New stuff Alex is doing lately

• Peeing as soon as his diaper comes off.  He's doing this on purpose.  He thinks it's hilarious, particularly if he's standing up.  The other day he peed in John's shoe.  He's even been able to take his own diaper off on occasion to pee all over the place.



• Saying "All Done!" when he's done eating or done taking a bath.  It's so cute, it makes up for the pissing all over thing.



• He's officially named one of his toys.  He's never named anything before, but John came home with a little Furby (a happy meal toy from McD's) the other day that Alex has dubbed "NEMO!".  I don't think it's a coincidence that the night before we watched Finding Nemo.



• If asked, he can show you his:  eyes, nose, mouth, ears, hair, fingers and toes.  We're working on belly button, but he doesn't seem to get it.  He'll just point to a random spot on his belly.  If you ask him to point to Daddy's belly button, he points to John's nipple.



• He is REALLY excited about babies.  If we see a baby outside or on television, he explodes in excitement squealing "BABY! BABY! BABY!"



• He does the same thing with dogs and kitties ("PUPPY!" and "TEE!")



• He calls pizza "Peepa"



• I'm finding he knows a lot more than I realize.  The other day he was chasing me around with a book saying "apple, apple, apple".  I didn't get why until I sat down with him to read the book and saw that the cover of the book has an apple on it.  He's able to point out many of the pictures in the few books we brought. ("where's the puppy?", "Where's the bunny", "where's the truck", "where's the yellow sun"...)



• He is a royal pain in the ass to go out to eat with.  This is a problem since we have to go out to eat every day.  He usually won't eat but two or three bites of whatever we order for him, then he flings his food all over and starts to stand up in his highchair.  When we make him sit we get the evil-ear-piercing-scream-of-death.  He also insists that all of the patrons of the restaurant play peek-a-boo with him.  Which, yea, is kinda cute.