In the past few week Alex has really been growing up. He can understand so much more and can now say quite a few words. He is much better at repeating to but can not yet say all the syllables. He has trouble with the s sound for example. He can count to 10 in french and we learned this week that he can also do it in English, even though we never taught him. He can also say most of them in Japanese!

In the last few weeks he discovered how to say Chloe, He says Oe! It’s sooo cute! He always looks for her and loves to be with her. They have a love hate relationship, one minute they love each other the next they are taking one an others things on purpose!

He is starting to distinguish a few colors. The one he always gets is Blue, others he has a tough time with. he can sometimes get yellow, green or red. We will have to keep working on him. He always talks about Bleu, solier bleu, tractor bleu. He loves the word!! So he can now string two words, maybe three, but not much more. He is getting better though. You can see he loves to hear himself.

OH and he also started to sing, he can sing quite a bit of au clair de la lune and freres Jacque and twinkle. he seems to enjoy it. He loves music and movement in general. He isn’t big on TV, not like Chloe anyway. He will watch a little but then move on to something else, unless he is in the car and can’t go anywhere, then he will stay tune!

He is still fiesty and stubborn, but if you work on it with him, he usually will get it and cooperate. He is very good in time outs and just sits there quietly waiting for his dismissal…where as Chloe would wail, still wails when put in one. It’s almost as if he knows he did something bad and now had to pay the price. 🙂

He has been getting better with sleep, although during our last trip to MOntreal he regressed to getting up at 6:00am or earlier for a whole week and then it took us a couple of weeks to get back to getting up around 7:00am, but then last week out of no where, he started to wake up around 8:00am consistantly! What a huge change! He has always been very good during the night and never waking up unless he was sick.

OH and all 4 last molars have come through. He was suffering for so long. Maybe it is why he is now sleeping later! He still has some pain, you can see where the tooth is growing that it is red, but that should be all over with soon!

I will not get into detail about his schedule since in 2 weeks I am supposed to write about his 23rd month!

We love you baby Alex!!

moagh!