Happy Halloween

A few photos of my little giraffe!  

5 Months!

I can't believe my baby boy is five months old today! It feels like last week I was taking his four month old picture. Now I know what they mean about the older you get the faster time goes by. Max is growing up so fast. He cut his first tooth last week. His second tooth came in today! He's mastered rolling over if his arms are underneath him but he has a hard time if they're out. The other night I laid him down on the floor, arms out. I went into the kitchen and when Kris came back inside Max had rolled over. The first time Max rolled over - all by himself - arms out - and we missed it!! He did it again a couple of days later in his crib. 

 Sweet Baby Boys 5 Months Old

 'Nuff Said

 Hanging out with Dad

 Yep he fell asleep in his bouncy

Tummy Time

Chasing, Clicking, Standing

The other day I thought Max was waking up. I went in to investigate and found this! He takes after me when sleeping...always chasing bunnies!

Max has learned to make noises with his mouth! He sometimes does this when he wakes up in the middle of the night or at any other random time of day.

Max loves to stand up. I think he'd like to skip crawling and go straight to running!

Happy Anniversary

Today Kristopher & I celebrate our third wedding anniversary. Time goes so fast. It seems like just yesterday we were celebrating the joining of our lives with our closes friends and family; but here we are today watching our little boy cut his first tooth.

Kristopher - I'm so happy to be married to you. You are the love of my life, my best friend, and I can't imagine my life without you. You make everything so much sweeter.

Important Items In Our Lives At The Moment

Mylicon - Pretty sure this is the reason we're getting more sleep these days. We figured out that when Max started sleeping bad was around the time we stopped giving him this medicine. We're back to giving him this medicine and we're all sleeping a little more these days!! There was a recall on the Mylicon so we're using the generic brand. I drove around to four different stores looking for this stuff yesterday afternoon. Mylicon

Magic Sleepsuit - This is also contributing to Max's improved sleep! It's also helping him learn to sleep with out being swaddled. The first night he slept in it, he slept for 4 hours straight. Big improvement! Only down side is that I got a sleepsuit with faulty zippers. Thankfully the company is very responsive and they're sending out a new one right away.

Baby Led Weaning is a new book I'm waiting on. I can't wait to read it! I hear it does wonders for getting your baby to eat and try healthy foods from the start.

New items coming into our lives soon -

Bath Seat - Boy-b (Max's nickname) is getting a little too big for his baby bath tub in the sink. 

BOB Sport Utility Stroller - Boy-b will soon be growing out of his carseat and when that happens it will be time to get him a new stroller as well. This stroller is perfect for our evening walks and taking the Boy-b off the sidewalks into the grass...especially at ACL next year!

High Chair Booster Seat - With Boy-b moving on to solid foods here in the next month he's going to need a high chair. Instead of getting the whole high chair we decided a booster seat would work better in our home.

Laughing

Our little boy is ticklish!

Pumpkin Patch

We went to a little pumpkin patch this weekend.

Getting Max to look at the camera isn't easy with traffic behind us. Cars are cooler!

My Little Pumpkin!

We were in a hurry to get the picture - time was running out with Max's patients.

Maxwell with his Granny

Granny showing Max pumpkins

Max was ready to eat this one

Thought we'd try one more family photo, but again the traffic has his attention

Talking

Max was talking our ears off this afternoon. :)

Checking In

Not too much has been going on lately - but I thought I'd post some random updates.

Two couples that I know got married on 10-10-10!
Congratulations Russ & Becky  and   Rachel & Charity.
We love you and wish you lots of happiness!

We've been working on getting Max on a schedule as far as sleep goes. It's starting to work but his sleeping habits are horrible. Luckily Kris & I take shifts.

Max can roll when he's on his side to his back or to his stomach. But he's not able to completely roll front to back or back to front just yet. I'm pretty sure that back to front will come first. He hates tummy time.

I think he'll be walking as soon as he can.

We had a wonderful 13 days of clear weather here in Austin - it ended today with partly cloudy skies. It's been absolutely beautiful and we've enjoyed each day to the fullest. It's so nice having Kris home more often, we take Max & the dogs on a walk every day.

 This is the first year Kris & I have missed the ACL Festival - There's no way I could be away from Max for three days or even one LONG day. Next year Max will be big enough that we can take him with us. The Flaming Lips lead singer floated through the cloud in a big plastic ball. It would be so cool to do this.

Last but not least - the Blues season opener was last night and it was Max's first game!

The Blues won in over time!

Diaper Envy

Ooooh look at these beauties! I can't wait to get my hands on some of these new BumGenius Diapers!