McLennon Family Adventures: 2011

2011!!! HAPPY NEW YEAR! January has been a gloomy snow filled icy month. We have the winter blues and are trying to make the most of our indoor time. January started off with Yia-Yia's birthday on Jan. 1st, mid January we celebrated Martin Luther King Jr Day with a peace march in downtown Columbus, late January we sadly watched the NY Jets loose the AFC championship game, and attended the kidapalooza with the Henley family. We added to our family 3 fish and 1 water frog.

Xavier, the good, the bad, and the ugly....
This month he colored a wall, himself with my makeup, and his own poop!
He drank a nice cocktail of nail polish remover!

New phrases and comments,
"I love you too!"
"The sun went down cause it was tired."
"I wanna go to Nanna's house in Utah!"
Favorite sentence, "I want chocolate milk!"

Yia-Yia's Birthday

MLK March

Momma's Make-up

Kidapalooza

Snow!!!

Jets Game :-(

Fishies!

Making Cake

2010 was an amazing year, here are some of the highlights! Xavier and I were lucky enough to take 2 Utah trips, one at the beginning of the year and one at the end. As a family we made 2 trips to the beach house in Virginia Beach. Cristin (Cosmo's sister) made 2 trips to see us in Ohio. Nana and Pa came to Ohio for Xavier's 2nd birthday. Uncle Gilbert, Uncle Pete, and Aunt Belinda came to town separately in the fall. In the first part of August Xavier started soccer. Thanks to Xavier's early swimming lessons we frequented the local pool often during the summer. We went to the conservatory to experience butterflies hatching from cocoons. Frequented the #1 zoo in America (the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium) over a dozen times. We attended many other festivals and cultural events, among our favorite the rib and jazz fest.

In March Xavier scared his mother to death, we have a very open stairwell and he decided to try and take a shortcut to the basement by going through the railing and skipping the stairs. Momma caught him as he was falling. As a same day solution we added beautiful garden fencing to our stairs. Not pretty but functional. In the Spring Xavier was diagnosed with asthma :-( Therefor our just purchased golden retriever puppy had to find a new home.

Xavier has grown and changed so much in just a year. At his 2 year check up (Sept 29th) he was 34.75 inches tall and weighed 29.4 pounds. He has an extensive vocabulary and imagination. He loves animals, trains, and dinosaurs. He is starting to dress himself and loves to brush his own teeth. He loves to play with his bff Ellis and watch Nick Jr. The last few months he has become more independent and plays by himself in his room and sleeps in his own big boy bed.