Alex is crawling for real now. The video below shows his progress this past week. It also shows him talking. He has learned to say "mamama..." and "bababa...," although I didn't get the ba sound on video. I tried while he was eating. He had been talking up a storm, but was more interested in the video camera than talking.

And he's off...

I have been chasing Alex all over the house. Okay, not too far. But we still need to do a little baby proofing, so there are things I have to keep him away from. I think he'd like to army crawl down to Bob's office from the living room, but thinks it's too far. He gets over to the hallway and stares down it, but doesn't actually crawl down it, yet. Yesterday, while on his tummy, he would push up onto his hands and toes. It looked very funny. He's getting pretty strong. And this morning, he opened the drawer in the TV cabinet and pulled himself up to his knees. I wasn't expecting that to happen soon. Luckily I got to him before the drawer closed onto his fingers. He really amazes us. It's fun watching him do new things.

I forgot to mention that we went to the geneticist last week for Glenn. She's very happy with how he's doing. He doesn't have any fibromas (bumps on his skin that are on the nerves) but those don't usually come until adolescences, and usually in inconspicuous areas. She did say that she'd like to see more muscle tone on his back to help keep his spine straight. Kids with NF1 tend to get an abnormal curve in their spine because they don't have enough muscle tone to keep it where it's supposed to be. She said swimming is a good way to help that, and we were actually planning on getting him into swim lessons this summer. She also checked Alex and said that since he doesn't have any of the cafe-au-lait spots by now(light brown spots on the skin that are a tell tale sign of NF1) then she's pretty sure he doesn't have it. That's what we figured, but it's nice to hear it from a geneticist.

I hear Alex talking in his crib, so I better get him up. Have a great weekend everyone.

Videos

Here are some videos from the past couple weeks. The first one is from 2 weeks ago, when both boys had just come down with a cold. What do we do when we're staying in being sick? We make Mickey Mouse cookies and play on the floor:


Glenn playing outside:


Alex Talking:


Alex learned how to army crawl this weekend:

Alex's milestones

Alex has been sitting really well for about 4 weeks. He's enjoying this new perspective and can play with so many more toys. He has also become quite the chatterbox. We love listening to his baby talk, and I have a video of him talking I need to upload. He began army-crawling this weekend. He works so hard at it, but is getting faster. He doesn't appreciate when Mommy pulls his toy further away just when he's about to get it. But it's so much fun watching him do it. And just now at lunch, he has figured out that grinding his little teeth make a cool noise that sends chills up his mommy's spine. I had to stick a paci in to make him stop.

Here are a couple pictures from this morning in his tunnel. It used to be a play mat and I converted it last night. He loves it, but would rather just take the hanging toys down.

Here are a couple pictures from at home and at Disney.

Two Buddies (Glenn is always counting how many of us are together and saying we're buddies)


Glenn wanted a picture of the 3 of us.


My parents went with us to Disney for a couple days while they were down here last week. They got to see how excited Glenn gets seeing everything. This first picture is of my dad with Alex in line for It's a Small World.


A couple pictures while riding on It's a Small World


We stayed at Disney's All Star Sports resort. We had to get pictures in the X's and O's on the football field.



Glenn and my Mom in Epocot- Japan


Glenn watching the trains in Germany (We ate lunch at the buffet in Germany- it was delicious!!! I definitely recommend it.)


Alex and I spent so much time in the Baby Care Centers at the parks, I thought I'd take a picture of him there.