Chuck E Cheese

We made our first trip to Chuck E Cheese thanks to commercials. Macen as been asking to go ever since we've been back so we decided to meet Grandma there. Macen loved it except for the ride pictured below. He wasn't expecting it to jerk him from side to side or tilt him up. He locked his arms and maintained this face until it was over and then said "That was scary". It was pretty nice and we can't wait to go back very soon :)

8 months old

Another month has already sped past us but we definitely aren't taking it for granted. Maddox is now saying dada - very, very cute! In fact, he is quite infactuated with his daddy. His empathy emotion is well intact. We've had several incidents with Macen getting hurt and crying where Maddox joins him in crying. Quite funny as we try to hide our laughter from Macen. He now mimics the spider with his hands when I sing itsy bitsy spider to him. Maddox got another tooth so his 2 bottom teeth are showing well with all those smiles.

I'm not sure he will be learning his name anytime soon. We all call him baby or baby boy.

Maddox randomly sleeps through the night now. I have been decreasing the ounces he gets in the middle of the night so that may be contributing to it. Regardless, I still get up to pump and I actually don't mind getting up with him anyway. It's our quiet time and I have nothing else to do at that time
except snuggle him. In time he will be sleeping soundly and I will miss these moments.

Give me a cooooookie!

Maddox had his first Thin Mint and I think more will come! He loved it and cried when I took it away to clean him up. He is a pretty good eater and I love that. Hopefully I will finally have a little guy I can bake for.

Speaking of cookies and baking - this was made to celebrate Oreo's birthday last week. Jocelyn this is for you, lol! That would be cookie dough covered with oreos covered with brownie batter. Oh so yummy goodness you are so bad for me!

Coloring Eggs #2

This time we used a sponge roller on the eggs. Macen wasn't as thrilled about these since his fingers got messy. After awhile he was okay with picking up the eggs and getting color on his hands. He kept telling me they were dinosaur eggs.

Coloring Eggs #1

We did our first round of coloring eggs using Kool Aid. I've never used that as a coloring method before so I thought we'd give it a shot. Kool Aid gives the eggs nice earth tone colors. The lemon one didn't turn out at all. The grape gives a brown/gray color instead of purple but still kinda pretty next to the redness of the black cherry color. All in all a success I would say. I also didn't wipe the eggs with vinegar prior to Macen dipping them just so we could see any lines or such that appeared on them. Several eggs had lines around them which I assume came from the conveyor belt they caught a ride on before being "packaged".

And since we did use Kool Aid I convinced Macen to take a sip of one of them. Well low and behold, he liked it. Enough that he thought Mariah and I needed to taste some of the colors as well. Talk about some potent stuff when only mixed with a cup of water. Macen tasted several colors but then again this is the picky eater who likes to drink lemon juice straight from the jar.

Good Times!

We had friends visit last weekend with their little lady and this pic was snapped. So, so cute!

7 months old

Maddox had a very busy month developmentally. Remember my last monthly post where I said he had pulled up to the stairs but hadn't figured out how to climb yet. Yeah, that lasted about a week. He's been climbing the stairs for a couple of weeks now and it's probably his favorite toy in the house, lol.  So now Maddox is not only climbing stairs but pulling up to everything. As you can see in a picture below not everything withstands his pulling up. He was stuck on that dinosaur for a bit. He hasn't quite figured out that once he has pulled up he has to keep holding on either. So there is some tumbling and crying.

Maddox isn't a huge fan of the exersaucer since it keeps him contained. He wants to be free to roam. He has been like this since he started rolling everywhere he wanted to go. He's great about playing by himself as long as he is free.  He's still doing great with the baby food and even going to town with chunks of squash, banana, carrots and kiwi so far with the self feeder. And he got a very special present on Valentines Day - his first tooth!

Macen is impatiently waiting for him to get big enough to wrestle with. He has taken to grabbing Maddox from behind and laying back on the floor with Maddox on top of him and eventually rolling off. Most of the time Maddox loves it until Macen doesn't want to let him go.

Another month gone by too fast but it has been amazing watching him develop so much these past few weeks.