Growing with the Alpert's

We had two excited events happen this labor day weekend, first, and my personal favorite, Cason was potty trained!!! Second we went to the zoo on the first cool day since May! It was beautiful!

Cason was the easiest toddler I have ever potty trained. And that is saying a lot! I have worked in childcare for 10 years and have potty trained a lot of two and three year old. He pretty much did it on his own. We have always taken him to sit on the potty before bath and on other occasions when he seemed interested. At around 18 months he really became interested but I was still working and it was too difficult to spend the time needed. Also he didn't quite have the vocabulary yet. So I decided I would take him when I could and in the mean time work on build his vocabulary. Well over this last month Cason's favorite thing to do was run around naked. He would always asked at diaper changes, "Nakie?" I would tell him, "Ok, but you can't potty on the floor." Well after just a few times of potting on the floor he realized what was going on and didn't do it anymore. So last week I decided ww would spend a few days naked and low and behold he potty trained!! We had a small potty in the living room and he would use his big potty as well. The best part, he would go all by himself when he needed to. He could also tell us when he needed to go. The next step was getting him used to wearing clothes. He had a few accidents with the clothes but quickly picked up on the idea. With in four days I could officialyl say he was potty trained. I can't believe it, my 22 month old took less than a week to potty train!! It is a great feeling knowing I will only have one in diapers :)

Now on to the zoo. Nana and Poppi came down for a visit on Sunday and since the weather was going to be gorgeous we planned a trip to the zoo for Monday. Hannah, Kyle, Emi, Abby and Livi, joined us as well and we had the best time!! The kids really loved seeing the animals and you could tell that the animals were excited about the cooler weather too. The lions were very playful and came right up to the window. Cason even thought he was petting them. Of course there was thick glass separating the two of them but he didn't care. The lion was only centimeters from him and he could put his hand up to him. It was too cute!

I have to say that this Labor day weekend was the most memorable and probably the best I have ever had!! Family, potty training and a cool day it doesn't get much better!!

That is about all for now enjoy some pictures!

He loves to immiate Daddy!

We have a had great summer!! Caosn has been able to do so much! We first spent time at the Lucas Farm in Mexia picking peaches and tomatoes. Cason is a farm boy and loves it outside. He loves playing in the dirt, eating the fresh fruit, and sweeping Granny's floor :)

After the farm we then spent some time in Hunstville with Grandma Honey and Papa Bear. Cason had a blast playing basketball with Aunt Banana. We then headed to the beach!! We had such an amazing time playing in the sand and enjoying the water.

Needless to say it was a busy time! Enjoy the pictures I will let them do most of the talking and keep this short.

Sweeping at Granny's

Eating the peaches

Well, as many of you know we have two great things to share! First, we bought our very first house!! We are so excited and love it very much. Second, we are pregnant! Baby Alpert #2 will be here around October 4. We are so exicted and we know Cason will be a great big brother.

Sorry this post is so late! I will try to do a better job of keeping up with the blog this year.

So where do we begin......

Cason is doing great! He is so smart! It just blows us away on how much he knows and understands. He is really interested in sign language so we have been working on that quite a bit. He can sign please, thank you, all done, bath, cereal, milk, blue, red, elephant, giraffe and eat. There maybe some more but those are the most used right now. Yesterday he did three signs in a row for me. He saw the Cheerios on top of the fridge and then signed eat, cereal, please! I was so impressed. He also has words that he can say like momma, daddy, kitty, and doggie. I also think that he can say Keaton. Keaton is the baby that I watch and Cason just loves him!

We had a good time visiting on our Christmas Break. We went to Nana and Poppi for three days and got to ride on the tractor with Great-Grandad, help feed the cows, pet the horse and had fun playing outside in the country. After leaving there we traveled to Papa Bears and Grandma Honey's house. Cason got his second haircut, which he did not like, but it looked great. He had a fun time chasing the Kittys around the house and visiting family.

Our Christmas however was not great. When we got home on Thursday Cason started running fever. By Christmas morning his fever was 104 and he had been miserable for almost three days. Since of course there where no doctors offices open we ended up in the ER at Children's. They told us he has a viral throat infection that looked and acting like strep but couldn't be treated. So we went to our homeopath to get something to help the little guy get over it faster. The doc had told us it could last a week! I did not want him in that pain for that long! He is still battling the virus though as it has done what most viruses do, and caused a secondary infection. But he is on the mend and will hopefully make it through the rest of winter without complications.

Now on to some news.....

We are buying a house!!!! We are very excited since this will be our first home. The idea of having a home, raising our family in it and calling it ours is so overwhelming! We know that this is a wonderful step for our family. I will post some pictures of the house as soon as I can.

Well I think that is about all for now. Enjoy the pictures!!