Last night we took the big blue exercise ball into the bonus room and let Lex push it around for a while.  

And here’s Lex getting ready to throw a tennis ball for Kiwi during their nightly game of fetch:

Lex loves to flip the light switch on and off.  Here he’s climbing on his daddy so he can reach it:

And just to show you that Lex is a typical toddler who has emotional ups and downs on a regular basis, here’s a picture of him after his daddy told him it was time to quit playing with the light switch:

And here he’s pointing to the light switch to tell his daddy that he really really wants to go back and play with it some more. (Never fear, this moment of sadness was very temporary…) 

Today Lex and I went to the Jantzen Beach mall for an afternoon outing.  We had a great time riding the carousel and playing on all the coin-operated kid rides.  Lex isn’t old enough to know that the rides actually move if you insert a quarter, so he just had fun climbing all over the motionless cars.  We even hit the food court for ice cream before heading home. (Ok, Lex just got an empty sugar cone, but he thoroughly enjoyed it and was oblivious to the fact that mommy’s cone came with a scoop of ice cream.)