5 Double Wide

This is the size Xavier got for his "first" pair of shoes. They certainly are not the cutest shoes out there, but when you have to wear double wides, you take what you can get I guess.....

He does have a pair of white Nike's that are wide, but I can already barely get his feet in them, there goes $25 down the drain!

This ice-cube is a slippery little sucker!

It was funny to watch him try to chew on the ice cube, then it would slip out of his hands on the floor and he would try to get it and it would slide away.....shouldn't laugh but it was funny!

I finally got some close-ups of him smiling for my Christmas card! I usually have them ordered and received by now, but due to other things going on I am a little behind this year. :)

Cheese!

Thankfully you cannot see the snot dripping down his nose in these pics! We have been keeping kleenex in business this week. Poor little guy has had a runny nose most of the week and a nice deep cough. Thankfully (knock on wood) it has not affected his already wakeful night sleeping. He is still only getting up once a night sometimes twice depending on how early he goes down. This Friday though, is sleep training night! I am so excited to start putting him to bed and hearing the poor little guy cry.....joking, I am NOT looking forward to it at all. I have reached the point though that I just cannot keep getting up at night and at 6 am in the morning and then be a nice person all day. When I think about it I have been waking up nightly for at least a year now. This time last year I was starting to get into the pee-ing all night phase of my pregnancy, boy I don't miss that!

We had Xavier's 9 month check up and all is well, except for the cold that is. He had to get 3 shots and took the first one in stride without any tears but #2 and 3 he just did not appreciate. He has grown 2 inches since his 6 month appointment and Dr Jim was impressed with him. He is a standing machine these days. Yesterday he took 3 steps for Grandi and me. He wouldn't show daddy when he got home, but he did it! He loves to put his arms up for "touch-down" or how big is Xavier. Still loves getting into the same things. Now if you go out the garage door he super crawls to it to try to get out too and if he makes it just as the door is shutting.....he does not like that! He found mommy's set of VHS tapes this week, I think he really wants to watch SHAG or Runaway Bride because he keeps taking these 2 tapes out of the cases. I am not real sure why I still have VHS tapes since I don't have a VCR, but I just don't know that I am ready to part with Shag yet. Somehow I imagine they will "disappear" when we move in the spring.

I am happy to say that I am 50% done with Christmas shopping. And here I was thinking this would be the first year in my life that I would be shopping the week before! Thanks Grandi for watching X while I did some shopping yesterday.

Can you believe it is Thanksgiving already? I can't. And Christmas is around the corner!

I cannot wait to decorate as I love this time of year! I am hoping though my tree will stay up-right too and I don't have any disasters!

Okay have a Happy Thanksgiving with family and friends!
Love to my brother Drew who we won't see until Christmas this year!