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Need a good laugh?

Jeremy recorded this on his phone while he was giving Max a bath.  It is just the sound, no video.

The great thing is everytime I play this recording he laughs some more!

Pitiful

The ear infections are back.  Ugh!!! Max has been sick this week with a cold, sore throat and a double ear infection.  No fun!  I think we are on the upswing though.  Of course that didn’t stop us from taking some pictures.  What kind of parents are we? 

Isn’t this the most pitiful face you have ever seen? 

And this one?

And this one?

 

Mmmm bath.

Mmmm tylenol.

Mmmm bottle.

My little ragamuffin

We are going to be in so much trouble if we ever lose his blue softie.  He goes to sleep like an angel just about every time I put him down because of two things: his blue softie and binkie.  The second I give these to him he holds the softie up to his face on zonks out.  We have four of the binkies but heaven help us if we ever lose that softie.

   

Check out this sour face! Max spits up…  a lot.  Sometimes he swallows it and every time he does he gets this look on his face .  Gross for him, (and everyone reading this) but nice for me and nice for my bed that day.

I just realized that he is in his pj’s in all of these pictures.  I promise I do manage to get him dressed some days.

An important week with a boring title

1.  As of today, we have lived in Houston for two years!

Time has really flown by and although we really miss Utah, we have made some wonderful friends here.  Jeremy still really likes his job at Exxon and it has been a huge blessing.  This is a picture of our house the day we got it with the for sale sign still in the yard. 

Me in our tub.  We took some really dorky pictures but we were so excited we had just bought our first house!

2. Max is 7 months old?!!!….

I know I say this as every month comes and goes and my baby gets one month older, but I really can’t believe he is 7 months old.  Here are some things Max is up to:

-He rolls both ways

-He can sit without falling right over.  He is still a little wobbly sometimes.  But he can sit for a few minutes before losing his balance.

-He says Da Da, Ma Ma, and Ba Ba.  He definitely knows Jeremy is Da Da and he says this all day long.  We ask him “Say Da da” and he will say it!  I know I act like he is a GENIUS, but to me he is!  Every morning when he wakes up and is talking to himself in his crib he calls Da da da da da.  It is really cute.  Although I am a little jealous he isn’t saying ma ma ma ma.

-He still loves his baby food.  His two new favorites are guava and blueberry.  But lets be honest, this kid will eat anything.  The only food he didn’t like at first was peas but now he loves them.

-He still laughs every single day.

-He loves playing peek a boo.  I put a burp rag over his face and say “Where’s Max” and he pulls it off and laughs. Then I put it over my face and ask “Where’s Mommy” and he pulls it off of my face and laughs.   I don’t know who this game is funnier to, me or him. 

-He loves patty cake.  When we tickle him at the end he laughs so hard that sometimes his laugh goes silent, his face goes red and he has to take a big deep breath in. Then he laughs some more.  Hilarious!!

-He uses his binkie as entertainment while he is waiting for me to get him from his naps.  He puts it in his mouth and takes it out over and over and over again.  The binkie used to double as a silencer, but not any more.  We put it in and he takes it right back out.

 

3.  My first Mother’s Day!

Last year I was pregnant for Mother’s Day and Jeremy surprised me with the cutest diaper bag that he picked out himself.  I thought that was so thoughtful of him.  I am excited to celebrate my first official Mother’s Day on Sunday!

4. Max’s first day at the pool.

 

 

And……

5. Our 1000th picture of Max!  Yes… you heard right. (No exaggeration)

 

Obsessed much?

Kiss me… I’m waiting

Max has started giving kisses!  Of course it is on his terms and he only does it when HE wants to.  But it is really funny because he will just open his mouth and wait for you to come kiss him:)

  

Today is our last day of Amoxicillin! Max had a ruptured eardrum and so we have been on antibiotics for the last ten days.  I felt so bad I didn’t even know he had an infection because he is so happy all the time.  He had just been fussy at night.  He hates the antibiotic and twice a day I wrestle with him to get it in his mouth.  We resorted to putting on Ni Hao Kai-lan (a children’s show on Nickelodeon) in order to get him to take it.  The song in the beginning distracts him long enough for me to get all of it in his mouth.  Good bye Amoxicillin.  Hopefully we won’t ever need you again!

I see more Ni Hao Kai-lan in our future…

Yes I am an over achiever.

Every time Jeremy or I look for a picture we’ve downloaded, we always come across these.  In order to get my art credit at college I had to take a theater class.  One of our assignments was to read the play Romeo and Juliet and then you could do one of three things.  I don’t remember what the other two choices were (probably something more difficult and time consuming), but one of the choices was to design costumes for some of the characters.  My drawings turned out so good that a certain coloring book (which shall remain nameless) decided to use them in their coloring book!  Or maybe it was the other way around.  Shameless.