smarty pants
Today Sammie started school. Granted it's not technically preschool it was close enough for me. She's going into a class room, hanging her stuff up in a cubby that comes up to my chest, and running off to learn, have fun, make friends. It's a good thing. A great thing. Just another chapter in life. And a little test for us...did we teach her to use her manners even without us there to remind her? To be nice to her new friends? To listen (which we are really nervous about since listening has seemed to have upped and walked out of this house lately)? I may or may not have contracted a form of hives last night thinking about it. Yet drop off went smooth - even if I did have to sneak out as soon as she was distracted by something else - and her cute shy but confident smile when she saw me at pick up was reassurance that this is the right time for her. I saw the next 15 years flash in front of me on the way home as she was telling me what she did (played with the kitchen) and didn't do (babies, blocks) in class. Preschool, k - 8, high school, friends, boyfriends, clubs, sports, homework, jobs, summer vacation, the good and the bad. This is only the begining.
max’s stats
Max was a whopping 9 lbs 9 oz (50%) and 22 inches long (50-75%) yesterday at his appointment! Sammie came with the check out the new dr office, she was a bit shy with the dr but by the end warmed up a bit. As with Dylan she was very interested and protective when the dr was taking a look at our boy. Maxwell was a champ; no shots but the dr was messing with him a bit. Everything looked great : )
boltfamily.net Welcomes Maxwell Michael to the site!
Finally! I made all the edits necessary to the site and Max now has his place among his sister and brother. He will have his own site for at least a year and a half like Dylan. It's a lot of work but it's nice to have a dedicated album to watch them grow month by month.
Looking forward to watching big Max grow by the month on boltfamily.net
one month
Already! Max is settling into a sort of routine although he did try to kill me a few days this week barely sleeping at all during the day. He's not as easy going as Dylan was but not quiet as high maintenance as Sammie was. I'll have the one month stats tomorrow since he has another appointment. I love this little cuddle bug more and more each day.
ole blue eyes and the gang
Max has the prettiest blue eyes I've ever seen; they're a steely gray blue. I'm not used to a blue eyed baby since the other two came out with brown so I'm loving this. I got some good photos of it yesterday. What's that you say? Photos? Yes, yes we have taken a ridiculous amount but Adam is crazy busy, CRAZY, so he's yet to be able to have a second to post them. They'll go up asap so for now you'll just have to take my word that this kid is adorable.
As for the other two they are doing great. We often get asked how the kids are doing with Max. They are great, so great in fact that we have to keep a close eye on them because they are both what I would call smotherers. Always wanting to kiss and hug and touch and be by him. It's hard because I don't want to discourage it but sometimes I feel like it's Lenny or who ever that guy was from the Grapes of Wrath or whatever that book is, they just squeeze and squeeze and squeeze. Aside from all the love we are all a bit stir crazy. We've been to the store but I've yet to bring them somewhere where I can't keep Dylan contained in a cart. They need a place to burn this energy but it'll have to wait until Adam and I can go for the first time so I can get a feel for it. So for now we settle for visitors for new faces to see ; )
Things are definitely good.
sponges
Sammie and Dylan are little sponges. So scary. Two of the most recent examples.
*Sammie has been watching a bit more TV/movies than I comfortable with but so goes life. But it's not mindless time spent as we've noticed. The other night during bath I noticed her squeezing her hair and then whipping it over her shoulder. I thought to myself it looked familiar but couldn't figure out why until the next day while watching Pocahontas and seeing her do it after jumping off a waterfall. She's also picked up a scene from Tangled - which is hard for me to say no to since I love it just as much as her - between Mother Gothel and Rapunzel.
*The other afternoon Dylan picked up one of Sammie's barbies and started examining her, or so we thought. But then he went over to Sammie's bitty baby stuff and found the diaper bag and proceeded to change barbie's 'diaper'. Probably one of the cutest things I've seen him do and he did it in the exact spot I normally change Max's diapers during the day. Little guy really is paying attention.
mr awake
Max took a great nap this morning...and that's about it. He was awake from 2:45 until 7ish only falling asleep after eating. Sure he took 10 minute naplets here and there but not what I would call a nap. Even then after I put him in the swing to join bath time it lasted about 5 minutes before Adam had to go soothe him back to sleep. And here they sit on the couch, Max very restless but at least his eyes are closed. I hope it's not a precursor to tonight because this baby needs sleep to keep growing (he's in a 3 month sleeper today and it's not as huge as I'd think it would be)!
cry me a river
Today was a doozy and nap time isn't even over yet. A bullet point list since anything else will be much too long.
*On the way to Costco Max decided he did not like his car seat and screamed much of the way there. The kind of screaming that results in dry mouth and baby bubbles all over his face.
*The car shenanigans continued at the end of the Costco trip igniting many either sympathetic looks or keep that baby quiet looks. Jerks.
*No free samples at Costco resulting in a trip to McD for smoothies. D didn't get his until we got home because the last time that happened it was a mess. Let's just say he wasn't thrilled that I put his smoothie into an age appropriate cup once home and cried for 20 minutes.
*Sammie freaked that I wouldn't let her watch TV and peed herself which made her cry even more. I did feel bad for her but between the two of them screaming at the top of their lungs it got to be a little much. (Max slept right through all this thankfully : )
*I didn't see that Sammie left her princess costume on the floor and wiped out with Max in my arms. He is totally fine and again slept right through it; I cried.
As you can see much of the morning was spent in tears by one two three or all of us. Things can only go up from here.
2 weeks
Thursday I started this post. With a title. Today I went to finish it but the little man is waking to eat, again.
In a nutshell, I can't tell you how much Max weighs because our new pediatrician is pretty awesome and left the 2 week check-up up to me and since it was really just a weight check I passed. He loves his brother and sister and they love him. And now the tears and screaming started...must feed him.
bye bye nubbin
Max lost his nubbin last night. He has the cutest little belly button I ever did see. He'll be getting his first bath bath tonight, no more sponge baths for him!