Squash

We started squash! After talking to his doctor on his 6 month appointment we decided to add a tablespoon of squash into his diet. Max is a fan of squash. He definstely likes it better than rice cereal! We will start with thus yellow vegetable than after a while add in green vegetables than meats than sweets aka hawaian delight... Haha gotta love baby food... So fun to see max try new things and learn about the spoon!


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New toy and sitting up!

Grandpa and grandma got max a new toy for his 1/2 birthday! It helps him sit up, he's getting better at sitting up everyday!


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Daddy and me

Daddy and max shopping in old navy... We didn't find anything for max but mom and dad got 3 shirts! He got plenty at gymboree though! 12 to 18 months clothes for our growing boy!


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Mary Frannie turns 5!!!

Mary Frannie is 5!!! I can't believe it was just 5 years ago we traveled up to Columbia Missouri for her arrival. We went to the Jones Center to celebrate with a swim party. I was excited to go becuase I have been working with her this summer with her swimming and I think she has gotten a lot better...she's still not a fish...but she has learned a lot more about the water and about swimming, the movements, holding her breath, how to be safe around deep water and ladders, and yes how to actually swim. She can actually swim now - she still needs a lot of practice - but she definately has something to work with now. Mabry has learned a lot this summer too - I got to take her down the Jones Center slide and she loved it...my favorite part....after she gets done sliding the very first word she says is....again? There is a picture of her beautiful and delicious Little Mermaid cake, a shot of the Family - Jennie - Todd - Laney - Mabry - and Mary Frannie - and a shot of her opening the gift from me, mike, and max. We got her a lunch box from Pottery Barn for Kids with her name monogrammed on it from her to take her lunch to Kindergarten...yes Kindergarten...I can't believe she's old enough for that! She's so fun and unbelieveably smart...I know she will love Kindergarten and I know she's excited, I can't wait to hear about all of the new things she learns.

Max is rolling over

It's a quick video....but we got it! Max has finally started to roll over now. Mostly like you see from back to front, but he can roll both ways all over now. So neat to see him learn new things. Of course it took me forever to actually get it on video becuase I really think he knows when I'm trying to film him so I'll hit record and he'll sit there and barely move a mussel, but than when I turn it off he's flipping all around....so this time I got him!

DaDa

DaDa

Well...Max said his first word...DaDa...he said it first on Saturday, but it was more just a one time thing that we knew sounded like DaDa but we didn't know if it was more of like a hopeful thing...well Sunday he started up again...DaDaDaDaDaDa.....DaDa.....DaDa....over and over again...so cute - yes I do have video I will have to upload. I am working on him with saying MaMa.....so we will see how long that takes him...but Mike is soaking every minute of the DaDa up. So cute to hear his little voice.

Max is sick for the first time

So Wednesday MiMi ( Tracy) comes up to visit and babysit Max. My mom and dad go with Todd and Jennie up to St. Louis to celebrate thier 10th wedding anniversary and MAry Frannie's 5th Birthday Party. So MiMi babysits Thursday and Friday. On Friday she has both Max and Bekah - that's a first. Max was a little fussy and not himself, so we first gave him Milacon incase it was gas....and than we felt he had a fever so MiMi gave him some Tylonol. Well Friday night he seemed to get a little worse - he kept me and mike up most of the night, we could tell he was not feeling well at all. We finally gave him some more tylonol and I nursed him to sleep around 1:30am and he fell asleep until morning. When we went to check on him in his crib he had a fever again.....to hurry the story up a bit when we took his fever on Saturday afternoon it was up to 102.4 so we took off his clothes, gave him a tepid bath, and turned the air colder in our house...than we noticed some white spots in his mouth - so Sunday we decide to take him to a clinic since he is still not feeling well. Turns out he had a double ear infection and Thursh....and 101.5 fever. So glad we took him to the doctor. He got 2 prescriptiosn he takes 4 times a day to help and we have given him Tylonol to keep down his fever. Grandma took care of him today here at the house and Max has shown a lot of improvement. He will be on the medicine for a while - about 10 days to 2 weeks....but we are so glad he is finally starting to feel better. We missed our little happy Max!

Done with German!!!

Mike got done with Summer school on Friday - and so that also means...done with German!!! We are so excited - yes I get to be excited too even though I did not take the class. Mike is enrolled in an upper level history class this fall at The U of A on Tuesdays and Thursdays...he is looking forward to that...anything but German! haha

swimming with bekah

We got to babysit bekah the othe day so we let her and max swim on our deck. They had so much fun swimming together.

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