Growing Max

Truth be known, as sweet as newborns are, I like babies when they are just a little bit older.  I love the chub.  I love the emerging personality.  I feel like Max has finally entered this realm and I want to remember it all!  The diversity of expressions, the fuzzy red hair that never seems to want to lay flat, the rolls, even the baby acne.

Max & me

I recently watched some tutorials on some different lighting techniques & was anxious to try them out.  (I apologize if you're sick of seeing pictures of me once again.  I was the only subject willing & available to practice on).  I waited for a time when both boys were asleep and I headed down to my little studio, set up everything aanndd...Max woke up.  So he joined me for this photo shoot.  (I wish you could see his cute chubby face better, but every time I got him facing the camera he decided to have a crying spell- but more pictures to come...).

Anyways, for you photography techies out there, these were taken using a white backdrop with one soft box placed camera left.  I still have so much more experimenting & tweaking I want to do...but that will have to wait for another day when Max hasn't had it with me.

Ruby's blessing day

Yesterday (Sunday) was Ruby's baby blessing. After church, we had a little bbq at the park. It was a good time. Beautiful day. Beautiful park. Good food. Family. What else do you need?
Max is becoming quite the chub. Here he is sleeping peacefully...that is, before I picked up his carrier and he took a little spill (I didn't realize he wasn't strapped in & out he slid onto the cement). I let out a very dramatic yell. Everyone, including strangers, turned to look as I cradled my sweet little baby as he screamed. Poor little guy. He got his first little goose egg today.

Naptime

How do you know when your toddler is ready for a "big boy bed"? This is a question Chad & me have discussed a few times. I think Liam has answered that for us.

Today Chad put Liam down for a nap before going out to mow the lawn. I was nursing & drifted off for a much needed nap. I'm not sure how long I'd been sleeping, maybe a half an hour, but I was woken up by one enthusiastic toddler laughing as he jumped from the coffee table to the couch onto me. I assumed he'd woken up & Chad had gotten him from his crib. I later asked Chad about it & he was surprised thinking that I had been the one to get him from his crib.

As you will see from the video below, we knew that having a crib by some bookshelves was problematic, so we've made a point to move his crib away from the bookshelves during naptime. Guess even that isn't working now. Time for a big boy bed!