More Pictures of Maddox

 Here are some more pictures of Maddox

Momma and one racked out baby.  According to Shantel he was a little fussy in the night.

Maddox seems to have taken to a pacifier.  Something Macen never was interested in. 

Macen seems to be taking just fine to being a big brother.  He even offered him some pommes from his happy meal today.

Finally a picture of me with Maddox

Introducing Maddox James Scrogin!!!

Maddox James Scrogin made his arrival at 10:58am CET at the Amberg, Germany hospital.  He weighed 7lbs 1oz and was 20 inches long.  Both Mom and baby are doing fine.  As you can see from the photos below Maddox has brown hair (unlike Macen's bright red hair) and it appears that he does have blue eyes like Macen.

Here are some pictures.

38 wks

38 weeks to the day and heading to the hospital. The little guy inside will be here soon. We haven't decided on a name yet. It's a toss up between 2 names - Jaxon or Maddox.

A pregnant belly to a 4 yr old

How do they come up with these things?

James got a flat tire on his bike ride the other day so Macen and I took him some things to repair it which included the air pump. While James was messing with the inner tube, Macen asked me to hold the nozzle of the air pump to my belly. Then he started pumping it! After a few pumps, he stated "It's not coming out". I'm not sure if he thought he could expand my belly even further for his brother to come out right then or what. James and I got a good laugh out of Macen "pumping air" into my 9 mo pregnant belly.

Happy 4th of July

We had a neighborhood get together instead of going to see the fireworks. It doesn't get dark here until after 10pm so the fireworks don't start until 10:30. A German dollar store sells small fireworks year round so we got some for the kids to see. We did most of them earlier in the evening while it was still light out and they enjoyed them. And if you notice, the men did too :)  We let Macen stay up to do the sparklers. It was his first year with them and he loved them. We had a great, relaxing evening!

Nurnberg

We took the train down to Nurnberg for an afternoon. Macen enjoyed the ride and we just walked around the city center. We visited the Burg (castle) and went to a brewery for some Nurberger sausages.

We just walked around the outside grounds of the castle instead of touring the inside. At the end, Macen enjoyed climbing on the rocks.

Macen wanted his pic taken in front of every fountain we came across. This one was gorgeous with all the gold.

And as we were leaving James found this in the train station. It's very rare to find my name spelled this way so we were amused to see this posted.

Prague, Czech Republic

We made our 5th Hard Rock Stop while in Europe. Prague has the largest one in Europe complete with a guitar chandelier in the middle.

The astronomical clock in the Old Town Square. Every hour on the hour a trumpet plays and some of the figures move about. There is a huge crowd gathered under it each time it strikes top of the hour.

This is a random picture but I wanted to show you how hard it is to read Czech. The last line is in German since it is also a common language spoke here. Atleast with the German you can attempt to decipher what is being advertised but that is not the case with most of the Czech language. Fortunately for us, English is very common here as well as posted often.

A view of the Charles Bridge. It connects the Old Town to the Prague Castle. There are many staues like the one below that line the bridge. During the day there are painters, souvenir vendors, musicians awaiting the tourists that are drawn to the bridge.

A view of the city from the Prague Castle. We took the short tour that included the Old Royal Palace, the Basilica, St. Vitus's Cathedral and Golden Lane.

 Basilica of St George

St. Vitus's Cathedral

At the beginning of Golden Lane where all the goldsmiths sold their goods. James and Macen went up the stairs here to an area filled with armor.

We walked up this to the castle. Let me tell you, it's much easier on a very pregnant lady to go down it then come up it.

From the castle we went to a restaurant highly recommended online. It is the restaurant of a brewery located right next to a monastary and we had read it was a beer lovers heaven. They serve a select few beers and James was impressed with them. He enjoyed the place and is willing to go back so he can buy some beer to bring home. Macen was thrilled his apple juice came with 2 straws, lol.

This is a brewery in Pilsen. We had every intention of doing the tour and then eating in the restaurant before heading home. However, as we were leaving Prague James was pulled over by Czech police and ticketed for entering an area where no cars are allowed. Apparently there was a sign stating this but it was hidden by a tree. And just so everyone knows, James has now gotten a speeding ticket in Germany and ticketed in Czech. We are thinking of heading to Austria sometime but we may have to take the train at James' rate :) So we just ate at the restaurant this time but will have to go back for the tour.