I have a ham!

Max has figured out what the camera is and eats it up! As soon as he sees the red focus light on the camera he turns on the charm! For weeks I have been trying to catch the elusive "cheesy grin" that everyone catches a glimpse of but never gets a really good look at. Well now I have tons of those priceless pictures! Here are a few of my favorites-enjoy!

Just getting warmed up! Really getting into it! The eyes disappear! I can't help that my child is too stinkin cute for words!

We are loving him in footy jamma's!

Snot, tears and screaming

The above title is also a rather depressing list of what has filled my life the past week or so. If you will note-one thing missing from that list is sleep, it is also missing from my life! Max is currently fighting the same sinus infection I had last month, no fun! I know what it is like but that is apparently not what Max darling wants to hear. For the past four nights the little man has not slept well at all-or maybe we can just change that to not slept at all. It makes me quite sad to have a crying child but at some point the sadness morphs into severe sleep deprivation meets frustration. I love my boy but if it weren't for Cody and our tag-team-Max-relay we have developed I am pretty sure I would try to get the hospital to take Max back! We kinda do this 45min on 45min off thing, one of us "entertains" (for lack of a better term) Max for about 45 min letting the other sleep and then we switch out. Sucks but works for us! During the day it is a different story-Max is actually a very happy child-as long as he is fully fueled and charged. As soon as his gages get below the halfway mark he has no fuse. Any little thing will set him off and it is close to impossible to rein him back in. Oh well-this is life, right? He seems to be on the mend and thank God he never had a fever. I guess just the fact that I now have time to blog is evidence that Max is slowly but surely getting better!

Weird Phobia

To start off, I would like to say Happy Belated 18th Birthday to my littlest sister! We love you Aunt Audrey! Last Sunday we had a lovely lunch and yummy birthday cupcakes (if I do say so myself!) out at mom and dad's to celebrate. Now for the sad part. Over the past 3 months we have had 4 birthday's in the family. As far as I know, no one under the age of 30 is against these celebrations of life and living another year, that was until we began including my darling son in the festivities. The dinner's go great but once we get to the main event it all goes to heck! He looses it! The second anyone starts to sing the Happy Birthday song he just melts and if you don't get him out of the room quickly he goes into hysterics, I mean the whole bit! One time would just be a mood thing and twice maybe just the time of day. But 4 times in a row?! We have yet to figure out what we will do in 4 months when it is his turn. lol!

Chomp Chomp!

Well, Max has changed yet again. For the past few months we have been able to enjoy sleeping around 7 hours a night. Max wouldn't sleep uninterrupted the entire time but it was always only a matter of 2-3 mins to get him back to sleep. The past 3 nights in a row he has decided to get up at 1 AM and stay up for at least an hour. He isn't being grumpy or upset-he is just awake. Unfortunately, he requires an audience so either Cody or myself has to be up with him. Not nice! Not to mention-does anyone have a child that sleeps still at night? Max kicks and wiggles an insane amount! (Probably my biggest reason for really wanting him outta MY bed!) My quality sleep is completely gone!

Oh-now that Max has discovered his little nippers he has taken up spontaneously biting anything/anyone close to him! This has resulted in more than one surprised victim-like Aunt Audrey in church, or mommy carrying the boy up the stairs, or daddy trying to sleep in the bed next to the little piranha! Something is going to have to change-the child is just getting more teeth and stronger jaws. Right now, if you get bit and say "ow" or some such exclamation, the little monster will look at you and laugh! Scary, I know! SEE!-Those little things hurt!
Beyond all of those complaints, life is great! I have the cutest baby boy in the world and an absolutely AWEsome husband. Max is trying to walk and crawl more and more each day. We are really looking forward to trying to keep up with him.

The picture above is mostly on here cuz he is such a stinkin cute naked boy-but also so you can get a real idea of just how massive his thighs are! And yes-we know he has no butt! It is a Lukas man thing!

And see-He is soo close to crawling. He gets in this position and will sit there rocking back and forth a few minutes before he just gives up and does a belly flop.

He sticks that little hiney as far up in the air as he can-my little yoga boy!

He loves Grandpa Mark's motorcycle, sooo many shiny metal pieces!

Sleepy sleepy baby!

Ok the title of this post comes both from the following picture and the fact that he is currently SACKED OUT! While we may not have nighttime down to a fine science yet, we definitely have nap time figured out! Between 12:30 and 1:30 he will fall asleep, usually with minimal fussing, and he will sleep anywhere from 1.5-3.5 hours! L.O.V.E it! So here is one of my favorite pictures right now. I had to pull over on the side of the road to get it-so appreciate it!

And yes-he fell asleep examining his lion-it was very cute. I have a few more pictures that I am currently in love with-Max is obviously the center of our world right now, Lol! If I were to hazard a guess I would say I have taken 2, maybe 3 pictures of something other than baby in the past 3 weeks! I really need to find a few new hobbies-this is beginning to get serious!

In this last picture he is walking around with his tub toy alligator in his mouth! Yes-that is his current mode of toy transfer. At this point in his development he would far prefer to hold your fingers and walk than anything else. So, that's what we do! He is quite good at it and if he is next to something relatively short (like a coffee table) he will pull up and cruise along. We are quite proud! I predict that he will be crawling in less than 2 weeks, he is SOOOOO close. Well, I hear sleeping beauty growling at me...