Maxwell–3 Months

On Saturday Max turned three months old.  It feels (to me) that Max has been with us longer then 3 months.  It feels as if we have always been a family of four.

Saturday after naps we went outside to capture some pictures before we left for the rest of the afternoon.  I put Max in the bumbo seat… and well my buddy had to sit in a PINK seat!  : )  That’s what happens when little brothers come after girls – everything is already PINK!  So I tossed one of his blankets over it – but still some pink was showing.

He is still all smiles.  He didn’t care!

Who does he look like?  Um, not sure.  All I can see is Mallory.  We kind of get all kinds of answers.  Some say he looks like Jesse.  Some say he looks like Jesse’s brother, Jerry.  Some say he looks like me.  But most of all – he is a little Mallory.  : )

His eyes lashes are getting SO long!  He didn’t seem to have the long eyelashes when he was born, like Mally did.  But the last couple of weeks they have really grown and they are crazy long!  I had a dream the other night that I actually trimmed them.  Which I would never do in real life!

His hair all goes to the center of his head like a little baby mohawk.  His hair is also taking on redish tones… but so did Mally’s when she was around this age.

He has squished ears!  At first I thought his ears were just squished from being pregnant – but they are still like this 3 months later.

He giggles and coos!  I can actually get him to giggle sometimes.  I don’t know what it is about baby giggles, but I can’t get enough of them.  Adorable!

He cries!  This sweet baby boy is a crier!  And he knows how to cry hard and loud!  Sometimes I’ll think – oh this is such a fake cry, he’ll stop in a bit.  Nope!  He gets even more mad and then kicks it up a notch and really screams and cries.  And as soon as I come to his rescue he stops!  But only if I pick him up.  Just talking to him doesn’t work.  He just looks at me and continues to cry until I get him in my arms.

His favorite position is what we call “the tree frog”.  He likes to be held up right and he kind of clings to my shoulder/arm and looks out behind me.  Since it has been so hot, I’ve been wearing a lot of tank tops so then he really likes to suck on my shoulder while he is being a tree frog.

Loves his belly, unlike Mally.  We actually figured out that he will take a real nap if we lay him down on his belly.  I know you are not suppose to, but we only do it at nap time when we can keep an eye on him.  Right now he takes one big nap (around 2 hours) in the morning and little naps in the afternoon.  He is also taking his big nap in his crib!  *yes!*  This weekend he didn’t take a long morning nap (because I put him on his back) so he ended up taking an afternoon nap (because I put him on his belly) so Mally and Max both took naps TOGETHER! in the same room!  I was so excited!  I had a couple of moments of free time!  So I wasted it with trashy TV (Giulian & Bill!  They make me giggle and kind of remind me of Jesse & I) and oreos!  It was just what the Dr. ordered!  : )

He was fascinated by the shoes on his feet and wouldn’t take his eyes off them!  A gal from our church made them!  They are so adorable!

Doing lots better at sleeping at night!  He is eating one last time around 9:30 and actually goes to bed afterwards.  Most of the time he sleeps until about 5/5:30am!

Max is taking great interest in his thumb these days!  He hasn’t mastered it yet, but he is trying real hard.

Mally has taken great interest in him now that he is awake more and talks and giggles and is starting to play with toys.  She will crawl under his play mat with him and bat around at the toys too.  She rubs his head and says – Hi Maxaroo!  If he is crying she will say – It’s okay Maxwell.  Stop Crying.  She always thinks he needs his nuk and is trying to give it to him.  He doesn’t take a nuk very well so she very rarely gets him to actually keep it in his mouth.

Mally and Max do fight a bit already.  If Mallory starts to hear Max get a bit upset and on the verge of tears… Mally will come running to me and say “hold you hold you” because she wants me to hold her before I go get Max.  Sometimes she wants to sit by me while I am feeding Max and he “kicks” her and she starts pushing his feet away saying – Max don’t kick me!  I tell her Max is just little he doesn’t know he is kicking you and she tells me… Max is big!

Mallory at 3 Months.

Videos!

I took some videos in the past couple of weeks on my phone and thought I would share them with you.  The quality isn’t the best since it is from my phone and I don’t hold very still – but they are little treasures for the “baby book”. 

This one is of Max.  Nothing too exciting just watching him chew on his arm.  : )

This one is of Mally.  In order to get this video of her I told her I wasn’t taking her picture.  Teehee!  Otherwise she wants to see me take her picture and I can’t ever get her picture.  Anyway, it worked and I got a really long video of her singing songs.  Max is the background sleeping on the couch with the blue blanket.  : )

If you don’t know the song of Herman the Worm… Herman gets bigger and bigger as he eats and then in the end he comes back tiny… because he burps.  Way over Mally’s head!  : )

ATV Pulls

We checked out ATV Pulls this past weekend with some friends. 

I giggled at Mallory as she stood here and watched and acted like she was really into this.

She even has the stance down.  Oh this girl! 

Max freaked.  He didn’t like it at all.  It was way too loud for him and he screamed and cried every time an ATV would go by.  So I put a hat on his head, put him in the moby wrap, and stuffed one ear in my chest and covered the other ear with my hand.  He liked that.  Some day he will think these ATV Pulls are way cool and he will be begging me to let him please get a four wheeler!!  I’ll think about it Max.  I’ll think about it…

Patio & Pool in One

Right now it is raining.  Our patio is doing it’s double duty… turning into a pool.  However, we don’t like it when it does this!  It causes a big mess leaving all our blocks covered in mud/dirt.  We also have risk of it running into our house and now our shop office.

The shop has never been a risk before – but tonight it is really storming out there… and actually our power is out and I’m typing this on what little is left of my battery.

Saturday morning we had a big storm too and it was hot out.  After the rain let up I put Mally in her water boots and let her play outside.  I also gave her the umbrella because it was sprinkling just a bit.  She of course found the pool and started hooten and hollern.

This water level in the pool is actually starting to go down – it gets to be tons more then this in there.

It gets level with that garage patio behind Mally!

She kept yelling at Maggie.  “Maggie come in the pool!”

At least someone likes the pool… I mean patio…

My Replacement

Every once in awhile Mally will sneak into the shop office and climb up in my chair and start banging around on the computer and yappering about sending emails. 

I took her picture and sent it to my co-workers to show them their future worker.  ; ) 

Then I had to get her down because she found all my new literature I have been designing and working on and she started scribbling all over it!  Game over! 

Small Town Fairs

I told Jesse the other night that one of the things I want to do this summer is go to a fair.  I think Mally is a good age for it and that she would really enjoy it. 

I found a fair this past weekend in a town near us.  So we loaded everyone up and went.  Much to my surprise it was very tiny.  I wasn’t expecting it to be huge, but wasn’t expecting it to be this tiny either.

It took a minute to walk through and see everything.  At the end was a charcoal chicken/hamburger stand – so we ate some supper which was actually very good. 

Then walked back down to where we started and played Angry Birds.

I seemed to have Jesse addicted to this game – and we saw it at the fair so we just had to play. 

He won Mally a prize!

A puppy, of course!

And the only ride that Mallory could ride was this little fire engine ride.  She didn’t hesitate at all to ride it – she climbed right in, I buckled her, and walked away.  She was the only one on the ride.

She had a little bit of concern.

But her new puppy was with her – and this puppy is now in her bed at night.  This girl has so many puppies and goofy’s in her bed I have lost count and I am not sure how there is room for her in there.

Then she would see me again and point and get that concerned-just-about-to-cry…

but then be fine.

I think she actually liked it!

We sat in the grass and waited for our dessert.  I won’t lie – we did some people watching.  Fair goers are very entertaining to watch.

Sorry Max, no dessert for you.  But thank you for being such a good boy at the fair!

Funnel Cakes!  With chocolate, caramel and powdered sugar!  Yes please!

And that was seriously all that there was to do at this fair!  I am afraid that this fair does not count as “the fair” I wanted to attend.  We will be visiting another one – perhaps a bit bigger.  : )

How phone calls go...

My out of state friends and I were going to video skype tonight so while I am setting up the computer Mally pees on the foor.  While I am chatting, Max has a diaper explosion and leaks all over his chair.  Then Mally pees on the floor again!  Then Max poops again and leaks in my lap.  So I had to leave.  I wanted to take care of Mally first but she wanted to run away and I just wasnt in the mood for that so I went to take care of Max because he smiles and coos and cant run away from me yet...granted he did just poop on me.  While I am changing Max - Mally runs in yelling I have to go potty!  I look down at her and she is wet!  She peed on my floor AGAIN!!!

Did I mention this all happened in an hour?

Now Mally is in a nice warm bath which she insisted needed soap mom.  And I am done venting to you! 

Thanks for listening!  I can now smile about it.

Hay…Ahhhchooo

The Sunday before the 4th we stopped at Jesse’s parents house after church to discover that the day was declared “hay making day”.  Jesse was giddy beyond giddy… okay he doesn’t get giddy, but he was looking forward to hay making day!  Me, I curled up my nose and went, really?! 

Jesse’s Dad wanted me to take videos on his camera but his batteries were completely dead so I attempted to take video on my phone and I’m still learning so half the time my finger is over the mic and I’m holding it the wrong way – but this little bit I got I am sure he will treasure.

Working on it already… they hadn’t even made it to the field.  : )

Jesse’s Mom and I (and the kids) followed behind them in the golf cart. 

It was a good thing Maxwell’s Dr. told me that I can take Clariton or I would have never been able to follow them or even be near them when making hay!

Family from Mississippi was up and they get excited about Hay Making Day too… except these two girls decided that following behind in the golf cart was much more their style too! 

Some more Mississippi gals riding on the hay wagon thinking Wisconsin is the life!  : ) 

Max can’t wait until the day where he can be with the guys on the hay wagon instead of riding in the golf cart with a bunch girls singing nursery rhymes.  Every time we would sing a song Max would wiggle and make a face.  He did not appreciate our signing.  : )

Mallory loved these girls!

We saw them again this weekend and it was 11pm and Mallory did not want to leave these girls!  Then she woke up Saturday morning asking to go to “Grandpas and Grandpas (that is how she says it) House” to “see the kids”.

Max woke up and Mallory was in need of a nap – she was dragging her blanket in the hay field!!  Then it was just Max and I because Mary went to get us all pizza for supper so I took a quick picture of me and my little man. 

And that was hay making day!  : ) 

Fire Season

Jesse and I like to have a fire on the weekends and this past weekend we attempted to have one on Friday night, but by the time I got everyone in bed, the baby fed, and my margarita made – it was raining and windy and Jesse was sitting under the over hang of the garage.  He told me he wasn’t getting wet under there.  I joined him for about 3.5 seconds because I was getting wet and it wasn’t fun. 

So the next night we tried again and had a beautiful night!  I put Max in this camping chair while I picked up all the toys.  He loved it.  He snuggled in and watched the fire and didn’t say a peep all night.

Daddy and Max – relaxing by the fire.

Jesse and I spent the rest of the night by the fire playing a mean game of Angry Birds on my cell phone.  : )  That game is extremely addicting.

To the park we go.

Our little town has two park options.  I took Mallory to the “big” park last week thinking she would be big enough for it.  Well, she really wasn’t.  She couldn’t get on any of the equipment unless I picked her up and put her on it.  Maybe next year.

Swinging. 

She is a huge fan of swinging. 

A tunnel that she wouldn’t climb in.  And really she can’t even reach to get in.  

The littlest slide there, that I would have to pick her up to put her on.  Plus this slide wasn’t in the sun and wasn’t screaming hot.  Who puts metal slides in a park for kids to play on?  Not smart!

She ditched her shoes over at the tunnel.

It was 5000 degrees out that day so we made a quick drive to McDonalds for a Strawberry Lemonade!  Yummy!