Xandman is awesome!
Xandman starting sorta walking on Thursday night. He held onto a box while he stood up (one of his favorite things to do) and he then proceeded to push the box on the floor while moving his feetsies forward one at a time. I didn't count it as walking, though I've been told that was the beginnings of it. So for a test Jamers and I put him near the backside of his little plastic walking aid toy thing. He stood up, held onto the red handle at the top and pushed it on the rug while taking little steps forward.
So there you have it. At 7months, 2 days, he began to walk - be it little tiny assisted steps.
He is awesome in other ways as well. His crawling is like watching a duck glide across a lake. Other than his hands slapping the ground with each movement forward, his legs appear to just slide effortlessly behind him. It is rather gratifying to watch.
There are many, many pictures and quite a few videos up on Jamer's picasa page: http://picasaweb.google.com/angille should you wish to see the amazing Xandman in action. We still have a bunch he has not had a chance to get up on there yet. The "Alex Pro" were the shots we had taken on his 6 month birthday. He wasn't much in the smiling mood, but we got some terrific personality shots.
I've applied at Target for night/weekend work about a week or two ago. I haven't heard back yet, which I can't imagine in this economy is a good sign. They had several positions open though, so I'm crossing my fingers for a call.
The bank account continues to hemorrhage with no end in sight. We haven't heard a peep from BofA yet on our loan modification. The holidays are coming and for Xandman's first Christmas/birthday doesn't look like he'll be getting much from us other than our love. I figure that is okay though since he won't remember this year's holidays. The good news is with my b-day around the corner I persuaded my mother to not send money (I told her I would pay bills with it) so she is sending a gift card for Babies R Us instead. Which is exactly what we need to buy the formula, diapers, and miscellaneous baby things we need. That is a relief to know that is on it's way to us.
We need to come up with some babycare alternatives for when our daycare lady can't watch the little guy. It was painfully brought to our attention this week when she went to the hospital on Tuesday morning, that we hadn't thought of an assload of backup plans. Now that Xander is over 6 months we should be able to get him into one of those "day" care places where you can drop them off for the day (as opposed to our normal daycare where we pay for the week).
James continues to be the best daddy I could hope for for my baby.
Our house is totally trashed, and I had Noe come over on Thursday(?) to watch Xander while I cleaned one bathroom. I felt so fricken accomplished. During the week by the time we get home from work, James goes to make dindins and I watch babyman and after we've eaten, he's eaten, the pets have eaten etc, it's time to work on putting Xandman down to sleep, or take for us to take a bath and then sleep for us. This just doesn't allow time for cleaning during the week. On the weekends, I usually get the laundry done, some yard work and other miscell things but never really clean. I don't know how we can solve the mess issue but it is driving me up the wall. I hate the clutter and mess.
Kyiv Poopalous is a wonderful cat, however he has taken to peeing on the rugs throughout the house. I think it may be that his litterbox doesn't get cleaned everyday. I have rectified that though and I've taken that duty over again. I'm going to try to get up @ 4:30 again in the morning so I can take care of it before work.
My sister says she is moving up probably in the Spring. Though that will be ever so wonderful I'm just hoping we can hold onto the house until then.
I complain I whine I am depressed and miserable. I won't even get into all my work headaches because coupled with my home ones I'm on the brink of a breakdown. I told a co-worker yesterday that if things don't start getting better I will have a breakdown. I can only take so much. I feel like, although I never would, I could just walk away from everything and start over in like Bora Bora or something. Just let everything go - the work the house the family all of it. I never ever would but the thought has been crossing my mind. I'm not proud of it, but there you go.
So life is not getting better other than Xander has continued great health and is awesome.
So there you have it. At 7months, 2 days, he began to walk - be it little tiny assisted steps.
He is awesome in other ways as well. His crawling is like watching a duck glide across a lake. Other than his hands slapping the ground with each movement forward, his legs appear to just slide effortlessly behind him. It is rather gratifying to watch.
There are many, many pictures and quite a few videos up on Jamer's picasa page: http://picasaweb.google.com/angille should you wish to see the amazing Xandman in action. We still have a bunch he has not had a chance to get up on there yet. The "Alex Pro" were the shots we had taken on his 6 month birthday. He wasn't much in the smiling mood, but we got some terrific personality shots.
I've applied at Target for night/weekend work about a week or two ago. I haven't heard back yet, which I can't imagine in this economy is a good sign. They had several positions open though, so I'm crossing my fingers for a call.
The bank account continues to hemorrhage with no end in sight. We haven't heard a peep from BofA yet on our loan modification. The holidays are coming and for Xandman's first Christmas/birthday doesn't look like he'll be getting much from us other than our love. I figure that is okay though since he won't remember this year's holidays. The good news is with my b-day around the corner I persuaded my mother to not send money (I told her I would pay bills with it) so she is sending a gift card for Babies R Us instead. Which is exactly what we need to buy the formula, diapers, and miscellaneous baby things we need. That is a relief to know that is on it's way to us.
We need to come up with some babycare alternatives for when our daycare lady can't watch the little guy. It was painfully brought to our attention this week when she went to the hospital on Tuesday morning, that we hadn't thought of an assload of backup plans. Now that Xander is over 6 months we should be able to get him into one of those "day" care places where you can drop them off for the day (as opposed to our normal daycare where we pay for the week).
James continues to be the best daddy I could hope for for my baby.
Our house is totally trashed, and I had Noe come over on Thursday(?) to watch Xander while I cleaned one bathroom. I felt so fricken accomplished. During the week by the time we get home from work, James goes to make dindins and I watch babyman and after we've eaten, he's eaten, the pets have eaten etc, it's time to work on putting Xandman down to sleep, or take for us to take a bath and then sleep for us. This just doesn't allow time for cleaning during the week. On the weekends, I usually get the laundry done, some yard work and other miscell things but never really clean. I don't know how we can solve the mess issue but it is driving me up the wall. I hate the clutter and mess.
Kyiv Poopalous is a wonderful cat, however he has taken to peeing on the rugs throughout the house. I think it may be that his litterbox doesn't get cleaned everyday. I have rectified that though and I've taken that duty over again. I'm going to try to get up @ 4:30 again in the morning so I can take care of it before work.
My sister says she is moving up probably in the Spring. Though that will be ever so wonderful I'm just hoping we can hold onto the house until then.
I complain I whine I am depressed and miserable. I won't even get into all my work headaches because coupled with my home ones I'm on the brink of a breakdown. I told a co-worker yesterday that if things don't start getting better I will have a breakdown. I can only take so much. I feel like, although I never would, I could just walk away from everything and start over in like Bora Bora or something. Just let everything go - the work the house the family all of it. I never ever would but the thought has been crossing my mind. I'm not proud of it, but there you go.
So life is not getting better other than Xander has continued great health and is awesome.