http://www.davidlepore.com Thu, 21 Aug 2008 15:14:51 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en aug052008 Originally uploaded by eropel. This is Alex after learning how to open and shut the back door a few weeks ago. He was opening the door quickly, trying to surprise me. Caught him with the new camera. As you can see, this was before the big hair cut when he still had ... http://www.davidlepore.com/2008/08/21/surprise/ Alex likes music. Actually, Alex is obssesed with music. No that's not right, he is obsessed with the band Weezer. If Alex hears a song he enjoys, he will stop whatever he is doing and get lost in the music.  He will sway, rock back and forth or tap his feet and do ... http://www.davidlepore.com/2008/08/21/weezer-calms-the-savage-baby/ Alex is lagging behind when it comes to saying words so we've ramped up his speech training at home. He can understand most of the things we are saying in the house, but he wont say words to ask or describe what he wants.  He resorts to pointing or making noises ... http://www.davidlepore.com/2008/08/20/alex-lags-dad-in-flux/ haircutday2 Originally uploaded by eropel. Alex finally got his first hair cut. It took almost two years but he's now a clean cut young man. Alex was perfect, sat still for Toni the entire time she cut his hair. http://www.davidlepore.com/2008/08/18/alex-first-hair-cut/ I had an appoitment yesterday afternoon, more on that later, and arrived home to find a guest in our house. While I was gone Toni left the back door open most of the day so the dogs could run in and out as they please.  I arrived home from my appointment ... http://www.davidlepore.com/2008/08/13/turtle/ backyard Originally uploaded by eropel. Here is Alex running after Comet in the back yard. Comet is our pit bull mix and Alexanders guardian and protector. Comet is the "nanny dog" and is wonderful, patient and tender with Alex. Still trying to ... http://www.davidlepore.com/2008/08/08/running-with-the-big-dogs/ Alex has fallen into a pretty consistent morning routine with me the past month. I wake up at 5am, he wakes up at 5:30 just after I am out of the shower.  From that point until I walk out the door we are quite the morning tandem, kind of like a ... http://www.davidlepore.com/2008/08/08/the-morning-routine/ backyard1 Originally uploaded by eropel. Wild baby running lose in the back yard. He was running from me while I tried to take his photo. Caught him at the right moment, was a lucky shot. http://www.davidlepore.com/2008/08/06/wild-boy/ I finally purchased a Sony PSP this weekend and was happy with it until I tried to get it to connect to my wireless network. I have a couple of Linksys routers and they support both B and G wireless modes, and the default settings allow both modes to be used. My ... http://www.davidlepore.com/2008/08/05/psp-networking-issue-solved/ This was a baseball weekend again. Spent Friday night at the Rainiers with Travis, just the two of us.  Had a great time!  We didn't get any foul balls even though Travis had his mit.  We usually have at least one foul ball enter our area each game but wouldn't you ... http://www.davidlepore.com/2008/08/04/baseball-alex-and-someone-qualified-for-the-senior-discount/