Just another week...

Xander's Aunt Danielle and I at her baby shower this weekend, I'm 6 months pregnant, she is 9 months!

Girls play with dolls, Boys play with...

Showing off for the camera...

Dinner out with mom and dad...

Cute things Xander said this week...

"Gram, when I come to your house I'm gonna poop in your potty!" - haha SO happy this boy is potty trained!

"No mom that's not a space ship, that's a flying saucer." - He was right, he's taken after his dad and feels the need to correct me when I call something by it's improper name, it's cute, but starting to drive mom up the wall a little haha

What else is new...

Not too much.

We are getting the babies room together, although I STILL haven't decide how I will decorate. Packing up all the boy clothes for Aunt Danielle and Uncle Scott.

Counting down until our family vacation to Michigan! Whoo hoo!! Only 32 more days! Chris and I are SO ready for this one!

I'm getting bigger by the day, 23 weeks! but still haven't stopped wearing my heels to work OR picking up Xander, go ahead try and make me! haha Sadly food is still my enemy and I doubt I will do any cooking until after baby is here.

We've picked a name for our sweet baby girl, but we've decided it's best kept secret for now... taking a cue from Aunt Danielle and Uncle Scott.

Xander likes to tell us stories now and make up songs on a daily basis. He now knows ALL his colors in spanish, and refuses to call anything red anymore, it is now rojo, even though he doesn't use the other colors in daily life.

That's it for us, hope you have a great week!

The Big THREE!

I swear I was just writing about his first birthday! And now he's 3...

Potty trained, sleeping in a big boy bed/room, can dress himself, say please and thank you, sing songs, tell me stories... Oh he's not my baby anymore : (

The LAST little thing I hold onto is my ability to pick him up still, which is close to not being possible. Somehow 6 months pregnant in a dress and heels I still can manage to carry him into to school each morning. Chris thinks I'm insane, but how can I stop holding my baby?? Yes he's a 30+lb baby, that's half my height, but he's MY baby! I'm gonna pick him up until I can't anymore. Of course, I won't put me or our baby girl in danger, but I'll decide when it's too much for me.

Well onto the big birthday, this one was the best so far. Each year Xander gets a better understanding of what his birthday is, and this year he totally got it! For weeks we used the, "If you don't do _______, you can't have a birthday party!", now what am I going to use now? haha He woke up the morning of cheering, "Yay! It's my birthday party today!" then we cuddled and he let me rock him for 15 minutes straight, while I softly sang him Happy Birthday over and over and over. It breaks my heart to think I can barely rock him like that anymore. He's going to be a big boy just like his daddy.

Of course I kept with my yearly tradition and made him a cake. This year he got to request what kind of cake he wanted for the first time, and surprise surprise, he wanted a Cars cake.

I think I did a pretty good job on this one. It was definitely my favorite. My first time working with fondant, and I LOVED it. I look forward to making more complicated cakes with it in the future.

Xander loved the cake too. He was VERY concerned that the cars were getting cold in the fridge while waiting for the party and kept sneaking peaks to check on them. He did actually eat some cake this time, although only one bite, then mommy made him take 3 more before presents. Is it bad that I have to beg my kid to eat a peice of cake? haha I really am SO thankful for having a little man that enjoys eating healthy.

As far as gifts go, we knew that Xander would get everything he wanted and more, so we thought long and hard about what Mom and Dad should get for him. We finally decided our present to him would be a "Big Boy" room. Since we moved in April we haven't really spent time on his room yet. He still had alot of "baby" stuff hanging around. So we got him new sheets, blankets, decorative pillows, lamp, toy organizer, rug, even super cute wall stickers, ALL Cars themed! I don't have any pictures yet, cuz the sheets didn't fit, BUT I will post them when the room is totally done, probably next week. We even set up his tv and dvd player, though we are not bending on the "no t.v. in bed" rule anytime soon.

Onto the pictures...

Waiting, ummm, "patiently" to have cake

Singing Happy Birthday

Getting embarrassed when everyone starts singing (he made me blow out the candle again this year, I begged him, but he kept saying, "you do it mom" finally with the wind, I gave in...


Happy to FINALLY get what he wanted, no not the cake, the cars off the cake!

Opening presents!

This is the ONLY time in his life I think he'll be this excited about receiving underwear for his birthday!

No more presents : (

Back home enjoying the good life...


I'd say it was a pretty good 3rd birthday for the little man.

The little things...

It's the little things I sometimes forget to take the time to appreciate. Xander is getting SO big, every day he says or does some new amazing thing, I feel like I can't keep up.

For example the conversation we had yesterday as we pulled into the grocery store...

Xander, "Store! Store mom!"
Me, "Yes, we're at the grocery store, we just need to run in really quick and get some eggs and dog food."
Xander, "And Cars Fruit Snacks and Juice boxes"

So now he's making grocery requests! I pretty much can't believe how big he's gotten. I know I've probably said it a hundred times, but it really does go by too fast...

Here's a couple good pictures from the past few weeks:

Xander licking his first beater! (whip cream)


Playing at grandma's...


He LOVES his cars slippers, I think this is just the cutest picture...


He spends pretty much all of his time playing with cars...

His favorite cars are:
"mamblance" or the ambulance aka the ghost busters car,
"backsi" or taxi
"light queen" or lightening macqueen (from cars) - who also goes to bed with him every night

I love the way he says things it's too adorable.

Other current favorite activities include begging me to turn on a videos I found on you-tube. He loves to watch fire trucks, garbage trucks and monster trucks. They actually have several videos of nothing but garbage trucks driving up and down street picking up trash. He'll ask me over and over, "Monster trucks crash again mom, please!" he loves to watch compilation videos of nothing but monster trucks crashing over and over.

So I thought I'd share one of his favorite videos with you, it's called "Lots and Lots of Firetrucks", watch at your own risk, this song gets stuck in my head and drives me nuts...