Update and Some Christmas Pictures

I forgot to tell everyone what Alden is up to now at 5 months! This has been a very significant month for him. He is learning how to communicate some, though not very effectively (we are going to work on sign language soon), and he is really becoming his own person. You can see his personality for the first time. He is opinionated, independent, and easily frustrated, but he is also determined, humourous, and loving. He is standing holding onto things and sitting by himself. He is trying to crawl but is doing more of an inch worm number to the toys he wants. He loves taking toys and banging them against hard surfaces. I bought him a little tykes xylophone so he can take full advantage of his wild swings to start making music. And he loves his jumper we got him. He can get quite high in it, well, high for a 5 month old anyway. He loves being played with sort of rough and daring, like being swung and gently tossed or flown up in the air. He loves faces and reading books at night time. He is teething big time and very fussy with it. I wish his first tooth would hurry up and come in! But he seems to be doing fine and growing well otherwise.

Now here are some pictures I took from Christmas and some I took before the holidays. I hope to upload some videos soon as I have quite a few from Christmas morning and other times that I think you would enjoy. But here are these for now. And when Currie sends me the ones he took, I really will put those up here. I guess I should make it a New Year's Resolution to keep up with this thing, eh?