He sure does like his cottage cheese! He
ate everything I fed him for dinner tonight and asked for
seconds on the cottage cheese… then ate it with his spoon and
fork at the same time. Guess he was hungry!

Quick update on the heat… turns
out our “pipes” (plastic tubing) in the upstairs zone are
frozen. My dad is so smart, he told us to check that and he was
right! The installer guys ran them through the knee wall
upstairs and I guess there isn’t enough insulation up there for
that… or else they put them in a less insulated part or
something. I’m not the expert here. So we are defrosting them
now (luckily they are plastic and there is no worry about
bursting) and we’ll get them better insulated tomorrow. And
then the weather will warm up anyway and all will be
good.

After lots of time and money trying to get
our new heating system in place, it was finally operational and
working well last month. Sadly, yesterday our upstairs zone
stopped working for some reason. It got quite chilly! Lex fell
asleep in the car on our way home from shopping yesterday, so
when I put him down I still had my coat on and didn’t notice
quite how cold it was. He woke up awhile later crying and I
realized it was only 54 in his room. I brought him downstairs
and we sat in the rocking recliner for a few minutes and he
fell asleep on my lap. So I grabbed a blanket, kicked back the
recliner, and finished his nap with him :) It was sweet. Last
night we bundled him up and put him to bed, but his room was so
chilly when we checked on him that we decided to bring him to
bed with us instead. We had extra blankets and a space heater
in our room. Alan always wants to scoop Lex up and cuddle him,
so he was happy to bring him to bed with us :) The main
drawback is that Lex tends to wake up early and talk to himself
(5:00am today). Usually I turn the monitor off or down and get
up at a more reasonable hour (6:00-6:30am), but with him right
next to me in the bed that was a little more difficult. We
stayed in bed until 6:00am, but he was wide awake reciting
books (Dr. Seuss is a favorite) and I pretended to sleep.

Alan called Sears last night when he
got home and was politely told that there is nothing they can
do after hours. Which sucks!! I guess we are lucky it was only
the upstairs zone, not the downstairs or the whole thing.
Especially because it’s been well below 0 for the past few
nights. Alan is going to call them again this morning and
hopefully they will come out ASAP today. Otherwise naptime
today should be interesting… I’ll keep you posted!