Box Boys

The New York Gifford's sent our Christmas gifts in a big box this year. Jordin and Max had more fun with that box. They both loved it. They played with it for about a week straight.

Thanks New York Gifts for the awesome box :) 

Christmas Break

Jordin is on Christmas break so we have really been enjoying our time together. Max really likes having him home too. Jordin and I had a night out together to go watch an Allen Americans hockey game. We had a really good time. They won too :)

We have also been busy decorating the house. Jordin got an elf on the shelf this year and his name is Flynn. He has been moving all over the house and Jordin looks forward to finding him every morning. We also did our first gingerbread house as a family this year. It was a pain in the butt, but it turned out really cute. All Jordin wanted to do was eat the candy.

Max is 11 months old

December 8th 2010-Max is 10 Months old

Milestones achieved this month have been:

He is crawling on his hands and knees. He looks so cute doing it. Army crawling is a thing of the past. He is also starting to cruise. He loves to play with his brother. They have a lot of fun together. Max has recently gotten some teeth. His top and bottom two pretty much at the same time. He has figured out how to use them too. He has tested them out a few times on Jordin. He is picking people out of pictures when we ask him to. Its pretty fun to watch. He is also up to about 7 different signs in sign language now. He can tell us what he wants most of the time. He has recently started pointing at things and signing more. It makes it a lot easier on us.

We didn't have a Dr. appointment this month so we will not have stats until his 12 month appointment.

He has officially given up nursing. I am totally bummed but after three days of offering him the breast and him rejecting it every time we decided that maybe it was time to stop. He hasn't looked back to say the least. I made it almost the full year which was my goal. He is still a really good eater and we have not found one thing that he doesn't like. I hope it stays that way.

Thanksgiving

It was great this year because we had a new addition. It was Max’s first thanksgiving and he loved all of the new food. We celebrated at Greg’s parents house. We ate way to much and really enjoyed each others company. Here are a few pics.

Max is 10 Months old

November 8th 2010-Max is 10 Months old

Milestones achieved this month have been:

He is still army crawling but has finally began to pull up on things. He also is crawling up the stairs, supervised of course. He loves to be on the move. We are involved in a gymboree play and learn class he really enjoys. He can crawl up thing and through things and he interacts well with other kids.

We didn't have a Dr. appointment this month so we will not have stats until his 12 month appointment.

He is still nursing and we have introduced another bottle a day so we are up to two. He is still eating well and loves to eat what we do. He is a good eater.

Halloween Fun

We started off by shopping for Halloween costumes a few weeks before. I found Max’s at babies r us for 17$ on sale. Which is not bad considering it was originally 40$. It was easier than I thought. Jordin on the other hand is a lot more difficult. He went straight to the costumes that where 50$ with an “awesome” plastic mask and an even cooler fake set of muscles. I am unfortunately for my children kind of cheap when it comes to this stuff.  I quickly started to steer him in a different direction. After about 30 minutes in the aisle and several calls to daddy we finally decided on a ninja. Which was great for me because it was 9$ WOOT WOOT!! Greg went and bought some swords and daggers so in all between Max’s costume and Jordin’s I spent 32$. Not to bad

We also carved pumpkins a few days before Halloween. I ended up doing all of the work while Greg took pictures. Max helped by trying to eat the pumpkin seed and tearing up paper. Jordin was grossed out by the “guts” of the pumpkin and started to dry heave. I swear I am the only mom to a 6 year old boy who doesn't like to tear apart a pumpkin.

We went out to Allen to Greg’s parents house to trick or treat this year. We have some friends who live in the neighborhood who also met up with us. It was a fun event. It was Max’s first Halloween so we had a good time with him. Jordin got a lot of candy and was excited to show Max how trick or treating is done :) My friends daughter Mia and Jordin sang Trick or Treat smell my feet pretty much the entire time we where out. It would have gotten annoying but they kept getting the words wrong. So instead of saying If you don't I don't care Ill pull down your underwear, they kept saying if you don't I don't care I see you underpants :) It was pretty amusing.

Here are a few pictures.

I am not sure what was so funny.

Max is 9 Months Old!!

October 8th 2010- Max is 9 months old

Milestones achieved this month have been:

He is still army crawling but getting faster and faster everyday. He is still trying to pull up but hasn't mastered that yet. He is waving hi and bye bye. He is also saying mama and dada. He rarely says mama but says dada often. He lights up when Greg walks in the room.

At his 9 month check up he weighed in at 19 pounds and 2 ounces and 28 3/4 inches long. The 30% percentile for weight and the 70%  for height. The only shot we got this time around was the flu shot. He looked at the nurse like she had just broken his heart. He cried for a few seconds and was fine as soon as I picked him up.

He is still eating and nursing like a champ. He eats just about everything that we do. He loves cheese, yogurt and turkey. He has still liked just about everything that we have given him. We have started to give him one bottle a day of breast milk to get ready for the weaning process. I'm not at all looking forward to it.