Alex is 9 months old!!!!!!!!!

It's funny because November seemed like it was going to be a slow month after Robbie's birthday and Halloween, but here we are again celebrating another month of Alex being with us.  It's been a week full of celebrations: Wednesday was my dad's birthday (happy birthday Dad/Abuelo!), yesterday was mine and Lisa's birthday (happy birthday sister/Aunt Lisa!) and today Alex is 9 months old.

Alex is getting to be a fast crawler and does not liked to be left behind.  I'll take Robbie to his room to change his diaper and sure enough, Alex shows up a minute later.  He still pulls up on everything and we have even seen him cruising on the couch and in his crib.  The doctor thinks Alex will be walking before he's a year old.  It's getting a little harder to go out with both of them because Alex doesn't like to be in the stroller for too long.  He talks up a storm and even Robbie gets into conversations with him.  Alex also has his two bottom teeth.  He got the first one right before he turned 8 months and his second one last Wednesday.  It's so cute to see those two teeth when he's smiling, but not so cute when he bites.  He is 19.5 lbs and 28 inches (50th percentile for both).

In Robbie news, he is becoming very independent!  He can climb into his booster seat and his car seat by himself.  I don't always let him get into his car seat because there's a much stronger possibility that he will skip getting into his seat and head straight for the front seat so he can drive.  We are still working on sharing, but it's so cute when he does.  He will still give Alex nice hugs (that's what he calls them) and kisses. He's also good about throwing trash away without being prompted.  Now I just have to get him to not get upset about putting on jackets in this cold weather!

Alex 1 week

1 month

2 months

3 months

4 months

5 months

6 months

7 months

8 months

After multiple attempts to get his picture...

...these are the best we got.

Here is a video Matthew took at Alex's appointment this morning.  I think he looks so much like Robbie in this video!



Yesterday was a great day.  After going to the gym (and coming home to shower), the boys and I met up with Matthew for lunch at Hurricane Wings.  Rather than cook me dinner, Matt convinced me to go to Kan Ki for a free dinner.  We sat at a grill table, which was fine most of the time, but we didn't realize how much both boys would hate the fire show at the beginning.  After calming them down they were fine, though Robbie did not take his eye off the chef for the rest of dinner!  I think the chef made it up to him with the onion volcano and train.  After dinner Matthew was walking around with Robbie.  When they came back to the table, Robbie tripped and hit his face on the hand washing station.  Why they have one out in the restaurant I'll never know.  I've never seen anyone use it.  (Hopefully they are washing their hands in the kitchen before coming out!)  To make him feel better we bought some fish food and went to feed the koi.  He loved it!  It was so cute because every time he threw food in the water he would say "fishy, here you go!"  Luckily one handful was enough for him, but mostly because he threw in one piece at a time.  I think Robbie would go back next year. :)