Capturing our adventures one photo at a time...
As you can see by the new header, guess who got a Christmas tree?! Ho Ho Ho! Can I tell you how badly I wish those random people weren’t in the background of the photo?!! Oh well. Off to decorate…
Update – attempted to remove the people in the background using photoshop. Definitely not perfect but better! I’ll keep working on it.
First, guess who rolled over yesterday?! 3 times!! We even caught it on video and if I can ever figure out how to put a video up here I’ll show you all! Our little guy is growing up!!
Today’s Friday Favorite is my iPhone. My i don’t know what i would do without it iPhone. When I’m rocking Maxwell to sleep at night or trapped while holding him for a long nap (he’s not so good at napping in the crib yet) I love that I can use my iPhone to check my email, read my gossip websites (love you Perez), and play games all with one hand. Even more, I love that I can take pictures and videos of Maxwell whenever he does something cute and email them to Robert immediately. Those Apple folks really know what they’re doing.
My latest favorite iPhone app? Words with Friends. Obsessed. Do you play? If so, leave your username in the comments. I’d love to play a game with you! I’m sjpbrown.
Some recent funny pictures taken with my iPhone…
ps – I promise I’ll get back to the baby gear next Friday!
Have a great weekend! We’re planning to get a Christmas tree! Ho Ho Ho!
Maxwell had a very nice first Thanksgiving. Robert and I packed up the car and the 3 of us headed down to Montgomery for the night. Maxwell got to meet his Great Aunt Betty and Great Uncle Don for the first time as they drove down from Huntsville. We had quite a feast and lots of good conversation.
Maxwell looking cute in his courdory Thanksgiving outfit…too bad it was 75 degrees that day!
I think he liked his little frog jumper despite the heat…
Hanging with Granddaddy…
and sitting with Lou Lou checking out his very favorite thing in the world, the ceiling fan!
Getting lots of attention as always…
Kicking it with Aunt Betty….
and Uncle Don.
Looking well fed just like we all were that day! 🙂
We stuck around Montgomery on Friday to watch the Iron Bowl – Alabama v. Auburn. While the first half of the game was great, the second half was not so great with a disappointing AL loss by one point. Oh well, there’s always next year!
Game day!
Lou Lou showing Maxwell how to say Roll Tide!
Good friends William and Garman came to watch the game…
and Aunt Mary Beth and Uncle Holland were there too.
I think this is how we all felt during the first half of the game…
and this is how we felt at the end. blah.
Despite the AL loss, it was a great Thanksgiving. We have so much to be thankful for, especially our happy, smiley, coo-ing little guy!!
We had a fantastic weekend because my best friend in the world, Hannah, came to visit from Arkansas!! This was her first time to meet Maxwell and they instantly got along like best buds. I expected nothing less.
Since Hannah is mom to super cutie 18 month old Joshua, she was full of tips and helpful advice for us. It’s always good to get a fresh perspective on how to do things! She recommended the football hold when Maxwell is acting like his tummy hurts. Let’s just say he’s a big fan of it and I’ve been doing it constantly for the past 2 days!!
Happy little guy getting carried around on his belly…
We’ve had a few rough nights in a row with Maxwell not sleeping much. Unfortunately, Hannah got to witness one of Maxwell’s roughest nights yet. I don’t know if it was being overtired, a hurting tummy due to reflux or what, but our little guy SCREAMED and WAILED for basically 3 hours straight Friday night. Hannah didn’t know what she was getting into! We tried everything, including a drive around town with Dad, and finally got him to sleep around 9:30 (partly thanks to a little baby Tylenol!) and he slept on me all night in the chair in his nursery. Not the most comfortable night of sleep for me but I was more than happy to do it to get him to stay snoozing.
Not wanting a repeat performance of Friday night, we tried a few new things on Saturday and had HUGE success. We got Maxwell to sleep at 8:00 with only 10 minutes of crying and he only woke up at 1:00 am to eat and then at 6:00 am! WOOHOO!! We are definitely going to be doing everything exactly the same tonight to try and replicate the success! What did we do? Well, we…
We even swaddled him up for a nap today and got him to sleep in his swing for the first time ever. Up until now, he’s taken all of his naps in the sling attached to me. Here’s my little mummy all swaddled up for a nap.
Funny, right? Robert likes to call it a straight jacket…but I think it might be the only thing keeping him and me out of straight jackets in the psych ward due to exhaustion!
I used this swaddle blanket if you’re curious.
We also got a fun new toy out of the closet while Hannah was here. Maxwell had a great time exploring his little farmyard fun play mat!
Reaching for the birdie…
and getting a little cross-eyed again! 🙂
Maxwell also rolled over on his play mat today…I think it was more like he fell over but still, he was on his back and then he was on his tummy! A first!
Hannah – we’re so glad you got to come visit and hope you get to come back soon! Thanks for all the mom advice and for reminding me that “he won’t go to kindergarten in a sling!” 🙂
