Baby Shower

Anne with her Mama!

Side-view of Baby Plovick

Best shower game E-V-E-R!!!!!

The diaper cake I made for Anne!

Saturday was a packed day for the Knott's. I started my morning off with a baby shower for my very dear friend Anne. Anna-bella and her husband are expecting their first baby, due February 19. She has been told the baby is already 7.9 this was a couple weeks ago so she is "hoping" she will go a little early and maybe spare herself a 10 pounder! I believe she is already 2cm dilated and thinning out, so I bet, she won't make it to the 19th, but that is just me!
The shower was hosted by Abby and Ali and was a great time. It was quaint with good friends and good food. And mimosa's!
For the first game, Ali handed us all a baby bottle. Filled with 8 ounces of beer. The task was to drink the beer for 4 minutes and whoever drank the most, Wins! It was not an easy thing, drinking out of a bottle! My mouth got tired along with my fingers from squeezing the bottle! I tied for 2nd place with Natalie (also a mother) and the winner was a new mother too! I think she maybe drank about 3 ounces and Natalie and I got about 2-2.5 ounces or so. It was a riot though to see us all trying to chug some beer from baby bottles!
As part of my gift I made Anne a diaper cake! It was the first time I have ever made one and if I do say so myself, it turned out quite nice!
Good Luck Anne and Ryan, we can't wait to meet Baby Plovick!

Twenty-One!

Our little Baby Will-Buster! Not a baby anymore. He turned 21 last weekend and we all went to Lafayette to help him celebrate! He enjoyed his very FIRST time to the bars and drinking! He is such an inspiration to anyone under age who doesn't drink! He is an inspiration to anyone but especially when it comes to the fact that he never drank until he actually turned 21!

Congrats Will!

Charlie and Caden helping him blow out the candles!

My little X-man who is about to turn 1!!! Aaaahhhhhh!

Jenn being a trooper and chasing X up the stairs! Charlie and Caden were coming too!

Jenn went to Belize for 2 weeks today on some sort of mission trip. Stay safe Jenn and see you soon!

HAPPY HAPPY

2nd Birthday Caden!!!

Dar-do and Caden

Two years has gone by fast! You are a very special boy to all of us!

Sweet Sleep

Where o where did you go???? After a very successful December of sleeping through the night we are back to at least once if not twice a night wakings. At least this time I KNOW it is not because he thinks he is going to eat, cause he doesn't. At the beginning of January I thought it had to be teeth, well 3 teeth came in 3 days about a week or more ago and no new ones since then. I am pretty certain 3 more are on the horizon so I am crossing my fingers that that is why he is waking up. Otherwise, well there is not otherwise, sleep training round 2 begins this week. We will actually be home all next weekend so he should get a good week of his own bed under his belt again.

Someone got into the crackers! And oops, spilled them all over! 10 second rule and we got them all back in the box :)

Someone also likes to open the drawers in the kitchen and get out the boxes of tea and dump them out! We don't have handles or knobs on our cabinets so we would have install the latches on all of them and well, it is just not worth it at the moment for only "hopefully" 2 more months or so of living here!

Here is Caden playing with Gigi's "pretties." He took all the fake candles out, turned them all on one by one and put them all back in the holder, one by one. He was so proud of his hard work!

Ash and I took Caden to get a haircut where X goes. He sat on my lap and was pretty much perfect the entire cut! I think Xavier and he have had about the same number of haircuts. So far X has one a month since October! The party in the front keeps growing but not so much in the back!

Pretty much from 7-7:30 every week night we watch Wheel of Fortune. If I do say so myself, I am pretty good at this game. Well I am good in the comfort of my living room, I would probably crumble on television! Xavier LOVES watching the wheel and all the colors. He will just stare at the tv, mesmerized!

A fun pic in his 2 piece pj's he got for Christmas. They are a "snug-fit" pajama and well, they sure fit him snugly! But they are 100% cotton which I think is better for his sensitive skin issues.

We get to see my good friend Jessica and family this weekend. Followed by my baby cousin turning 21!! I can seriously remember the moment I found out he was born, I was so excited waiting for that phone call. Looking back I am not sure if I was a blessing or a pest to my Aunt. Seeing as how I was only 10 years old at the time, I think I showed up on her doorstep everyday for who knows how long just wanting to hold my new little cousin! Actually, I probably just let myself in, no waiting on a doorstep for me!

I would also like to wish my friend April and her family sympathy and hope her Grandpa is at peace after passing away the other day.

Fire up for the Colts game Sunday!!!! Go Blue!

Decisions, Decisions

After some thoughtful decision making, Xavier and I decided on Texas to win the National Championship this evening. We L-O-V-E watching College game day with Daddy so much that we decided to be a little like Lee Corso-instead of putting on the winning teams mascot mask, we chose the only thing we had, a t-shirt. (and yes we also have a Roll Tide shirt)

Where did Xavier go??????

There he is!!!!

Finally! Another tooth popped through today. It was the bottom right lateral incisor (thanks to Xavier's baby book, I know which one that is) For those of you who do not know dentistry, he has his 2 bottom teeth-its the one next to the right bottom tooth.

It is a snow day here in lovely Indy and Xavier and I are still in our pajamas! He has an excuse as he is actually napping right now, but me, well it is just more comfortable.

And thanks to the snow I will be PAYING for it tomorrow with aching muscles. I have shoveled the drive not once, but TWICE today! I can already feel my back pain.

Okay, off for some hot tea and Food Network while X is still napping!

NYE 2009

Me, Abby and Ali hanging out NYE!

I must have said something really funny!

Me and my brother Josh

Josh was home too for over a week this year! He "gets" to take off the week between Christmas and New Years! He is always so dapper and is currently sporting a beard.

Amy, Emily, me and Christie.
All new mommy's out on the town for NYE!

Somehow another event went by and I never took a picture with Jake.......next time!

More pics

Opening presents at home before we went to Lafayette!

Standing up in his chair after he got a hold of Jake's empty cup!

Charlie and Pa-pa!

Four generations of Andrews/Poelstra/Claxton women.

Great Grandmother, Gigi, Ashley and Chloe

My mom and aunt with their parents, who are 91 and 92 years old!

Poppy, Mimi, Gigi and Birdie.

Mimi and Gigi, singing and dancing!

My mom and aunt have an awesome relationship and I am so grateful that my sister and I have a relationship like them!

Charlie posing. I guess he doesn't usually sit still for pics, but he did for me!

Too cute!

Opa with his boy grandbabies

Uh-oh Gigi! Xavier found a cabinet that wasn't child-proof! He really likes to pull anything and everything out of cabinets, drawers, you name it! Caden decided he wanted in on the action as well. Xavier is sampling some fake grapes.

Happy Birthday Opa!!!

Drew was home for over a week this year so we had to make sure we celebrated my dad's big day!

Touchdown!!!

Xavier loves doing Touchdown! He does it even when there is no football on! I think he just likes some of the attention personally......when everyone laughs and claps for him he just keeps doing it! He will also hold up 1 finger for number 1. He is a pretty good clapper and sometimes I think he knows Japanese, he talks and talks and talks but nothing too coherent yet.

I am still waiting patiently for Ma-ma.

Grandi and X finishing up a bottle.

Last but not least.....Xavier and his girlfriend Jillian. Not sure exactly why neither of them have pants on, when they turn 16 this won't be happening!

Look at those thighs!

Xavier also loves stairs!! Since we don't have any at the moment, I think he gets so excited when we go places with stairs. Dustin gratefully put up the baby gate after chasing X up the stairs 10 times!