one week to remember

Christmas has come on past, and little did I know that a two month old could be showered with such gifts. Here is a video of Xavier's first Christmas.

video 1) from chirstmas eve



Video 2) from christmas day part 1



Video 3) from chirstmas day part 2



Video 4) Gift from my mom



all in all he received, an Alphabet drum and counting maracas, a tummy time gym set, burts bee's lotion, johnny jump up, an infant oral care set, an excisoucer, 10 stackable color blocks , a bib and a set of socks, 5 children's books, 4 wooden race cars, three Christmas ornaments, two infant outfits, and A viral URI care of mom, also an accoutrement of other nick nack type things.

Mom's big gifts for the year were a new laptop and a plush winter coat. I got an HDDVD player and an apple peeler corer slicer thing.

Aside from the fanfare of X's first Christmas we also were pleased to have Grand Mere visit us for a week and a 'storf family get together with all his cousins (minus two) aunts and uncles to give him lots of holiday love.

7 weeks and counting

Xavier is seven weeks old today, and to celebrate he decided to sleep through the night last night. well almost. He ate at about 11, and was asleep by midnight. this is later then usual, but I was watching a movie and procrastinated in getting upstairs to get a bottle. Anyway, we went to sleep, Karen got home from work at about 3:30 and went to bed without feeding him, because he was still vary asleep. Then at about 6 Karen got up in response to the first sign of fussiness all night. In the span of about 30 minutes she feeds him while he is still half asleep. After which he spat everything back out fountain style and fell deeply back to sleep. This morning at about 8:00 he finally woke up and wanted to eat and interact with the world. We are going to count this as his first full night sleep.

best baby ever

Here are some pics in his tree picking outfit. It was nice and warm, seeing as how cold it was outside.



















A happy picture















an unahppy picture



















and one just becouse.

pick a tree

yesterday we went to the not so local Christmas tree farm. We picked up a tree and a wreath, had some hot chocolate, and a cold adventure. here are some pics.

so it begins

Karen went back to work today, the 3 to midnight shift. By saying she has gone back to work, it kind of implies that she had time off. But I digress. As of today, Karen is working on between 4 and 6 shifts a week, and i have become a full time at home dad. tonight, X plans to have a bath, eat some food and then have some sleep. hopefully this plan works.

The Crevier Boys

Here is a picture of the males in the house hanging out.

only a C? maybe a D?

our one month pediatrician appointment was very exciting, X got a C (75%) in both height (22 inches) and weight (10 pounds, 12 ounces), and only a 50% in head diameter (not quite 18 inch). All in all life has been going well. We are sleeping sporadically and staying awake without being hungry. We have an occasional spontaneous smile and we are down to 4 BM's a day. Food wise he is a savage. he eats allot. That being said, i guess that is all to be said. I will post more pics after this weekend. we are traveling to Louisville and Lexington this weekend for a wedding and a concert. Should be fun, and have some nice pictures too.

Mutant boy X

truth be told, I have not taken a biology based class since I cut open a worm in middle school. Some how, I was able to make it through high school, collage, and graduate school learning the physical sciences and never once touching a biology or health science book. That being said, I believe my boy is a mutant. I may not have a lot of education to back that accusation, I am computer savy and able to look things up on line, and i am married to a doctor.
Lately we have been scrutinizing over Xavier, trying to decide who he looks like and determine what type of physical traits he may grow up exhibiting. We are Fairly certain he is going to be some what tall, have brown eyes (they are getting darker and darker daily), probably have dirty blond hair, no dimples, big ears and a cleft chin.... wait... a cleft chin??
After doing a little research we have discovered the following.
Genetically, the cleft chin gene is a dominant gene. in other words if you have the gene you have the cleft. This means that if one of your parents have a cleft chin, you have a 3 in 4 chance of inheriting it, because if one of the two genes you inherited is clefted, it overpowers the non dominate resulting in a physical manifestation. That is not to say that if you have one parent with a cleft chin you will have one. Do to it being a homozygous recessive genotype. This means that you have a 2 in 4 chance of not having a cleft. But I digress. The ultimate result of our findings was that in order to have a cleft chin, one of you parents MUST have a cleft, unless you have a spontaneous mutation. This is interesting because neither Karen, nor myself have a cleft chin.
so i conclude that my son is a mutant.
QED.