a little person!)

Birthday party

We had a nice little party for Alexa with just family.

Isn't this cute!

She looks dismayed that I am blowing out the candles.
She got some nice new books.

Graduation Party

We had a fun graduation party yesterday. Look at all those graduates. (Renee finished massage school!)

Alexa in her Sunday clothes.

Taking out the trash

Alexa decided to take out the trash that David had pulled out of the can. He knotted the bag and sat it on the floor while putting a new bag in the can and Alexa picked it up-so we let her take it out.

Computer Woes

The reason I haven't been posting is that my computer is very sick. I am using David's computer to write email and such, but have been waiting and hoping to get my computer fixed before I start uploading pictures again. My computer is randomly rebooting, at least that is what the Dell tech support keep calling it, but that is not a good description of the problem, since what is actually happening is that it turns off and tries to restart, but fails. We got it started in safe mode and backed up all my photos and iTunes to David's computer and "restored to factory image" as Dell calls it. This is really irritating because that erases everything that I have downloaded, the computer has to be set up all over again. And on top of that, it didn't fix the problem! As I was trying to email last night, it died again, so another hour on the phone talking to a Senior Technician from Dell, and the problem is still not fixed, so I am scheduled to be on the phone with him again tonight.
However, since this blog is supposed to be about Alexa, I will share two funny things that she did yesterday. I purchased some bedding plants and was outside planting them in the front yard, when I looked up to see that Alexa had grabbed one of the small plants out of the six pack, and just as I yelled "NO" she pulled the flowers off of it with her other hand. I believe she thinks she is weeding like mommy and daddy do. Later she went into the computer room and got her sign language DVD, came into the living room and put it into Daddy's computer and started watching it. She is learning such interesting new things lately!