Xavier's Favorite Things

I thought I'd do a post of some of the things Xavier is doing right now and the things I love about him.

Xavier loves to try on mommy and daddy's shoes and hats. He is usually running around our house with Tim's bike helmet on. When we go to the library the first thing he has to find are the firefighter's hat and the white hat.

Our normal mealtime routine is to wash our hands, sit at the table, say a prayer, and eat. Every time I wash Xavier's hands I set him down and tell him to meet me at the table. He runs away and screams as loud and long as possible ahahahahah! I call it his Tarzan scream.

Xavier likes to put gel in his hair. Every morning when we are getting ready for the day he enthusiastically yells "Hair like daddy! Hair like daddy!"

Some of Xavier's funny words and phrases: "popcorn" means corn. "Fork" means fort.
When he says the letter v he says "bee". Xavier loves breakfast smoothies and calls them "smoovies"

Xavier's favorite songs: Take me out to the ball game, MSU fight song, Book of Mormon Stories, Jesus wants me for a Sunbeam, Lollipop. Xavier enjoys eating a lollipop and sings "Lollipop" as he's eating it.

Xavier has always been a sports fanatic. We have a little Christmas tree in his room with basketball, baseball, and soccer ball ornaments. He went pretty crazy when he saw all the balls hanging on the tree. He kept shouting "hold the baseball! Hold the soccer ball! Hold the baketball!" Finally I gave him one of the baseballs and he hasn't let it out of his sight since.

Xavier is so much fun these days. He's talking like crazy and he is quite the little ball of energy. We feel so lucky to have such a wonderful little guy as part of our family.

This one is for you Alicia

So Xavier has been talking about his cousins Madison and Ethan a lot today and I have to share what our conversations consisted of.....

Number 1:
Xavier: Find Gordon. Find Thomas!
Mommy: Do you know who else likes trains Xavier? Your cousin Ethan.
Xavier: Ethan?
Mommy: Do you remember going to Utah and playing with Madison and Ethan? Do you remember playing with Ethan's train table?
Xavier: Thinking intently....
Mommy: What else did we do at Madi and Ethan's?
Xavier: Play basketball with McKay and Eesha (meaning: Alicia)
Mommy: Yes you did. We also went up the mountain and ate marshmallows.
Xavier: Marshmewows yummy!

Number 2:
Today I was doing a little cleaning. After I vacuumed our bedroom Xavier decided to take a little ride on the vacuum. This is how our conversation went:
Mommy: Are you going to ride the vacuum into outerspace?
Xavier: Ride to Ethan's. Play train table.
Mommy: You want to fly to Ethan's house to play with his train table? Okay. Have a safe trip!
Xavier: Bye mamma! (Waves his hand at me)
Mommy: Do you know how to get to Ethan's house?
Xavier: Looking at me with a puzzled look.
Mommy: Here is how you get there. Fly to Utah. Fly passed grandma and grandpa's house. Then fly straight to Santaquin. Okay?
Xavier: Bye mamma!

We love and miss you Alicia, McKay, Madi, and Ethan! (not just your train table);)

Thanksgiving Re-visited

I was doing so well with my grateful posts and then I don't know what happened. I guess life just happened. But I wanted to post some fun events during Thanksgiving. We had a blast as usual. I love spending Thanksgiving with Tim's family. We brought two of Tim's school mates with us this year, Carlos and Adolfo. We ate lots of yummy food and played hard too. The boys played their usual family football game as most of the girls watched and took pictures. I was chasing our little guy around in the snow. I was trying to keep him out from the middle of the football field. Then we shot skeet. I haven't done that in a few years, but I still shot more than Tim.(I only shot one and it was one more than Tim - LOL!) That has been the running joke since we met that I always beat him.

I was going to post some pictures. Unfortunately I made the mistake of deleting them from our digital camera. I was sure I downloaded them to our computer. After searching for them in every possible folder. I came to the conclusion there was a problem when I downloaded them and they didn't actually get transferred to our computer. They are nowhere to be found. Silly me, didn't double check before I deleted them from the camera. :(