Catch-Up Blog

As some of you have pointed out after seeing the recent videos, we need to catch-up the blog on a few developments.

First, Alex has been talking! His first word was "dog" a few weeks back. His g's were not very strong at first so we hesitated in declaring his first word. He loves to shout "dog" and point whenever he sees dogs or pictures of dogs. Sometimes he calls horses and bears dogs too, but he is starting to discriminate more. He also very frequently says "there" and points either as a question with inflection in his voice (what is that?) or just to point something out. He also says "Daddy", "Dad", "Mama", and "Mam", although it doesn't seem purposeful yet. Tonight at dinner he said "ahh done" and pushed his food away. I asked him if he was done and he repeated it. "done" is usually what we say to him when a meal is over. We'll see if he does it again tomorrow.

Second, he has started brushing his teeth twice a day this week. He likes to do it so far.

Third, he has started a wounded knee crawling. He is very close to full knee crawling, but he still looks a little wounded while he does it. He still prefers to practice walking. See the 3rd video below.

Today, Alex had a full day. He marched in our neighborhood's July 4 parade, he went to the playground, the zoo, and he played at home. Videos are below. We are looking for a higher quality video option than YouTube, but we have not found one yet. We are also posting the rest of the Park City Videos in a consolidated file down on the bottom. The videos are a little long.