Swimming

A month of Swimming Lessons and tomorrow is the last one :-(. Alexander will miss getting together with all the other kids, but we will have to make frequent trips to the pool because he LOVES it. We will keep in good practice before getting to the beach in San Diego in about 1 month!

This weekend we plan to show off his swimming skills to our friend Lindsay and then in a month to Zia Lindsey. He does love to show off when it comes to swimming. We have some new pictures and video with Daddy we will have to add later. Here's the first week of swimming.

Telethon and Two Minute UMC Spot

Well, the weekend was successful but definitely busy. I think it wore us all out, but Alexander was a trooper. Alexander got hives on Friday afternoon. They went away and were more than back on Saturday morning when he woke up. They looked horrible! Leave it to Jason's son to get hives on the weekend of his live TV debut. Jason was always sick or injured on his birthday and holidays as a kid.

Alexander had fun at the telethon where he helped answer phones and was never without eager hands to hold him.

He was on the evening news Friday night,

sitting with Karin McCay and trying to eat the mic.

His spot ran on Saturday at 2:30 for the kick-off of the telethon. You can see the piece at: http://www.kcbd.com/Global/category.asp?C=138135. This doesn't include the live part we did at telethon, but it was short and Alexander tried again to hold and talk into the microphone. We stayed for an hour or two on Saturday.

On Sunday, we went back after church and stayed until the final total was announced. Children's Miracle Network raised $1,006,902 this year! On Sunday, we helped our favorite morning DJs, Jeff, Kelly and Mudflap answer phones and they showed our UMC commercial and we did a short live interview with Abner from News Channel 11. Alexander was jumping, waving and clapping during this interview....luckily stealing the show. Then, all the kids went out at the end with the final total and confetti.

VBS started up Sunday night and went really well. Alexander started swim lessons on Monday! More to come on that in the next post. We finally found our two minute spot on the UMC website, so here's another video you can check out. https://www.umchealthsystem.com/truestories/

We survived the Telethon, three nights of VBS, two nights of Swim Lessons and our first three day Red Raider Orientation. Definitely resting up this weekend and looking forward to a swedish massage on Saturday!

Busy Week, Busier Weekend Ahead

Summer finally feels like it is here! Bring on the fun!

Memorial Day weekend was very fun and relaxing! We had toured Texas Tech with the best tour guide the campus has ever seen. We bought a great new rug for the living room. We had some wonderful salmon dinner one night and a great cook-out the next thanks to Chef J Biggs. We enjoy the Drive-In. Stephani won a couple rounds of Progressive Rummy and Speed Scrabble.

This week has been quite an adventure for Mr. Alexander.

Monday, Great-Grandma Ruby, Nana Gayle, Pops and Zia Lindsey all had to drive home. Then we went to a luncheon with friends from all over the world and had to tell some very special guys "Good-bye, until we meet again in Syria and Turkey."

Tuesday, our new babysitter from Perryton, of all places, came over to play with and take care of Alexander. He really likes her and did great eating and napping for a new person.

Wednesday, she was good enough to come back! And I think day 2 was just as good, if not better. Also, Wednesday night we had our monthly speech visit and worked on eating some chuncky avocado. Yummm!

Thursday, Daddy stayed home in the morning until our new babysitter got out of class. Then the day would be spent learning a new babysitter and her learning Alexander.

Friday, our Perryton girl will be back and ending the week on a high note!

Friday night is the kick off to KCBD's Children's Miracle Network Telethon with a Pizza Party!

Saturday morning Mom's going to a baby shower for one of Alexander's future friends. Then we will be on TV around 2:30 on Saturday afternoon. Mom and Dad will be answering phones at the telethon while Alexander will be entertaining the people with his smile, crawling and new tricks. The telethon goes until midnight on Saturday, although I'm sure we won't be there near that long.

Sunday, church in the morning, lunch at the hospital for the end of the telethon, telethon excitement until about 5pm with final totals being announced, and then a cook-out at church to kick off VBS. Mom's doing Arts and Crafts during VBS Sunday-Wednesday nights.

Better rest today and some tomorrow to get ready for all of this.

Check out Alexander's website where people can donate to Children's Miracle Network at UMC to help kids all over Lubbock, West Texas and New Mexico.

http://www.kintera.org/faf/donorReg/donorPledge.asp?ievent=420693&lis=0&kntae420693=A8F61ECE39C54F3BA4C9AB144E7CBDD5&supId=293283626