Opening Day at the Derby

Late night at Sully's and the Hotel on Fourth Street (right after Monsoon Bubba Dusty! It was some serious wind and rain that hit us, hence my lovely hair!)

The ladies in our hats!

Picture of myself!

My hubby, Mr Ogranizer and myself

Sister in law Sarah and her man David

Me and Jennie

MVP of the Day Trey, Bubba Dusty Babe and Mr Organizer holding up their tickets. Unfortunately, none were winners.......

Posing with a jockey. Not really, he was just outside for pictures! He had some interesting jokes....not repeatable for my family blog!

Lacey and Jen

Brady and Ash

Ryan, Jake, Dustin, Brady and Trey posing before we headed to our suite

We had a great time at Opening Day! While no-one except Jennie really won any money, a good time was had by all! A big thank you to Jake for making the plans, we know we can always count on him for a good time! Looking forward to SAFCA 2011!!

(more later, its been a long time since posting but my little guy is waking from his nap!)

Easter Weekend

Here is my sweet little Easter bunny boy all dressed up!

Unfortunately, I was not aware he was having an allergic reaction to his Amoxicilin so he wasn't in the best of moods! The poor guy broke out all over and actually had been for a couple days but I was chalking it up to his sensitive skin. Finally realized there was something more to it! So today we went to the Pediatrician and sure enough he was having a bad reaction so had to give him Benadryl. Giving him that, however, meant I had to cancel our Allergist appointment tomorrow as he cannot have any anti-histamines in his system for 7 days. Argh. So now we get to wait another 4 weeks to see the allergist. Oh well, I just want the rash to go away for poor X!

Ash and I heading out on the town Saturday night!

Opa and Chlo Bug in their greens!

X pushing around his new Easter wheel-barrow!

Chlo and her fake nanner she loved chewing on!

The boys with their Easter baskets/wheel-barrows!

Wagon ride with Opa. Much to my disbelief Xavier stayed in the wagon the whole time and didn't try to get out!

Uncle Josh and Xavier, he was done sitting though!

Gigi, X and Opa

Xavier found an egg!

Charlie found an egg!

Xavier and Grandi

Sweet little X!

Family pic! X just wanted my sunglasses!

Jayden and X checking whats inside the eggs.

Aunt Be-Be and X

Xavier on Daddy's old rocking horse

Down the slide!

Again, again!

We had a great Easter weekend! Thank you Gigi and Grandi for the wonderful Easter surprises!

It was nice to spend time with all our family!

Oh Sweet Spring!

I thought I would let Xavier eat his yogurt himself! He really likes to feed himself I am just hesitant since the high chair is on carpet......

Munching on yummy pancakes. Even though they have egg in the mix, he seems okay eating them. For now anyway!

Xavier LOVES his cousin Chloe, he gets soooo excited when he sees her in her carrier! He also loves to play with her toes. For now its okay! :) She apparently didn't mind either, had to keep him from biting her toes though that day!

Happy Little Chlo Bug! She is doing great. Hopefully cutting some teeth one of these days and then she will go back to sleeping through the night again!

Xavier and Caden playing

Xavier loves the outdoors! He also likes daddy's golf clubs, or mine I guess, whichever!

Jake and I took Xavier to the Children's Museum one Sunday and had some fun!

Steering one of the characters in Bob the Builder area.

Oh the Water-scape area.........he loves it of course!

Light switch on, light switch off. On, off, on, off.......

We blow out the light at bed-time and he flips the switch himself after counting to 3, so he knew what the light switch was at the museum!

Riding the Carousel with Daddy!

Boiler Up!

Xavier, Snoopy and Woodstock say Goooooo Boilers!!!

(Xavier even has a little Woodstock hair this morning!)

Cheese

Why are you taking pictures of me?

One of his favorite poses/places to drink his ba-ba!

Knock on wood, Xavier has been sleeping AWESOME since starting to cry-it-out again! 5 nights in a row of sleeping through! Hip-hip-hooray for Xavier!

TGIF-Boiler Up! (toot-toot)

Mr Fearless

Is going to be cheering on the Boilers today! Hope they can pull this one out!

Boiler up! Toot-toot!

So Xavier discovered how to climb this past week! He absolutely loves to look at the computer and see himself on the screen, so climbing up on this chair is his new thing! I made the mistake of opening the door to this room to clean the other day and he came running in! I had to go get something and I knew without a doubt what I would find when I returned so I went ahead and got out my camera! Mr. Climber looking at the computer. He also enjoys "banging" on the computer keys.

I was in the kitchen the other day when I looked over and saw Xavier's head above the dining table. Since he is only 2 ft 8, I knew he had to be standing on something.

Sure enough! He moved Tow-Mater to the table and decided to stand on him to see what he could get into on the table!



What a sweet little sleeper!! I had to wake him up from his afternoon nap the other day! And my camera flash didn't do the trick. If only he slept like this all the time.........

(Mama and Aunt Ash sleep with their hands behind their heads like this)

Little Miss Chloe! She is such a cutie-pie! And changing and growing everyday!

Girls clothes are so cute! Here she is in her little Ballerina outfit and it looked like she was trying to do a plie!
(she might not be a real graceful ballerina with those thighs! ha ha, she will grow out of them when she starts moving around!)

Xavier loves Chloe, he is always trying to "mash" her and touch her. Here he is sampling her little piggies!

Gigi was feeding Chloe yesterday and X didn't like being left out. So he grabbed his ba-ba and tried to climb up onto the couch for a seat.

Chlo bug in the exer-saucer. Xavier wanted to play too!

Not too much new here. We have been working on sleep again this week! So far we have had 2 excellent nights of sleeping through and only 2 nights of crying for over 30 minutes. It is real random, 1 night he cries, 1 night he doesn't. Go figure. We have been sticking to a routine on a nightly basis so I think that helps him!

Like I said earlier, he is somewhat fearless! He climbs on whatever he sees! He is really enjoying the nice weather and getting to go outside! He would just run and run if I could let him, but I have to be careful with the street! He found our flower bed with mulch and rocks yesterday and well he thought the rocks looked tasty! So that was 5 minutes of No, don't eat rocks! No, don't put that in your mouth!

We have been going to Gymboree once a week and he enjoys seeing other kids.

Still working on the bottle and sippy cup thing but I am just trying to fight one battle at a time for right now and would rather get this sleep thing fixed before going cold turkey with the bottle.

Grandi is coming down today to hang out with X so Jake and I can go cheer on the Boilers with some friends! So, hopefully they show up today to play unlike last weekend in the Big Ten Tourney!

TGIF, have a great weekend!