It continues to be a busy place in our household. I haven’t been able to update this site for almost two months (yet again), so I’ll try to summarize all of the important stuff going on with Alex and our family.
I’ve put a ton of new pictures into the “Winter Fun” family photo album, including pictures from November right through the holidays – hope you like them.
Probably the two biggest things going on with Alex over the past two months is that we moved him out of his crib and into a ‘big boy’ bed and he also moved out of the toddler room at daycare into the Rainbow Room (for kids 2.5-3.5 years of age). Both changes went through without any big issues from Alex, thank goodness, but the bed issue was a bit of a shock for us. We’d talked about moving him, but he was always so content in his crib that we never felt pressured to do so. One day when Chris was away on a business trip, Alex woke up around 4:00 a.m. and so I brought him into bed with me (in the hopes of getting a few more hours sleep) and for the first time ever, he actually fell asleep in our bed (instead of bouncing around and wiggling like crazy). I mentioned to him that he could soon be in his own bed instead of a crib, so when Chris got home from his trip, we put the new mattress down beside the crib to get Alex used to the idea, but he wanted to sleep on it that day, so we tried it and he did it without any fuss!
Within a couple of days, we took down the crib permanently (that was really a bittersweet moment) and set up his new bed, which he seemed to love. The only funny thing was that he quickly realized he could get himself out of bed and roam around his room, taking toys off his shelves, clothes out of the drawers/cupboard, etc. The funny thing was that he’d often just nod off where he’d been playing, so we kept going to check on him to find him asleep on the floor, in the doorway to his room, on his rocking chair, etc. He now stays in his bed and has hopefully stopped completely destroying his room before he falls asleep.
The other big change was the move to the next level in daycare, with a new teacher and new kids/routines. The centre arranged for him to visit the new group over the course of a few weeks, and so the transition went really smoothly and he seems to love the new room and teacher.
One other exciting bit of news was that a picture of Alex was chosen for a fundraising campaign for the Kingston General Hospital. The picture is one from when Alex was 8 months old, and they felt it really tied in with their “Light up my Life” slogan, so Alex’s picture ended up being on posters all over Kingston, on flyers and on banners at the hospital and in the Kingston Santa Claus Parade (on one of the floats). It was so cool to see our son’s picture all over the place and I’m sure Grandma and Grandpa enjoyed being able to point out their cute grandson to their friends.
We’ve had lots of fun preparing for the holidays and taking Alex shopping, decorating cookies and making a gingerbread train and taking him to visit Santa at the mall. I don’t think he completely understands the concept of Christmas and Santa and everything that goes along with it, but he did grasp the need to tell Santa that he wanted “Mighty Mac” and “Chinese Dragon” trains (part of the Thomas the Train set of trains that he is obsessed with).
For the holidays, we went with my side of the family to Chateau Montebello in Quebec for the holidays. We all had a wonderful time and got a bit of time to relax and hang out with the family. Our niece, Jennifer, got sick on Christmas Eve and was still feeling rotten on Christmas morning, so she missed a lot of the stuff, but she was so mature and grown up about it all and we were just so impressed with how well she handled missing out on so many things.
One of the most exciting parts of the visit to Montebello was that Santa made a special trip to visit the kids at the hotel on Christmas Day. He arrived on a horse (there was no snow for the reindeer or a sleigh) and waved to the crowd and then went out of sight before appearing magically on top of the hotel’s roof and then came down the chimney to hand out presents to all of the kids in the hotel. It was a lot of fun and the hotel did such a great job of organizing it.
We got home from Quebec on the 27th (we stayed overnight in Kingston as the drive is too long for Alex), and then hosted Chris’ family at our place for a brunch today. Our two nieces, Amanda and Sarah, are growing up so quick and are becoming such wonderful young ladies. They’re so good with Alex and it was great to see them and Chris’ sister, her boyfriend and Chris’ cousin and his wife and son.
We have no big plans for New Year’s, but we’re hoping to get Alex fully potty trained sometime soon and also get a bunch of stuff organized around here. We have a lot of resolutions that hopefully we’ll stick to, so I’m sure 2007 will be a great year.
Once again, Happy Holidays and Happy New Year from us to you.
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