Happy Valentine's Day!

We are celebrating with lots of kisses, chocolate and heart shaped jello. So thankful to have these amazing boys to share the day with!

Macen's valentines

Macen is handing out these valentines for his school valentine's day party thanks to pinterest. We ended up using candy corn instead of m&m's since his school is a peanut free zone. They are adorable!

Fun with cousins

The boys spent the afternoon with cousins at an indoor bounce house place. Macen was soaked with sweat in no time. There was an area with a small bounce house just for little kids. Maddox spent some time getting bounced around. They both loved it and had a blast!

He's growing up

Macen is getting so big it's hard to believe he was once Maddox's size. He started a pre-k program a couple of weeks ago and he loves it. He goes 3 days a week and eagerly waits for those days to come. He is at that age where he loves to learn so it's an absolute joy listening to him. We can only hope this enthusiasm follows him all the way through school. Speaking of enthusiasm, his daily mantra lately has been "This is gonna be the best day ever". Even when he knows we are doing nothing but running to the grocery store or as much as staying home for the day. I told him that was a great attitude to have. Other daily sayings we get are "This is gonna take forever". It can even be for something as quick as picking up his clothes but if its not something he wants to do right then, he thinks it will take forever. And lastly "Yeah, I know that". He is 4 and he knows everything. Haha!

Crawling

Maddox started crawling last week and has spent this past week getting better and better. Now he has taken to getting on his tip toes as shown below. We have a sunken living room with 2 steps up to the formal dining room. He has managed to pull himself up by the first step and stand there as well. Thankfully no climbing yet and hopefully it takes him awhile to figure it out.

Watch out ladies

this cute boy has a convertible!  

Sweet Baby Boy is 6 months!

Half a year already?! Sweet baby boy is still as happy as ever - always, always smiling. He has such a sweet disposition about him. Maddox is ticklish from his cheeks all the way down to the bottom of his feet. He had his 6 mo appt last week and here are the stats: 26 3/4" for height (51 percentile) and 17lbs (31 percentile).

So happy to have the baby bathtub back. He loves bath time and can soak anything and anyone near him. Maddox still loves us singing The Itsy Bitsy Spider and Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star to him. We are finally getting into a regular rhythm of reading again and he loves books. Lucky for him we have our own little library.

Here Maddox is pushing all the way up on his arms but he has since progressed to getting on his knees. He will spend time on his knees rocking back and forth before doing a belly flop back to the ground. We are on borrowed time with the crawling.

He is pretty good at sitting up now without the support of the boppy. He is still taking some spills but has yet to cry from one. Normally he'll just land on his tummy.

We started on solid foods over the weekend and this is his first taste of sweet potatoes. No silly faces here! He lapped up that stuff like crazy. We'll try a fruit today. He is still doing really good with rice cereal. We tried oatmeal but that didn't sit well with him so back to the rice.

Maddox rolls wherever he needs to go for now and that typically means right for Macen's toys. So Macen has taken to doing what any older brother would do - drag him away.

We love you sweet baby boy!