Alex the dog

Sometimes I think Alex is a dog at heart. He will carry things around in his mouth to keep his hands free and will also play fetch with himself by throwing a toy and crawling to retrieve it only to throw and retrieve again. Silly boy!

The on/off remote for the mobile

Sock

Jail -- he actually really likes it in there! (so do I)

9 Months!

Guess who was 9 months old on Thursday! Alex is so happy and so much fun to be around. He is a great sleeper, sleeping 11-12 hours a night and he takes 2 naps during the day that are usually about an hour each. He is also a great eater with a hearty appetite. I am still breastfeeding but I don't anticipate having a hard time weaning. He will eat anything except cottage cheese and avocado.

He went in for his 9 month check up and he is healthy and doing well. He has 6 teeth (3 top and 3 bottom) and the 4th on the top is about to come in. Here are his stats:

Weight: 18lb 10oz (20%)
Height: 27.5in (26%)
Head Circ: 18in (68%)

Teeth and Monkey

Alex now has 5 teeth. Two on the bottom and three on the top. It is so cute. Alex's latest thing is to crawl under things. If he can get under it, he does. He is such a happy baby (now) and so fun to be around.

Look at my teeth!

He is part dog (I need to get a video of him playing fetch with himself)

Watching Daddy cook

His way of playing with the walker

Side table

Why not right?

Shelf again

At Grandma and Grandpa's

Stuck

Our coffee table, this is a tight space. Silly boy.

LOVES Daddy scratching his back

Cutie

Sonny

Unfortunately we had to put Sonny down last week. A couple months ago one of his nails on his left back foot fell off. This has happened before, same toe, so we treated it like we did the first one, with some antibiotic spray that the vet gave us. This time though his toe continued to get worse and infected. We took him back to the vet and were told to start soaking his foot in Epson salt daily and bandaging it. The other option was amputation of the toe. We decided to go the soaking/bandaging route but after a few weeks it still didn't show improvement -- actually kept getting worse. We returned to the vet and basically had 2 options, amputation or continue to soak and bandage to just keep the infection from spreading (but only delaying the need for amputation). Amputation was going to run about $2k and Sonny is 11+ years old. Also, the vet said there was a good chance that it was a cancerous mass in his foot which is the root cause of all of this. If that was indeed the case, the cancer would have most likely spread to other parts of his body. Sadly it was time to put Sonny down.

We had Sonny in our family for over 5 years and he was the most loyal, kind dog I have ever met. He had such a gentle spirit and was great with Alex. We will miss him dearly -- he was our first baby. Sonny and Honey are frolicking in doggie heaven.

Plaster of paris footprint of Sonny from the vet

Best friends

He was SO good and gentle with Alex

8 Months old!

Alex is 8 months old today! He is getting super fast crawling and pulling himself up on everything to stand. Walking isn't too far away!

Helping with the laundry

Taking a break from terrorizing Sonny

Jail! He is even wearing his stripes!

More pics

I'm on a roll posting pics today! Here are some more:

Cool dude

Hubba hubba

Getting into things...

Gazing... too hot to actually go outside

New way to play with jumper

My favorite buddy

Crawling everywhere

                       

Oh hello there

Bath time

Olympic Party

Since we all have Olympic shirts, I had everyone over to watch the Olympics! Nothing good was on that day as it was during the day on Sunday but we still had fun!

The 3 boogers

Grandpa wearing A's bib

Playing

My cutie

Alex is napping and Grandpa is taking the pic