Capturing our adventures one photo at a time...
Maxwell LOVES his dad. Robert definitely has favorite status in our house right now. I can’t blame Maxwell though, Robert is pretty darn great.
In other very exciting news, Maxwell is finally getting a tooth!! yay! Yesterday we felt the little poke of a tooth breaking through on the right side of his bottom gum.
He might have some teeth to eat that birthday cake after all! 🙂
Happy Monday everyone. Today is a good day because Maxwell did something fantastic yesterday. He finally decided to pick up the puffs and yogurt melts that I’ve been putting in front of him for weeks and put them in his own mouth! Not only that, but he also figured out how to chew them (even without teeth) and get them down without gagging. woohoo! I know this probably doesn’t sound like a big deal to you…but it’s a big deal to me! It was literally like something just clicked in his head and he started picking up the food, putting it in his own mouth, chewing it and swallowing it. After he had done it a few times I even gave him whole puffs and yogurt melts (I had been breaking them up into smaller pieces) and he ate them all with no problems. Bring on the finger foods!!
In other feeding news, Maxwell has become a straw master. He can drink out of any straw now and loves his straw sippy cups…
He loves to just play with the straw too…
He’s a good sipper!
So, now that I’ve got a self-feeder…tell me what your favorite finger foods are for little ones! I need ideas!
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!
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.
Keep that baby movin’!
Have a great weekend!