Happy 3rd Birthday Alexis!!!

Happy Birthday to our little princess!  Here are some pics of her helping Mommy make the cake frosting, opening some birthday presents, her fun birthday party, and more!  Oh, and if you ask her what her favorite part of the birthday was?  Not presents, not having friends and family over, nope...her favorite part was having CAKE!   Enjoy!

Making frosting with mommy (more like eating it!)

Concentrating so hard on making frosting flowers for cake. 

Birthday Girl!!!

Dora Cake that Mommy made

(with Alexis' help on making the frosting!)

Enjoying her new cash register with Daddy!  Hopefully Alexis will become a better businesswoman as she grows older--when I "bought" a crayon from her for $6 (her asking price), I told her I only had a $5, so I gave her the $5 bill.  Then she gave me another $5 bill and 25 cent coin in return.  So I got paid 25 cents for buying a crayon from her.  :)

Yay, Tinkerbell!!!

"Look, I'm a princess!"

Party time!!!

Friends...

Cute cousins...

Funny Faces!

On the move!  Even Vo-vo's can't stop her now!

Chasing friends around the house...and being chased! 

I'll have to upload hilarious video of this later. 

HAPPY 3rd BIRTHDAY ALEXIS! 

WE LOVE YOU!!! 

Love, Your Mommy and Daddy  :)

(by the end of the day, and with no nap, Alexis was pretty tired,

so this is the best picture we have of us with her on her birthday...poor baby, practically fell asleep before her head hit the pillow!)

Alexis Walking!!!

So the surgeon told us not to expect Alexis to walk for 2-3 weeks after getting the cast off and to just let her go at her own pace.  Little did he, or we, know that Alexis' pace is pretty darn fast.  Let's see...Monday she gets the cast off and tries to take a few very wide legged, cowboy style steps while holding onto our hands, Tuesday I get this email at work from Chris who works from home and shared some amazing news:

FYI...Alexis has decided that she doesn't like anyone holding on to her when she walks.  She just walked (wobbled) from the end of the couch over to me by the table by herself.  Your mom follows with her hands by Alexis's sides, but not actually touching her.  She'll be running by the end of the week :)

By Thursday, just 3 days after getting her cast off, I get another email from Chris in response to an email I sent the doctor asking about Alexis' leg length discrepancy post-surgery and knee pain she was complaining about:

Forget about "wanting" to take steps, today she was playing outside on the deck going down her slide.  After she went down, she would get up and make your mom let her walk back to the slide BY HERSELF and then CLIMB back up the slide stairs BY HERSELF to go down again.

She is, obviously, still imping and walking gingerly, but she was walking a lot today!

And that weekend, she began walking with her legs and feet a bit less crooked/angled outwards.  It's now 4 weeks post-cast off and she is walking, jumping, dancing, doing the hokey pokey, and playing ring-around-the rosy with no problem.  She also began running this past week!  You can still tell she has a limp, esp. when she is tired and it's the end of the day, but I'm still amazed at the progress over the last 4 weeks!  I'm so proud of my stubborn little Alexis who wants to do things her way, on her own "by myself" as she often says.  I guess she has a pretty stubborn Mom and Dad, so who can blame her, right?  :)

Here's some pics of her walking that first week and playing ring-around-the-rosy with Daddy, vo-vo's and dolls:

Happy Easter!

 

ooh, eggs!

 

eeewww, eggs?!

 

yuck, eggs!