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It’s black, it’s white

October 25, 2010

First, happy birthday to my cousin Amy yesterday! Amy is one of my most loyal blog readers and commenters and we are all hoping she had a fabulous birthday!

Second, I was taking some photos of Maxwell last week in his cute whale onesie and captured these two shots that I just love. I can’t decide if I like them better in color or black & white though. What do you think?

Photo 1…

and Photo 2…

So…what’s your opinion? color? or black & white?

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Tummy Time!

October 22, 2010

Look who’s pretty good at holding his head up!

That head gets heavy after a while though and you just gotta lay it down and rest…

Hope you all have a restful weekend!

Smiley guy

October 21, 2010

As I mentioned last week, Maxwell is definitely starting to smile and interact more. I couldn’t catch the infectious smiles on camera, but Robert did! Check out these happy smiles that Robert snapped…

Way to go, Dad! I might hand you the camera more often!

Sleeping and Parties

October 20, 2010

This past weekend we had two big “firsts” in the Brown house…Maxwell slept in his own room for the first time and he also went to his first birthday party! Big stuff!

We’re making an attempt to get Maxwell on a bit more of a schedule to try to get him to sleep longer stretches at night. We’re having a decent success rate…but definitely not 100% yet! Still, a 5 hour stretch is a LOT better than a 3 hour stretch. We’ve had several nights where he eats at 7:00 pm and then not again until 1:00 am and then 6:00 am! My goal is to make this happen every night but we’re still a work in progress. We have started putting him down in his crib in his room instead of the bassinet by our bed. I think everyone is getting better sleep this way and Maxwell seems to like his room…as he should! It’s pretty cute if I do say so myself!

If you’re curious, I’m reading this book called Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child by Marc Weissbluth, M.D. It’s really interesting and the principles seem to make complete sense to me. (thanks for the recommendation Amanda!)

However, no matter what we do, this is still his favorite place to sleep…and that’s just fine with me! 🙂

Maxwell also went to his first birthday party this past weekend. His friend Banks turned 2 and had a fun party at the local park complete with cupcakes, trucks and ballons!

Banks, the birthday boy, enjoying his cupcake…