Max’s Orange Balloon

After Mallory’s birthday party we had balloons and we realized that Max loved looking at the balloons.  So we kind of named the orange one… Max’s Orange Balloon.  If he was getting fussy or needed a change of scenery we would get the balloon for him.

Now the balloon is flat and they think we should go get Max another one.

I also have started letting Max sit in the bumbo chair for a few minutes.  We usually have to fight Mallory for it – she loves to sit in it.

I was loving the red stripped pants he was wearing.  They made me giggle.  Oh and his bare feet sticking out – Cute!

On the verge of losing it…

D.O.N.E.  Momma just hold me and feed me.  I’m done.

Life with Two

There are days where I have moments and I go… what did I do when it was just Mallory and I?  Life must have been so boring.

The other day I was taking a shower.  Now, that I have two kids – I am lucky if I get a shower in the morning.  Lucky.  Well the other day I wanted a shower.  I put Maxwell in his bouncy seat and bring him with me.  I turn on Sesame Street for Mallory and tell her I am going to take a shower.  Few minutes in – Mallory charges into the bathroom leaving the door WIDE open saying “I open da door.  Hi Momma!  Hi Momma!  Hi Momma!  Hi Momma!  I open da door.”  Yes, Mallory, you opened the door.  Now shut it!  Takes a few moments of me repeating “shut the door, Mallory” and then she finally shuts it.  Comes to the shower and now is opening my shower door.  I explain how we have to keep this door closed because water goes everywhere when you open it and say hi to me.  She plays around for a bit and finally gets bored and leaves.  And actually closes the door when she leaves!  Ah, a moment of silence!

Now guess who’s turn it is to act out.  Maxwell!  He is no longer content and starts crying.  Guess what I do next?  Call Mallory back into the bathroom!  Mally!  Come give Max his nukers!  She comes running in to give Max his nuk and she is funny when she does it.  She tries and tries to get him to hold on it… he is sometimes hard to get to take his nuk.  She says “momma can’t get it.”  Max continues to cry.

Shower is over!

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So, I have recently purchased a new workout DVD (post pregnancy by Tracy Anderson) because after having baby #2… things just are not pretty.  And one morning (5am) I was up nursing Max on the couch (which I never do – I usually stay in bed and hope to go back to sleep for a bit.) and decided to turn on the TV and there was a Tracy Anderson’s infomercial on her new exercise dvds.  I was hooked!  I watched the entire infomercial!  I sent Jesse an email and said – I’m getting these videos!  Then saw she had a post pregnancy one and it was so so so much cheaper – so I got that one. 

Now the tricky part is doing this video and finding the time.  I have attempted to do it and Mallory will do it with me until we get to the part where we lay on the floor and start working our abs (about 5 minutes in) and she comes running and jumps on me and starts using me as her personal jungle gym!  The first night I was giggling so hard at her.  About 15 minutes later she is done with this and says, “momma do a project?”  So I stop – I need to start out slowly anyways, right?  : )

The second night she climbed on me again – but I really wanted to exercise so I told her she could do it.  I also decided to put her in real underpants for a bit – so I keep saying every 3 minutes, Mallory you can’t go potty in these special big girl pants.  You will get wet and make a mess.  Do you have to go potty?  To which she keeps telling me no.  Max keeps spitting out his nuk and he wants it back – I’m stopping to put the nuk back in his mouth.  Then Mally walks by me and I check her and she is WET!  Ugh.  Into the bathroom we go for new pants – and back to the pull-ups.  Come back out and do a few more moves (I just let the dvd keep going).  And then Mallory wants to do a project.  Done. 

However, the few moves that I am getting in are working because it hurts to sneeze.  And my allergies are so bad right now that I am sneezing a lot and my abs hurt!!!

BTW:  Mallory has been doing pretty good with potty training.  I haven’t changed a poopy diaper in a very long time and she pees on the potty too – just not every time.  She only goes when you ask her.  She use to tell us when she had to go – she rarely does now.

Alright, Mr. Max is making a nest and I want his nest to be in his bed – because he has been a bad sleeper the last couple of nights.  He thinks he needs to eat every hour after 2am.  I’m not a fan!  Mommy wants some sleep boy!  So this morning I just pulled him into bed with me and we both fell back asleep and at 6:50 I hear “Mommy I have to go potty!  Mommy I have to go potty!  Mommy I have to go potty!”  So I scramble out of bed and get her in the bathroom and she DOESN’T GO!  Talk about an early morning rush for nothing.  : )  She never wakes up and tells me she has to go potty… it is usually… Mommy snuggle me.  Mommy I wants some juice.  Mommy I opened da door.

Nighty Night!

Braids and Cribs

If you were to see Mallory in person you would notice how very thin her hair is.  Like extremely thin!  Also for some reason her hair grows towards the front instead of the back.  So she constantly has hair in her face.  It drives me crazy!  It also drives her crazy and she yells “my hair in my face!” and starts trying to push it out of the way which just makes a bigger mess and puts more in her face.  You would think she would let me put a “pretty” in hair after this meltdown… but nope.  She runs away!

I usually have to get to her hair while she is distracted watching Sesame Street. 

One day I decided to give her a single braid and it was so cute… but it looked like a little rat tail in the back.  So the other day I decided to try two braids.

It worked!  However, her hair parts really funny and so one was bigger then the other and it wasn’t center… but it was SO CUTE!

She looked like such a big kid with her braids.  They actually stayed in the whole day and even thru a nap.  I did put a touch of hairspray in – but just a touch.

Then I tried to have Max take a nap in his crib.  He hasn’t slept in his crib yet – he still sleeps in his Amby swing in our room at night and during the day he sleeps wherever.  He slept in here for a bit (not sure how long because I went to work and Mrs. C took over). 

P.S. Jesse got my internet back up and working so I should be back in business again.  : )