A boy and his blankie...

This boy loves his blankies! Xander likes to make a big pile of all of the blankie's he can find around the house and cuddle in them while watching cartoons (as seen above) Xander also no longer lets us leave his bedroom without taking all of his bedtime pals along with us, including his blue AND green blankies, his singing sea horse and his sock monkey! Usually I try to sneak a few back in the crib while he's not paying attention, but he's catching on haha

He's getting SO big! Learning new words and concepts each day! It's hard for us to keep up! He is talking like crazy now, he knows sheep is "baa" and cow is "moo", he knows and can say pooh bear, elmo, dora and spongebob haha, he recently learned eyes, nose and mouth, how to say them and where they are. He knows cars go "Vroom, Vroom!", and all of his favorite foods, apples, oranges and bananas. We are looking forward to Thanksgiving this year with a curious 16 month old! Should be a first of many wonderful holiday memories!

Xander finally got the hang of riding his fire truck (that or his legs were finally long enough haha) he rides it all around the room and now knows what to do when he gets stuck or approaches a corner (rather than just crying until mommy turned him around like he used to lol)

Xander LOVES to wear his hats around while he plays, he was putting baby pooh bear to bed in this picture, I thought it was too cute!

October, what a month!

Well I know it has been a while since I've updated everyone. I apologize, but it's been harder keeping up with a toddler than I thought! Especially one who loves to disconnect the power cord when mommy's on her laptop or press buttons on the key board at the office. Now that Xander can walk there is a whole new world of things he can reach, just when I thought the house was sufficiently baby proofed he proved me all wrong.

Last month was full of exciting first events and big milestones. Milestones first... Biggest accomplishment is that Xander weaned himself off the bottle. Yes you heard me right, he did it all by himself. About a week and a half ago Xander began refusing to take his bottles. First his before bedtime bottle and then he refused to take another one again. I tried for two days to make sure he didn't change his mind, but no he's done with bottles and it's all big boy cups for him now! This is really amazing to me only because I have been so concerned on how I would get him to give up his bottles, he would yell "ba ba" when he wanted one. But we are now successfully bottle free, I threw them away (didn't think it was good to save them after their excessive use) and saved one, just in case haha
Next big milestone Xander has continued teething and now has more than I can count! Molar's top and bottom and a couple more front top and bottom. He has been pretty cranky these past few weeks, but it seems like he's feeling better this week and hopefully he's past the worst of it.

Xander's first Halloween
I spent most of the month making pumpkins, ghosts and bats to decorate our house and teaching Xander what they were. By Halloween he could successfully recognize and say bat and when he saw ghosts he said "boooo", it was SO adorable. He loved pumpkins, and we had an amazing time picking them. He never said pumpkin, but did say trick-or-treat twice! He was pooh bear this year, which was pretty neat because he knows pooh, so he knew that he looked like pooh bear in his costume. We took him trick-or-treating to a few houses on our block, by the end he was SO excited for them to open the door, he was jumping up and down.













Xander's first Balloon Fiesta
We took Xander to the Balloon Fiesta for the first time this year. I was concerned he was too little, but after watching it on the news for almost 2 weeks he knew what a balloon was and would jump up and down and yell "balloon" when they would come on tv. So we took him to his first Balloon Glow. He was excited and amazed at all of the big balloons and liked to make a blowing noise to imitate the balloons blowing up, it was so cute!