Max is Four months old!!

May 8th 2010 – Max is Four months old!!

Milestones achieved so far this month have been:

Max loves to stand, he will stand all day if you let him. He smiles at us when he sees us coming. He jabbers and oohhs a lot. He can completely hold his head up on his own and sits up with little assistance. He reaches out for anything you put in front of him and if he gets it it goes straight to the mouth.

At his four month check up, he was 15 pds 2.2 oz and was 25 and 3/8 inches long. He was in the 50 percentile for weight and 65 percentile for height. He unfortunately had to have shots again. He was not too thrilled with this. He kept looking at Greg like, "what the heck, dad?" (because he was the one that had to hold him down) We got the go-ahead to introduce rice cereal at 5 months and veggies 2 weeks later. We will definitely let everyone know how that goes.

SNOW!!

Yes, that is SNOW... IN TEXAS!!! I can't believe how much we got, 8 inches!!! Weird huh?! ?! Usually we get an inch at the most and it barely sticks, drying up before morning. Not this time though! It snowed for three days - off and on - and we actually got some accumulation! Enough to even build a REAL snowman! I did not get to partake in the snowman building because I had to stay inside with Max. It was way too cold to take him out. The guys had an awesome time though.

The eyes were Oreos and the nose and mouth were a fruit roll up!!

Jordin loves to hug things.

Jordin's 6 year check up

Jordin had his 6 year check up the same day as Max’s 2 month check up. We killed two birds with one stone :) He hated the idea of Max having to get shot and plugged his ears when he started crying. He had to have a hearing and vision screen, which he passed with flying colors. He also had to have blood drawn to check glucose and cholesterol. He was not happy about it, but he was very brave.

His stats are 45 pds and 44 3/4 inches. Almost 4 feet!

He is learning to read and getting pretty good at it. He loves to count, do activity books, put together Legos and make his little brother laugh!!

Grandma came to visit

My Grandma, who is Jordin's and Max’s great grandma (Gigi), came to visit after I had Max and to help out around the house for three whole weeks. It was amazing!!

Aunt B, Gigi and Max!!

During my grandmas time here she got to spend a lot of time with our family. We enjoyed having her here and hated to see her go :(

Max is Two months old!!

March 8th, 2010 - Max is now 2 months old!!

Milestones achieved so far this month have been:

smiling more often, laughing out loud, batting at objects, grasping a few objects, putting weight on his legs, following objects by moving his head and almost having complete control of his head.

At his 2 month check up, he was 12 pds 13 oz and 24 inches long. He is in the 80% percentile for weight and the 75 percentile for length. He unfortunately had to have shots on this day. It was a rough day for us all.

Kitchen Remodeling Pics

So, finally, we have before and after pics of the new kitchen.  Check ‘em out – the old kitchen is on the left and the new one is on the right… (you can click them for larger versions)

notice the horrible white tile floor and the idiotic tile countertop (that whoever lived here before did themselves, so it was crooked and had the wrong kind of grout)

now we’ve got a sweet travertine floor, custom-built maple cabinets, and black granite countertops

(this is looking to the right as you walk in) and for some reason, there were no lower cabinets on the right when you walked into the kitchen – and the ONLY upper cabinets we had were these two

now with lower cabinets, DRAWERS!!!, and upper cabinets.. also an awesome diagonal tile backsplash with mini black tile accent stripe…

before we had an ugly white sink and super awesome painted plywood lower cabinet doors… notice the cabinet on the left of the sink – it was half the normal depth so there was horrible storage space inside…

now, we’ve got a corner double sink… with detachable spray spout… and sweet custom-built angled doors underneath… you can see one of our sweet stainless steel light switch covers that match the appliances…

you can really see the half-deep cabinet, when compared to the stove… the burner pans were horrible and there was a burn on the back by the dials…

now we’ve got a sweet stainless model with a flat-top cook surface… it’s also a convection oven… and we’ve got the new wall-mounted microwave with a vent

so here you can see the awesome plywood cabinet doors… and why not make the shallow cabinet even suckier with three shelves instead of the standard two??

now, we have another DRAWER!!! and a cool James Bond pull-out hidden trash can…

before: super small smelly refrigerator

after: super awesome oversized stainless version

and one of our favorite new features – by the back door, our dog leashes have dog butt hangers!

Max is one month old!!

February 8th, 2010 - Max is one month old.

His milestones he has achieved are:

smiling , cooing, turning toward sounds, and turning away from bright lights.

At his one month check up he was 10 pds 14 oz and 22 1/4 inches. He is a growing boy!! He is in the 75 percentile for all three categories.

He is a very chill baby and hardly ever cries. He is still sleeping a lot, which Jordin thinks is kind of boring. We all love him very much!!