Alex has been enjoying his green ride-along train lately.
Sometimes he puts his feet up on the steering wheel and leans back against the back rest. It's startlingly casual.
It may have been the best $4 second-hand toy ever.
Now here is a picture of a little boy in a box:
For lack of time or energy to do much else in the evenings, I've been playing my guitar a bit more. Alex calls it the "gii-car" or "geet-car". I'm no better now than I ever was, and probably worse. But Alex doesn't seem to notice, especially when I let him strum and pluck the strings. Once last week he even pulled out his big green alligator xylophone and played along with me.
I'll be honest with you. We are exhausted most of the time. Money is really tight. We don't see all that much of each other, between work and school and commuting. The house is falling apart and is a perpetual disaster area of dirty dishes, baby toys, and paperwork. We have pieced toghether a patchwork web of small blessings, contingencies, and outs that get us by: Ryanne (the world's greatest nanny, fills-in-all-the-gaps, stays late, Alex's #1 fan), frozen meals (Bertouilli's frozen pasta skillets are a nice treat when they're on sale), walks around town, parks with swings and slides, kids videos from the library (Richard Scarry's Best Videos really are just that), and now we have a newly minted babysitter Priya who can watch Alex when she hasn't got too much homework.
So we get by. We're definitely not DINKs anymore. Let's not talk about 401(k)'s right now.
Auntie Ali sent Alex a ridiculously cute monkey costume for Halloween.
It even has a banana. Can you believe it?
Here's what makes it all worth while:
5 comments:
Thank goodness I'm coming for a visit in a few days, otherwise, I would wear out the computer looking at this blog entry! I haven't seen anything so cute since each of my babies were that age!
Love,
Mom/G'ma
Some day you will look back on these days and remember them as "the good old days". It's tough now but things will get better!
I agree with my auntie (anties are always right, right?)
I'm sorry its tough, but I'm counting on the tough times being worth it - the law school stress won't last forever, and when its over Dana will have an awesome, fulfilling, etc job. You have tons of support both in and out of Colorado - just say the word and uncle Eric and I will watch that little monkey so you and Dana can relax together - for an evening or for a week!
- Alison
More videos of Alex in October. Go to the address below:
http://picasaweb.google.com/stangelcarla/AlexOctober2008#
Love,
Grandma Carla
Help! I need an Alex picture or video, and a new blog entry!
Love,
Mom/Grandma Carla
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