Pictures from Thanksgiving and Early December

Here's a not too great picture of Alex's tooth. It's on the bottom on his right side, you can just see a tiny little white speck. He is starting to feel better from his ear infection, but is still getting the icky pink medicine which he hates. There are a ton of pictures of him in his high chair because I am trying to catch the fishy face he makes, especially when he doesn't want to eat something. He pushes his lips way out and breathes fast and loud through his nose. It's so funny, but every time I try to get it on camera, he smiles instead. We were trying to trick him by giving him his medicine syringe to make him do it, but he would smile as soon as the camera started to take and then go back to blocking the medicine. He's too funny. He's also been mastering drinking through a straw and enjoys eating bread...so check out those pictures too.
Alex is crawling all over the place, mostly with his little crabby crawl with the left leg out and the right knee down. He is starting to be able to go pretty fast and is pretty fearless to explore now. He also loves to stand, can pull himself to stand and lets go sometimes. He even began a few tentative cruising steps along the ottoman and couch today.

He found the door stoppers, and likes to make them go bo-ing bo-ing. Here's a video of that new fun.

He doesn't like to stay still for a second, so often while trying to change or dress him, I end up with a naked baby crawling away. We spent Thanksgiving with some friends down the street at the Smet's house. It was fun and Alex got to play with some other kids. One little girl named Abby really liked him. We decorated for Christmas this weekend and went to the Wing Holiday Party on Saturday night. I had a good time dancing with the girls and then my friend Alice came over and we played SingStar.

Tomorrow I start my new job on base so it will be busy around here for the next 2 months. That's about it. Here are the pictures from Thanksgiving and Early December.

First tooth coming in!

Alex's first tooth is coming through. It's the front bottom right one. I can just barely feel the little sharp edge of it. Andy says I'm crazy, but it's there. Alex isn't very keen on me sticking my finger in his mouth right now, let alone looking at it. He has an ear infection and is pretty sick, plus the teething makes for a not very happy camper. Oh, and being told NO so much more now since he is crawling all over the house and discovering cat food, drawers, electronics, cords, wine bottles, and lots of other stuff proving that we need to baby proof the house finally. Just wait till he gets his hands on the Christmas tree!! (We got one last night but it's not put up yet.) No pictures right now, but we'll post some soon!