Shoes!

Xavier's language skills have exploded in the past three weeks. By our last count, he has approximately 35 words now. Admittedly most of his words are only recognizable to my husband and me, but once you familiarize yourself with the Xavier dialect you too can translate. Body parts, common foods and articles of clothing are his most used words. Here's a running list:

Bye-Bye
Night Night
Car Car
Da Da
MaMa
Booms (grapes)
Nanna (banana)
Bapple (apple)
Cheese
Cracker
Juice
Titee (kitty)
Woof Woof (dog)
Bzzzz (bee)
Moon
Bowl
Spoon
Spider
Shoes
Socks
DiDi (diaper)
Botty (potty)
Bight (light)
Bah (bath)
NaNa (nose)
Belbow (elbow)
Beyebu (bellybutton)
Shin (chin)
Tee (teeth)

Here's a short clip of him walking around in two pairs of shoes (mine and his). If you listen closely, you can hear him say the word "shoes" at the very end.

Halloween Pics

Sorry for the lack of communication. I keep starting deep and profound posts about spirituality and the economy and editing them into oblivion before deleting them altogether. So until I get over my writers block and get over myself, here's the short and sweet: two photos from Halloween.

Here's Xavier's daytime outfit:

And Xavier's skeleton costume. That's his BFF, Ethan as the frog hopping around in front of him.

The boys went to about 10 houses before we called it a night. Xavier wasn't too sure about the whole thing but enjoyed pointing out all the cats and dogs in the neighborhood. Ethan enjoyed knocking on doors but seemed perplexed as to why we kept knocking on doors but not going inside to play. Too cute!