We've got the Holiday Fever

There is nothing like getting in the holiday mind set quite like creating a Gingerbread House.  Xavier got right into it this year.  He was a wonderful helper by eating a good 1/3 of the icing while I put the house together.  Needless to say, he woke up with a belly ache in the middle of the night, but he had SO much fun eating sugar paste by the spoonful!!

After Xavier got out of the bath and before bed he helped me put finishing touches on the roof.  We have a number of fabulous pictures of this, however he was naked and I am just going to hold those in my ever growing embarrassing pictures to bring out when he starts dating...awhhhaaaa!

The next morning and Xaviers excitement at seeing his "ginger house"

Xavier is 100% in total adoration of the "ginger house"  It is like a calm comes over our house when I bring it down to the table for him to look at and pull gum drops off.  He is very generous, he likes to pull gum drops off for Jeremiah and I, but only after having a few himself.  Xavier has definitely been on a sugar high since the holiday spirit has hit our house.  We had a cookie exchange at work and I brought home 6 dozen cookies (yes, 6 dozen), plus all the yummy holiday treats that seem to be all over our house, geema and papa's house, every store etc, teeth brushing at night has taken on a new meaning and has definitely increased in time and thankfully Xavier likes to floss his teeth, so we are diligently working at keeping his teeth clean after the mass amounts of sugar intake.  BACK to the "ginger house" it seems to have the effect of the Elf on the Shelf, I can say, "Xavier I can't bring out the Gingerbread house this evening if you keep this up." And boom, it is like his little guardian angel smacked the little wild angel on the other shoulder and said, listen up you fool, we want to see that "ginger house."  And piece and calm reigns again in the Fish house.  It can take Xavier a good 10 minutes to decide which gum drop to pull off and eat first.  He is a fan of the purple grape ones and seems to always give Jeremiah and I the red cherry ones.  At least it is helping with his colors!  I'm pretty sure he will have to go through sugar withdrawal after the holidays and it will be amazingly fabulous in our house for a few days!!!haha

 Below are a few cute pictures of all the other happenings in our house!  Last year, Jeremiah got a helicopter for Christmas; it was a big hit with Xavier and Jeremiah last year, but I think Xavier was a little scared of it.  This year when they pulled it back out again Xavier is ALL OVER IT!!  He is doing a pretty good job of flying it (as seen below with the controls), but the best part I think is that Jeremiah chases Xavier around the house with it.  What fun!  Too bad it only keeps a charge for about 30 minutes before needing to recharge, but it is a great energy burner for sure!!! 

 Xavier with his shop goggles on!  Tell me that is not cute! 

 And yes, the newest toy/playtime fun is actually the toy tub!  Xavier is in the dumping out everything phase, so every morning he comes downstairs looks over at his toy tub and instantly goes into destruction mode and MUST dump EVERYTHING out and then jump into the pile and lay there for a little while.  To a certain extent I have just given up on a clean living room (but this toys all over the place thing drives me bonkers!  I do not mess with his room or really the basement-I can handle toys all over the place there, but in the living room it just drives me bonkers-oh well, I guess this just comes with the territory of motherhood, learning to deal!)  So, one day while the boys were home, this became the newest and best thing!  He gets in this toy tub, Jeremiah picks it up and then tips it up and back.  I don't watch, but really cute pictures!

Stocking are hung with care

Ready or Not, Christmas is going to have a completely new meaning for Xavier this year!  On Saturday after Thanksgiving we headed down to the community center to pick up a Christmas Tree.  Xavier wasn't so sure about it to begin with, but by the time we had paid and Jeremiah was loading it into the back seat of the Jeep next to Xavier he was super excited about the tree.  The whole way home he kept saying,

 "This is my Cistmas Tree."

    Later in the evening we decorated the tree and quickly found that taking off the ornaments was more fun than putting them on.  Xavier kept moving the wooden birds around the tree.  I am pretty sure a few will be lost this year or hidden in places unknown to be found in July! 
                                               

The funniest part of decorating however had to be when Xavier kept taking the red ball garland, putting it around his neck and running into this room. I was able to catch him in the act!  Jeremiah ended up getting it laced into the tree, but I have a strong suspicion that it will be pulled out sooner or later.  We also have a gold garland somewhere, but it disappeared during the decorating and I can not seem to find it anywhere!!!

All lite up and ready for the 25th!!!

To Heath with Love from Xavier!

                                               You had best be ready come December 27th!!!!

Let him eat Cake

Cake and the Happy Birthday Song are permanent fixtures in our household during the late fall and winter months.  It seems like over half of the family has a birthday between September and January.  Needless to say, we have lots of family dinners and birthday cakes.  Xavier has just figured out the whole excitement around the Happy Birthday Song and when that gets sung that means there is cake and candles to follow.  He does not really care that much about blowing out the candles, he is just into pulling the candles out and licking the icing off the bottom. 
There are days when Xavier will ask me to sing the Happy Birthday Song and when I am done he will say, "Ok...Cake"  Obviously cake follows the song.  However, we do not always have cake, which was a very hard lesson to learn for him, it caused a few tears.
Regardless we are big fans of the birthday party and even bigger fans of the cake and candles.  Below is a lovely set of pictures from Geema's (my mom) birthday.  Geema had a wonderful pound cake with chocolate icing.  The best thing about the cake was that it did not fall apart and Xavier could just pick it up and eat it. My mom cut huge hunks of cake, so Xavier was in HEAVEN!!!  Fortunately, the bottom layer ended up falling off the hunk of cake and his nap was not sabotaged by copious amounts of sugar. 

                                                                       The first bite

                                                        Really I can eat the whole thing

                                                     Daddy where is YOUR cake

                                                        losing the bottom layer

                                          not so sure about the smaller piece...Giving in and eating...

Cooler Weather

Cooler Weather is here to stay for a little while I do believe, so we broke out the new winter coat, and well it did not go well at all!  Xavier does not like when he has sleeves hitting his hands and the coat is just a smidgen too big, so it is a little long in the sleeves which caused great big tears from Xavier.

When I pulled out the coat he was so excited to put it on, but once I got it on he just about had a mini 2 year old break down about the sleeves touching his hand.  I of course had to document the show down with the coat sleeves.  He just stood there for about 2 minutes with his hands sticking out, with big tears staying, "It's too big, it's too big."  I asked him if he would like me to take the coat off, which he promptly told me "You Can't."  I told him it would keep him warm when he went outside to play and asked if he wanted to go outside, "Ok". 

And they are now best friends.  2 year logic is fabulous, if only I could crack the code, I would write a book and become a gallizonaire!!!

Halloween

So I am only 2 weeks behind in my Halloween posting!  Not bad I guess...

Xavier had a wonderful time this Halloween, he got excited about dressing up (even though he had no clue why he was dressing up at the time), hated his hat, but let me get about 2 pictures with the hat on before completely boycotting it.  But once he got that first piece of candy at the first house, he was hooked and was so excited he did not know what to do with himself.  Very cute!  The funny thing is, we still have almost all of his Halloween candy, he does not ask for it for as far as I can tell, think about it or know that it is there.

Here is my very own Fire Engine Red Crayola

Being camera shy, but got a great picture of his 'color'

Getting ready to go trick-or-treating with his cousins, Kyra and Kelly the Which and Zombie.

After the first house...game ON!

sampling some of the loot with Daddy.

Out cold after a fun filled night of trick-or-treating.  By far his favorite part of the night was when Ginger gave him a digger (seen as his sleeping buddy in this picture) in loo of candy.  Can we say spoiled?  I think so!!!  The best is that he slept all night with his tractor (this is a normal occurrence in our house, Xavier does not sleep with stuffed animals, he sleeps with diggers, trucks, tractors, fire trucks; if it has wheels and can fit into his bed, he has probably slept with it at some point).  He is truly too cute for words!

Growing up

A 2 year old who flosses this teeth, all by himself!  100% growing up too quickly!