Happy Birthday Daddy!

Daddy oh Daddy,
We think you are super raddy.
Dixon loves to ride on your shoulders,
You are the best at red rover red rover.
You cook us dinner every night,
With you, we never have a firght.
We love to go with you on long walks,
It is the best when you can play and talk.
You make Dixon laugh by just looking into his eyes.
When you are gone, we cray and cry.
You are the best husband around,
Even though sometimes you act like a clown.
Dixon is SO lucky to have a daddy like you.
When you are around we are never blue!

Mommy and Dixon.

Adam...
It has been amazing to watch you with Dixon...you are such a great dad and amazing husband!
Love you!
Kendra :)

Last year at this time...

We were still in "discussion" over baby names.

Dixon was due in one week.

I was sitting at home after waddling around Best Buy for Adam's birthday present.

We had NO idea when Dixon would decide to come, we were ANXIOUSLY awaiting his arrival.

I was sitting on the same couch watching The Soup and Adam was in bed (not everything has changed).

Adam and I could have never imagined how much our lives were about to change, for the better.

I was 500 sticks of butter heavier! (WW girls will know the conversion rate.)

I had just finished a LONG day at Stowe School!

We had no idea how much this little bear would make our hearts and our love grow exponentially.

In case you've missed us...

Here is a brief update on our lives...

* I have been working on the paper from HECK! From the Harvard Law School Ed. Research class I am taking. I just submitted it to my partner...so I feel like I can breathe again! Ahhhhh. Everyone in the Alexander house is glad that it is over with!

*Dixon is about to turn one! He is growing like crazy and it is SO hard to believe it one year ago that he was born. In some ways it seems like he has been with us forever and some ways it feels like time has gone so fast!

* Adam has just won the park and rec. volleyball championship and is ECSTATIC! He has done a great job (as always) helping out while I was a MAD woman trying to finish my paper!

No pics today...I don't even think I have had the camera out in a week! I am working on things for Dixon's birthday partieS and Easter! I'm sure next week with be picture and post filled!

Until then...

The best $8 I have ever spent...

In the past two weeks I have spent the best $8 of my life, TWICE!

First at IKEA we got Dixon this doctor's office bead toy...which he LOVES...for only $8...and we don't even have to pay the co pay to play with it!

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I was searching online for MIRACLE cures for diaper rash...and found that many people recommended Bag Balm...which gets it's name because it was originally created for cold chapped cow udders. Luckily our small town pharmacy carries this miracle product...yes pharmacy. The same one with a fountain in the back with the best old fashioned cherry coke. The same pharamcy that allows 26 year olds to charge to their parents...carries Bag Balm for $8! Happy hineys at the Alexander house!

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