Hi Great-Grandma, I'm mobile, and have lots to say about it!!!!

Grandpa Fretwell and Great-Grandma Fretwell came to visit on their trip up from South Carolina this past weekend, so here's the family. We enjoyed having her visit, because it was the first time she'd met Alex and the first time she'd been up to Wisconsin for a visit in many years.


He's mobile - well, kind of, he can roll.....it's really cute to see him flip himself back and forth as he rolls, it's not a real fluid roll, he kind of gets on to his side and then uses the momentum to flop to the other side, and then when his arm gets pinned underneath himself it takes a little rocking to get it unstuck - it's an amazing next step. We don't have any pictures of the actual progress of the roll, maybe we'll have to take pics soon and make like a flip book out of it, but for now here's what we got.

This is Alex talking and telling stories, he can get very animated with facial expressions and hand movements. If he can say this much without any words we can only imagine what's in store when he really knows how to communicate!!!!

Hail Damage

Some of you heard about the severe weather that came through central Wisconsin yesterday. There was a tornado and softball size hail in Wisconsin Rapids where D.J. works. There was some damage to buildings and cars in the area. Unfortunately D.J.'s car was one of those with damage. It has some good dings and a spider web break on the front windshield. There was a tornado that touched down a few miles from our house, luckily it lost strength and there were only a few things outside blown around. Enjoy the pictures, you always see them on tv, but you never really think it will happen to you.

4 Months Old & Growing

Today is Alex's 4 month birthday! We have lots of things planned for him, tomorrow he's having pictures taken and Tuesday he goes to the doctor for his check up. OK, so it's not the most exciting birthday but he has a lot more to come.
Alex has been talking A LOT lately. He will go on for 5 or 10 minutes just babbling, it's fun and exciting to see him changing. Other new things he's doing is chewing on everything in sight as his first two teeth continue to come in. He always has his blanket or hand in his mouth, nawing away. He is doing well at sitting up (with a little help) and holding his head up. He's also folding his hands infront of him, so it looks like he's praying all the time. We walked into church last week and priest noticed this. He said Alex looked like he was all ready for mass.