Week Twenty Two: At A Glance...

Week Twenty Two: At A Glance (Monday, August 20th - Sunday, August 26th)

• Turned Five Months Old
• Earlier part of the week was fairly low-key (school, baths & sleeping)
• Really started to get the hang of rolling over, now doing a much better job going from back to front and then immediately front to back
• Is getting the hang of holding onto your hand to pull himself up but doesn't like to stand and will go straight from lying down to standing.
• Loves to stand & is quite strong in his legs & arms
  Loves to eat his feet & has started to eat his hands more frequently
• Had a much better week of sleeping, most mornings got up around 5am with little interruptions during the night
• Had some sweet potatoes & bananas this week... he does seem to be a every other day kind of kid when it comes to eating
• Still wearing new clothes to school which Miss Linda loves to see (I think I now dress him for her)
• Still loves swimming in the bathtub - I can't wait to sign him up for classes
• Daddy went to PA for the weekend so it was a Mommy & Alexander weekend
• Had a couple small photoshoots with Mommy on Saturday while Daddy was away
  Ran errands with Mommy on Saturday then we played in the tub because it was so hot
• Went to celebrate Grammie's birthday with her at the Marshfield Fair on Sunday
• Attended his first fair and saw horses, cows, pigs, rabbits & chickens for the first time
• Helped Grammie blow out her birthday candles
• Barely napped all weekend but was in a great mood despite such little sleep, that is until the ride home where he had a little episode (not fun for either of us)

Week Twenty Two Pictures

Week Twenty Two Pictures (Monday, August 20th - Sunday, August 26th)

Grammie's Birthday...

Today is Grammie's birthday - Happy Birthday, Grammie!

And to celebrate, Alexander & I went over to spend the day with Grammie, Grampie & auntie Alyson. We also carried out an annual family tradition of going to the Marshfield Fair. Yes, I know...we potentially introduced Alexander to white trash so early on in his life... but at least he'd be too young to understand what any of it meant. We go every year and it truly something we all look forward to, especially Dan the Candy Man. (You buy tickets, a dart hits a board with numbers and if your number is called you win a pile o' candy) We practically win every year too... and this usually my main reason for going.

We walked around a bit before heading to Dan the Candy Man. We stopped to see the animals (cows, horses, swine & rabbits) I opted out of the poultry house only to find clowns waiting outside - EEK!! Seeing how it was so hot & muggy we made a bee-line to the Candy Man. But low & behold, Dan the Candy Man was standing to the right of his locked up booth! Could it be?? It was over?? No candy man?? Alyson & I were devastated. We didn't know what to do with ourselves. Might as well go home now... it was started to drizzle anyway, so we walked the long way back to our car.

After a WEEEE nap at Grammie & Grampie's, it was time for Grammie's cake and to finish the birthday celebration before the long drive home.

Don't we look SO SMALL in the big chair?? The price was a rip off for what we got but we were at the fair and we didn't spend that money on Dan the Candy Man...

Happy Friday...

This week has been has been a low key week, with school, baths, trying bananas and sweet potatoes. And of course some playing & tummy time. Other than that - we're just hanging out.

Daddy is, however, going away this weekend to a wedding in PA so we're going to miss him while he's gone. We'll have to find ways to amuse ourselves.

I also wanted to post another picture as the ones from Wednesday make him look like a completely different baby, chubbier than he actually is.