Week Glance...

Week Glance (Monday, August 4th - Sunday, August 10th, 2008)

• Long, yet busy week
• Most nights he went down to bed quickly
• Had one of our worst nights sleeping in quite some time - combination of teething & congested can do a number on a little one
• Wednesday night, previously mentioned, was long & tiring, he would fall asleep and then wake up screaming. The only thing that seemed to work was sitting on his floor, rocking him...made for a long night for Mommy
• Because he didn't feel that great this week, he wasn't in the best moods at school either
• Went to the National Safety Night Out across the street from us...sadly, no McCruff the crime dog, but there was a real crime dog and Alexander got a whole hot dog to himself
• Didn't nap or eat well at school and even Motrin didn't always help
• Mommy had to pick him up early on Wednesday
• Friday night he refused to even get into the bathtub even though he seemed pretty excited about the thought of taking a bath
• Went for his weekend walk on Saturday with Daddy to Dunkin' Donuts, the gazebo & the playground
• Saturday, we went to Uncle Steve & Carolyn's house for Will's birthday party
• We got to visit with cousin Michael who we haven't seen since Christmas (they'll be moving up here so it'll be nice to Alexander to have a cousin close in age living around)
• Got his first ice cream from the ice cream truck and wanted NO PART of it
• Was all excited to go into the pool at Uncle Steve's but once up there and actually faced with the pool wanted no part of it, not even to dangle his feet in
• Loved playing with the boys & crashing through the blocks
• Went for a good long walk with Mommy on Sunday morning
• Says: Apple, Hot Dog
• Starting to get into hitting people in the face even though he knows he's wrong, he'll pout at you - we may be starting 'time-outs' a lot sooner than expected
• Wouldn't nap on Sunday
• Grammie & Grampie came over to watch Alexander while Mommy did some cleaning & Daddy did some yardwork
• Went out to brunch with Grammie & Grampie and flirted with all of his lady friends at the restaurant
• Loved eating and tried new foods on Sunday: ham steak, potato-thingys, dried papaya (loved the papaya)
• Finally took an afternoon nap on Sunday
• Played bubbles, etc outside with Grammie & Grampie
• LOVES to chase Daddy around the house and then subsequently have Daddy chase him around - that gives big ole belly laughs for that
• Although he was exhausted he didn't want to lie down and go to sleep...he would only lie down if you stood next to him