K&R+X

Sitting Up

Xander has started to sit up on his own now. He isn’t doing it all the time but he’s working on it. I guess it will be like rolling over, at first we were always surprised when he’d roll himself over and then suddenly he did it with no problem and we just got used to it. Just a few weeks ago when he visited relatives in Salem he wasn’t able to sit up on his own at all and now he can.

Here he is in his Halloween outfit (has a cute Jack-O’-Lantern on the butt) playing with a Halloween decoration at his great Aunt and Uncle’s house.

He loved all the decorations they had up, especially the ones that made noise and wiggled about. He figured out right away that if he squeezed this ones hand it would make noise.

Here he is with his Great Grandma Georgia, aka Granny Goose.

Xander decided he was tired of having his photo taken, the little imp.

More Phone Photos

The sweatshirt cord fascination started way back then!

Xander loves to play with Ryan’s sweatshirt ties. I didn’t realize he’d been doing it for so long. This picture is from March when I was in St. Peter’s for surgery.

So that Poppy Seed and McCoy don’t feel left out…

Ball!

I just put Xander down on the floor and told him to go get his ball. He scooted over and grabbed his ball! Now it could have been a coincidence– that was just the toy he wanted to grab right then, or he understood the word ball! I’m choosing to believe he understood what I said.

He has really started to play games with us. When we’re in the kitchen he crawls, rolls, and scoots over to the box barricade keeping him in the living room and throws a toy over into the kitchen. We throw it back in to the living room. Over and over again. He thinks this is great fun and is so happy that we’re playing his game with him. Of course it does seriously slow down the dinner making process.

Phone Photos

I got my phone pictures transferred to the computer yesterday after getting a cable to connect the phone to the computer. That was nice. Now I can actually keep things! I’m setting up Kate’s computer/phone right now.

It’s fun seeing pictures from when Alexander was first born. Here are a few, taken only a very short time after he was born, and some when we first brought him home.

Banned Books Week

September 26th through October 3rd is Banned Books Week. This annual event draws attention to censorship across the country.

I found this map of banned and challenged books very interesting. Reading about why people want books removed from schools or libraries always makes me want to read the book, even if it wasn’t something I had been interested in before. I plan on choosing a few books from the map and reading them.

I am very thankful to my parents for never restricting what I read and for always encouraging me to be open minded. I encourage everyone to go read a challenged book next week.

Taking a stroll in our orchard

Yesterday Poppy Seed, McCoy, Xander, and I took a stroll up our hill to the orchard. The grass needs to be cut back and the trees pruned. Not sure if we’re even going to keep the trees. We have to read more about them. The trees are covered with lichen and that makes me think they aren’t very healthy. The fruit is all small and bug infested. Of course a good pruning and some organic matter might fix all that, don’t really know.