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i have no motivation at all to go through photos today. maybe later.

massages and teething

since xavier cut his first tooth (november 17th) it has been quite hard to get him to sleep at night, and now with the jet lag, its insane. one night he just couldnt stay sleeping and no matter if i held him, rocked him, sung to him, he wouldnt stop crying. so i just laid him down and massaged his feet. he fell right to sleep!!! it was amazing! i continue to massage him to get him to sleep and it works so well. i even do his legs, not just his feet. he must really like it and/or it takes his mind off the pain. im not sure but im diggin' it!

xavier is 7 months old!

wow! we are past the halfway to a year mark, i cant believe it! xavier is getting so big and i love him in every single way possible. he makes me smile every day and i am so proud of the little man he is already becoming.

*xavier is now crawling! and he is pretty fast!

*he loves to pull himself up onto things! he has always liked standing and now he can lift himself up. he always gets happy when he has accomplished it! he gets pretty brave too. he will let go and then fall down on his butt. he will also move along things and try to transfer from one thing to another. its really funny. when we have our feet hanging off the couch he uses them to pull himself up, even if we are standing. if i dont have my legs off the couch and then move them, he will stop climbing on jeremys and go to mine. hahaha  

*he loves to climb all over me. hes been doing it subtly for a long time but now he thinks that i am a jungle gym and will go, go, go!!

*xavier's first tooth is coming in! and that sucker is sharp! he has bit down on me and it is not pleasant! i hope that he doesnt bite me too often once he has more teeth! eek!

*xavier LOVES electronics. jeremy claims that he is REALLY his son now! hahaha whenever he sees a phone, remote, controller, mouse, ect. he HAS to have it. its like crack for him! hahaha i dont want him to get used to playing with those things though so i pretty much never give them to him!

*xavier loves drinking out of a sippy cup! 

*he has been talking for a while but now he says "dada" and he has said "momma".

i cant believe how much he has grown and still continues to do so. he is such an amazing little guy that is always making me smile. 

our family's first thanksgiving.

we celebrated our first thanksgiving this year as a family! it turned out to be a great holiday!

i woke up around 10:30 which is later than i wanted to but i am still trying to get adjusted to the time change. when i got up i made the stuffing so it could cool before putting it in the turkey and got the turkey rinsed and such. jeremy got up a bit later and helped me with the turkey. before i knew it we put it in the oven. i got in the shower and got ready for the day. it seemed to go by super fast. xavier was pretty good. there were times that he wanted his mom but overall he did great!

tom and sharon came over around 3 because dinner was supposed to be at 4 but i put the turkey in late so it was around 5:30. we had some hors d'oeuvres that sharon brought over in the meantime. we also made this onesie for xavier and i got him dressed in it. =)

 isnt it just cute? that is his actual handprint! =) a little sloppy, but it works!

the turkey got done around 5:30 and it looked like this:

this was by far the best turkey we have ever made! yum!!

the whole dinner table! =)

after dinner i was super exhausted so i took care of xavier while sharon and jeremy cleaned up a bit. i was falling asleep on the recliner! i felt so bad. tom and sharon left, but not before snapping this super cute photo! 

xavier loves them!!!

at around 7:20pm i fell asleep until about 10. i woke up and then a bit later jeremy and xavier woke up and we were up then until about 3. samara came over for a bit and hung out with us too. it was a really nice day. i got a photo of the fam, but its not the greatest because xavier isnt looking, hahaha:

it will do. =)

i also like this photo! 

such handsome men <3

i am so thankful to have such wonderful people in my life and for all of the gifts that God has given us. im very blessed <3

pumpkin picking, pumpkin carving, and halloween!

xavier had his first halloween this year! obviously. im pretty sure that he had a lot of fun with everything!

monday - 10.25.10

after my sisters got home from school this day we ate dinner and then headed to apple charlies. apple charlies is a cider mill which also had a pumpkin patch and some farm animals to see.

we picked out our pumpkins first. xavier just LOVED the pumpkin patch. he couldnt stop looking at everything! it was so cute! i could tell he was excited. i sat him down so i could get some photos of him with pumpkins and it took so long and so much effort to get him to look at me, he really wanted to eat the pumpkins! which it didnt happen until i gave up for a bit and then went back to trying to get one of him. then i got this photo:

i was sooo happy with the way it turned out, even though its a bit blurry. the same thing happened when i tried getting one of me and him. he just wouldnt look! and finally i got a cute one:

after we picked out pumpkins we headed over to the mill and got some apple cider and donuts to take home with us. then we went to the animals where we got to look at chickens, deer, a bull, an ostrich, some pigs, and some goats and i think a llama. it was pretty cool. xavier liked them all:

you can tell he is smiling in this one!

i like this photo too:

we weighed our pumpkins and then headed out. i was glad i took him to the pumpkin patch for his first halloween! he really enjoyed it!

saturday - 10.30.10


the night before halloween we carved our pumpkins! xavier was really interested in trying to eat the pumpkin, again, and the newspaper that they were on! we had a lot of fun with my sisters carving!

he wanted to eat it!

we tried making it look like a baby! hahaha

from left: martha's, megan's, michelle's, and xavier's!

sunday - 10.31.10 - halloween!

we went to church in the morning and then out to breakfast. when we came home we kind of hung out and i fed xavier some food. i wanted to get him the "my first halloween" onesie but by the time i got to get it they were all out but had the bibs. so i got that and it works! he is so happy on halloween!

so happy!

 at around 4:30 we headed out to my grandparents house. we always went trick or treating there growing up and i wanted xavier to have that experience for his first. it was really fun but he didnt last long. he fell asleep after 1 block! but boy was he cute!!!!!!

my cute little baby link (from nintendo's zelda)

getting ready to head out!

at our first house!

our first house!

riding in the wagon!

tuckered out!

all of our pumpkins lit up on halloween at my parents house:

he had a great first halloween! it was so awesome!

xaviers 5 and 6 month blogs!

sooo i am a horrible mother and i totally didnt do a 5th month blog! we left for vacation a day after and the days prior i was getting everything ready! i feel though that i can still remember all of his advancements from 4 to 6 months so the only thing that will be missing is his weight and height at 5 months. not too bad! anyway so i guess i will just say things that have happened in the 2 months.

5 month photos:

current stats at 6 months:

weight: 20 lbs ish
height: 27 1/2 ish inches

6 month photos:

*xavier can turn from his back to stomach! sometimes he rolls to get places. =)

*he likes the song "twinkle twinkle little star". i can sometimes get him to sleep by singing it.

*xavier is now eating solids. we started at 4 months and gave him some here and there but now(starting right before 6 months) its a regular thing! he is very interested in everything i eat and has loved everything i have given him!

*he likes to blow raspberries. he does it a lot and sometimes the drool that he creates and spits out is intense!

*xavier does this weird thing with his thumbs. he with take them and kind of twist them on things. he does it on my arm sometimes and since its just digging, it hurts!

*he is getting the hang of using a sippy cup. he likes it a lot!

*he is getting pretty mobile but still isnt quite there. he scoots, rolls, and turns but no crawling yet.

*xavier can sit up by himself for long periods of time. he just loves to sit and play with his toys. sometimes he will still fall and sometimes he even lunges forward like he is going to crawl. haha

*xavier loves to be tickled! he knows when it is coming too, its too cute!

*i think xavier is ready for his crib, we are going to start getting him used to it as soon as we get home!

*xavier is always moving! no matter if hes on your lap, on the floor, in the bath, or nursing! he just wont sit still.

*he reaches for things and will find his pacifier and put it back in his mouth.

i still cant believe how much he has grown in just 6 months! its crazy! these next couple months are going to be awesome with first thanksgiving and first christmas! yay!!

knitting!

so i have found a new hobby!! knitting!! i was always a little scared to even attempt it since it looks soooo complicated, but it totally isnt!! i have a great teacher that has already taught me 2 stitches and a wonderful, smart husband that taught me from the book how to bind off. if you havent already guessed, i am more  a hands on learner rather than by the book when it comes to hands on things. =) soo, thats all i wanted to say. i hope i stick with it and make xavier a sweet little cardigan! hehehe

here is my first knitted creation:

since this is my first ever knitted item, its obviously not the greatest, so we are using it as a dish cloth! =)

ohhh and xavier can sit up by himself for the most part! today he sat up by himself for over a minute. its sooo cute watching him balance himself. i reckon(yeah, i just said "reckon") he will be sitting up by himself pretty good in a couple of days. he started doing this a couple of days ago and has only gotten better. =) yay!

 still a little wobbly, but he is definitely doing good. =)