The leaves are falling!

Quick family photo

Ready for bed

Grandma Jackon is out playing in the leaves with me.

What?

Ok, now I'll smile!

If you look close, you can see my two teeth.

It's bit chilly outside today, but that doesn't stop me.

Grrr!

There goes Marvin, one of my cats!

Can't quite decide if I like this.

These pictures were taken 10/30/08

Alex 10mo. old

Outside and Walkin'!

Alex and Grandpa Jackson

(These pictures below where taken on Oct 31, 2008)
Alex loved playing out in the leaves! I think he liked the way they crunched.

Quick family photo!

Alex kept trying to get the metal piece off of the limestone. But when he couldn't, he just proceded to put things in it!

Alex is giving Puddy a hug! He loves his dog.

That blur in his right hand is a leaf that he's waving madly in the air!

haha... I like this shot. It was taken while he was 'talking'!

Alex has walked across the back yard multiple times with this truck. And he does it talking/laughing most of the way!

Dad was pushing Alex for a while, but he prefered to walk on his own.

Sometimes, crawling is the best way to get where you want to go. In this case, they are headed to the garden. (To water my garden, I have to use 3 hoses to reach it. So he crawled quite a distance!)

By the way, I changed a setting and anyone should be able to make comments now! I will leave it that way unless we start getting a bunch of anonymous people leaving comments.

Video--Alex on the move!

Here's a video of Alex walking! You get to see him crawl, walk with his truck, and walk on his own. I little bit of everything! :)

Outside

These were taken just a week or so ago. Alex was having a fabulous time with the leaves, sticks and cats. When planes fly overhead, he looks for them and watches them fly by. We have five 4-week old kittens in the dog house. Alex loves to lean over the edge of the flower bed and look at them and talk to them. In the second picture from the bottom, you can see his two teeth! I thought he was teething a couple more a while ago, but I haven't seen them come in yet. So maybe I'm wrong. Alex is going to be walking soon. He's been taking steps on his own (3 or 4) and can stand by himself fairly easily now. He walks along the couches, foot stools, and coffee table more and more these days. Pretty soon we'll have to run to catch up!

CAT machines

Ok, so here's just pictures of tracters! (just for you, Grandpa!) I dont know the names of any of them, but I do know the second from bottom is the kind Pete and his team of engineers work on. This picture is of the biggest one there is (in the world actually), but Pete works on the smaller models too. However, the favorite pictre is the first one...that spec in front of the huge bulldoser is yes, Alex! (Pete, maybe you can make comments on the photos and give more details about each.)

Family Day at CAT

Andy's brother, Pete, works for Caterpilar in Peoria, IL. They recently had family day and we got to tour the proving grounds. Alex enjoyed the activity of all the people, but next year he'll be a little more excited about the tractors I think. Alex was facinated by Andy's dad, Wayne, facial hair! He kept poking it (top picture). In one of the pictures, Andy and Alex are in a new bobcat.....very fancy compared to the one his dad uses on the the farm. Most of these pictures are located in the brand new building used for testing equipment when the weather is unfavorable. It's a huge building..... equal to 8 football fields side by side! So just the width of this place is as long as a football field. The picture where Alex is pointing through the glass is an observation room were the engineers (like Pete) can control the tests on the equipment. The whole building uses wireless signals to transmit info from the tractors to the computers during testing. Needless to say, Pete is going to have a lot of fun playing in his new work space!