Christmas

Well, we just had our first Christmas with Alexander. He's now 5 months old, and still absolutely gorgeous. Chris and I spent the whole day at my mum's house, with me lying on the couch for the best part of it, as I wasn't feeling well for the whole day.

When it came to the present opening, it went as predicted. Alex was more interested in the wrapping paper than the actual presents, though Elmo had his complete attention whenever it was activated. I think it scared him.

Alex got a good amount of pressies.. his grandpa got him a play mat, his grandma got him an activity center which attatched to his cot, and the Elmo Live, we got him a train that moves around the house and he got a few soft toys (including an Alex the Lion), as well as some Blues Clues DVD's...

Having Alex is good.. we relive our childhoods.. hehe.. Alex the Kidd on Sega was awesome. Alex the Lion from Madagascar is our fave reference these days.

We spent the first week and a bit of December in QLD with Chris' family. I get along well with them, which is good. Our days were spent at Dreamword and Whitewater World with Chris' dad, Brian, or spent at his house in his pool.. Alex got a little bit of a tan from it. We brought him a hat, just kinda forgot to put it on him 99% of the time. The good thing about taking him up there was that he got used to water. Well, cold water. We put him in a bath later and he went nuts. Our solution atm, til he gets used to it, is get in with him..

Alex seems to be teething atm, too. He was drooling left right and centre and was grumbly a lot, not to mention his fists lived in his mouth. That's gone atm, but we were told that the teeth come down, then go back up before coming up, so there's still a long way to go.

I have to admit, Alex is probably the most important thing i have done in my life, and will ever do. He fell off the bed the other night and I panicked. Lucky Chris was there, he snatched Alex up before I'd even turned around.. The screaming scared me, but he settled down after I was holding him for a while.. I think it was more the shock than the actual fall. Nothing was broken, and he wasn't concussed, so it's all good. He just had a mark on his face from where he hit his face on a chair. He got a fat lip, too.. but he was okay. We don't know how he fell, he was surrounded by a huge doona.. he must have wriggled bloody hard to free himself... We didn't even know he could do that.

That's all i have atm. Til next time, ciao!