August is a bit of a blur for me. For some reason, my back went out without any warning or any injury, and within a couple of days, I was almost totally laid up. It was a tiring month, and frustrating as we didn’t know what was going on, but things started to ease up towards the end of the month and then Alex came down with a bit of a cold, and then Chris caught it and then I had it... and unfortunately, I’m prone to bronchial infections, so both Chris and Alex ended up feeling better after a few days, and I ended up in emergency. Oh well, such is life.
Onto more interesting things. Since I haven’t updated the site since early August, I’ve put a bunch of pictures into a new folder so you can see what we’ve been up to in August, September and October.
Alex continues to grow up too quickly for our liking. He’s doing very well in daycare two days a week, and is talking up a storm. He’s getting more chatty with other people as well and loves flirting with people and saying hi whenever he knows someone’s paying attention to him.
We had him signed up for swim lessons, but decided after the first one that it wasn’t for us. He loves the water, and loves swimming with us and is fearless, but the swimming lessons made us nervous as the teacher had a lot to deal with and it was hard to keep track of where the kids were, and with two-year-olds, we just didn’t think it was safe enough for us to go back a second time.
We were able to go see my parent’s in Kingston for Thanksgiving. It was a quiet weekend as Kathy wasn’t able to make it with the girls, and Jenny was busy working, so it was just the five of us. Alex had such a wonderful time with his grandparents and we took advantage of the lovely weather and went to the Farmer’s Market and did some other walking around. It was also Bob’s birthday, so we celebrated that with a cake that Alex was all excited about.
Alex and I also went to Mississauga to see a friend of ours and have Alex’s first real playdate. We visit with a lot of friends who have kids, but this was the first time another Mom and I had planned a specific date for the boys to get together. It was so fun watching them interact – if one did something, the other often tried to do the same thing. Both boys are just now getting to the age where they like playing together and interacting, so hopefully we’ll be able to have more playdates.
Alex continues to be totally enamoured with trains, especially the ones from the Thomas the Tank Engine series. He’s now got quite a few of them, and he’ll spend tons of time playing with them, organizing them, making long trains out of them, etc. He knows all their names, tells us all the stuff from the stories we read and the videos we watch, etc.
A couple of weeks ago we had Chris’ sister, her boyfriend, Lew and our nieces Sarah and Amanda over for dinner and a visit. We loved having them come by and treated Karen to a belated birthday present and cake.
Halloween was lots of fun, with going out to pick out a suitable pumpkin, carving it and then getting Alex all excited about the whole trick-or-treating idea. He was dressed as a lion and we went into Toronto so we could also see our nieces who we hadn’t seen since a wedding in September. Everyone had tons of fun, and Alex caught on pretty quickly. At the first house, he got a chocolate bar, which he wanted to stop and eat right away. We convinced him to go to the next house as he’d get something else, and by the third house he just walked up, knocked on the door and loudly proclaimed, “MORE CHOCOLATE, PLEASE” much to the delight of the woman handing out candy. He had tons of fun, and thankfully we were able to get rid of most of the candy so he just had a few small things to enjoy for a few days of treats.
The only other big news with Alex is that we’ve started the potty training, and he’s now also sleeping in his ‘big boy’ bed. For now, it’s still just a mattress on the floor, but we’ll hopefully get him moved into the full bed once he’s comfortable with being out of his crib.
Well, that’s probably enough for now... I’m sure I’m missing lots of stuff but it’s hard to condense three months of info into a relatively short entry.
Hope you like the new pics.
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