It’s amazing watching Lex learn. He is so
close to crawling, and almost as close to walking. He get up on
his hands and knees, and rocks back and forth. This weekend he
started to try and move his hands and legs, but he can’t quite
coordinate them. It’s adorable. He’ll get one leg up doing
weird things and sometimes even get his foot stuck at odd
angles underneath himself. He tries so hard. Then sits back
down on his butt. This morning he got his knee forward once and
one hand flailed out to catch him (good first try) – all in an
effort to catch this weird dancing chicken toy Grandma got him
for Christmas. I think it’s scary, but Lex finds it facinating.
The little chicken dances around singing the chicken dance song
(loudly!) and its wings flap and its cheeks light up. Very
disturbing. Lex was trying soooo hard to crawl after it though
– something he’s never done with the fancy toy I bought him
specifically designed to encourage crawling. Go figure.

We are also making great progress on the
sleeping front. Last night he slept for 9.5 hours – in a row!!
He didn’t even wake up when Alan and I went to bed. I think
we’re going to give him another night or two in the pack-n-play
in our room then try putting him back in his crib.

I’ll try to get a few more pictures posted
soon. The blog is looking rather text heavy (and I need a new
one for my monitor at work ;) ).