Toy du jour...

Starting yesterday Xander became very interested in a small green ball. It's the perfect size for his little hands. It has not left his side. He has played with it, napped with it, eaten with it, taken a bath, and taken another nap with it. I wonder how long the fascination will last. Right now he is sitting/jumping in his jumperoo watching a baby einstein video while holding the green ball.

Today has been one of those days when fighting traffic and dealing with bosses has not seemed that bad in comparison to being a stay at home mom. Nothing really horrible has happened, but I'm just tired from dealing with my allergies and Xander is just a little fussy... probably from his allergies and the last few days being very busy.

Starting last Wednesday we had a MOPS meeting in the morning, throwing off his morning nap, and a Financial Peace University meeting in the evening, pushing his bedtime off. Thursday had seminar in the afternoon... missed naps. Friday, Nelson/David's father had what seemed to be a heart attack, so we drove to the hospital and stayed the afternoon until Xander's 9 month doctor's appointment (that couldn't be rescheduled until December... so we had to go). Friday night Nelson stayed at a hotel with his mom near the hospital... so both Xander and I slept poorly without him being home. Saturday was the memorial service for a friend of ours who died from childbirth. It seems so odd that in this day and age that a woman could die from giving birth. Anyway, after the service we went to the hospital that was quite a distance from our house and stayed very late. Xander was past the end of his rope by that point. On Sunday, I decided that we all needed to sleep in and take it easy, so we didn't go to church. Later on the day we ran some errands, but Xander still didn't get his regular naps in. Monday was the first day of somewhat normalcy, but he's just been a little cranky... hopefully this will pass soon.

I forgot to mention in my last post that he also has learned to wave and give kisses. He has several different types of waves, but I haven't learned the meaning behind them yet. He waves often and to things that don't wave back... like the cats, his videos, to people not looking at him. It is really rather cute!! After I kiss him on the cheek he sometimes will turn to my cheek and press his open mouth to my cheek (along with a bit of drool). I'm guessing that he hasn't learned the pucker of a kiss just yet!

And he's off...

And he’s off…

This week Xander has become mobile. He’s not exactly crawling on all fours just yet… he’s doing the military ‘low crawl’. It’s pretty cute, but it does a number on the cleanliness of his white onesies. I guess that means I don’t have very clean floors!. It’s been really interesting to watch his progress to mobility. He started off just lifting his legs up and rolling from side to side in a zig-zag pattern. Later, after he learned to roll completely over he would barrel roll to where he wanted to go. Now with the military crawl he can really get to places and into things!! He has this fascination with a floor lamp and its cord. We need to put in the ceiling fan in that room so that we can get rid of that lamp. He’s also very interested in the cats… they are in real trouble once he can crawl faster!!