Alex’s school had a little event for his birthday today. They do it for all the kids. They do a thing where they put down a candle to represent the sun, then cards with the months around the sun. Then the birthday kid walks around the sun while all the kids all sing a song about the days and months in the year. Each time the birthday kid gets to the month their birthday is in, they stop and the parents show a picture from that age and potentially say a little bit about that age. Afterwords, there is a snack with the birthday kid’s favorite fruit. It was a fun little time.
And it made me find a picture of Alex from each September since he was born. Which was also fun. Here are the six pictures I picked for Alex:
2009-09-25 19:09 UTC – Approximately Age 0 – The first picture I have of Alex with his eyes wide open and paying attention.
2010-09-12 21:04 UTC – Approximately Age 1 – Alex in his birthday hat on his first birthday
2011-09-11 17:20 UTC – Approximately Age 2 – Alex and Amy in the driveway of our new house as we are moving in right as Alex turns two
2012-09-03 02:06 UTC – Approximately Age 3 – Alex at a nearby park with a lake and a beach
2013-09-13 01:56 UTC – Approximately Age 4 – Alex as he opens presents
2014-09-11 21:53 UTC – Approximately Age 5 – Alex plays in a pit of flying balloons
He is so handsome! Wasn’t he just born though? lol Wow, time flies.
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Great pictures.
handsome – winsome – and does seem older each year – very verbal now – but only when he wants to be!
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@GWR: It sure SEEMS like he was just born. But he knows better. In the pictures above for Zero and One, he was still figuring out who he was. But I’m pretty sure in all the pictures from two on, he is very certain he knows the kind of kid he is and what he wants. :-)
@DM: Thanks as usual. Of course, I am reminded that I need to get a move on working on the monthly pictures post for August… :-)
@RB: Indeed, when he wants to he talks and talks and talks. But the second WE want him to talk, he just barks and meows. :-)