Alexa photo shoot

I started this post before Tyler came, so I might as well finish. It will probably be the last Alexa-only focused post!

Malori did an Alexa photo shoot just before Christmas, and here are some of the fun pictures she took.

I think I’ve mentioned before that Alexa loves praying, and has recently starting helping us say them all the time. A normal prayer goes something like this with Alexa saying or repeating the underlined parts: “Heavenly Father, thank you for this lunch (insert whatever food and she’ll say it). Bless us to be healthy and strong. Thank you for mommy and daddy. We love you. In the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.” And then she claps. At lunch today she wanted to say the prayer three times.

She has also just recently started saying her name all the time. The ‘x’ was a little hard for her before now, but she now calls herself “Alexa!” instead of “baby.” I was clipping her fingernails this morning so that she doesn’t claw Tyler while trying to constantly give him love, and she totally counted to 10 as we did each finger! The previous record was 6 I think.

I took her visiting teaching with me last week, and had her sitting next to me coloring. I looked down, and their dog was eating her crayon! Eek. I apologized and said that I hoped we didn’t just kill the dog. They said the wax would be good for his digestive system and make his poop beautiful J.

We were starting to watch Lord of the Rings as she was drinking her bottle before bed, and Gollum cried at something mean that Sam said to him and she totally started hysterically crying. Never seen that before.

Last Sunday, I was upstairs doing the dishes and looked down to see Alexa flipping through the Friend. I thought it was so cute that I took a picture.

We got lots of snow last week, and Alexa really wanted to play in it while I shoveled. She started shoving handfuls of it in her mouth, though, and I was pretty sure that she was going to die because of the horribly bad inversion that we've had lately. Anyway, she then went all by herself into the garage and got a broom to start helping me clean the driveway :). Love this girl.

For lunch today, Kyle told Alexa to come upstairs and have some noodles. Her response: "And bacon?!" I laughed so hard. Love this girl.

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