You Make me want to Procreate

One of my sister's best friends from high school decided to join the Army right after graduation. I am not necessarily for war, but I am definitely for the troops.
I respect every man and woman who don a uniform and have the utmost respect for their families as well. It's difficult, and it takes a special kind of person to serve without being asked to.

What does this have to do with procreation? Well my friends, Matt found a lovely lady in the Army named Rachael and they got married and three months ago she popped out the cuties baby I have ever seen.

This is Matt with newborn Xavier, however this picture was taken a few months ago when they just brought the baby home from the hospital. Matt is actually in training in Arizona getting reading to ship out for another tour in Afghanistan in November, so we didn't see him this week. However, Rachael was up from Georgia with Xavier to visit Matt's mom and Rachael's dad.

We couldn't resist some cuddle time with a new baby, especially since Xavier is the first baby out of all of our friends, so off we went to Matt's mother's house and got a chance to meet this strong young man.

Here's Xavier with his beautiful mommy Rachael. She's got this whole mom thing down pat. I am in awe, at 21 I definitely wouldn't have been able to take care of a baby and she's doing an amazing job of bringing up Xavier. Looks like Matt will be away for a full year starting in November, we sure wish Rachael didn't live in Georgia because we'd be more than happy to baby sit and help her out with this little snugglebug.

Here's Hannah with our favorite new man. Xavier is totally going to be a lady killer...I mean as long as he keeps those beautiful blue eyes he got from his mama!

Xavier is so strong too! For only 3 months old he's already mighty enough to keep his head up all by himself and he tries to shuffle across the floor in a pseudo crawl. And if you hold him up, he even tries to stand!Xavier is so well behaved too. The entire time we were there he cooed and made adorable little noises, but never cried. He got fussy once and Rachael just said to him, "You have no reason to cry," and he stopped. Worlds Best Baby! Apparently he's always that quiet and even sleeps through the night!

If only we all have babies like this!