Our Little Daredevil

I was looking at an article in Parents magazine that claimed to describe babies' personalities. It was saying their were certain types of baby personalities and that I would be able to identify Alex's by reading the desciptions. I think I have him pegged as an "Active" baby. The article said "Active" babies are always curious, want to investigate everything, and NEVER stop moving. That's our son!!! He is constantly on the go and constantly getting into something else these days. He appears to have no fear whatsoever, and while that can be a good thing (i.e. sitting on Santa's lap), it can also be a very bad thing indeed (i.e. trying to climb the stairs before he can even walk or pulling the nightliht out of the wall AND trying to plug it back in!) We can already see the daredevil personality coming out in him, especially since he started pulling himself to stand, and crawling at the speed of light. My prediction is he'll walk well before his first birthday, and then we'll be in for a world of trouble! He's also getting so good at crawling that he likes to crawl into small spaces and sit there for awhile looking around. He has such a typical boy personality that there's defintely no mistaking his gender...or his personality type.

                                                                                           Busted climbing on the stairs!

Really funny pic of Alex with his ninny

The kitchen is his new playground

Grandma feeding him some oatmeal

Hiding under our table

                                                                                 Playing  with an ornament on our tree

Eating his first finger food--wafers

Daniel at his Christmas program---look how handsome he is in his vest!

Dylan at his Christmas program--love the robe!

 

                                                              If you look hard, you can see his 4 top teeth coming in!

Check out my Slide Show!

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Turkey Day and 9 Months Old!

Alex exploring a newly wrapped present

We have been celebrating and preparing for a lot of firsts recently. That's the beauty of having a baby at this stage of development--they tend to do something new everyday! He just had his first Thanksgiving, will soon have his first Christmas and about 2 and half months after Christmas comes his first birthday! Alex is 9 months old today! It's so hard to believe. It seems like he looks older everyday now. His face is slimming down a little and those chubby cheeks may soon be a thing of the past. Oh they're still there, but when I look back on pictures of him a few months ago, they are much slimmer. He would really like to walk, but just can't seem to get the hang of keeping his balance without holding on. He defintely will try to take steps as he holds on to things, but it usuallyends in him plopping his butt right down on the floor and then getting back up and trying it again. Thanksgiving went well. We don't have a whole lot of pictures of him in his little outfit, mainly because we travelled a lot that day. We spent the morning and afternoon with Abe's family, eating a delicious feast, then travelled about 200 miles to eat with my family in Western, MD. We arrived at about 5:30 and everyone was just finishing! So Abe and I ate quickly and let my Dad and Grandma play with Alex on the floor. The next day, we headed out at around 3:00 AM to get some bargains. My Grandma came up to our house around 3 to watch Alex for us while we shopped. It was a little crazy, especially Wal-mart where we had to throw toys to people, but worth it! Among the amazing deals: A down comforter for $20, originally $160! Winter jackets for both of us, originally both over $100, just $30! Some cool toys for Alex originally $25-30, we got for $10! So even though we were a little sleep-deprived that day, the deals were totally worth it. Alex also visited Santa for the first time at the Country Club Mall in Cumberland. He liked Santa! He just kept staring at his beard and didn't seem freaked out at all. We were very surprised! He even smiled for the picture!We returned to B-more on Saturday and put upour Christmas tree that night. We had a 6 foot tree from when I lived in my little apartment in Dundalk, and we out it up only to realize it looks awfully small in our new house with our 12' ceilings! LOL. It's a little Charlie Brown-ish. Alec hasn't bothered it too much, aside from when I came in the living room tp find him licking an ornament. Alex likes to lick things instead of picking them up and putting them into his mouth! LOL. Well--I've gone on for awhile. Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving! Enjoy the pics below and the slide show I'll post later of Alex's 8th month!

The only picture we actually took of Alex on Thanksgiving!

  

Alex playing with his cousin Julia--It's so cute that they are starting to play together a little bit!

 

Our Charlie Brown christmas tree

 

I love his little smirk AND his candy cane pants of course!

 

Alex is telling Santa what he wants!

 

Giggling with Elmo

 

This is TOO funny--Alex discovered that his humidifier blows out air and he couldn't get enough!

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