High Five!

Xander has been sick (and so have his parents), but you'd never know by the way he enjoys himself in this video!

X Up Close

Xander, as always, has been a busy little dude.  He now tells us he wants to "eat" all the time, he still loves playing with Molly but talks about Andy more frequently, and he's finally getting his bottom lateral incisors!  Xander has also been talking up a storm, now saying "on" and sometimes "off" as he plays with the light in the car, "jump" as he pulls his heels off the ground (although his toes stay planted), and "high five" as he gives high fives :).  I love how he says "Mmmm" when he eats, which we must do, too!  X has been feverish at night lately, with a sad little cough, and so has his mommy.  But we are hanging in there and having a blast during the day!

Here are some pictures of Xander playing last Monday night before bed.  Notice that in a couple you can see X's new tooth, which we didn't notice until Friday night--oops!

New tooth!

Daddy is hilarious!

Mmm.. the camera tastes yummy!

Bedtime stories

Bedtime entertainment

Night-Night Kermie

This Week

We drove to Sioux Falls this weekend to visit Xander's Gema and Grandpa Jerry.  Xander had a blast playing with his sunglasses in the car!  He has been a busy baby--he learned how to say a bunch of new words over the course of the last week or so.  One of my favorites:  He says "baby, baby, baby" and rocks his hands back and forth when he wants to watch the "Baby Signing Time" DVD.  While we were watching the section about pets on Wednesday, he started saying "frog" and saying and signing "birdie."  He's been saying them all weekend!  He also says "Ruby" now, although it sounds like "Ro-bie."  Ruby is the name of his toy who looks very similar to Hubie.  Xander is so much fun, always playing and talking and interacting with the world around him.  He is getting to be so much more independent, but at the same time, he is more patient about letting us do certain things for him.

Here's some footage from our car ride on Saturday--sorry so shaky, Mike! ;)

Accelerated Hair Growth

We found these old pictures of Xander wearing a pirate wig on a lost SD card! He's got such a fun personality!

Christmas?

I had the day off yesterday, so we started some early Spring cleaning.  We discovered a bunch of Christmas pictures that we never put on the computer.  Hard to believe that Christmas was almost two months ago already. 

Snow! ... Finally! .... : (

We have been getting snow all night! Here are a couple pictures of the trees that fell in both the front and back yards this morning.