Happy Memorial Day!

Hope everyone enjoyed their nice long weekend!!! I enjoyed my 5 day one for sure. Although I think they may have to pry Max away from me tomorrow, he's been clingy lately. But good thing is he loves his Maxwell and Daddy days!

We went down to the ArtsFest on Saturday and saw grandma Diana in her jewelry booth. Then today we went and saw a parade. Max loved watching the fire engines and horses but mostly he likes watching kids, which there were plenty of at the parade of course. Then we had a picnic but sadly Max and his buddy Rowan were both a little grumpy and weren't playing so nicely together. Maybe next time!

THANK YOU to Uncle Kris and our entire military for serving our country and making us proud!

God Bless the USA

7 month photo shoot

She did it again.... Aunt Ellie is saving us a TON of money and who can beat these shots?!?!

Max's Dedication and big 7 month weekend

So much going on lately!

It snuck up on us, but Max turned 7 months on Saturday!! What a little boy he is already...

Then, Sunday was his dedication at church. It was nice to have so much family come! We got some nice family pictures:

We also enjoyed a way too short, but awesome visit with Uncle Kris and Aunt Wendy! We were hoping he'd put on a good enough show to make them want to move back here and he did do pretty good. Coincidentally, he has started to hug and cuddle a lot too, which of course makes him more lovable. Uncle Kris, who generally is not such a fan of babies, took quite a liking to him (how can you not!) and they had a really nice visit. Nate and I were lucky enough to get off Monday too so we all got an extra day to spend together. Max enjoyed his first ride at Chocolate World, and then took a snooze while we did some shopping at the Hershey Outlets.

April Summer Fun

We had some crazy hot April weather which brought about some summer fun. (And a scramble to find summer clothes, baby sun block and fans) but Max loved it. He just loves being outside and while I worried that his days were too drastically changing being outside almost the entire day with us (you know how "new" everything is for a baby), Nate assured me that he's just thrilled to let his piggies breath and take in the fresh warm summer like air!

But the summer weather turned back to spring today and, while I normally LOVE the hot summer weather, I'm hanging onto these last few weeks of my winter baby. For some reason the change of season just made me really sad that I won't ever get a winter back with my baby boy. I can't believe how fast they grow. Watching our son do and learn new things is by far the most amazing and emotional miracle that we've ever been blessed to experience.

Saturday we enjoyed what I realized was our first real family outing apart from visiting and errand running. We went over to City Island and walked around there (they have a baseball and soccer fields, both had games that evening, an arcade, mini golf, mini playground like village for kids, a train ride and of course its an island so water and boats). He seemed to enjoy taking it all in watching everyone, and we enjoyed a nice walk.

Our secret is out, now everyone can see the chunky legs!!

Sunday he also had his first picnic when Grandma and Grandpa Jeff came over for burgers on the grill.

Some day he'll thank me for this.... but I have to share my poop stories (every mom has them!) cause we had some classics last week. (And I even splurge for Pampers!) The night after we had to cut a onsie off him cause it just wasn't worth pulling over his head spreading poop everywhere, we had one even worse. After wiping it several times off his bottom, back, arms, legs, feet, belly... and my arms, hands, under my fingernails, etc... I finally got him in the tub playing with daddy. After I washed out the clothes he had been wearing and went over to hang them on the side of the tub to dry, I was telling him what a stinky boy he was and his reaction was to politely turn to me and burp in my face... Daddy was proud; I said a quiet prayer that I have a dainty little girl next time...the joys of boys!!

Just for fun

Max is just a riot these days. He's very proud of all the noises he can make and he learned a new trick the other day. He can now get his piggies in his mouth! What fun!! He loved the warm weather over the weekend, he'll hang in that car swing forever; which makes it nice for mom and dad to get some work done outside. We finally got that awful side flower bed cleaned up and planted some nice bushes in there. Still need the morning glories for the arch and some mulch and we're good to go. Hoping for another weekend like the last!!

I have no idea why it uploaded these up side down but they were too cute not to post.


Lookin too cool in our valore Adidas sweatsuit and shades for our long walk at Grandma's

Happy Easter

Max enjoyed his first Easter at Mom-mom Mom-mom's (since my mom is mom-mom, that's what we decided my mom-mom is for Max:)). He was a little sick, we're not sure if he caught my little cold or if he had a small reaction to his shots; in any case he couldn't put on his full Maxwell show for everyone, but we headed over on Saturday so I could clean for my grandmother for her 85th birthday. After 85 years I figured she deserved someone else cleaning her house once. Sunday we got all decked out and headed to church. The clip on tie didn't make it on, someone was throwing a minor fit while dressing so it wasn't worth it, but I think it still turned out pretty good.

We didn't get to see what the Easter bunny brought till tonight since we got back so late last night and Dad had to go in to work today (though we think his home work computer is finally fixed this evening) but we got a few fun new toys, a bunny from mom-mom, some books and cd's from Uncle Kris and Aunt Wendy and some cute outfits from other family members.

He Lives, He Lives, salvation to impart. You ask me how I know He lives...He lives within my heart.

6 months

We figured 6 months was a formal affair (thanks to our tux onsie from Uncle Kris and Aunt Wendy's visit to the House of Blues).

We had our 6 month check up yesterday and he's doing great. He weighs 17.6lbs (49%) and is 26 1/4 inches long (45%). He does everything developmentally the Dr. was expecting (sitting up, strong legs for "standing", rolling over, etc...) He's been loving his food. I had questioned the Dr. because he's drinking almost half as much as he used to but the Dr. thinks its a good thing. They want the babies to get nutrients from food because when they're done with breast milk (or formula) and move to cow's milk, the cow's milk has no nutrients so babies who were used to filling up on milk instead of food have a harder time adjusting and may not get all the nutrients they need. (You learn something new every day). He's had peas, sweet potatoes and carrots and still eats his oatmeal every day (mixed with an increasing amount of prunes). We still haven't gotten that nap schedule down, but he sleeps so well at night I really can't complain! He likes to sit up and play now which is nice. He LOVES to be outside. We've had a few warm days but can't wait for more. He'll watch cars outside and follow them until they're out of sight.

Here he is in his new ride...

On a random note, I just want to apologize to anyone I've ignored this week, its been so crazy. Over the weekend a pipe burst in our office and there was some flooding. Not too much was ruined but we ended up having to move and lets just say all didn't go so well, basically just total chaos. I think by Monday we'll be ok but, although I really do like my job and the people I work with, it just didn't bring out the best in everyone and I really only need to deal with one baby at a time! Randomly Nate's work computer hasn't been working so well either but its made for a pretty easy day today and hopefully will be back up soon so he won't have to go into the office.

Happy Easter everyone!