Max-7 months!

Big Stuff. 

 Someone is crawling everywhere. EVERYWHERE. I actually love it.

 Those chubby legs might be the most delicious things ever.

First time on the slide!! Thanks for the pic, Aunt Clare!

My life is now complete due to these 2 perfect boys and the fact that we can streamline bath time. Plus, I think Max's life is also complete based on the joy on his face. 

"This one" really is perfect. For example, I don't remember a time EVER when Anderson fell asleep in his stroller. Ever. Max is not consistent about sleeping in th stroller, but totally stepped it up this one time and I am IN LOVE.

And....I love Target. Look at these awesome new carts!  (And, we love Uncle Zack.)

Anderson has been obsessed with these random gardening gloves. He wears them all of the time. We accidentally left them in our car when we sold it and thank goodness some of our good friends (the Futchers!) ended up buying it so they could return them to us.

It just does not get better than a baby in a bucket.

How great is this outfit!!! Thank you, GG!

7 month update:

-This boy is perfect. 

-He eats like a champ-loves the blended baby foods, random pieces of whatever we are eating (tiny, tiny because he will choke on a cheerio) and the Gerber cheetos (they have some kind of pseudo healthy name, but they really are like baby cheetos). He still does not totally love a bottle from me, but we have made massive progress. 

-Spits up every single thing I just mentioned. All day. Every day. 

-He does this hilarious crawl that is sort of like a belly flop, followed by a few swimming strokes and then a few normal crawl moves. He is trying so hard to pull up on everything and gets really frustrated when he cannot do it. 

-He loves cords of all kinds and will beeline to them in every room. 

-He spends a lot of time with the grandmas, so maybe Noni should be writing this post....

-He loves, loves, loves Anderson, his jumperoo, bathtime, flopping everywhere when I try to change his diaper, his monkey lovey (truman), snuggling, laughing, Brandon, Gabbi and laughing at his reflection in the mirror. 

-He takes pretty good naps during the days, but does not sleep through the night yet. CIO worked at bedtime, but has just failed us miserably in the middle of the night. I used to think that it would just work and I had to be persistent, but 2 months later, I realize that every kid is different and I don't need to assume anything. Ever. We made him cry in the middle of the night for awhile and it never got decreased and then we found out he had 2 ear infections (mom fail) so we treated them and tried again and it never worked. And. then we found out he still had 2 ear infections, so we treated him again and tried again and it still didn't work. And, then we found out he still has 2 ear infections, so we gave him his 4th antibiotic, made an appointment with a specialist and decided that it is not worth making him scream, so he gets middle of the night snuggles until I know he does not have 2 ear infections. Literally, the child has had had 2 ear infections for over 2 months of the 7 months he has been alive. It is not ok. Well, it is ok because he is perfect and surely I am going to get a consecutive 6 hours of sleep one day. Surely. Please, for the love of God, surely. 

-I really, really love him and plan on kissing that sweet face every day for the rest of my life. Seriously, he is going to hate me when he is a teenager because I am going to hold true to this promise.