Stopping to Smell the Lavender

After days of technical difficulties with Blogger, I may actually get to publish new photographs with updates. Some photos are completely unrelated to the updates...just here because they are cute. The pic on the right hand side, cute, the one on the left, also cute, but shows how Xavier's hair is starting to curl. Here are other updates:

*Communicating - Xavier sounds like he says a lot, but most of the time doesn't repeat words more than once. He clearly and with purpose calls out to his father as dada/daddy or papa/papi (already bilingual!), to his mother as mama/mami, and to the cats as kitty. He does, however, also refer to dogs as kitty. Oh and he calls milk/bottle ABY. We finally caught on that when he yells aby, aby, aby he wants his bottle. We think he may actually be saying Xavi (pronounced Javi) as in give it to, which is the name he responds to best at this point. Xavier is also consistently signing for "food" and "more", but most often pointing to what he wants.

This is a picture with a new toy from tia Lala. Thanks again! He loves it!

*He has another tooth. This time it's the other bottom front. He has essentially had 6 teeth come through in about 2 months. They have been in random order and he never had two teeth come in next to each other at the same time, so they are different lengths. At this point he looks like he only has every other one!

In (above) and out (below) of the box.
The box has become a favorite. In it came a train from his girlfriend Pippi. He loves the train too! The shirt is also a gift, from Kris. Thanks to you too!

*He is loving whole milk but hating the idea of giving up his bottle...we're trying to get him to use a sippy, nuby or any other cup and he is not cooperating.

*Another thing he has somehow learned is how to smell things, but he still doesn't know where his nose is (though he does know where his mocos are - the stuff in his nose)