Our Alex

I have a funny story that I have to blog about... Eventually at the end of this first year, I'm going to have the blog printed out and made into a book, so some of these blogs are more for us than anyone else! :)

Last night, J and I spent about 3 hours trying to get Alex to go down to sleep. He was obviously tired by 7pm. We gave him his bath, a bedtime diaper, and put on pajamas. Then, he nursed and it become quite apparent that he was in fact not ready for bed. The crib has become an evil prison where he screams unbelievably loud, so we tried our other methods to get him to go to sleep. One is a palate of blankets and pillows on the floor in his room...it failed. Then, we tried the swing...there he cried enough to rival the crib and when I went into the room he had flopped himself half out of the swing and looked like the little monkey that he is. Finally, we decided to put some blankets down in the living room to watch the movie we were planning to watch (The Time Traveler's Wife...we both liked it!=)and we thought he'd sort of fall asleep. That was WRONG! He spent the entire hour and a half of the movie practicing "cruising" along the sofa, grabbing at Little, reaching for my glass of water on the coffee table (just out of his reach although he tried hard!), and laughing his head off at all of this! Every time the little girl in the movie came on the screen, he got VERY excited, looked at the screen, jumped up and down, and laughed. We think he likes girls!! =)

After the movie was over, I looked and J and said "What are we going to do with him???" J's response was, "That's not the question...the question is, what is HE going to do with US???" He's right about that...our Alex definitely rules the roost around here. I cannot even imagine a spunkier, more stubborn little guy....or one as loveable as him!!

Happy 7 Months to Alex!!!