L.A fun

Sorry about slacking on the posts. Alex and I jetsetted to L.A last week for the 90th birthday party for my Grandma. She's awesome. If I could live 1/4 of the life she's led, I'd be a happy camper. Love her mucho. So, we spent a wonderful, sunny, glorious week in L.A. I so did not want to go back to Denver. But, my hubby and father to my child was begging us to come back home so we had to oblige. Alex was smothered to death by friends, family, acquaintances, waiters, waitresses, flight attendants, god knows who else! This guy is definitely a chick magnet. He was even flirting with the girl next to me on the plane. I really do have my hands full. Not only is he very much like Mike but Mike just loves to show him his beloved Broncos Cheerleaders calendar every chance he gets. Anyway, Alex is doing great. Rolling around, playing with toys, and he even tried his first bite of rice cereal today. Whoopee! He is a rambunctious little guy. He grabs at anything his hand grazes especially my hair. I've learned to live on scrunchies and hair ties now. He has the weirdest laugh where he basically draws in air like he's gasping for air. Hope that changes soon because he'll definitely get weird looks when he's older. Alright, enough of my rambling. Here's some pics of the little fella!

I love laundry!

Alex and Pops

Hi everyone! I'm five months old!

Snoop Doggy Alex

Almost five months!

As I type this, I am giddy with excitement because Alex finally soothed himself to sleep, it took an hour but it happened! Alex has always been an excellent sleeper at night but his naps could use some work. We had resorted to using a bouncy seat to rock him to sleep since he was a newborn. Unfortunately, it resulted to a nice round bald spot on the back of his head. We have been slowly weaning him off the bouncy seat and getting him used to his crib. I have to hold him and bounce him until he is asleep (a workout in itself) and slowly lay him in his crib. However, today I bit the bullet and layed him down drowsy but awake. It took a full hour until he finally closed his eyes and went off to dreamland :) Don't worry, he wasn't crying that hour before he fell asleep. He just tossed and turned, made sounds once in a while, and I guess when he realized Mommy wasn't going to pick him up decided to go to sleep. I am crossing my fingers that this will be a daily occurence because quite frankly my back is killing me from carrying him! As of January 8th, he is 16 lbs 13 oz and 25 1/2 inches long!

Brrr...It's cold outside!

Most of you have heard that Colorado has been hit by a couple of big snowstorms the last couple of weeks. And today is no different. As I sit here in my warm comfy house, the snow is again falling outside. Mike had to wake up extra-early this morning (7 am gasp!) in order to shovel the driveway and make it to work on time (9 am gasp again!). Yes, we are back to the Artic home we call Colorado. We had a wonderful time in Arizona, running around in short sleeves and shorts. It was nice to see our family and friends and Mike and I actually went out on a couple of "date nights"! Woohoo! We had a very low-key New Year due to exhaustion from all of our whirlwind traveling. We stayed up just enough to wish our families a happy new year and off to bed we went. Shoot, we could barely keep our eyes open at 10pm. Life sure has changed for us! Alex is slowly adjusting to having just me and Mike give him attention. No more doting grandparents and aunts to hold him and play with him! Poor guy. Well, I hope everyone had a wonderful New Year and we wish everyone a blessed 2007!