Good news to report – we’re all feeling much better around here and seem to be back in business.  Maxwell had a full day of fun yesterday with Susan.  He also finally discovered the train painting that has been hanging above his crib every day of his life and he loves it.  If you ask him where the choo-choo is, he’ll point at it and smile!  Too cute.  He’s turning into a little boy more and more every day.

I took some more pictures of him in his new white hat last week.  I was attempting to get a Christmas card photo but don’t love any of these for that so I’m sharing them here. I’ve got another picture in the running…we’ll see if it makes the final cut!

This picture almost made the Christmas card but I ultimately decided that, while cute, it just wasn’t quite right.

I do love that little scrunched up nose though!

See all you turkeys tomorrow with some turkey pics!

Happy Monday everyone. We just can’t catch a break around here.  As soon as everyone is finally happy and healthy, the sickness comes back.  This time it was me though, not Maxwell…yet.  The 24 hour bug hit me Saturday night and I was pretty much a waste of space all day Sunday.  So far Maxwell seems to be ok so let’s just all keep our fingers crossed that he doesn’t get it!

Before things took a turn for the worse, we had a fun day on Saturday.  Errands were run, some Christmas gifts were bought and we took a little trip to the cool railroad park here in Birmingham.  It’s a fairly new project for the city and I’m glad we checked it out.  Maxwell loved seeing the train (which I apparently didn’t get a picture of)!

Can we stop for a moment to discuss his skinny jeans?  Adorable.

And this is one of his other new hats.  I love it.

I’ve got my fingers crossed for a healthy week ahead.  We’ve got turkey to eat after all!!

I love being a mom and I love my little buddy.  But, let’s face it, motherhood can have some highs and some lows.   Yesterday had both extremes:

Low – I had to travel for work on Wednesday and I left before Maxwell was up and got home after he was asleep.  Needless to say, I was super excited to go get him out of his bed yesterday morning.  Maxwell was kind enough to greet me with a bed full of vomit.  I’ll spare you the details but let’s just say that both the bathtub and the washing machine were in use before 7:00am!  I think, yet again, he just got choked on some congestion and his sensitive gag reflex reacted…all over his crib.  Ugh.

High – Maxwell wasn’t sick and was totally fine all morning so I sent him to school and he had a GREAT day.  He even got an adorable school picture taken which I’ll share later.  After a fantastic nap he was just as happy as he could be.  He was belly laughing and pushing his lawn mower around and around and around the house.  We played a rousing game of peekaboo which really got him giggling.  He was giving hugs and kisses left and right.  At one point last night I remarked to Robert, “I think this is the cutest he’s ever been.”  Definite high.

I sure do love him…even if he is a puker.

In other news, Maxwell now has a hat that fits him. He actually now has several.  Thank you Old Navy!

I think this little red one is too cute.  Yes, it’s a little big right now but I’m sure his big ole noggin will fill it out in no time!

Big brown eyes…

And I know what you all are thinking about the hat and I only have one thing to say….

“Be vewy vewy quiet, I’m hunting wabbits!”

I hope all you wascally wabbits have a great weekend!

Remember this snort?  Well, after a brief absence, it’s baaaack!

It’s even funnier now that he has teeth!

My little piggy!

It was pretty chilly here last week so we had to bust out the coat and hat.  I bought this little hat at Old Navy and it’s a 12 to 18 month size.  You’d think it would be plenty big for my 14 month old, right?  Well, not for his big yet perfectly round 14 month old noggin!  It kinda looks like it fits here but it’s tiiiight…

Must be all those brains he got from his momma!  🙂  We’ll be ordering a new, bigger hat today!

In other news, Maxwell has abandoned his beloved swings for the much more exciting slide…

This little slide he can brave by himself (with a little help from Momma).  The real fun comes when he gets to go down the big slide on my lap!  We’ll have to get a picture of that another day…or not.