The Brown Brick Road

Capturing our adventures one photo at a time...

Friday Favorite

First, big news – Maxwell can stand up in his crib.  This day has been coming for a while.  He’s been pulling up on everything and now he can pull up to standing in his bed.  I’m sure the jumping is only a few weeks away!

Second, it’s the Friday Favorite!!  Today’s Friday Favorite should come as no surprise to parents out there.  It’s the Baby Einstein videos.

Last weekend Robert and I were trying to get some stuff done in the kitchen and Maxwell was not exactly in a mood to entertain himself.  Robert thought to put on a Baby Einstein video – Baby Noah to be exact – and I couldn’t believe how mesmerized he was by it.  We’ve played the videos for him a few times before but I guess I’ve never really noticed how they completely capture his attention.  He couldn’t take his eyes off it.  Those videos are genius, just like…well…Einstein!  🙂

His attention was captured…

He was mesmerized…

And he was more than a little annoyed with me interrupting his video!

Moms out there – any other “must have” videos that we need as he grows?  Would love any ideas in the comments!  Have a great weekend everyone!

Tidbits

A dozen tidbits I learned this weekend:

1. Putting a belly-crawling Maxwell in a white onesie is a great way to show me how dirty my floors are.

2. After weeks of waving bye-bye to Maxwell, I finally learned that he can, in fact, wave bye-bye back. Robert and I were watching him on the monitor laying in bed just waving his little hand over and over. Not sure who he was waving bye-bye to but it was ridiculously cute!

3. Waving is still a distant #2 to pattycake in Maxwell’s eyes.

4. Maxwell is a great dinner date if you don’t mind going for the early bird special.

5. Maxwell likes pickles.

6. $10 at Wal-Mart buys you all the pool you need.

7. The hose is more interesting to my baby than a pool.

8. Babies look cute wrapped up in towels post pool.

9. Maxwell likes yogurt and yogurt bites.

10. Maxwell will still only eat 1/4 of a puff at a time without gagging. We’re working on textures…

11. Maxwell is getting pretty darn good at pulling up on things.

12. I have the greatest baby in the world. I already knew this, but just keep learning it again and again every single day.

Zzzzzzz

First – guess who CRAWLED yesterday!!!  Maxwell is on the move!  Granted, it was more of an army crawl with his belly on the ground but he got his knees up under him and made his way across the floor!  exciting!!!  Can’t wait to see how quickly he starts moving now!

Now that he’s crawling, I’m sure he’s going to wear himself out every day even more than before.  Good thing there’s nothing sweeter than a sleeping baby….

especially mine.  Sigh.

Hope you all have a restful holiday weekend! We’re going to be practicing our crawling!

Goldfish

We had playgroup at our house last week.  It was a beautiful day outside and everyone was enjoying playing in the yard…until the sprinklers came on!  oops!  Luckily I was able to get them turned off pretty quickly and we didn’t get too wet.  All of the water did make it nice for the goldfish though…that’s goldfish of the Pepperidge Farm variety!  ha ha ha!  You didn’t know I was so funny, did you?  🙂

Put out a bowl of goldfish in the middle of 8 kids under the age of 3 and those little things go FAST and get EVERYWHERE!!  Many of them ended up right by Maxwell and, even though he doesn’t have teeth yet, I think he enjoyed getting his first taste of the cheesy little fish…

I don’t think he ever actually ate one…just licked them and crushed them in his hands!  He had fun with them though!

Some other cute pics from the afternoon…

A fun (and slightly wet!) play day!