The Brown Brick Road

Capturing our adventures one photo at a time...

Christmas card photoshoot

While I wanted a photo of the 3 of us for the front of our card, I also wanted to take a cute picture of Maxwell in his Christmas hat for the back of our card.  So, one morning I pulled out the camera and snapped away.  It all went a little something like this…

Hi Momma!  a photoshoot for the Christmas card?!  Alright!

Since it’s for the Christmas card, I’ll sing carols while you snap away.  Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells…

Jingle all the way…

Uh oh.  I think I pulled a Lou Lou in that last one and closed my eyes.  Let’s try again.  Cheese!!

Geez Momma.  That would have been a great one if only you knew how to focus the camera!  I’ve got an idea  – let’s try something different like this…

Oh come on…are you suuuuure sticking my tongue out doesn’t look cute?

How about spit bubbles then?

Aw, come on!  No spit bubbles either?

You’re no fun, Momma.  I give up.

Despite all of Maxwell’s hijinks, I did get a cute picture that made it to the back of our Christmas card.  If you haven’t seen it, check back here on Friday!

Friday Favorite

First, guess who flipped from  his back to his tummy last night in his crib?!  My little acrobat!

Now, on with the show…Today’s Friday Favorite are the long sleeve Old Navy onesies. They’re thick and soft! I love the kind with 2 snaps up at the shoulder because they make it easy to get over Maxwell’s head. They come in lots of cute stripe patterns that totally remind me of clothes Robert wore when he was little…like this one:

The best part? they’re cheap. They almost always have some on sale. I just ordered this one on sale for $2.99. Cute, huh?

Maxwell hanging out in his Old Navy monkey pirate onesie…

Rosy, chapped cheeks from the cold…

I think this picture is cool. It’s like a foggy haze on a pirate ship…

AARGH! Have a great weekend!

Bumbo

Look who can sit up in his Bumbo!

Feeling pretty proud of himself!

Wondering what that little bee is doing on his arm while he’s trying to enjoy his bumbo time!

We can’t leave him in it for too long as he still doesn’t have total control of that big ole noggin but he’s getting there!

Sick and Pitiful

Happy Monday everyone.  Unfortunately, our weekend wasn’t as holly jolly as it was supposed to be.  Friday night poor little Maxwell did not feel well at all…and did not sleep at all.  Robert and I were up with our crying, miserable guy all night.  I finally got him to sleep with me in the glider chair from 3 to 5 am.  Luckily our doc has Saturday office hours so we were up there by 8:15 am to see the pediatrician.  I think Robert and I were honestly hoping it was an ear infection just to know there was an actual problem, but, no.  Maxwell just has his first cold with lots of congestion.  Unfortunately, the congestion makes his reflux hurt even more causing a very unhappy little boy.  He was pretty pitiful all day Saturday.  Robert and I were dreading Saturday night in fear of no sleep again but, luckily, we were able to get him snoozing pretty much all night by letting him sleep on us in the chair as we were able to hold him more upright to keep the reflux from hurting as bad.  I think he also just wanted to be loved on…don’t we all want that when we’re sick?  One of the saddest things is that he’s totally hoarse from all the drainage and crying.  There’s nothing more pitiful than a tired, cranky baby trying to cry with no voice!  Sunday has been much better so far…hopefully he’ll recover quickly.

Looking so tired and pitiful on Saturday…

Some of you might find this gross, but it’s the reality of babies…you’ve got to suck their snot out for them.  The bulb syringes work good but I also got this neat little invention that works great!  It’s a Nose Frida Snot Sucker. (www.nosefrida.com)  You put one end on the baby’s nostril, the other end in your mouth and you suck the snot out!!  Don’t worry, there’s a filter than keeps any of the gunk from reaching your mouth.  Gross?  totally.  Satisfying?  totally.

The good part about having to go to the doctor on Saturday?  Maxwell got weighed and he’s up to 13 lbs, 11 oz!  Our little CHUBBO!!  We love it!  He weighed 11 lbs, 15 oz at the beginning of November so that’s almost a 2 lb weight gain in a little over a month!   He’s got at least a few ounces in his cheeks for sure!  🙂

Maxwell also got to experience his first snow this weekend!  It wasn’t much but we had some flurries here on Sunday – pretty exciting.

Feeling better on Sunday…

p.s. Happy Birthday to my cousin, Laura, last week!  Hope it was a great one!

Oh Christmas Tree!

On Saturday Robert, Maxwell and I went to get our Christmas Tree!  Ho Ho Ho!  We found a great one and the house smells so good now!  The best part of it all?  When we got home, Maxwell took a THREE hour nap in his swing giving us a chance to get the tree into the house and completely decorated with time to spare.  I guess he was just filled with the spirit of the season.  🙂

At the tree lot…

Our little elf was afraid we were going to put him to work stringing lights when we got home…

He decided the best way to avoid working was to sleep.  Fine by me! (sorry for the blurry pic, the swing was swinging!)

Our Christmas tree!

Then, because I’m a dork, I made both of us pose in front of the tree with the baby.  Gotta capture the memories!  🙂

If you’re curious after my post Sunday, here is the original and edited versions of the header shot:

Not perfect but I’d rather see some blurry trees than those people!  I also took out the cars in the background.  Pretty neat!