Walking

Here is Alixander walking. Still having trouble getting a good video but I thought him carrying this was hilarious! He loves carrying everything around, picked up a 6lb medicine ball earlier today and took a few steps before I saw what he was doing and rescued his toes! He is getting better at walking in shoes and seems to prefer walking to crawling now in the past week or so. Its nice that hes so tall...we can hold his hand and he can walk and neither one of us has to tip over at all! :)

Big Boy :)

Here is a video of Xander using a spoon by himself for the first time! Hes eating ice cream. Mom was very proud of him! You can see him signing here too...the hand to the mouth is "food" (were still refining that) followed by "milk" and "please". Were working on "thank you" and "drink" now.

Playtime!!!

Here are some pictures of Alixander playing with Uncle Landon and Aunt Kimberly during their visit! We have decided that without the pictures we wouldnt remember them being here and they need to visit again soon! :)

Birthday Parties!!!

Here are some pictures from Alixanders Birthday Parties! We had some in Galesburg with Josh's family and then one at our house on Sunday with some friends and Uncle Landon, Aunt Kimberly and Aunt Rebecca!!! Here are the pictures from the parties and playing with my toys!

Where has the time gone!?!?!?!?!??!?!?!

My baby is one year old!!! SO hard to believe! Here is a slideshow showing how far we've come in the past year! (I know it cuts off some of the pictures but otherwise they were too small to really see...I think if you click on it you can view the pictures.)

Birthday Card!

Alixander got his birthday card from Grandpa in today from Iraq! He had a good time folding and unfolding it and looking at the pictures!

Bath Time!!!

Here are some super cute pics of Xander playing in the water. Very different from the previous bath pictures we have posted! :)