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This First Father's Day



For Alexander's First Father's Day Grandma, Grandpa and Nana came over for some classic baby oogling and manly hot dog/ hamburger grillin' topped off with cards and fine appreciation for the new papa and grandpa. Grandpa and Alexander looked over his favourite book while David slaved away over the hot grill. The ladies provided salads and sides and a scrumptious ice cream/strawberry shortcake desert bar with all the fixin's. Alexander surprised papa with his first father's day shirt and tie, and chipped in with mummy's gift of a PS3 rental so that papa could take a break and play with the big boy toys for a bit. Fun was had by one and all and our families are truly blessed with such fine fathers as these.




 
 

Happy Birthday Nana!

Last Friday, we celebrated Nana's birthday with the Johnsons and a great hamburger grill and picnic outside. Alexander and Nana have become grand buddies the past couple of weeks as they get to spend some quality time together while Mama works three days a week. They play and chat together and look at their favorite book- B is for Bear. They've weeded the garden and have a little music lesson some afternoons. Right now Nana comes to our house, but Alexander will probably go to her house sometimes too when he gets a little older. XanderBear is their special little friend Nana made who likes to give lots of kisses to make Alex smile. Happy Birthday Nana!

 
 

Love from Minnesota

This week we were graced with a delightful visit from some Minnesota Johnsons: Dave (Serena's brother), Karen, and Lauren, Megan, and Cody. Alexander was just thrilled to meet his family and passed out smiles and giggles liberally to all. He was thoroughly spoiled by his Aunt Karen and cousin Lauren and took time lap-hopping from cousin to cousin on more than one occasion. We celebrated birthdays for Nana Lynne (June 15) and Megan (June 14) with a bit of grilling and outdoor picknicking compliments of the two Davids. Thursday night, the girls had a fun sleepover complete with little crafts, mini pedicures, photo shoot, and championship Sorry game with their uncle David. Cody gave Alexander a few lessons in baseball, and I'm sure next year Alexander will be toddling around behind. We just had a really good time throughout the visit. "Come back and play again next year," says Alexander, "so I can play too." Well, that's what he would say if he could :).

 
 

Little Angel

How quickly time flies. Alexander celebrated twelve weeks of life on Sunday. It is hard to comprehend or even begin to explain the way our hearts just bubble over with love for this little creature- this tiny, perfect creation. There are no words to describe the joy he has brought or the contentment we've found in our lives. Motherhood, Fatherhood- I think we're in love. Thank you- we praise you O Lord!, for this exquisite little angel.

 
 

A Moment for Morning Worship

Since April, one of the first things that we do after breakfast and dressing for the day is to have our little morning worship together. Usually mummy comes down to the blanket with Alexander and we sing our memory verse song, study our Sabbath School lesson, (I can even print them off the internet in French!) have a little prayer and close with a hymn. Alexander just loves it. He soaks up every minute and looks at the pictures so very intently. We're currently learning the story of Joseph's coat of many colors. May, we talked about Daniel in the lions' den. But it was his first lessons that just began so perfectly, as for the month of April we read about little David the Shepherd Boy. I think his favorite part talked about David's new little lamb. "You are a new little lamb too, Alexander!" It is our prayer that our little lamb would become a man after God's own heart, and follow in the footsteps of His Good Shepherd.

 
 

All Through the Night

We are super pleased to announce that Alexander finally made it through the night in what we would qualify as officially "sleeping through the night." He snuggled down in his crib shortly after his bedtime 9pm feeding and woke up at 5am, just as mummy was getting up for work. He let her take a shower and get ready, and took breakfast only half an hour early. When we woke up in the morning, we both kind of looked at each other and asked, "Did the baby get up last night?" "Did you hear him crying?" We were quite surprised he was still asleep in his crib. But the event couldn't have come at a better time, as we had both been so exhausted from the week (we at first wondered if we had just slept through his 'calls'). God's timing is always perfect, isn't it? We'll have to see if baby Alex can duplicate this wonderful feat in the nights ahead.

 
 

back to work

I can't believe how fast time has flown. After 12 beautiful weeks of maternity leave, the long Wednesday finally came to return to work. David has been been so wonderful and helpful with everything, he's made me lunches all week, and helped get everything ready for the big day. These first mornings little unsuspecting Alexander has awoken in his typically cheery little disposition, and it's just hard to think about how he doesn't even realize that his mother will be abandoning him in just a couple short hours. During our morning time together, I try to remind him of all the fun things we've done together and fun times we've had so that he won't forget me, and he sometimes he smiles and giggles and says that he'd had fun too. But Wednesday and Thursday at breakfast I couldn't eat next to him without messing up my make-up, and he seemed too excited for the new day to suggle in for any long good-byes. But at work, everyone has been really wonderful and welcoming. I feel really blesseed that Exhibit Works has made a place for me to come back at part time (M,T,Th) and I printed out pictures to stick up everywhere in my cube, and fortunately it's not part of our busy season for the time being (you can tell because I'm typing this at work!). Wednesday night when I got home he was happy and smiley to see me, but Thursday night he was much more mellow and moody. I really hope that he will be okay, and like David says that he is just adjusting and not getting depressed or broken-spirited. I'm very protective of his sparkling little spirit. It's been a rough week, but they say things do get a little better. We are just excited for the weekend together with our family again, and are praying that He will lead us down the paths that He knows are best for now and for our family's future.

 
 

A "Full Night's" Rest

Beautiful little Alexander graced papa with a most encouraging birthday present Thursday night by sleeping through the night** from 11pm to 6:20 am!



**ACTUALLY, he slept at cell group after a 9pm dinner (around his normal bedtime), and stayed asleep in the car all the way home. Mummy gave him a calming snack at 11pm when he woke up on the way out of the car seat with a start. We put him in the bassinet for the night because he seemed a little on edge, where he promptly took to snuggling with the side of the bassinet (This always makes mummy nervous and she glanced in more than a couple of times throughout the night to make sure he was still breathing). He took a bit of a 3am stirr (when he usually eats) that was quieted with the speedy replacement of the magical binky. Mummy woke up at 5am with papa's alarm clock and glanced at Alexander every 10-15 minutes, anxiously wondering if he could actually make it to 6:30 without needing to eat. At 6:20, his eyes popped open, and he happily took a diaper change (mummy stalling until 6:30), had breakfast and a short awake time. At 7:00 Mummy tucked Alex into bed with her and he fell back asleep until he woke up to the camera flashes at nearly 10am! (Mummy also took advantage of much of the sleepytime.)

They may call this lack of mid-night meals 'sleeping-through-the-night,' but until he also permits MAMA to "sleep-through-the-night," we won't report anything official without adding the truth in the fine print. =)