37 Years

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY MOM AND DAD!

Summer Travels & 6 Months!

It won't be too long before my little man is on the move. He can get up on all fours and rock a little. He does 360's on his belly and rolls from one place to the other! As soon as he figures out he can make his arms and legs work together.....I am in trouble! My coffee table behind Xavier is being taken to my parents garage this weekend!

Xavier turned 6 months last week! I know, already! Where does the time go? He weighed in at 18 pounds, 14 ounces and 28.5 inches long.

Xavier LOVES to watch his Cousin Caden play. Caden is pretty good about sharing or giving Xavier toys to play with. We went home last weekend for Jake's 10 year High School Reunion!
Two weekends ago my mom and I made the trip to Detroit with Xavier! It was a nice weekend and we helped Josh get settled in his new bachelor pad (sort of). He is painting most of his new condo so we couldn't hang anything on the walls yet. While the trip driving 5 hours with a 6 month old was not terrible, it was also not great. I think Xavier's max driving time is between 2-3 hours.
Saturday morning we got to visit with my friends Rachel and Beth who both live in the Detroit area and they got to meet Xavier. Beth brought her beautiful new son Henry and of course her sweet husband Chris.

Friday night we watched Uncle Prez play co-ed kickball. Here he is in action.

Gigi and Xavier

If we are outside, Xavier is a happy boy!

Overall we had a great trip. The first night Xavier slept pretty well in his play-yard. However, Saturday night was a different story....he woke up just about every hour all night long. This was because he had developed his first cold. It is so hard because there really is nothing you can do but hold and soothe him.
Xavier is still waking up once or twice a night these days. Dr Jim says to just let him cry.....I haven't listened to him yet. He is getting better about taking some daytime naps though, he takes a mid-morning nap and usually takes a 2-3 hour nap in the early afternoon.
He loves to be outside! So far he is still enjoying falling asleep in his car seat too! He has almost out-grown the infant seat though, his feet are just about to the edge and his head looks huge in there.

Okay, well better start working........more next week!

McDonald Family Reunion

Last weekend we went down to Rough River State Park in Kentucky for Jake's mom's family reunion. The Lake was beautiful

Grandi, Xavier and Aunt Irene.

We have the oldest McDonald and the youngest McDonald family member. Well technically Xavier is not the youngest, cousin Graham is by 11 days but Graham didn't show up until Saturday, so for an evening X was the youngest!

Xavier in the pool! As long as it is warm he loves being in the water!

Last night we saw our good friends Jessica and Cooper! They were in town visiting her brother and family. We also got to see PJ and Kyle's cute little girl Campbell.
Xavier is pretty much sitting up on his own and he has been eating veggies for a couple weeks. I decided to try out all the veggies first before introducting fruits, but fruits are next week! He has also found his lungs and by that I mean the higher pitched scream he likes to do every now and then! He has been "talking" forever it seems, but now all of a sudden he enjoys a good scream! It was so cute to see him and Cooper "talking" to each other last night!
Xavier had been going to bed at 7:30 every night for a couple weeks but the last two nights he has decided he wants to stay up later! He still wants to wake up around 6:30-7 though to start the day-so no more sleeping in for mommy........although he is napping right now. But I just have to many things to do! Gigi, Xavier and I are going to see Uncle Prez tomorrow up in Detroit-Rock City. We also get to see my good friends Beth and her little guy Henry and my lil-sis Rachel!

Rolling Over, Baptism and Teeth!

So much has happened in the last week! Xavier now just rolls and rolls. I put him on his Einstein mat, go into the kitchen for a minute, come back and he is 2 feet from the mat! He enjoyed getting himself part way under my coffee table and then he would wrap his arms around the leg and put his feet up on the cross bars. I gave him the cold teething rings constantly last week, which he seemed to enjoy! On Sunday his bottom front left tooth popped through the gum! Yesterday his bottom right tooth popped! This maybe explains some of the last few nights of 3-4 wakings, sometimes only 2 hours apart! I felt like I had a newborn again for a couple nights! Last night he only woke at 2 and 4:30 this am. Whew.

Xavier has started to actually enjoy his car-seat I think! (gasp!) He now falls asleep in the car! It is unbelievable at times and I am always checking my mirror to see into his mirror and actually see him asleep!! The down side to this wonder is that he is quickly out-growing the carrier and will need to be moved to his convertible car-seat sooner rather than later. But in the mean time I will take it while it lasts!!

Here is Big CW eating his yogurt! Caden is so awesome at animal sounds and when you ask him to pick up or point to a certain animal he knows exactly which one is which! He also loves to point and name all the people in a room. Someone started calling me Dar-Dar, which is what my younger brother Josh used to call me. So CW calls me Dar-Dar but most of the time it sounds like Dar-Do. Sometimes Do-Do. Here he is pointing at Dar-Do! We can't wait to see what CW is like when little Chloe arrives in 6-7 weeks. CW also say's Pee-U and plugs his nose when he stinkers in his diaper! I can usually smell him a mile away so I don't need that warning, but its a nice heads up for Ashley, especially once Chloe is here! CW started using the big-boy potty, or his little training potty, but they are just trying to encourage him. Ashley isn't ready yet for him to be potty trained I don't think.

Xavier was baptised on Sunday at St. Luke's.

All our family that could, came to our little guy's special day. I knew one of my great-grandma's, Grandma Gigi and still have memories of visiting her, so I think its pretty cool that Xavier has 3 great grandparents still with us. Xavier liked Grandmother's bright yellow jacket in this pic. Gigi, Opa, Aunt Ash, Uncle Brady and CW and Grandmother and Poppy.

Aunt YaYa and BeBe and of course Grandi and Pops came!

My Aunt Bon (aka Aunt Mimi) also came with Uncle Bob and cousin Will.

Three generations of Knott men.
Dave, Jake and Xavier.

Thank you to all our family for celebrating Xavier's big day with us!

Welcome Miss Aubrey!

Here I am holding the sweet and super tiny little baby Aubrey. She weighed in at 6 pounds 7 ounces. Her mom went through roughly 24 hours of "labor," was almost discharged from the hospital because she was not dialated enough, but contractions were like 4 minutes apart and finally at 2 am July 20 after 4 pushes (no fair) she came into the world! I think Aubrey looks like her mother. Jake thought she looked like Dustin.

Here is little Jillian 2 years ago. I think she looks like Dustin! I think Jillian only weighed 5 pounds and something when she was born. So Lacey apparently has little babies!

More Peas Please!

Xavier had his first taste of Peas this weekend. Day 1 of peas was decent, day 2 not too interested, day 3 enjoyed them and day 4 not too interested. He is getting some green beans today! Here he is sporting Aunt Ashley's flower bib. A bit girly but it pretty much covers his whole top half and believe it or not, no peas on his outfit underneath!

Gigi got out some old clothes of my brothers and we did a photo-shoot. Here he is modeling Uncle Josh's Sailor outfit. I am trying to figure out when exactly Josh wore it because he was a big baby and born in the fall. I had a matching outfit that we had our picture taken in.

Here Xavier is modeling Uncle Drew's slugger outfit. This outfit is almost 35 years old! :)

Opa and Xavier.

I love his little smile in this one. He is showing off his Pirate shoes. I could just barely get his chubby feet into them! Length wise some shoes fit him, but it is getting his foot and ankle through the small opening that provides a challenge!

Xavier is sitting longer and rolling over more. Every day (and night) I find him at the opposite end of his bed from where he started and on his back. Sometimes he is horizontal in his crib!

Ashley had a 3D or 4D ultrasound last week and confirmed that she is having a girl. Chloe's little heartbeat was "suggesting" a boy by the old wives tales and Ash just wanted to make sure that all the PINK and PURPLE clothing she now has was going to get used!

In other news, Congratulations to our friends Dustin and Lacey Deno on the birth of Aubrey Rae, early Monday morning. She weighed in at 6 pounds 7 ounces. She is such a tiny little thing! But so cute. I will try to get her pics downloaded to my computer and uploaded to my blog tonight or tomorrow.

Everyone have a great weekend!

5 MONTHS!

Where has the time gone??

Here I am with my little-big boy! We did not have an actual 5 month check-up with Dr Jim but I did weigh him at breastfeeding support on Friday and he weighed in at 17.5 pounds! Unofficially he is also 27.5 inches long, I measured him with my clothing tape measure( not sure what it is actually called.....)

I sit in my bumbo seat and play catch. I love to catch and grab at my balloon too that Grandi brought over and plays. It is helping me with my hand eye coordination.
I don't know what it is about outside but if Xavier is crying or grumpy, I walk outside and he is pretty much immediately passified. Here he is sitting in a big boy chair watching his daddy mow the lawn. We walk almost every night right before putting on Pj's. Not sure how that will work in the middle of winter??? :)

Not much else is happening. I am supposed to be starting the weaning of breastfeeding during the day this week, but I have not started it yet......our schedule and doing things with friends has gotten in the way! I could start X on solid baby foods but I am going to wait a couple weeks. We were supposed to be going to Detroit this weekend so I was putting it off until after that trip, but now we are not heading there until August. Xavier and I might be taking our first plane ride together to Detroit. We will see how our trip down to Kentucky goes in a few weeks before we make that final decision.

Our friends Lacey and Dustin are expecting their second girl any day now. Lacey was "primed" this afternoon and 2-3 cm dialated so maybe we will meet miss Aubrey yet this week.

Aunt Bebe's Birthday is this week so we are meeting Grandi and Pops and her for dinner on Wednesday.

We are also anxiously awaiting cousin Chloe's arrival, probably in about 10 weeks plus or minus a couple days. I am going to say minus a couple days. She is due on the day of Kenny. Aka, the Kenny Chesney Concert here in Indy.

Hope everyone is having a great summer, it is going by way to fast! I think Jake said only 6, maybe 7 more Saturdays until the first College Game day of the season! Wow-football season already!