Alex went to his first Seattle Storm WNBA game this evening. They played the team from Minnesota. It was a little bit loud, but he enjoyed looking at everyone and the jumbotron. It's not totally clear that he realized there was a basketball game going on, although he claps when he sees others clapping. He also enjoyed dinner at Uncle John and Aunt Ann's nice new house, the playground, and playing in the tent in the backyard with Dad.
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.
Alex just returned from vacation in Park City, Utah today. He had a great time, but he is ready to go back to school tomorrow. Here are some pictures and videos from Park City.
With his travel group: Carlos, Amy, Rachel, Mommy, Alex, Daddy, Jenni, and Gary.
He has also hit some major milestones in the last week: he has 2 new teeth (6 total), he can sit up on his own, he can pull up onto furniture, and he can (sort of) crawl lifting his belly off the ground. Maybe it was the sunshine...
We're on our 3rd day in Park City and everyone is having a great time. Alex went for his first bike ride yesterday (in the trailer). And today he went to the Olympic Park to watch the aerial skiers and watch Mommy do the zip line. He has also been swimming, to the park twice, and has practiced lots of crawling and standing. We're having great weather.
Alex has been crawling commando-style on his tummy off and on for a couple of weeks. He is starting to transition from rolling to this type of crawling to get around on his own. A video is below. He still prefers walking whenever he can get an assist. He also did a complete 'pull up' to standing from sitting right before and during a bath.
Alex is going on vacation to Park City Utah this week with Mommy, Daddy, and friends.
