gallery: year two and then there were two. years, in fact. two Whole years. not those abridged years that you see in 80's movies.. with kitschy scenes flashing by to a howard jones soundtrack. we're talking two.. whole.. years. and yet they flew by just as fast. (thankfully without the howard jones soundtrack.).... > go to year two
			gallery: year one holy disappearing year batman! babies can take twelve long months, slap them on the back of a taxi, and Bam! there they go. our our little x-man is no exception to that rule. thank goodness for cameras.... > go to year one
			gallery: month nine if you haven't been by casa-de-xavier in a while, you may have trouble recognizing our little 9-month-old superstar. (ok, he's closer to ten months – but who's counting?) three months ago our little hero discovered that his picture was Not next to the word 'achievement' in the dictionary and has been... > go to month nine
			gallery: month six it's not as if I was born yesterday, xavier will tell you, it only seems that way. is it six months already? my, that was fast. but then, xavier has a habit of exceeding expectations. he'll take six months, and make them seem like three weeks... > go to month six
			gallery: month three and what a month it was! with visits from grandma J, uncle mikey, the seattle aldredges, and maybe a new girlfriend from bainbridge island! whoo-hoo! who knew a boy could be so popular. then there were barbeques on the back deck, lazy summer weekends with mama... > go to month three
			gallery: month two it took a month or so to learn, but finally, the first real smile could not be suppressed. of course neither mom or dad will admit who got the real one first (an argument that never lasts past the next smile of course). lots of milestones met: heads being held up.... > go to month two
			gallery: month one so much time! so little to do! wait... strike that — reverse it. how could we possibly have fit this much into a month. birth, breathing, eating, meeting all these new people, learning to focus, learning to hold our head up, countless diaper changes, countless outfit changes... > go to month one
			gallery: week two sleeping, eating, sleeping, eating, bath. a tough schedule, but nothing that mensa-baby can't handle! after acing his apgar test (twice!) and scoring the highest hearing test that northwest hospital has ever seen, we figure that we better start saving for harvard. and we're letting the little guy get some rest before the... > go to week two
			gallery: week one of course, nobody thought to snap pictures at what may have been the most exciting event of the day — that is, when the new dad was changing a tire that had... blown-out on a turn doing 70mph on the highway coming home from the hospital. it should be mentioned that nobody in the car had ever... > go to week one
			gallery: day one just because karina doesn't like to be outdone, she took the longest labor story she'd heard — and tried to double it. saturday morning, march 29th at 8:39 am it was official: vaughn xavier breathed his first breath of north seattle air making the total labor time 65 hours (and yes, we rounded down). he weighed in at... > go to day one