Alex turned 8 months on the 26th which was the day before Easter. Tania and Martin were here for a visit and stayed with us from wednesday to monday morning.

Over the weekend Alex suprised and began to crawl!! After just a few days he already much quicker and able to get just about anywhere, but still has trouble on the hard wood floor since he slips. He also can get up on things and stand on his own (holding on of course). You can see though that he is working on standing up without any help. He also started to babble so much more. He makes real manly sounds like the TAZ or Chubaka would make, but he also immitates me when I make more girly type baby sounds, which is funny. He also is clapping his hands and able to relate things like us saying tap tap to clapping of hands.

His schedule has not changed much. Still goes to bed around 9pm and wakes up around 7am. We get him out of bed by 7:30 usually. He has his bottle not to long afterwards and eats his solids later with Chloe around 8:30-9:00am. He takes a nap in the morning, if at home it’s a 1 1/2-2 hour nap and if we are out it’s much shorter. Normally he is very tired by 9:30-10:00am. Then he has a bottle around noon, then has his solids an hour later. He then goes down for a second nap around 2pm and will usually sleep 3 hours. Then when he wakes up around 5pm, he has his bottle, then an hour or so later has his solids, normally with the whole family around 6:00pm. Then has a bath around 8pm and a bottle around 8:30-45 then it’s bed time around 9pm.He sleeps very well and we never hear a peep from him.

He eats quite a few things already. Breakfast is normally oatmeal and fruits ( peach, banana, apple, or pears, prunes). For lunch and dinner it’s rice cereal with a veggie ( either sweet potatoe, carrots, peas, squash) and a fruit. He started to eat Avocado and plums this week. Next week I will have to try regular potatoes, or maybe zucchini. So far, no allergies that we can tell. His pooping is actually not doing too badly. Some days are better than others. He hasn’t refused anything so far. He is a big eater.

He is a big boy and wears 12-18 month clothing and 18 month size PJ’s. He is about a 3.5 shoe already. He is tall and not very chubby though. His eyes are dark brown and he has this little mohawk on his head, it’s very adorable.

He loves to smile and is VERY friendly. He is an easy going baby over all and isn’t very fussy. We love him very much. He is such a joy . I adore holding him close and kissing him.

We love you Alex!!

Mom and Dad
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I finally saw Alex sit up on his own, Charles says he say him almost do it a couple of days ago. Anyway, he was lieing on his tummy and he pushed himself back up with one arm and sat up!

He is definitly growing fast!!!

Alexandre surprised me today twice! In the morning while giving him breakfast he began to make some adorable sounds like EN GAS. When he was just a few months old he would say Ga Ga, but it didn’t last. So hopefully this time it will. He later in the afternoon today started doing more GA GA sounds too.

During breakfast this morning I was also playing with him and showing him how to tap his hands ( I woudl say Bravo, and I’d put his hands together). then Later during Chloe’s french class, there was more tapping in the song, if you are happy and you know clap your hands, and here again I tapped his hands. Well, right before nap time I was holding him in my arms and Chloe was singing the song and clapping her hands and then Alex clapped his hands too!! it was soooo cute!! I made Chloe do it over and over again and he kept copying her. They were both so excited ( as was I). I grabbed my video camera and tried to get them to do it. It was too cute for words.

He is growing like a week and doesn’t even fit in size three shoes. He is starting to wear 12-18 months clothing already.

He is having very good nights, going down around 9pm and waking up around 7am. he takes one to two short naps in the morning and then one really long one in the afternoon ( about 2-3 hours) from about 1:30 to 4:30pm. he eats three meals now. We tried oatmeal last week but he started to become very fussy at night the last couple of days. We are not sure if it’s teething or if it’s the oatmeal giving him a hard time. So I am cutting it out for a few days just to see if it gets better.

Sue and Artos were here this past weekend. THey got to meet Chloe and Alex for the first time. They were really great with the kids and kids loved them back. We went to the St-Patricks day parade, where Chloe got terrified of the loud drums and bands and ended up sleeping through the whole thing and then Sunday we went to the Aquarium. Fun weekend over all. I also had to respond to an RFP which was annoying, but I managed, with Sue’s help, to get it done.

Well that is all for now, we love you Alex!!

Mouagh!

Mom
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