Swing in for a good time!

First things first.  One of my best friends, Jennifer, is pregnant!!! I am so excited for her new adventure that she is going through and I can't wait to meet baby B. She is due on September 10th which will be here in no time! I know she and Stu are going to make amazing parents!  This is the first of my friends that I have had the pleasure to endure their pregnancy with from start to finish.  My other best friends who have children (and I say children because they are all over the age of 5 by now) were all pregnant while living out of town and one even went through her pregnancy out of the country! Also, she is my first friend to be pregnant since I had Aleczander and I can share some experiences/stories/advice with her since I was in her shoes not too long ago. 

Speaking of my spud, I cannot believe he is creeping up on "the terrible 2's" (although I could of sworn we were already there).  We are only about 6 weeks away from my baby turning 2 years old.  Where does the time go?!?!  This past weekend we bought Alec a new swing set that daddy put together ALL by himself.  I tried to help him, but the control freak, over-bearing, want to do everything/question everything side of me didn't mesh well with the project at hand.  So he took over and voila...

Isn't it wonderful?!?! 

 And I think it is safe to say Alec likes it...

Here is Alec in Alfred's truck just "kicking back" while we were out and about the other day. 

I love his baby Converse shoes.

A couple of weeks ago, Alfred and I had a nice day out with Aleczander.  We took him to the Children's Museum in the Woodlands for a couple of hours and he really enjoyed himself.

He loved the fisht tank! I have been trying to convince Alfred to get Alec a little fish tank and maybe a beta fish, but no go on that idea yet.  The next day was Superbowl Sunday and as usual, we had an impromptu get together at the casa with some of the in-laws and my baby (my big baby) did his thing on the BBQ pit.  While daddy was making it happen on the grill, Aleczander was making it happen with the baseball bat.

That's my future Yankee right there! 

 Look at how he holds the bat!! He is a NATURAL!

A new love of Aleczander's is shooting pool. Ever since Alfred was tall enough to see over the side of the pool table he has been giving his uncles a run for their money.  Well it looks like Aleczander is picking up on daddy's good talents. The other night we had Alec on our pool table in the garage and he was pushing all of the balls into the pockets with the que stick.  He was so proud of himself and he did so well with it. 

My baby loves any game that has a ball! He also loves his "choo-choos" Thomas and Gordon. Those thing are on all day at the house making sounds from some corner or from under some cushion.  If you attempt to turn off the toy at any time, he will find it and turn it back on.  He has to have them on in the background just making their "choo-choo" sounds. 

Alfred and I were suppose to go see Linkin Park last night in concert for our Valentine's date but they cancelled the show.  They rescheduled for March 3rd so we are excited about that.  So since we already had a babysitter lined up, we decided to take advantage of that and went and had a nice dinner instead.  It's rare that he and I get some alone time out and about so it was nice.  He is so amazing to me and an awesome father.  I really do look forward to what life has in store for us.





Where did "spud" come from?

So out of nowhere I have started to call Alec "spud" and for some reason I think it fits him well. Maybe I picked it up from watching too much Toy Story with him and recently his favorite toy has become the Mr. Potato head his Titi Chris got him. He has started a new game where he thinks it's fun to jump off the couch. He jumps feet first, head first and his favorite, cannon ball style.

He also likes to climb up on our nightstands and turn our lamps on and off repeatedly. Man, does he get angry if we try to take him down!  Unfortunately, I see some broken bones in the future with this kid. Thankfuly, we just found out yesterday that a 24 hour emergency room just opened up in the front of our neighborhood.  Talk about piece of mind!!!

Yesterday I did a little celebrating for my upcoming 29th birthday at Painting with a Twist in the Woodlands with some really good friends.  We had a great time and made some pretty paintings. 

Here we are before we got started on our masterpieces.

I've known each of these ladies since Elementary School.

My Yennifer.

My fellow office dwellers.

Kat, the crafty inspiration that I spoke about in my first blog.

My Best Friend Deniece.

My final product.

We all did such a great job!!

Then a few of us headed to BJ's Brewhouse in the Woodlands for some grub.

That's me! 3 days before turning 29!

BJ's Brewhouse was a pretty cool spot.  The food was pretty good too.  Thanks for the great suggestion, Jennifer!  I had an awesome time.  These ladies really did help contribute to me having an awesome birthday.  And I really needed a good time.  A lot of stuff has been going on in my personal life that I will chose not to talk about because I don't want to get all pissed off again.  I will just leave it at that...

Alfred finally got some information on his promotion today and to say the least, we are excited and satisfied with what is coming our way.  He is such a hard worker and truly deserves all that comes to him.

My mom is chillin' (literally) in New York until tomorrow for a vacation.  She really needed one and deserved one.  The temperature in NY has been around 18 degrees and there is snow on the ground everywhere.  I envy her.  I should have saved the ticket for myself.  Kidding mom...

As I sit here and type, Aleczander is enjoying Toy Story for the 3rd time today.  Alfred has the whole movie memorized and can recite it word for word.  Alec knows when specific parts of the movie are coming up like when they are going to scream, make a barking or sheep noise, and he makes the noise before it comes on.  And he says "baby" before the baby actually shows up on the screen. He's so smart.  Too smart sometimes.

Well the next time I make an entry, I will be 29.  Let's see how I feel when I actually enter the last year of my 20's. 

Ta Ta for now!

Hard to make it a habit.

So, it's been about 3 weeks since my last post and I have nothing to blame but myself. And my son who exhausts me on a daily basis. But he is just so damn cute and fun to be with and I can't get enough of him. Recently we went and had his pictures taken to enter into a "North America's Cutest Baby" contest but the web-site for voting isn't up yet. But here is a link to his pictures. http://koppiwrite.zenfolio.com/ahernandez The contest is to help support a foundation called "Now I Lay Me down to Sleep" which I believe is an amazing foundation. Not everyone would agree with what the foundation does but I think it is amazing to have people out there that are willing to help a family through their suffering. When the voting goes up, I will be sure to let everyone know.


Well good news came to our little family yesterday. Alfred got promoted to a senior manager at the bank! There are over 220 managers across the state and only 18 of them were chosen for the promotion and my hubby was one of them!! He is so amazing!! He works so hard and gives it his all on a daily basis. He is going to go far with this company, I know it! It was a total surprise to him when they called him on stage to have it announced in front of everyone at the state wide manager's conference. I can't wait to see what's in store for us!



My 29th birthday is in 7 days. My last year in my 20's. Sounds so crazy. I don't feel sad or weird about turning 30, but then again I have another year before that happens so those feelings may change. For my 29th birthday me and some of my girlfriends are going to spend a couple of hours at Painting with a Twist in the Woodlands to hang out and then maybe some dinner afterwards. Just a nice and relaxing Sunday. For my birthday, Alfred finally agreed to purchase my dream TV. I have been attempting to persuade him to buy a new TV for about 2 years now and he finally gave in. So we have an amazing 55' LG LED hanging above our fireplace. It came with a wireless media box that sends the signals of all the components hooked up to it to the TV. So our TV is clean looking and wireless. I love it!! My hubby is so good to me. Of course as soon as the TV goes up the first things to be turned on are Football and then Chugginton for Aleczander. What ever makes my boys happy!

Speaking of Football... I am starting to actually like the sport. Up until this year, I haven't paid much attention to it and I claimed to be a Cowboys fan because my hubby is a Cowboys fan. Well now that I am paying a little more attention, I am beginning to realize the Cowboys suck. So I decided that for next year I am going to pick out my own team and it looks like the Jets may have my vote. I'm from New York so it works. And Mark Sanchez is totally sexy, so it works even more. I makes it easy to keep up with the sport when he's playing.

Well that's all I have time for today. Ta-ta for now!