Alexander turns One

We celebrated Alexander's birthday in Salt Lake with our families just before we came home from Utah. I can’t believe that it has been a year since Alexander was born. What a trite phase to really express how I feel but it is true. Alex is my happiest baby. He will give a smile to anyone and is always content. He slept the first two months of his life, and the months that followed it was easy to forget that he was around because he was so quiet. Now that he is getting older his personality is coming out, and he makes sure that he is not forgotten.

He loves phones & remotes and any other toy doesn’t make a good substitute. After a month long trip in Utah he adjusted well to the off schedule routine we put him on. Although he doesn’t get super cranky with little sleep, he does find ways to make it up. One day after no naps, he slept in until 11 am in the next morning.

The past month he has had an array of interesting foods. One of the days at the beach he kept trying to eat sand because he thought my reaction was so funny. A few days later I caught he trying a piece of forgotten dog poop. Yuck! That one we got out fast so at least he didn’t swallow. However when it comes to normal foods, he is now refusing pasta, peaches and macaroni and cheese. What a weird sense of taste buds, at least we know that he has a sweet tooth. He will nose dive for ice-cream and he loved his birthday cake.

He hasn’t had his yearly check up yet but I am guessing that he weighs around 23 pounds. Our drive home from Utah was his last day in the infant car seat. After we came home we cleaned out the car and then set up the forward facing car seat. His seat is in the center and he was just grinning the other day as we drove around. He can see so much and must love sitting up and facing forward.

Now that he is proficient at climbing stairs I let him explore more. He has found the toilet a few times and luckily he has only unrolled the toilet paper once. We are going to have to watch him a little more closely but so far we have been lucky that he hasn’t discovered the joys of cupboards. He still is just fascinated by opening and shutting the doors, I will be said the day that the doors won’t be enough and he will search for what is inside the cupboards.

He says “MaMa” and “DaDa” quiet a bit. I would say his first word was “Hi” although he doesn’t have it down just yet he has been trying to say it for months. Every morning he greets me with his “HAAA” trying to imitate my greeting. I think that he is going to be musical. He loves music. At church it is the most obvious because he will be wiggly and then a musical number will start and he will just stop and stare. He watches me when I sing and then starts singing himself. The problem is to get him to be quiet when the song is over. It is fun to hear him match tones so I have high hopes for him especially with the musical talent in both of our families; it has to get passed down to some of our kids.

The other day we were babysitting and holding another baby. Alex was close-by and took 3 steps to fall into my arms. I guess jealously is a good motivator. The rest of the day we tried to get him to do it again. He did it one more time on video but he hasn’t done it since, that was over 4 days ago. He is refusing to try, I guess that is his personality coming through.