Random summer pics!

Red the pony at Grandi and Pops house! Xavier loves to ride him. He is pretty good at getting on and off by himself and he can almost get him going as high and fast as his daddy used to do!

Watering Gigi's flowers, a nightly tradition!

Xavier LOVES hoses and the water that comes out! He doesn't even mind that the water shoots him in the face, so long as he can get a drink!

He even drinks from his watering can! :)

Weekend with all the kids!

Xavier cheesing for the camera!

Xavier, Chlo Bug and Caden. Chloe is not really as big as Caden although this picture certainly looks that way.......

One of them said something funny!

Aww! Best friends!

Caden must have been in the kissing mood! Giving Bugs a kiss too!

Caden loved the Gator in Gigi's "pool" he would run, jump and slide into the pool and onto the gator.

Bugs climbing on Xavier and Caden's chairs. They were both pretty quick to let her know the chairs were NOT hers. It is also pretty funny, but when Xavier goes out to the porch to the chairs he always sits in the left chair. When Caden goes out he always sits in the right chair. Its like they picked chairs last summer and then remembered who's chair was whos!

Ashley and Brady went to Brooks n Dunn concert one Friday night so we had C and C and Xavier for the day and night! We had a lot of fun together

Kate and Jimmy 2011

Jimmy finally wised up and popped the ? July 4th weekend! We are sooo happy for you Kate and Jimmy! Looking forward to July 23, 2011 :)

Kelly, Emily, Bride-to-be Kate and myself

Jake, Groom-to-be Jimmy, EJ and Grif

Jake and myself celebrating with the happy couple while X stayed in Lafayette with the grandparents!

4th of July!

While staying at my moms this summer Xavier loved a lot of things! A top love was the hose and the pool I guess. Every night we would go outside and just play in the hose. Sometimes his clothes would get totally wet and sometimes he wasn't wearing any clothes! :)

We got a mini flag at Toys R Us that he loved waving around!

He also loved to chew on it. Happy 4th of July!

Gigi, X and Opa on 4th of July at Aunt Mimi's house

Aunt Mimi, X and Mama (still has his flag!)

It was a rather quiet July 4th this year. Well other than some of my parents neighbors lighting off illegal fireworks around 10:30, but other than that just a peaceful/restful holiday. I believe (gotta think back) that X had bronchitis and an ear infection the Friday before the 4th. Only his 2nd ear infection and first Bronchitis, which came with a nasty sounding cough! A Z-pac for kids and he was pretty much back to his regular ornery self by Saturday!

Okay.....

So I finally got a bunch of pictures loaded on my parents computer and I cannot get them onto my blog for some reason, keeps telling me "javascript void." I have checked the help tag and even googled javascript void, made the changes and I still cannot upload photos! So, I will just post some notes today!
We are living with my parents for the month of July which has been GREAT! Unfortunately though we have created a pretty bad bed habit, but I figure I might as well wait now to rectify the situation once we are moved and settled in our new house! I cannot seem to get Xavier into his crib without either waking him up (I know already bad habit #1) or he screams bloody murder! We were doing so well awhile ago with crying it out (lasted like less than 5 minutes) or he would just go to sleep and then the 1 year Molars started to arrive....... Now we are working on some Eye teeth and he had Bronchitis last week, so I feel sort of stuck on the sleep issue. He has been sleeping almost 12 hours though this week (again, been awhile since that has happened), he is just not doing it in his crib at the moment.
We get to see my parents and Grammy and Pops everyday which is really nice and helpful! But Jake doesn't get to see us everyday which is hard for all of us, but it should only be about 3 more weeks! Xavier and I appreciate Daddy and all the hard work he puts in everyday!
Let's see......Xavier went from not saying Mama at all to saying MOMMY, on repeat over and over again! I love hearing him say it though and he can say it whenever he wants! He also says Daddy, Gigi, Opa (which just sounds like Pa), Pops (sorry Grammy that one is going to take awhile), sauce (applesauce), cheese, chip, pretty (Gigi has lots of pretties at her house and he has caught on), sock, shoe, outside (or something to that effect) he loves to wave bye bye to anything (even his bathwater), he doesn't like it when ANYONE goes outside and leaves him behind and the best new(er) thing he does is give kisses and pats. He will give you an open mouth kiss and then some patting on the shoulder, so cute! He is definitely an ornery little guy and keeps me on my toes! He can climb just about anything! The other day he was climbing in his car-seat from my moms car, which was inside for a bit, and climbing up and over the side of the couch! We constantly catch him at the very computer I am typing on, as he loves to just press the buttons and see things on the screen! He has a deep affection right now for phones: telephones (yes some people still have home lines! :), Cell phones, fake phones, whatever. He holds it up to his ear and it kind of sounds like he says "what's up" but I am not sure.
Pops got a bike seat on the back of a bike and he loves going for bike rides now! He even occasionally takes a nap :) If he is tired, anything that has to do with motion puts him to sleep-car rides, strolls through the neighborhood and bike rides! One day when Jake came here we took him for a ride in his Tiny Tikes push-car and he fell asleep sitting up, it was so funny!
He is growing like a weed and his hair is getting pretty blond. He has some tan legs and arms from all our walking and being outside. I take him to the LCC to swim a couple times a week and he loves the water! The first day he seriously just jumped in to me, he is fearless! So I thought even though he is probably too young for actual swimming lessons that I would still try to see how some lessons might go. So we are doing a 2 week swim lesson with my old high school's Swim Coach in a couple weeks. I am really interested to see how long Xavier's attention span lasts and whether he will get in the water with a stranger.
Xavier definitely favors the female sex right now. He obviously likes me, but he also drops me like a hat to go to Gigi and Grammy. Pops and Opa on the other hand, not so much. He of course likes his daddy, unless he is really tired :)
My mom, sister and I are going to see my brother Josh in Detroit this weekend, a little girls getaway! We are looking forward to spending some time with him. (Don't worry Drew, we are coming to SF in September sometime!)
Okay, well I usually turn into a pumpkin at 10pm if I am not in bed, so I better wrap this up! I will really try to post some new pics when I get a chance or when the website starts working for me, or if any of my other blogger friends tell me what to do!
Have a great weekend!

Summer is here!

Since Xavier loves bath time so much I knew he would L-O-V-E this water table!

I was right! :)

He really just wanted to sit in it and play! And then take off his shoes!

I LOVE water!!!

Don't ask me how but I actually snapped a picture of him wearing the sunglasses. I can't keep a hat or sunglasses on him for the life of me! His Dermatologist is not going to be happy with me this week because his little arms and legs look tan! Oops!

A couple weeks ago we took the kids to a park by Ash's house. Again, somehow I managed to get them both sitting down and looking at me!

Pretty little Chlo Bug all smiles after her bottle! She loves the grass and is on the move these days!

Xavier still loves her! She starts crawling off and he crawls after her and tackles her from behind! He is doing this downward dog yoga pose a lot these days and he loves to do a little backwards flip off of me, with my help of course!

Not much else is knew, just really enjoying being outside. Xavier just points to the door and says his version of outside, all day long! I have given up on taking a shower in the morning, just seems counter productive after being outside and sweating all day! Our gym's pool opens next week so I am looking forward to seeing how he likes a pool!

Everyone have a great Memorial Day weekend, we are going racing on Sunday!

Its May!

Aunt Bon, Grandmother and my mom

Aunt Jenn taking the boys for a golf cart ride!

Ash and Chlo Bug!

Me and my sweet little man!

Happy Belated Mothers Day to all my wonderful Mother's out there!

I would have posted earlier in the week but well my computer won't let me add any more pictures to the hard drive.....so these are the only photos I have from lately! I have backed up all my photos and videos to an external hard drive but I have to double and triple check that all my pics are uploaded to Shutterfly before I start deleting from the hard drive to make room for anything else! Although our Dell is practically an antique and we are hoping to purchase a new Mac here in the near future!

Xavier is growing like a weed and changing everyday! He still talks in another language but he is saying more and more words. He loves to get his socks and shoes to go outside. He says "shoo" to the annoying geese in our neighborhood and the other day he said applesauce! He says Bob for Spongebob, macs for mac n cheese and of course ball! He goes to search for his bat and ball or his tennis racket as soon as we step out the garage door! He absolutely loves his cousin Chloe and when I say so and so is coming over he looks towards the door, so I guess I am going to have to start waiting to tell him people are coming over until they actually arrive! When I say dada is home he runs to the kitchen to wait by the door for him and then dada takes him to the bedroom to throw him on the bed! If I even mention the word Spongebob he runs to the living room, grabs the remote and points it at the TV (I always said I would never let my kids watch that dang show, but well it keeps him occupied for at LEAST 10 minutes, so I do it!) and he lights up when Mickey Mouse comes on every morning!

I am so glad it is nice out now and hopefully we are near the end of all the rain! We have a super busy summer ahead of us with lots of parties to attend. I have gradually started to pack up our house for the move next month, which we CANNOT wait for! Thankfully the inspection and appraisal all came back with things we can handle repairing and doing!

Everyone have a great weekend!