Alex's Saturday

This Saturday was all about Alex. We started the morning with his first soccer game of the season. We lost the game, but Alex played well and saved several goals.


After the game, Mike & Cole headed out to get a surprise for Alex. He is on the verge of outgrowing his bike and his tires keep going flat, so he asked for a new bike for his birthday next month. Mike decided that Alex can not wait until next month for a working bike since he will want to ride when we are on our camping trip over spring break, so he and Cole headed out to get Alex an early birthday present. When they came home with the new bike, Alex was in the basement playing with a friend. He yelled down the staircase for Alex to come up immediately- someone was in trouble for leaving a bike in the kitchen!! Alex was really scared until he realized that the joke was on him!




After several hours of bike riding, it was time for Alex to settle into some homework time. He had a project assigned to write a recipe, cook the food for the class to sample, and prepare make-believe ingredients so that he can have a pretend cooking demonstration for his class. Alex made chocolate cookies using only 3 ingredients- sugar cookie dough, Special Dark cocoa, and chocolate chunks. The best part was that he got to squish up all the ingredients with his hands!




After he put the dough on the baking sheet he smiled for the camera claiming that he had a "Paula Dean Smile." That is very true except for the part that she has big white perfect teeth and he has no front teeth!!