Update from Alexandria

We have been up to a lot since the last post! Doing projects, going on walks, going to ward activities, organizing play groups, doing community and ward service, me being sick, basketball, and other things I can't remember. Here are a few of the things we have been doing.

I finally repainted our microwave stand! We bought this when we moved in here from a yard sale for $5, it is a great little stand. I like the drawers and the extra shelf and the best part is it has wheels, however, we weren't really feeling the black and gold. We got the paint to redo it a few weeks after buying it but I never got around to it until now. Here are the before and after pictures.

 

I used a stencil to do the blue flower design to put some color into our kitchen. I am thinking of doing a design down the side but not sure yet. I will either do the same flowers down the side or a couple blue and yellow stripes with different widths.When the microwave is on it covers up about half the design. 

Since our Ward doesn't meet until 3pm now we decided it would be good to get out and go for a walk once in a while before church. So last week we decided to go to Theodore Roosevelt Island. I have seen it a few times from the road as we drove by and thought it looked like a fun place to go look at. There is a walking bridge to get on to the island and then there are trails that go around the island (1.4 mile loop) and in the middle of it there is a big statue of Teddy Roosevelt and a bunch of other concrete stuff. We went here a few days after the snow storm so there was still snow everywhere and it made the stroller really hard to push. It was a fun walk. 

Daddy and Fife relaxing before bedtime

For playgroup we had a valentines day party and I made these rolo brownie bites that were soooo good. I really wanted to decorate them cute so colored the frosting and put it in a ziploc bag, cut off a corner and made these designs on them. 

That got me wanting to try out cake decorating, so I got a cake decorating kit with different tips and made some reeses brownie bites, which were even better, for our ward movie night. I didn't have time to make homemade frosting like with the rolo ones so the frosting was a bit runnier but it was still so much fun to do and I got to test out the different tips. I am hoping to do a cake next.

We had a snow storm here a few weeks ago! They said it was supposed to snow more than a foot but it ended up snowing about 8 inches. It would snow a lot and then rain and melt the snow and then snow again and freeze all the rainsnow and snow more. Taylor got to work from home that day and we all built a snowman together. The snow was very wet and heavy, it took some serious muscles to build this guy (snowy is his name). 

This is poor snowy after a few days. The snow didn't last long because it kept raining. If you look closely you will see his right arm (on the left) is still intact. The top fell over about 30 seconds after I took this picture.

There is still a tiny ball of him left today. It snowed about 3 inches last night and this morning so we may rebuild him again later today! Taylor is working from home today because they closed a lot of the transportation in anticipation for the big storm, which ended up being not so big after all. I'm not complaining!

We normally give Fife a bath in the tub, but Taylor wanted to show him what it feels like to take a bath as an adult (being crammed in a tub). Fife loves baths so much I don't think he minded at all. He is going to be a hot tub guy, I can already tell.

Fife is doing great. He has yet to be sick, even though I have been sick probably 3 times since he was born. He is a tough guy. He is still rolling and loves to play. He can be very loud at times, testing out his voice box, he loves to squeal and laugh and has recently started making short staccato grunts which he thinks are very funny. He had his checkup around 2 weeks ago. He was 25.5 inches tall (65th %ile), had a 16.75 inch head circumference (77th %ile), and was 15lbs 7oz (49th %ile). We love our boy!