A few pics of Max...

Just a quick update since I've been getting in trouble for not updating frequently enough...but hey, Max has been keeping me busy!

Here's the little guy in a sweater his Auntie Lisa got for him. Still a little big on him, but getting there! He's getting bigger every day. He's actually got some meat on his thighs now...no more pencil legs!
And here's a happy Max...
And a flirty Max, with his new friend Claire.
And Max doing some "tummy time" to help strengthen his neck muscles. And, no, Mom, we don't walk away and leave him on the counter alone. :-)
I'll try to do a more informative update soon...have lots of things to report (not all Max related, sorry)...just little time.

Max and Harley

A dryer is a wonderful thing

Finally, sleepy Max...

Max's one month checkup

Max had his one month checkup today. The doctor says he's in excellent health. He's up to 7 lbs. 15 oz. (almost 8!) and has grown an inch (20 1/2 inches now). Sadly, he also had to get his second Hep B shot, which he did not like at all. He went from 0 to tomato in 0.2 seconds.

Here is his going to the doctor outfit for today.
And here's a shot from last night showing the power of breastmilk.

Max on Safari

Happy Month Day to Max

Max is one month old today, so happy Month Day to him. :-) He's been keeping me busy all day (it's been a banner day for both outfit and diaper changes). He's definitely a growing bean; we have had to officially retire some outfits that he's now too big for (!).

Here you see him in his first little hoodie jacket.
And here he is taking a nap with his great-grandma (who is home now; our guests left yesterday).
Here's a picture of Tony with his mom and grandma and Max. I think they all had a good visit together.
And here's my little man wearing his first pair of shoes (courtesy Auntie Lisa). We took him out all gussied up last night to a nice restaurant (more on that in another post). He did pretty well, though we learned a few lessons (pack more breastmilk/bottles!).
And finally, it wasn't planned but here's Max's Month Day present -- a new chair for his room that I'd ordered and happened to be delivered today. Too cool, huh? My mom had actually spotted it in one of our catalogs (along with a storage ottoman that is on back order and will be arriving later) and we just had to get it. Ultimately, the glider in the room now will go down to the basement and the leaf chair will be in Max's Wild Things room.

In other news, I got the final proof copy of my manuscript (and need to finish reading through it tonight to get any changes back to my editor tomorrow). And more news that I'll be putting on my "author" blog -- the publisher has put together some really cool stickers and will be doing a book trailer (kinda like a movie trailer, but for books) that I'll be doing the copy for (Mina's inner monologue). Very cool, I'm uber-excited.

I'm also super behind on my YABC stuff, but I hope to get some of that done today and tomorrow (Max, you are verrrry sleepy, verrryyy sleepy....).

Mr. Max & Family

We've been busy with our visitors, Max's grandma (Tony's Mom) and Great-Grandma (Tony's Mom's Mom). But here are a few shots of our little Wild Thing.

Here he is in some "big boy" jeans. A wee bit big for him, but very cute.
And here he is with Mamaw Carol.
And Nana Debbie.
And Max got a bunch of wonderful presents (thank you's soon to come, promise! I just need a minute or two!). Here he is with one of them (from Mark and Sue, my brother-in-law's sister & husband), a cute little binky dog blanky.
And another shot of Max with his great grandma.

March pictures

I've updated our online photo albums with all the pictures from March, most of which didn't get posted in the blog (the beauty of digital cameras...you can't waste film). So, check it out.

So far today...

2:15 AM
--peanut begins to wake up
--go to bathroom
--turn off alarm set for 3:00 AM
--feed from left breast, 15 minutes
--burp
--change diaper
2:45 AM
--feed from right breast, 10 minutes
--attempt to burp peanut
--lay peanut in bassinet
--fussy peanut
3:15 AM
--feed from right breast, 10 minutes
--burp peanut
--peanut passes out
--lay peanut in bassinet
--drink glass of juice
3:45 AM
~sleep~
6:36 AM
--peanut begins to wake up
--go to bathroom
--say goodbye to Tony
--feed from left breast
--burp
--realize am starving
--eat some cold pizza while standing in the kitchen and continuting to burp the peanut
--change diaper
7:15 AM
--feed from right breast
--burp
--lay peanut in bassinet
--peanut spits up on outer outfit
--take peanut out of outfit, wrap in blanket
--lay peanut in bassinet
--peanut fusses
--pick peanut up, realize back is completely soaked, experience confusion over just-changed-diaper blowout
--change really poopy, wet diaper. no apparent blow out, but inner onesie outfit is completely soaked
--strip peanut
--peanut in good mood, but breathing heavy
--gird loins and decide to break out the dreaded aspirator
--successfully suck two giant boogies out of peanut's nose with aspirator, alternating with saline solution
--quietly cheer
--dress peanut in new onesie and pants
--attempt to burp peanut
--peanut looks so cute in pants, prop him up in chair and take a couple of pictures

--notice cold peanut feet, add socks
--lay peanut in bassinet
--fussy peanut
--make up a bottle of breast milk pumped last night, put up pizza, grab sip of water
8:30 AM
--feed peanut 1 1/2 oz.
--attempt to burp peanut
--peanut passes out
--lay peanut in bassinet
--re-attach peanut's socks
--pick up assorted pee-soaked and spit-up soaked clothing and blankets, bring to laundry room
--peanut wakes up
--pick peanut up
--attempt to burp peanut
--peanut passes out
--lay peanut in bassinet
--locate camera in kitchen (?)
--post to blog (cursing blogger for not saving formatting from pasted-in notepad text and being forced to re-format whole post)

Max Swimming

I know I said earlier that I was just going to post the new videos to YouTube and not put all of them on the blog too...but this one is really cute, so I'm posting it here as well. Here's Max "swimming" in the tub with Daddy.

The Max Update

He's still a stuffy little guy, but a bit better today than yesterday after some new nasal saline and some time spent in a steamy bathroom. Max had another bath last night since he was starting to get that stale milk smell. He really does like his bath time, unless daddy happens to accidentally dunk part of his head.

I'm going to be posting some additional videos to YouTube today, so check it later.

Note daddy's strategic placement of the washcloth to protect Max's modesty.


He also likes to be warm and cozy in the boppy bouncy chair his Auntie Pam got for him.
Look, Ma, I float!