Ringing in the New Year

Gosh, it has been a month since our last blog entry. Apparently, the holidays have kept us very busy! Alex has not been home for the past 3 weeks. He's been in Buffalo, New York, for the World Junior Championship. Team USA brought home the bronze medal. This is the first time in the tournament's history that Team USA has gotten back-to-back medals (they won gold last year). We'd like to think that Alex is the team's good luck charm!

Graham and I have had our fair share of traveling over the past couple of weeks. We flew to Michigan on Dec. 21st and spent a few days visiting with family. Then Grammie and Grandpa picked us up and we trekked it to Buffalo (via Canada). We got to spend Christmas with Daddy! Actually, we all went up to Rochester, NY, to have Christmas dinner with Alex's Uncle John and Aunt Darlyss. It was the first time they got to meet our lil' man.


A few days later Grammie, Grandpa, Graham, and I had another long drive to Vermont. We spent several days there relaxing and visiting with Great Grammie and Great Grampie who drove up from Massachusetts. On New Year's Eve we headed back to Buffalo to ring in the New Year with Daddy.


During the trip Graham really showed off his rolling skills. He is much more adept at rolling back and forth. He has learned to tighten his core when rolling from tummy to back so he doesn't clunk his noggin on the ground. He is also starting to get his feet and legs up underneath of him, so I'm sure crawling is just around the corner. Oh boy!


Graham is now 7 months old. He's growing so quickly! We had to move his swing to the basement for storage because he was getting too big and too mobile. When we put him in the swing while he's awake he tries to sit up and we knew it was just a matter of time before he fell out!

Playing with toys while Momma and Daddy ate dinner.