The Family Edelhay: Jordan, Alex, and Angus

Angus is intensely interested in the world. He loves being held by Alex or I while we're in a large group so that he can watch other people talk from the safety of our arms. We went to a Hanukkah party at Scott and Joy Silver's house 2 Sundays ago. Angus watched quietly for the whole party, then when we got home, he transformed into a chatterbox. He just talked and talked and talked. Just like all the people at the party. After that, he invented a game where he sits in my lap and nuzzels his head into my chest. Then, he'll lift his head up, look at Alex sitting next to me, and once he has Alex's attention, break out into the biggest, happiest, proudest smile you've ever seen. As soon as Alex smiles back, he burrows his head into my chest again, only to repeat the whole sequence with smiles of increasing brilliance.

Angus is also meeting his first friends. He met Doug and Nancy Treder's son, Elijah at a santa photo shoot on Saturday. He's been spending some quality eating and sleeping time with Kim Painter and Hui-San Chung's daughter Amelia, as Kim and I enjoy our maternity leaves together and look for a nanny to look after the two of them. Last week, Amelia was at our house for the first time. She was fussing, and I was holding Angus over my shoulder. Everytime, I moved so that Angus couldn't see Amelia, he made an abrupt noise of dissatisfaction, until I turned him so that he could watch her.

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