Xavier Clapping

Barf

If you're not on Facebook, then you didn't see my posts yesterday. My post at 7am read, "Allison Knoll Burkett started the day with Xavier throwing up on her." My post at 7pm read, "Allison Knoll Burkett ended the day with Hunter throwing up on her." There is a stomach flu going around West LA and it hit our house yesterday. It was fast and furious, and the boys are fine now. Doyl and I also had terrible nausea for a day, but thankfully kept it down. Kids throwing up is not fun, and when they throw up on you, it's worse, but I am amazed at how calmly I handled the situation, and thankful my husband did most of the clean up.

Wallpaper?

Trying out a fancy background... what do you think?

3D Fireman

Xavier the Fireman

Hunter watching The Polar Express in 3D.
This lasted about 5 minutes.

First Words

Over the last few months Xavier has started to develop a little vocabulary. His words include mama, dada, hi, ca (cat), hi ca (hi cat), toc-toc (for our tic-toc song), uh-oh, and cracker.

Bed Time

Bed time with Hunter is always a series of negotiations and plenty of tears. Tonight there was crying at his bedroom door (where we have a gate), "but I need to sleep with my eyes open!"

January Beach Days

Life is good when you can go to the beach in January. Here are a few pictures of the boys playing in the holes Doyl dug. I have to say, it is nearly impossible to get Hunter to look and smile at the camera these days.

Plumber

Doyl is on the phone with the plumber and Hunter yells to him, "daddy, do you have a penis?"

Getting Clever...

Today, when I told Hunter he couldn't bring Doyl's suitcase on the coach (also his pretend airplane), he said to me, "mom, I want you to go nurse Xavier in his room right now". The only problem with his is logic is that Xavier no longer nurses, but I did think it was a pretty clever request in order to get me to leave so that he could take the suitcase on the coach. Later I made cookies and told Hunter that when he finished his carrot at dinner, he could have one for dessert. During dinner I stepped out of the kitchen to get Xavier, and when I returned Hunter's carrot was no where to be found. Hunter told me he ate it and "it went down his throat into his tummy." After he finished his cookie and was getting out of his chair to wash his hands, a carrot rolled out of his shirt. At least I know his hiding place now.

New Year's Resolutions

Here are my new year's resolutions: date my husband more, exercise at least once a week, have a garage sale, clean my kitchen less, and play more.