Alex is such a little boy now. He is very agile and is a great walker already. He sometimes falls because he trys to go to fast. He is already trying to run! He can climb on and off the couch without any trouble and his favorite thing right now is climbing onto Chloe’s yellow chair, sitting down and getting up! He loves to just pace around the house picking up objects as he goes. He walks around with books quite a bit because he sees Chloe handling them so much. He unfortunately destroys them so we have been trying to give him the more baby type books to do what he wishes with. Chloe is pretty good at keeping tabs on her books these days! He can push things quite well too. THe one thing he finds extremely fasinating are doors. He loves to open and close them…any kind of doors too, pantry the TV/VCR doors the closet doors, etc! He doesn’t watch much TV because he doesnt’ really sit still just yet. CHloe would always have a 30 mins TV session, but he just entertains himself so well I do not need to have him watch any. He just walks around finding things to amuse himself. It’s quite funny to watch.
He is also very affectionate. Loves hugging and holding on to us, even newer people. He easily will go to a stranger too and not cry. in fact he smiles at just about anyone who looks at him. He has such a way. He crys only when he wakes up, his tummy hurts, when he’s hungry or when he has just hurt himself. Which seems to be all the time these days! He is into everything!
His schedule is quite good these days too. It does vary but in general he wakes up around 6:30-7am ( usually closer to 6:30, even 6:15 some days). He will sometimes chat a bit, but the crying follows shortly after. About 4 weeks ago I started to give him his morning bottle in bed in the hopes he would fall back to sleep or let him stew a little longer so I could have time to shower. He has fallen back to sleep on occasion, but more often than not it just buys me about 20 mins. Some days he has surprised us and woken up closer to 7:30-8am. Today he woke up at 8:30am, but he was very tired from our weekend with our friends Sylvie and Stephane. After his bottle I change him and bring him downstairs. I let him play a little. Chloe will wake up between 7:00 and 8:00am. I normally bring him upstairs with me and let him play upstair while I get chloe. He likes to go in Chloe’s bed and jump while I change her. We then all go down together and have breakfast. After breakfast we either get ready for an activity or Chloe watches Sesame Street and I put Alex down for a nap. He normally sleeps around 30-45 mins, but it can go to 1 1/2 hrs. If we go for an activity, Chloe watch the start of sesame street with Alex while I pack up then we head out. Either to the park or a friends house. If we are not home he will normally sleep either in his car seat or in his stroller for 30 mins. Around 11:30-12:00pm Alex starts to get hungry. I try to feed him his solids first at the same time as Chloe. So I might try to stretch him with a snack because i prefer they eat closer to 12:30pm. If I am out and really can’t stop to feed him solids then I will give him a snack and his bottle then feed him later, pretty much right before his nap time. These days they both go down around between 1:30 and 2pm. THe time depends on how early they woke up and how long his morning nap was. If his nap was really short then he can sleep 3-3 1/2 hours. Some days 4 hours! But normally I’m happy with a good 2 1/2 hour nap. It can be as short as 1 1/2 hrs if he slept long in the morning. Chloe usually always sleeps 2 1/2 – 3 hours. so I normally get 2 hours to do things around the house. I am very thankful for that time. It always to recharge my batteries for the evening!! Then when Alex wakes up ( crying usually) he gets a bottle ( around 4:30-5pm), the eats dinner around 5:30-6pm. Then longer you wait the crankier he gets! Charles then gives the baths around 7:30pm and they have their milke around 8:00pm and they are in bed most days b/w 8:30-9pm and sleep till morning. he sometimes wakes up crying a little, but not often. If this happens I normally just have to turn on his aquarium and find his pacifier for him.
He is eating almost everything these days except the dairy and meat. We are slowly working our way up (we start with one ounce of Soy and are up to 3) but we had to stop last week because we thought the soy might be hurting his tummy. So we are back down to 2 ounces a day. HOwever, now we think it might have been teething or a cold. I usally feed him chopped fruit, pasta, chopped veggies, toast, bread and jarred food. He loves snacks like cheerios, kik and the gerber chewables.
He is not drooling as much these days so I no longer have to keep a bib on him all the time. He Just got 4 more teeth in the last two weeks too and they came all at once. He now has 8 teeth!
He is babbling quite a bit and saying things like DA DA, AH AH, NI NI, and can say Ma ma, but he probably doesn’t realise what he is saying. He likes to repeat sounds his sister makes. He and Chloe tend to play together at the dinner table. She gets made at him when he gets whiny at the table and will tell him NON, and he will do NA, and she will saying it again, NON and he will say NA and they will go back and forth like that until one of them cracks up laughing…and it starts all over again. the tone escalates too so it can get a little annoying, but it always makes me laugh when they both burst into laughter.
It’s really cute to see them interact. of course Chloe tends to get upset with him because he doesn’t repsect her space, but they also have alot of fun together. She will play games with hime like throw the ball at him or have him follow her around the house or she will do AH PI CHEW or WHoopsies to make him crack up. She loves making him laugh and he loves her for it too!
We are working on what to do for his b-day / babtism. We are running out of time and need to make a choice for the god parents soon!
Well I need to get to bed. I love you my little man!! ( I often call him mom petit bebe, or tit homme, tit garcon)
Je t’aime!
xxoo