Here we are in Montreal. Lex
is an international baby before his first birthday. We drove up
to Montreal for the night. Alan is going to attend a conference
tomorrow and Lex and I are going to explore the city (well, the
few blocks surrounding our hotel anyway). Hopefully it will be
a nice day.

Lex is becoming such a
playful toddler these days. He’s developing a real personality,
likes the outdoors, like wrestling and tickling, and he’s
really talking a lot these days. He is so much fun! At the
moment it’s almost an hour past bedtime, but Lex is having a
great time putting stuff in his pack-n-play (his clothes,
blankets, toys, etc) and then we put him in the bed and he
throws everything out. He’s done this several times and loves
it. Silly baby. He has also learned (this is important!) to get
off the bed feet first. He crawls to the edge of the bed (or
couch or chair), looks over, then turns himself around and goes
down feet first. But the overall best part is that it’s so easy
to make him laugh. He smiles for everyone and laughs often with
a perfect baby laugh.

I’ve said it
before and I’m sure I’ll say it again – this is my favorite
age! :)

Alan brought Lex and lunch to work
yesterday. Most of my office is at a conference this week, so
it was quiet. We were sitting around with a few women from my
office and we started talking about how Lex knows a few baby
signs, like “big”. Alan asked Lex if he’s a big Lex and how big
is Lex. Lex looked around at the group of people for a minute
then made the perfect “little” sign. I
laughed so hard. Compared to the rest of the crowd, he is a
very little Lex.

We’ve gotten into a nice routine on
daycare mornings. Alan and I both get up, I take care of
getting myself ready and Alan gets Lex ready. Then I put Lex in
the car, drive to daycare, hand him over, and drive to work. It
works out well, EXCEPT that I don’t get any baby time in the
mornings. I miss that. When I dropped Lex off this morning he
was very sweet and smiley. He kept reaching for me, but not
crying when I didn’t take him out of the teacher’s arms. Then
he waved bye-bye to me. It was sweet. He seemed ok but I was
sad. Daycare is hard on mommy.

All weekend it was
beautiful weather. We went to the park with our friends Bill
and Elizabeth and had a really nice weekend. I kept meaning to
post a blog about how much I love spring. Then we got a
snowstorm! I drove home from my (final) class last night in a
blizzard! Ahh… spring :) Today we have snow on the ground and
snow in the forecast, but a sunny fog mix in the sky.

Lex has reached some sweet milestones lately.
He apparently took several steps for Alan yesterday. I’ll
believe it when I see it ;) When I’m around he just wants to be
held. His babblings are also starting to sound more like
conversations. The words are still nonsensical, but the flow is
definitely more conversational and sometimes he even stops and
looks at you expectantly, as though waiting for an answer to
his babbly question. I have a feeling that once the flood gates
are open … :)