Santa Came!

Olivia and Alex definitely had a wonderful Christmas! Olivia was so "into" it this year, she loved to go see Santa at the malls and enjoyed doing her several avent countdown activities. Olivia loved to decorate and we had fun making a gingerbread house. Everytime she would pick up a tree ornament, she would say "Closer, closer, closer, perfect!" as she hung it on the tree!
She was so funny on Christmas Eve when we put out Santa and Rudolph's snacks. She was afraid they would still be hungry so she kept going into the fridge pulling out more food for them to eat. There was a mound of food on the plate, it was too cute! Then she couldn't fall asleep that night and everytime she heard a noise, she would say "Is that Santa?" I told her he wouldn't come till she was sleeping so she would close her eyes and say "I'm sleeping now!" Her favorite gift of course was her playground, as she calls it! I will never forget the look on her face when she looked out the window and saw it!
Alex is enjoying all his new presents as well! He loves the little rocking horse from Mimi and Pappy and his circus train toybox that Pappy made for him is being put to good use! Now the hard part, where do we put everything???
I think Olivia was a little sad when we took down our tree and decorations. She kept hugging and kissing it all as we packed it away. I think she even misses her Elf on the Shelf, Emmett! Hopefully Christmas will be as fun next year as it was this year!! I was even sad to see it end.

7-8 months old!

Alex has really changed and grown these past few months! He is such a great eater and now prefers regular "people" food over baby food! My little food snob! He loves anything we give him including all fruits, vegetables, meats, and even pasta! It's hard to believe that he is still so lean even though I call him Bubbalicious! At 7 months, he weighed around 15-16pounds and at 8 months he is probably around 17 pounds. He has his 9 month old appt next week so we will see!
He started crawling at 7 and 1/2 months and now he is loves to pull himself up holding onto anything! I think it is a matter of time now before he gets brave enough to take a step. He is definitely an active little guy. Olivia never crawled so I am still adjusting to this whole phase!
He finally got a tooth on top but it is not one of his front teeth so he looks like a little vampire! We call him snaggletooth or fang! He is getting in one of his front teeth now but not the one next to the "fang" tooth. So he will have a gap in between. Our little hillbilly boy!
Alex is still so sweet and always smiling! He loves to hear himself talk and his favorite word is DaDa, even though he is a Momma's boy! Little Bubba is still not sleeping thru the night, help!! He is so crazy about Olivia and loves to play and take baths with her. Loves to tear apart her toys and play with everything she is playing with so the sibling rivalry has started, yay.