Grandpa Walter Comes to Town

Walter's dad, Walter Sr, came in town from San Diego for a visit last week. It was nice to have him here and he was able to be here for Xavier's birthday. It had been a whole year since Grandpa Walter was here so X was like a totally different kid. This visit went much smoother for me than last year's visit when X was only 10 days old, I was still recovering, dealing with nursing problems, hadn't slept, oh yeah, and it was Christmas time too. Makes me tired just thinking about it. So, everyone got to enjoy things much more this time around. Xavier wasn't too sure about this new person in our house though. He was fine to play with and play around but it took a full 4 days before X would let Grandpa Walter hold him. I felt bad, but knew this would happen since X has lots of stranger anxiety right now, especially with men. Luckily he warmed up and by the end of the visit X would gladly be held by Grandpa Walter.


Here's a shot of "The Three Walters" one morning before my Walter headed off to work (thus the lovely pinstripe polyester uniform shirt!). Disregard the bed head on 2 of the 3 Walters. Since Xavier's middle name is Walter he gets to be a Walter. My Walter really wanted to name our baby Walter III if it was a boy but I wasn't so keen on the idea since it gets confusing to have 2 people of the same name in the same house. I mean, I'm confused just writing Walter so many times in this post! Walter as a middle name was a good compromise.

While Grandpa Walter was in town we went to Hodak's in the city for dinner one night with the Deeken clan. Great Grandma Gloria looks outnumbered in this picture with all the boys. Glad I was there to up the girl count.

Xavier opened an early Christmas gift from Grandpa Walter. He seemed to like tearing open the wrapping paper. What is the gift, you ask......

Why an adorable Sock Monkey Jack in the Box. Unfortunately Xavier is terrified of it. Won't go near it. If you start to turn the crank and the music plays he bursts into tears. When the monkey pops up he is so startled that he jumps back. I tried opening it real slow to avoid the scare and he still cries. Right now it's sitting open on the fireplace and we're hoping that if it's in the room for awhile he'll eventually come to enjoy it! Last night I did notice X put his finger on the crank for a second, so that's progress.