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5 Months

So this past month included:

Sitting up on his own

Sitting in a restaurant highchair

Grabbing his paci and putting it in his mouth

Grabbing EVERYTHING and putting it in his mouth!!

His first cold : (

His first ear infection : ( 

Granny's 3rd visit to Houston to see Maddox

I know there is probably stuff I'm missing (a good reason to blog more!) Everyday he changes and becomes more independent. The past few weeks I've been busy with photo shoots every Saturday and Sunday and its so hard for me to leave him! I can't imagine if I had to go back to work and leave him 8+ hours a day. Jeff makes fun of me on a daily basis about it, but even he will admit that I am getting a little better at it.

Last Monday he got a runny nose and a little bit of a cough. No fever so I thought we'd just let it run its course. On Friday he seemed more tired than he had been all week. He wasn't interested in eating or playing so I thought I'd call the doctor since it was Friday and I was pretty sure he'd be super sick on Saturday if I didn't! Good thing I did! His right ear was infected, not bad...yet. The doctor started him on amoxocillian and he LOVES it. When its gone out of the syringe he wants more! I hope he's like that with all medicine ;-)

We had a pretty quiet week, getting over this cold, but on a pretty regular basis we've been going to play groups. It was at a play group that Maddox sat up on his own. He was watching the other kids, and wanted toys, grabbing for them and actually playing with them! I was so impressed! I think its good for him to be around other kids close to his age. He loves to watch them and I know soon enough he'll be crawling around interacting with them.

It was time for new photos! Here they are....

One Month, Two Months, Three Months, Four Months

Hello, who stole my baby??

Because seriously! I'm not sure I can call this a baby anymore!

Sitting up and playing all on his own! With no help from his Mama! Ok, well maybe I do catch him before he tips over onto the floor from time to time. And I do retrieve the toys when he gets bored with the one he's got.

But what's this you say!?!? Sitting up...in a highchair...at a RESTAURANT! I in no way thought he was going to be ready for this at 4.5 months, but he did great!

I really felt like I had a kid, not a baby. He played with his toys while my friend Claudia and I ate lunch, it was crazy!

I do love the fact that he is interested in playing with toys now. And not just the toys on his excersaucer. I really felt like as his sole source of entertainment most of the day I was probably pretty boring. And I'm not going to lie. There are a couple of his toys that I think Lily and I like playing with more than he does. Holla!

I can always fall back on one thing to assure me I still have a baby. The fact that he's decided he wants to get up a minimum of twice per night to eat and maybe cry a little, maybe throw a screaming fit. You know, whatever the mood might be. I'm really hoping that once he gets over this cold he will go back to sleeping through the night. Because people (and my family can attest to this) I'm not the nicest person to be around when I'm going on 4 hours of sleep a night, especially when 3 of those 4 hours include sleeping with a baby on top of you, which for those of you that do not know, isn't really the most restful position to sleep in. 

Three more days and its time to take 5 month photos. 5 MONTHS!! Holy cow! I have lots to update on! See ya then :-)

3 Month Photos

I finally posted some more of Maddox's 3 month photos! Check them out here

Yummy

At Maddox's 4 month appointment last week Dr. Kagen said we could start him on rice cereal. At that moment I felt like my baby is growing up way to fast for me. Although I'm excited for him to do new things, he's already depending on me less. My brother and sister and I always make fun of our Mom because she always says she would love for us all to move home with her. Although I will not stop making fun of her for these kind of statements, I do understand them now :-)

Needless to say. We documented his first time with cereal with plenty of photos and videos, which I won't bore you with. Ha! Just joking! Here they come!!!

 This is what happened when we weren't fast enough with another spoonful. We might have a mini Jeff on our hands when it comes to eating....

Also, Jeff is responsible for the early 90's gansta style hat. I debated taking it off for his first time eating cereal and then decided against it. Why? I don't know. Poor kid is going to hate us when he's older.

Indiana...again!

We recently made another trip to Indiana! Not only did we get to see family this trip, but we also attended a wedding of one of Jeff's fraternity brothers, so we saw lots of college friends as well.

First things first. The weather, it was amazing. Sorry to rub it in your faces Texans seeing as its October and still crazy hot here. Although I'm positive that in the next couple of months I will once again be glad I live in the south.

Maddox and I travelled up on Wednesday to Indianapolis. We stayed with Aunt Angie and Uncle Randy while we were there. 

You know how you don't realize how much you depend on something until its gone? Well I depend a lot on having a place to sit Maddox at home. We have an excersaucer, a bumpo seat, a swing, bouncer chairs. So he has a few options when it comes to sitting, seeing as he can't sit on his own yet. Obviously those things didn't fit in my suitcase so we had to improvise when it came to having a place to put Maddox at Aunt Angie's.

It wasn't until the second to last day that we were there that I thought about actually sitting him in his stroller...duh! He also spent a lot of time on blankets on the floor. And it was there that he actually rolled over for the first time! Along with rolling over, he officially found his feet! They haven't made it into his mouth yet, but I'm sure its just a matter of time.

Maddox really missed his crib while we were away. And you know who missed it more than he did? Me! Because he woke me up constantly in the middle of the night and he would NOT take naps in his pack n play. So we had to improvise the nap situation a little too ;-)

There were also a lot of people willing to hold him while he slept. Imagine that!

Granny went with us to Munster, IN, where the wedding was and she watched Maddox while Jeff and I went to the reception. There was a lot of arm twisting done to get her to go with us. Not so much. In fact, I think Granny may have jogged up to Indianapolis if it meant she could have Maddox all to herself!

The two weddings we attended in September Maddox got presents at both of them! Aaron (the groom at the Indiana wedding) gave Maddox the Boiler Up t-shirt he has on in the picture above. We love all things Purdue!

Jeff with his fraternity brothers

Uncle Mark and Aunt Jackie got home from their honeymoon while we were still in Indiana, so we got to hang out with them a little bit too.

Papaw Thom and Mamaw Pam came up to visit too. Maddox got a tour of the One Click offices where Aunt Angie, Uncle Mark and Uncle Randy work, where Maddox is already a star. At that office I am now only known as Maddox's Mom. At least I've moved on from only being Angie and Mark's sister!

We had a busy week, but it was fun. And of course it was so nice to see my family again. We've gotten so spoiled by getting to see everyone so often this summer. December seems so far away! But I'm sure we'll be back up there before we know it.