Monday, July 9, 2007

one month old and growing like a weed :)

alexei is one month old as of yesterday! that is so hard to believe! he is doing well and growing bigger by the day. he is getting so much more active when he is alert, holding his head up, standing up in our laps if we support him under his arms, scooching across the couch on his belly, making all sorts of faces and noises and wiggling all over the place. :) he is going to be one active kid. how old do they have to be to sign them up for swim team and soccer? any other high energy activities you can think of? we need to start strategizing now how to give his energy level some good outlets. :) oh! and another huge event in the vyssotski house, he finally lost his umbilical stump last week and has a very cute inny belly button. :)
grandma natalia left for moscow this morning. we will definantly miss her, her helpful spirit and yummy cooking! :) it will be a whole new learning curve how to operate as a threesome, which i am really excited about. and i did get her to teach me how to make a few of her excellent dishes while she was here, so i am excited about trying my hand at some russian cooking.
the three of us and the three grandparents went to woolridge park again last night for an outdoor concert that was excellent - big band music. it was a huge turn out. i love the atmosphere - super laid back, lots of babies, picnics, and dogs. :) very austinish kind of summer thing to do. and outdoors which is the key right now for us if we are trying to get out and about(again trying to be obedient about avoiding germs. only one more month to go!) grandma katy has been super sweet to come over for one of the church services and watch the little guy so nick and i could go to church. that has been such a blessing and really refreshing to get out of the house together for a little while and hold hands. :)

here are some pics - i need to go feed alexei, so really fast: the two on the couch are alexei doing his scooching routine, the really nice looking lady in the picture with nick and alexei is my dr. - dr. ortique - super sweet lady, and the one of me and alexei is at the botanical gardens where i took natalia last week. the other one is just a cute shot of him in one of his fun pooh outfits. did you know there is a russian version of winnie the pooh too? same story except for no christopher robbin and owl is a girl. the animation and voices (of course) are totally different in the movie too. and another fun tidbit, is that both my mom, katy, and nick's aunt lena were called piglet or petachoke (russian spelling?) by their dads. isn't that fun? i might have already mentioned this, if so, please disregard. i just thought it was fun bit of trivia. :)





1 comment:

hlw said...

It was so great to see you last night ... I look forward to getting to know you more on Thursday evenings :)