Arizona, 1st haircut & Elmo!

This past week Xander, Grandma Nancy and I took Xander's first road trip ever to Aunt Sami's house in Mesa, Arizona! A short 6 1/2 hour drive. We left Wednesday around 4:30 and Xander slept most of the way. It was such a beautiful drive, and on the way home Xander say several Chugga, Chugga, Choo Choo Trains! Ha ha I have gotten Xander into Trains lately, he LOVES them! It all started by neccessity, when Thomas the Train would come on tv Xander would get bored and cry so I would pick him up and say, "Look Trains! Chugga, Chugga, Choo! Choo!" and bounce him up and down, eventually he caught on and now everytime it comes on he gets oh so excited! I think he was really thrilled to see a real train, and it got me thinking maybe we should take him on a trip this fall to see a real train up close! I think he'd really love that.


Aunt Sami, "uncle" Kevin, Xander and I

So getting back to our trip, it was wonderful to see Aunt Sami and who we now like to call "uncle" kevin! Their new house was great, Xander really enjoyed crawling around a new place and opening all their cabinets! haha The dogs were a bit scared of Xander at first, probably because he chased after them excitedly, but they warmed up by the end of the weekend.

Also Xander got his first haircut! Don't worry I saved those first sweet locks of golden curls! Since Aunt Sami is a cosmotologist, we have been holding out so she could give him his first haircut. It turned out great after we distracted him with fruit snacks! haha She also did a fabulous job on my hair and mom's too, I have to mention! Aunt Sami also took all of us to see her work at Runway magazine, Xander enjoyed crawling around the offices picking up everything little thing off the floor and trying to eat it! lol The joys of motherhood!

Xander has learned alot of new words lately, he seems to be just picking up new words left and right! The cutest new word is Elmo! He likes elmo and I got him a book in AZ with elmo and when I showed it to him and said, "elmo" he repeated it and pointed to elmo right away! He says it alot now, it's very cute! He also is saying book alot. He loves his books and I even caught him pretending to read to the dog yesterday! It was absolutely adorable! He was going on and on in his gibberish and showing the pictures to Bailey, very cute!