What a big boy!

This morning at 4:30am I woke to Xander crying, I discovered him in his bed completely unwrapped and face down! Really shocked me, this is a first for sure. The bed was soaked but not from a leaky diaper, I realized he had been licking the bed while face down and had covered a pretty large area, his sleeve was also wet. So I changed him, re-wrapped him and put him back to bed. I guess I shouldn't have been so surprised, he's been rolling over alot more lately while playing on the floor on his baby gym. He LOVES his baby gym. It lays on the floor and has toys that dangle above his head and move and play music. He rolls all around, it's really cute to watch and kinda amazing how strong he's getting. He can lay on the floor for a good 30-45minutes, by far his favorite thing to do!

Another big step happened last week, Xander held his own bottle, he even put it in his mouth by himself! I usually keep his arms out of the way while eating because he has a tendency to push the bottle out of his mouth without meaning to, but when Grandma Nancy fed him the other day (day before Christmas eve) he grabbed on and did it all by himself! Of course I took tons of pictures!

He is growing so so fast, I moved the straps on his car seat to the lowest point yesterday. He is getting SO long! He barely fits in the 6 month clothes and the 9 months won't last long. Looks like mommy and daddy will be investing in a new car seat ASAP! I am suprised at how fast he's outgrown it. I'm looking forward to no longer lugging around the baby seat, but nervous as well (although I have very strong arms now after carrying it everyday). But when Xander is cranky in public I can put him in it and drape a blanket over and he'll go to sleep no matter where we are, not sure what I'm gonna do now. I guess we might have to actually use the stroller! ha ha

Other news... the solids are going ok. Although I don't think I'll have him up to the 2-3 ounces per day by spoon of cereal his doc said he should be up to by next month. We are taking it slow and staying consistent. Lately I've backed off the fruits and veggies and just stuck to mixing a few peaches in the cereal to make it sweeter and encourage him to eat, hasn't been really working so far, but I think it will take time. I did get a new food processor for Christmas so as soon as he's ready I'm ready and excited to start making him food.

Xander's 1st Christmas!!!

What an amazing Holiday! We had a truly blessed Christmas this year. Xander gots lots of great clothes and toys and so so much more, he is one spoiled little boy and he doesn't even know it yet! It was a long couple of days for all three of us. Starting the day before Christmas Xander and I went to Grandma Nancy's for the day to bake cookies and fudge and other goodies for Christmas while daddy worked. Then Christmas eve was another busy day. Daddy worked half the day and then we wrapped presents and went to Chris' Aunt's for our first Christmas celebration. We had a wonderful dinner and then went to Xander's Great Grandma's to open presents. Xander "opened" almost all of his presents himslef (I helped him grab and then pulled the gift to rip it open), before he got a bit cranky and had to take a nap.

It was a bit of a long night for all of us (we didn't get home till 11:30!). Christmas was another big day, we all slept in which was much needed, then headed to Grandma Ruth's to open presents. After we headed to Grandma Nancy's to open presents and have an early dinner.

When we got home and finally got everything inside I describe it best as looking like Christmas has exploded all over our house! haha Presents and wrapping and bags and toys EVERYWHERE! We got so many wonderful gifts I can't list them all. "Xander" got a Wii and Chris and I are really enjoying it! haha I didn't think I'd be so into it but it's great to play Monopoly or a round of bowling with Chris rather than sitting around watching tv. Definitely a great gift for us! As you can see in the picture I got Chris a new Miami Dolphins jersey and hat (and they are going to the playoffs by the way!).

I have much more to say but not much time to say it so I will post more soon! Sorry I've been so slow on updating everyone lately!

Mmmm.... Carrots!

Xander had his first food this weekend! We decided to go with the carrots. He LOVED them! We made two attempts this weekend, first time we were snapping pictures and trying to get the look on his face and I think we overwhelmed him slightly, he only had 3 bites then closed the mouth denying further entry. But the second time he had around 10-15 bites and ate all that I had put in his bowl! With the second attempt mom convinced me we should try Bananas too, I caved but it turns out he had no interest in the bananas and really loved the carrots! We will stick to carrots and rice cereal this weekend and try sweet potatoes next week!

Also I just wanted to mention it's snowing here like crazy, looks like Xander's first Christmas might actually be a white one! Yay!!!

4month appt., shots and more!

Look at our strong little man!


Holding his head up like a champ! He's getting SO strong and can even scoot a few inches when attempting to crawl!

So last Wednesday (12/3) Xander had his 4 month check-up and shots. As some of you might recall I mentioned it was re-secheduled. Xander's peditricitin Dr. Garcia was pregnant and I assumed she took off for maternity leave early. Turns out she had her baby already! She was due in Feburary, so November was very early. I didn't get many details, but if you would all say a little prayer for her and her family we'd appreciate it! She is an amazing doctor and I look forward to her returning, whenever that may be. Xander's replacement doctor however was not my favorite and the hunt is on for a new pedi. We are looking for someone in the heights hopefully that is under Presbyterian if anyone has any suggestions.

Now to the good stuff... Xander is growing like crazy, he is now 13lbs 10oz, up almost 8 pounds in 4 months! And he is 25 inches long! He wears sizes 6-9 months only now, as well as some of the 9-12months. He's a BIG boy, and he is getting more handsome by the day! The doctor just kept saying how great he was growing! She said he was eating great and was impressed with his sleeping schedule. She also commented on his excellent neck strength. The doc gave us the go ahead to start solids. She explained the process and gave us a guide. I have purchased 8 different kinds of 1st foods (don't worry I'll be homemaking the baby food, after we get going), the brand new high chair is all set up and I'm ready to go... But we haven't gotten to it yet with the teething. The teething is going ok, we have good days and bad days, the bad days are the ones where he gets so fussy and refuses to nap all day, yesterday was a bad day! lol I can now feel the teeth getting ready to come through on the bottom. The shots went well, although it was slightly more nerve racking this time. The office seemed to be filled with children getting shots that day and there were screams of pain coming from every direction as we waited in our little room for our turn. Xander recovered quicker this time from the pain and calmed down enough so I was actually able to make his next appointment.

A new discovery... Xander has found his voice, well he's found that he can make amazing and terrible high pitched screeching noises, not one of those fun discoveries for mommy, it's ear splitting and it cuts right though me. I am starting the worry what neighboors are going to think! It's very bad, and now since the teething, it's often and really loud. He gets worked up and no matter what you do with him... put him in the vibrating chair with music, nope, put him in the other vibrating chair with more interesting toys, nope, on the floor to play with the mat with dancing toys, nope, swing, nope, on the stomach, nope, on the couch, nope, eating, nope, teething rings, nope, tylenol, nope, teething tablets, works for a second but nope, then I resolve in wrapping him up and making him take a nap, after 10 minutes of the screeching and worrying that the neighboors will think I'm neglecting him I give in and start this ALL over... this is my day. After a LONG day of screeching and trying EVERYTHING to please him, he finally napped yesterday and when I came back into the living room you would have thought we had two babies! There were baby chairs and toys and activities and stuff just everywhere, I realized that this is now Xander's house and Chris and I just live there! haha

Other news...

We have put our Christmas tree up! Xander is not very interested as of yet...

We had our first snow! Xander stared at it in amazement, I don't have a pic of him in the snow but I have one of him all bundled up when we got to the office...


Last bit of news, Chris and I got an AMAZING night off this past Saturday(Thanks to Aunt Mary and Uncle Len and Grandma Nancy!), we went to Chris' company's annual Christmas Party. It was at Sandia Casino/Resort. We danced and had a fabulous time, MUCH needed! They even gave us chips to gamble with, but Chris and I aren't much for gambling so after losing $10 and then winning $14 we cashed the chips in and decided to put an order in for breakfast-in-bed, and it was the best idea yet! At 9:30am breakfast arrived, we laid in bed ate, relaxed, watched the news and cuddled, before we packed up to go pick up our baby boy. Definitely a wonderful weekend!
A picture of us before the party...