Picture Uploaded

This morning (with a 6am wake up), I was able to upload the picture from Ocean City. I'm sure more are to come up they can be located on the right hand side or here Hope you enjoy :)

Birthday Pictures

Are finally updated. They can be seen here. Enjoy :)

Dear Daddy,

Since the government will not allow you to access my web albums (when you are sooo far away, for soo long a time), Mommy and I decided to add more pictures of ME :) This way you can see me and see what a big boy I am!

Love,
Alex

More Pictures

To keep up with the amount of pictures I take (yikes!), here's the start for November's online Picassa album. Enjoy! November

updated

So I grabbed my parents camera and downloaded some pictures from the beach and the latest events (when my batteries died). Hope you enjoy them :)

Saturday

Saturday, August 2nd, was move out day. We loaded up the cars, said goodbyes and thanks to Abuelos, and were on the road by 9:30am. It was a dark morning with rain and sad faces. The car ride home was close to 3 hours and we are all a little cranky. The good pictures were updated in the web album.

Now we start the new stage....Post-Law School...

pictures

Ok..as if there has not been enough NEW stuff... I updated the pictures (on the left) in July albums.

Enjoy :)

Update

Saturday, July 19th, the Bednars had a wonderful Crab Fest Picnic. The entire family went to play, talk, eat, and enjoy the pool. At the pool were 2 little girls about 3-4 years old who were swimming by themselves. Once Alex was in the pool with his swimmies, he wanted nothing to do with me and declared his independence. He swam away and went after the girls. It was a nice time :)

Sunday, July 20th, Alex and I traveled to Fairfield to sign paperwork and allow Pat time to study for the Bar. That evening, Abuelos had a church softball picnic. Alex had a blast running around, swimming, and playing in the rain. In the pool, Alex swam by himself and played with Logan a 6 year old boy. At the end of the picnic, there was a storm and both boys ran in circles very excited about the rain.

Monday, July 21st, Abuela watched Alex and I went to Hagerstown to sign paperwork. While there I was hit with surprise blows. 1, I would need to come in Wednesday to sign additional paperwork. 2, I was required to attend a New Teacher Academy Aug. 4-7th and 12-13th. 3, All teachers start on August 14th and students start on August 20th. Pat also contacted the landlord and found out that they will not let us out of the lease. So we will be payign this rent until October. Thankfully, Abuelos agreed to house us!

Tuesday, July 22nd, we visited Mammaw in the morning (see previous blog) and in the evening, we visited Magnee and Pap. At Magnee and Pap's, Alex got his first experience of Noggin' and Max and Ruby, explored Magnee's garden, played with weed wacker, snow blower, and lawn mower, and dug with 2 shovels.

Wednesday, July 23rd, Abuela watched Alex again as I sat through 2 hours of benefit information in Hagerstown. That evening, we all went to the Fairfield Firehouse.

Thursday, July 24th, we said goodbye to Abuelos and Mammaw and got boxes from El Vista. Alex and I visited a daycare, Children's 1st Academy, in Boonsboro that has an opening for Alex. Afterwards, Alex and I drove around Baltimore to home. Alex refused to sleep and had a few tantrum on the way... but we finally got home after 2.5 hours. Once we got home, Pat and I unloaded and started changing addresses on credit cards, cars, bank, investments, and every other bill. Are we forgetting anything?

Overall, a very busy time for the Carrs!

difference?

Can you tell the difference? We got a new camera this week and went from a 5mp to a 12mp. The sale was PERFECT and the bonus reward from UPromise and Discover shopping will also pay off.

web album

The web album is updated with pictures from our Anniversary Zoo trip with Megan and Alex :) More details to come when things are a little calmer.

New Video

So I have been playing around on the Internet again, shocking, I know.. but I found this cool website that I will be using with my students. www.animoto.com

I was able to create this cool video with Alex's still pictures. It's great! Check it out on the video bar.

Pictures

More pictures were added to the Birthday web album. Enjoy!

Busy

Alex has been a busy boy to day with all these updates ;) There's also a new web album with pictures from Birthday and Easter ...Enjoy!

An Angel?!?!

So after a rough evening with Alex, I downloaded the pictures and thought pic was interesting after his behavior. I am hoping as a long as I look at the innocent face, I will forget about the screaming toddle kicking the floor.

Also, the web album was updated with new pictures. Be sure to check it out.

New Pictures

More February Pictures were uploaded to the Picassa Web Album. Hope you enjoy and leave a comment :)

Sleeping boys

On Monday morning, my icky alarm went off at 5:45am. I heard an unusual grunt next to me and realized that Alex was still in bed with us from 4am.

After 1 snooze, I climbed outta bed and started getting ready for work. When I came back to get dressed my boys were snuggled together fast asleep (must be nice!). It wasn't until the flash went off that the older boy awoke and started getting ready for school. Alex slept until 6:45am.

Also...more pictures were added to the February 08 Web Album. Leave me a few comments and let me know what you think!

Hearts

To get Alex ready for Valentine's Day (and to keep his little hands busy). I cut out paper hearts and he taped them to the window. He seemed quite indecisive and kept trying to take the hearts off the window to place them in other areas. No idea where he gets that from... :-D

Other than that, I did update the web album with new Februrary pictures.

Sleep

With Alex's move into the toddler bed, he has decided to join us in bed. Notice his placement on my pillow... very tipical :)

Also, more pictures were added to the web album.

Funny things from today

With Alex's new habit of waking up at night, Pat would often bring him in our bed for a bit. However, it has gotten to the point where Alex would climb out of his crib and then crawl into our bed. Well, this morning, around 12am, Alex climbed into bed. Not unusual, he hunkered down on my pillow and fell asleep. A little while later, he kicked Pat in the groin and grabbed Pat's covers. This got him promptly put back into his own bed. Then again at 2am, he crawled back in. He again slept on my pillow 'til 4am when I put him back to bed in fear of the alarm scaring him. At 6am, Alex comes running into the bedroom screaming "pillow". Here he was dragging his own pillow into our bed.

This afternoon, after I picked him up from Tara's, Alex and I went to the park while Pat took his Dad come from the hospital. There Alex enjoyed climbing the "stairs" by himself and then going down the slide. Then he tried the swings and then spend 30 minutes playing in the baseball dug outs.

Finally this afternoon, Pat converted Alex's crib to a Toddler bed. Alex LOVES his bed. Tonight he wanted to be read to in his bed and then did not once try to get out of it. It is amazing!

Oh! There is a new web album to view at the bottom ;)

Technology...isn't it fun?

Ok...there's no audio (and please ignore my pj look) but I will work on that. Last night Pat and I were cleaning out the computer area and he found the webcam. So I decided to hook it up and put it to good use. However, I cannot get the microphone to work. Until it works... give us a call to hear the voice behind the movement :-)

Another new technology, I decided to stop updating Alex's Webpage on the Temple Server. So my new plan is to use Picasa's Web Album. At the bottom of the page, you will see a link to some Christmas pictures. Since someone voted for pictures (can't imagine who that was... Abuelo!), I won't stop putting them on the web but will move them to a different location. I hope it is not too much of a bother! A neat thing about Picasa's Web Album is that you can view all the pictures as a slideshow. You'll have to let me know if you like it :)