Second Night

Alex and I had another little talk during dinner. I told him that it was ok to sleep through the night again...and once again, he listened. Around 4:00 am I heard him getting a little fussy but he "talked" himself back to sleep. I absolutely love hearing him "talk"! It makes my day!

10 months old

Our Little Man turned 10 months old yesterday! I can't believe that he has gotten so big! Before I know it, he will be walking...he is already pulling up on everything and walking around holding on to furniture. He is always on the move. I'm just amazed at how much he has learned to do in the past 10 months!

I'm hoping that now he is 10 months old, he has moved past the "9 month old interrupted sleep" pattern. For the past 3 weeks, Alex has been waking up between 11 pm and 1 am. Alex had been falling asleep by 7 pm and waking up at 8:30 am. A lot of literature out there (and family/friends w/ little ones have agreed) that babies who have been sleeping through the night seem to revert back to waking up once during the night. Because he turned 10 months old yesterday, I had a little talk with Alex during dinner. I told him that it was OK to sleep through the night once again and....it worked! I heard him around 9:30 but it was just a peep. I expected to hear him peep again around 11 but nothing. I am so glad our little talk worked! Keep your fingers crossed he continues to listen to my talks...and sleeps through the night!

Park

Friday my office closed early because it was beautiful outside. They decided that we most likely would not have 75 degree weather again until October so they closed the office at 3pm. Since it was so pretty, I picked up Alex and we went to a park. He loves the swings at school, so we gave these swings a shot...he's still a little small for them but he loved them!

Zoo

Wileen, Bill's mother was in town this past weeekend. She came in town for Tyler's baseball game on Thursday but the game was cancelled b/c a storm with strong winds ruined some of the fields and bleachers. However, we had a great time with her this weekend.
Bill and I had date night on Saturday, which was really needed. I had a great time spending time with just the two of us. On Sunday, we were able to get Tyler so we can spend the afternoon at the Zoo. Tyler was a busy 10 year old boy, running here and there, Alex strolled along and took everything in and we all walked lots of miles! Wileen was very good about taking pictures, so here are a few of my favorites!

More pictures

Here are more pictures from Easter weekend. Enjoy

Our little Indian!

Easter...9 Months Old

This was our first Easter as parents and we had a good time. Tyler decided to spend the night with us at the last minute so the Easter Bunny had to run out the night before to get eggs to hide. She already shopped for his Easter basket but didn't get any eggs because she thought Tyler was going to be at his mom's. Tyler was pretty excited when he realized that the Easter Bunny left two Easter baskets in the backyard and that there were eggs! Bill, Alex and I helped Tyler search for eggs. I was very surprised that a few eggs were unseen by the two and I had to point them out. Tyler was very sweet by sharing some of his eggs with Alex since Alex only enjoyed sucking on one eggs. (I have pictures on Bill's phone but I don't have access to them at the moment.) This is the only picture I have on my phone.)

I enjoy when Tyler spends the night at our house. Something about life "feels right" when he is over. One of his buddies from his baseball team lives around the corner, so now he has a friend within bike riding distance. It makes me smile when Jack, Tyler's friend comes over to ask Tyler to play.

I had to add this picture to the blog...I just love when Alex sleeps with his bottom in the air. I can't resist cupping it when I check in on him before I go to bed!

Let me out!

Alex has been on the move for a month or two...but has really gotten quick this past month. He doesn't have a coordinated crawl but more of a commando crawl. His teachers have informed me that he always heads for the classroom door and gets irritated when one of the teachers closes the door when he gets near it. Bill and I have experienced this at home as well. He is always venturing out of the room when he isn't trying to crawl on his.

Tuesday night, I stepped outside to get the grill going and turned around to look at our storm door. Here was Alex sucking on the glass! I tried to get a picture of him sucking on the glass, however I wasn't successful. (yes, he still has a little bit of dinner on his face.)