Max is 7 Months Old

Sorry I am a bit late on this post again, but better late than never!

Stats- 17 lbs (estimating). No other ones as we don't go for a check up this month.

New Development- Our little boy got his first tooth days before his 7 month birthday. We noticed a tooth coming in September 7th. Shortly after that one coming in, the other bottom one came in. I am sorry to say that I have not successfully been able to take a photo of them. He really didn't act much different or fussier so we were thankful for that. He did get a little runny nose which I am not sure its related or from our trip to NY.

Personality- He is still our happy little boy. He loves smiling, babbling, screeching and getting your attention. He doesn't sit still as you can see in our photo shoot. He lasted for 2 seconds in the chair.

Eating- He has really adjusted to a more consistent schedule and we are loving it. He wakes up at 7am and BF's at 7am, 10:30/11, 3, and 7 before bed. I will be starting work next week and I am so grateful that he is much more predictable. He is eating baby food 3 times a day for breakfast, lunch and dinner and still loves everything he eats.

Puffs are also a great snacking tool that keep him occupied for the times where he thinks hes ready for food already. He is eating apples, blueberries, pears, bananas, mangos, sweet potatoes, carrots, peas, broccoli and butternut squash. He is still wanting everything we have on our plates so I look forward to the finger food stage where we can have him eat more real foods.

Sleeping- I am happy to report our little boy has done GREAT with sleeping. He is consistently sleeping from about 7:15pm-7am with little to no peeps. He is also getting better at naps napping at about 9:30/10am and 2pm for on average an hour. I'd love to get those longer, but I can't complain since he is sleeping through the night.

Development- He is still loving running around in his car and likes his rainforest jumper. He still doesn't really use it for jumping, he likes to analyze all the toys and move from station to station swiveling. 

He is getting pretty good at trying to crawl. He gets up on all fours and shifts back and forth on his hands and can move a little.

It won't be long now! We are staying with david's parents temporarily and they have a lot of carpet so this is def. helping him get more comfortable on his stomach and trying to crawl.

Randoms- He is wearing size 2 diapers still 

Size 6-9 month clothing

He is almost pulling up on crib/coffee tables. He loves playing on the big diaper boxes.

This is What Cousins Do Together!

Quick update. We moved this weekend to David's parents house for a temporary stay. We found out that we got approval on our short sale house and we move in the end of october/beginning of november! I also got a job offer and will be accepting tomorrow for a start date of October 1! 

This is what cousins do together. 

Aren't they adorable?! I love them so!

Michelle's Baby Shower

I decided to do a sweets and treats baby shower for Michelle since a majority of her pregnancy she had been craving yummy desserts. As part of my plan I needed a skilled pastry chef and I knew the perfect person for the job. 

 Insert Jen (and Max grabbing her hair). I grew up 2 houses down from her and have watched (via her blog) her baking skills evolve. She lives in Colorado right now so I asked her if she was available for a trip home to do some baking and thankfully she was!

 We came up with a list of desserts that were also color coordinated with the shower colors. She did a phenomenal job prepping, baking and having everything ready on time. I wish you could have tasted everything, it was amazing. Not only did they look so good, they were incredibly tasty.

 Since Hadley's nursery colors might possibly be a fuchsia pink and yellow we decided to embrace it with our dress colors.

My Aunt Kathy helped host the shower and we used her beautiful house (look at the pretty trees in the back yard). Max of course had to be dressed up with his new collared shirt and overalls. 

 If baking wasn't enough work for Jen S, she also made some adorable decorations for the shower. She really is a great friend. I can't thank you enough especially since I've been so scatter brained around here.

 Of course we had to have a tutu diaper cake!

 Michelle had her brother in law, sister in law, Jame's grandma and uncle make the trip from out of town. It was so great to see them all and have them join in her special shower.

 I made 2 lemonade type punches to match our color scheme with cute straws.

Check out all these desserts. 

 There were cream puffs, strawberry angel food cake cups, yellow and pink sugar cookies, jelly cookies, cupcake, chocolate cake balls, lemon cookies, and lemon squares.

The cake balls were my favorite!

 So glad my grandma could come to the shower. 

 We had yummy food brought by our relatives. 

 We played a matching candy bar game to go with the theme. 

 Unfortunately, I forgot to take staged pictures of guests so these will have to do!

 Kacy must have gotten the answers wrong by the look on her face lol :) (sorry kacy, had to post this pic, its the only one I got of you at the shower!)

 Michelle received so many wonderful gifts for baby girl Hadley. Of course one of our favorites was this Georgia Southern cheerleading uniform for Hadley (from Jen S- so thoughtful).

The tutu on the diaper cake doubled as a birthday gift for Delilah. She looked so cute in it (mom made this one too).  I'm so glad we could all get together for Michelle's shower. I can't wait for Hadley to get here. Thanks again to everyone for coming!

NY Trip- Max Meets Grandma and Dad

We have been wanting to get Max up to NY for months now, but he we weren't ready for that adventure with a fussy boy.  We were so glad Max got to meet his grandpa and great grandma. My grandma doesn't see too well any more, but she lit up when she got to meet him. Max was very intrigued by her and kept trying to touch her face. I love that they all got to spend time with him. He is a joy to everyone. My dad has a ipad so we're going to be doing a lot more face time so they can watch and listen to him from afar.

 So sweet. I love this one although Max is trying to eat her. 

 They liked to bang the table together.

 Grandma and all her grandchildren and great grandchild. Max looks like he is picking his nose, but this is the best we could get with a baby who doesn't sit still. 

He loves his great grandma and so do we!

Nursery Looks

Hey everyone! It's Jen's sister Michelle back again. Since Jen is slacking, I thought I'd help out :) Time is FLYING, turns out I'm 30 weeks and officially in my 3rd trimester! I have been looking at nursery/bedding ideas for a while now. We aren't doing a nursery here in Texas (because we are moving a couple weeks after Hadley's born) which has given me time to think. It has also given me a lot of time to change my mind, several times. So I figured, why not let the blog world give their two cents! I'm not going to even tell my opinions of why I like each "look" because that might sway you. I am having a girl and that's all that's relevant to your votes/two cents. This isn't that urgent because we don't even have a house where we are moving... yet..... but it sort of is, because it takes a while for crib bedding to come in.

Look 1

look 2


and what's as pregnancy post without an update on what progress I've made.... here's a 29 week picture from my shower last week..... I will post on that soon! 

and let's remember.....

What We've Been Up To!

Sorry we've been MIA from the blog world. We've been busy! Here is some updates on whats been going on:

• Michelle is still visiting and we had a very successful sauce-a-palooza (blog coming if I can find my other card with the photos on it)
• We went to NY for the long labor day weekend
• We had a shower for baby girl Hadley
• We had the house appraisal and it appraised for the right number!!
• I have had a few job interviews and some are very promising
• Max has been sleeping through the night for the past 10 days, thanks to moms on call

No post is complete without some photos so here are some sneak previews from this past weekend.

 We stayed at Sandie and Mike's house (Jen's mom and our favorite neighbor) and she had so many toys for Max to play with and crib/changing table for mr. max. He liked the door jumper except he kept spinning in circles instead of bouncing. It was super cute.

 Uncle Chris and Max

 Sweets and Treats baby shower

Tutu for baby girl Hadley!

These are all separate blog posts that I need to get together at some point. We need to pack up the house as we're suppose to close on the 15th so bear with me on posts. Max is still the cutest ever and we love him to pieces.