Around Halloween

Abby was an angel for Halloween. Melinda bought her dress almost a month early. Abby would ask to wear it frequently. When Halloween finally came she got her wear her ‘rella dress’ she was determined not to take it off. She cried and screamed when Melinda tried to take it off after we got done tricking or treating. We went up to the neighborhood in Sandy and went from the Saxey’s down to the end of the street to the south, then back up on the opposite side until we cut back to Mom’s house. We decided to let her wear it home. She agreed to take it off to go to bed, but had to put it back on first thing next morning. She wore it all that day and because I put her to bed that night I let her wear it to bed as well. Unfortunately, the fabric of the dress gave her a rash which was especially bad on her back and chest. We thought it might have been an outbreak of eczema, but narrowed it down to an allergic reaction to the dress because the outbreak coincided with Halloween.

One night, after we had got Abby to bed and turned our attention to Alex, we couldn’t find him. We had ruled out the downstairs because the light was off. Eventually I decided to go down and check and I found him sitting at Melinda’s desk looking at the computer. Her monitor was the only light in the room. He had made his way across the toy covered floor just to sit and ‘work’ on her computer.

Just yesterday while I was at Halo night with Robby Clayton, Melinda and the kids were watching Pride and Prejudice. Alex really enjoyed it and sat on Melinda’s lap entirely focused on the movie. He especially enjoyed the dancing scenes and excitedly pointed at the screen and got down to dance around himself.

At some time Abby let one rip, ‘cut the cheese’ then smiled a silly grin. Melinda told her to say excuse me. She refused saying, ‘No, Abby’s funny”

Alex is usually the first one up in the morning. He comes and plays around in our room and on our bed for awhile until I get up with him to get him his breakfast. The other day while he was sitting in his chair and waiting for me to get his bowl he points to Abby’s empty chair next to him and says, “Abba?” That’s the way he says her name. He understands almost everything we say to him and he is quickly learning how to talk. Lately he response to everything you say by answering, “What?”

Alex still really likes Yager. He tends to get rough with him and wrestles or squishes him. Yager doesn’t seem to mind. Melinda tells me that the other day he tried to eat Yager’s tail. He immediately stuck his tongue out and tried to spit the hair off his tongue. Melinda helped him get it off and he finally calmed down.