Happy 2 Year Anniversary

To the original love of my life!

(always, I just have 2 loves now)

Aruba 2007

I can't believe....

That the Fall is already upon us! That football season starts this weekend! That Xavier will be 7 months old in 2 weeks!

I can believe though that the Knott family heads to sunny Florida in a little over 5 weeks!

Hoo-ray!

And a BIG HOO-RAY for my cousin Mel and her new fiance Rob!!! He proposed last night and she said yes! They already have a date set, 10-2-10! (I think someone was thinking ahead.....)

Last night Xavier didn't really want to go to sleep at bed-time. He took an 1.5 hour nap for Gigi in the morning and just a snap (short nap) in the afternoon so I thought for sure he would go to sleep super fast. No dice. Here he is just wanting to play at 9pm last night. The night before he woke up every 2 hours so you would think that the kid would have been tired. He get's his need for excitement honestly though, Thanks Daddy! :)

Xavier loves playing with all his toys!

He tries to pull himself with whatever is nearby, the exer-saucer, the music table, my leg...this kid is going to be on the move!

Cousin Caden comes over on Tuesdays with Aunt Ash, while Gigi is babysitting. Xavier loves to just watch him play and sometimes gets in on the action. Caden is growing up so fast too, he looks like a 5 year old!

All in all, everything is great in the Knott household. Except for Xavier not sleeping through the night (we thought we had him...but spoke too soon!) and just not wanting to fall asleep for naps, everything else is great! Although he has been asleep right now for 2 hours. We of course were going to go meet Daddy though at the gym and go for an evening swim. That is how it usually works! If I hope he takes a nice nap so I can get things done, he doesnt. If I make plans to go somewhere or do something, he takes a long nap! If anyone has any sleep suggestions, other than crying it out, let me know! I have tried music, the Ferber method (just a little) and rocking! Pretty much the only way he falls asleep for naps is by me bouncing him and singing to him! And the car! I can't forget that he still falls asleep in the car. Sometimes I can get him out without waking him and sometimes he wakes up as soon as I pick up the carrier out of the car.
Xavier doesn't miss any meals. We are going to try out some 2nd foods by Gerber this weekend, see how he likes Turkey gravy and something. Yum!

We are anxiously awaiting the arrival of Miss Chloe! We will find out more tomorrow hopefully on whether Ashley is going to be induced or waits it out!


Here is Ashley at 36 weeks with Caden

Here is Ashley this week, at 36 weeks with Chloe. Chloe is a little more basketball shape that CW was......but we just can't wait until she makes her debut shortly!

Everyone have a great weekend!

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!