Weekends

We love weekends at our house. Sleeping in and snuggling in the king size bed. Max is such a morning baby and wakes up so happy to start the day. Lucky for mommy, he is content to just sit in the bed and babble to Lucy or myself. I feel like he won't be content for too many more weekends because once he can crawl there will be no stopping him.



Lucy is not a morning dog and is not a fan of the babbling baby that likes to smack her on the head in the morning. But she loves us too much to leave the bed. Sometimes I think Lucy just needs a big cup of coffee like mommy.

Hope you had a great lazy weekend like us.

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6 month checkup

Yesterday I took Max to see his doctor for his 6 month checkup and vaccines. Here is little man after his shots and blood drawn He really is a trooper which makes it a lot easier on me. The doc said he was the perfect weight and had good iron levels in his blood. He also mentioned that Max would tripod sit soon. Well doc we have been there done that milestone. Max is too interested in being a part of the action to just lay around. He likes to sit up like a big boy every chance he gets.


Love those rosy cheeks! Although he didn't cry with the shots, I knew he didn't care for it when his face got bright red. His whole face turns red when he gets mad or is concentrating on taking a poo.

Stats:
Height - 27in. (75 percentile)
Weight - 18.5lbs (65 percentile)

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Location:Plano, TX

The Jumping Machine

I had an off day earlier this week and Maximus was having a hay-day in his jumper.  Lucy tried to pull me away, but my time was split entertaining everyone.  Check out the video and enjoy the show.

Textures ... in toys and food

 I had most of last week off before my next stint of 6-day weeks for 6 weeks, so I was able to spend a lot of time with Maximus most days.  We did a lot of time in his jumper, which he's really taken to.  He can almost touch the ground, so I think in a few weeks we can take the box out from underneath his feet.  It has a ton of things to keep him busy.  From a Spanish-speaking, multi-colored flashing keyboard to a chewable fish. It has it all...of course.  He's gotten much better balance over the past month or so and should be running in no time.

Max also took another big boy step in life by having his first taste of food. We started organic brown rice cereal this weekend.  To be technical, I wouldn't necessarily call it cereal but breast milk with flakes in it.  To get Max used to eating, the cereal is very thin and just ran down his chin most of the time.  Luckily his plastic bibs collected it in their nifty pockets.  Needless to say he didn't eat much but he did enjoy it and I guess that is all we could really ask for at this stage.  We probably won't try any veggies or fruit until our checkup with our pediatrician on March 1st.    

Faison update

It has been awhile since our last posts which have not been all that informative in the first place.
We have been pretty busy with the following:

Holidays

Championship Game

work

and the list goes on.

We had a great and successful trip to Alabama for Christmas.  The trip was full of well needed family time.  We got to see the new Faison house on "the farm" and enjoy great food/cooking.  Max also got to meet his great grandparents from the Wilson side.  Lucy went along as well and kept Max company in the back of the SUV for the long car ride.

We came back home to Dallas for less than 2 weeks and then turned around to head out for the Championship game in New Orleans.  I sort of demanded that we fly this time since we just got back from our 9+ hour (one-way) trek from Alabama. It was great flying and Max was such a good baby.  I really think he is the best!  *We truly have been spoiled with our first one.  I see many more flights in our future!  As everyone should be aware, Bama put LSU in their place.  We (and by "we" ... I mean the Alabama football team) took home another crystal ball to the state of Alabama.  Max may have hindered us from getting to all the games this year but at least we were able to make it to the big show and what a great show it was.  The photo above was from Max earlier in the season but it seemed appropriate.  Max is still enamored with our Saban cut-out.  From his first day from the hospital he would stop crying when he would see Saban pointing at him.  Apparently, Saban has a way of demanding excellence through photo and can shut a baby right up.  

The weekend following New Orleans I helped host a baby shower for the upcoming arrival of Mr. Aiden Schweizer.  It was great to see Courtney with her "big" belly even though she makes me sick to know how great she looks at 7 months.  I think I have inspired all of my friends to keep their pregnancy weight in check because they seem to have done a lot better job than me.  ;)  Still trying to understand how this baby fat is supposed to disappear while I am mommy to Max, wife to Tyler, and Controller at work.  Those 3 jobs have me pretty busy these days.  

Tyler has been busy wrapping up Season 2 of Big Rich Texas.  The crew met Mr. Max a few days back and were shocked that there was a mini Tyler running around (okay, not running just yet).  Everyone loves the redhead ... I think it because he is one-of-a-kind.  I've been busy with closing year end, getting ready for the auditors, and trying to help close a deal ... you know, accounting stuff.  Lucy has been doing a good job at sleeping on all the furniture while we are at work.  She has also enjoyed tracking in dirt/mud and with how often it has happened I am thinking it is becoming a hobby for her.  Don't let her fool you ... she goes to the spot in the yard that she can find the mud.  There are plenty of dry areas that she loves to avoid.  But we still love her!

~ Courtney  

  

I'm in Love ...

I'm in Love with a Boy named Max

To the BCS game we go ...

Max is saying "Mommy, I'm concerned. You put me in this 'Tigers Bleaux' outfit and this plane from Dallas to New Orleans is filled with LSU fans."

Location:Dallas