One more thing

I forgot to mention that Alexander has had a growth spurt. He has been such a tiny peanut for the longest time. Last week he was very cranky and I couldn't figure out why. But I think I figured it out this morning. We go to a play group every week, but had not gone for 2 weeks. A little girl a month and a half younger than Alexander also goes. They were pretty much the same height. But this morning we noticed that Alexander is much taller. So, he must have been growing very rapidly the past couple weeks and that's why he was so cranky. It must hurt to grow that fast. I'm losing my little peanut. He's getting too big. I think I'm going to have to do away with the changing table soon because he just barely fits on it.

Alexander has been keeping me busier than usual. He has decided that he no longer wants to sleep in the crib. He told this to me by getting out yesterday. He must have gotten over the rail and held on as long as he could because he didn't get hurt at all. I was very nervous at first. Then he was his normal goofy self. Thankfully my dad was down here since Bob was away to help me disassemble the crib, move furniture, and brace the furniture to the walls, because you know if it's possible, he'll do it! He is now sleeping on the mattress on the floor under his loft bed. He did not take a nap yesterday. Instead, he decided to take everything off the changing table, out of the hamper, and I stopped him just before he took the dirty diapers out of the diaper pail (that no longer stays in his room when he's sleeping). He laid on the floor in front of the gate in his doorway last night and eventually fell asleep (in less than an hour). It was so sweet. So, I put him back into bed. When I checked on him before I went to bed, he was on the floor cuddled against the wall, so I just left him. He woke at 5:30 was was not about to go back to sleep. So, today, I put bed rails on to keep him from rolling off the bed in his sleep. Of course I don't know how well that works yet, because he hasn't napped yet today, either. We'll try again later. I'm just happy he fell sleep at a reasonable hour last night and slept all night. Right now he's laying on the floor at my feet and saying "ma, ma, ma, mama, ma, mama..." He's so cute.

Here are some pictures of my cuties (not as many as Glenn because I see more of Alexander than I do of Glenn).

He loves wearing Glenn's old santa hat. He wore it most of the day this day.


He loves wearing this backpack. I put Tad the frog in there and turned on his music. He loved it!


Pictures from this morning:

Jingle Bell Boys

We just got a new video camera this week. Alexander had broken our old one. Bob took a video of them dancing to Jingle Bells. Unfortunately there's no sound and I don't know why (or maybe it's just on my computer- let me know if you do hear sound). But it's still a cute video. Enjoy!

We got a bed for Alexander's room from Ikea (actually from Nana and Papa for Christmas). Papa brought it down from CT this week and put it together for us. It's a loft bed. Glenn will sleep up top when we have company visiting, and when we move Alexander from the crib to the bed (which will probably be soon), we'll put the mattress on the floor below the bed. Both boys love the bed up top with the canopy and Alexander even loves playing below it.


Here are a couple pictures of my new work space. I love it. It's so much nicer than the card table I was working on before.



Glenn and I made a gingerbread train today. He actually did most of the candy decorating while I did the icing. I had it already put together for him when he came home from school so we could get right to decorating it. He's so proud of his creation. And now he sits and stares at it hoping I'll say he can eat it (he's actually do that right now).

Thanksgiving week

We went to Orlando the week of Thanksgiving. Bob's parents got a time share that we stayed at with Bob's Aunt Jane and Uncle Ronnie, who live on the west coast of FL. I actually had the weekend before Thanksgiving to myself at home because I stayed behind a couple days so I could sing in my church choir. I completely cleaned the house and had a couple of friends over. It was really nice.

While in Orlando, we hung out at the resort and didn't go to any theme parks. It was relaxing. We did get to go swimming a little, but it was pretty dreary most of the week. On Thanksgiving, it was beautiful. We went for a long walk while the turkey was cooking. And after dinner, we took Glenn mini golfing for the first time. He loved it, although he wasn't actually following the rules.

We also did a little shopping. I got a new work space for my sewing at Ikea. I'll have to take a picture of it and post it. We also bought the boys some shoes at Nike. Glenn goes through shoes very quickly, so we thought maybe some better made shoes might last a little longer. He saw some shoes and said they were spicy and kept going back to them calling them spicy. So, we asked him if he wanted the spicy shoes, and he did. He even sang about his spicy shoes on the way back to the time share. He's hilarious. He says they are spicy because they have red Nike swooshes on them and red on the bottom.

Here are some pictures from last week:

Zander had his own cabinet to play in:


Loving brothers:


Reading with Nanny


Bob's office for the week:


Cuddling with Poppy


Alexander had fun climbing under the bar stools and being silly:





More reading with Nanny (about Toby the turkey who did NOT get eaten on Thanksgiving)


Glenn's hand turkey place cards for Thanksgiving dinner:


Keeping busy any way possible