Down on the farm

Scott and I took our first overnight trip away from Max to Tunica.  It was Max's 4th night away from us but his first when we wouldn't be 15 min down the road. We left him in very capable hands though...Aunt Jackie!  They had a great time!  Aunt Jackie and Uncle Paul and Jacob have a farm so Max got his first "farm experience".  Aunt Jackie found one of Jacob's old coats from when he was a baby and got Max all bundled up and out they went.  Here are a few pics.

Shots shots and more shots

Today Max and I loaded up and headed off for his 6mo DR visit.  When I layed him down on the scale he was straining to sit up, so I helped him a little.  He hates to lay down now.  Max now weighs 15lbs 9oz.  Babies are supposed to double their birth weight by 6 months and 15lbs 5oz would be double his birth weight so he reached that goal!  Max is also now 25 3/4th inches long.  He is still in the 10-25th percentile range but he is still steadily gowing so the Dr B is not concerned at all.  Max's head on the other hand is right at the 50th percetile.

Max reached all of his milestones except saying baba or dada.  Max is more of a screamer.  Dr B was very impressed with Max's sitting abilities saying that most babies his age are not as steady and can not sit as long as he can.  The next milestone we will look for is crawling around 9 months.

Poor Max got 4 shots and the oral rotavirus.  He was only supposed to get 3 shots but they still had flu shots left so I decided to go ahead and let him get that too.  He will have to go back in 4 weeks to get a second flu shot(Scott will have to take him...that should be interesting...)

On an end note Max didn't really cry this time at the office when Dr B examined him, just fussed.  He did cry for his shots.  Oh and I forgot my camera...bad momma...so sorry for picture quality, taken with my phone.

6 months old!!!

Wow oh wow Max is 1/2 a year old!!  The past 6 months have been so many things- tears, laughter, frustration, fear, FATIGUE, happiness, and most of all love.  He is really becoming such a big boy.  He isn't fully sitting on his own but he is!  If he moves to fast he will topple over so pillows around him is a must.  Boy is he a talker, well more like a screamer.  He likes to vocalize but screechy screams instead of babbles.  He has even had a few temper tantrums(for which Scott say's "that is so you").  He loves to play on the floor.  He is still rolling over like crazy and trying to get up on his knees, if only he would push up with his arms when he was up on his knees.  He is scooting a little, but nothing major. 

Sleep is our biggest issue.  We have a pretty routine schedule and do the eat, play, sleep routine.  We have even had a few attempts at the cry it out method...that did not work!  Max screams louder the longer he is left alone and does not stop(we gave once at a hour).  Not only that but I have read some really bad things about the cry it out method.  We have tried keeping him awake till he is totally exhausted. On an average night Max gets up(between 10pm-6am) twice to eat and 1-2 other times that require one of us to attend to him.  Now we usually have at least 2 nights where he gets up more frequently.  I realizee being a parent means your restful nights are over but 6 months straight without more that 4hours of continuous sleep can take a toll on you.  The few nights Max's has spent at aunt Jackie's Scott and I have come home early so we can go to sleep.  So sad that now we would rather get a few hours of sleep rather then party with our friends, but we have to do what we need to do. The last few nights we have taken a step back and Max is now sleeping in his rock and play in our bedroom.  It has been so much nicer!!  He is only waking to eat and all I do is pick him up and feed him and then back in his "bed".  I never even get out of the bed.  If he try's to wake I just reach over put the pacifyer back in and rock him back to sleep.  Probally not the best move but it is working so we are going to stick with it.

Max has also started on real food!  I made his food(see previous posts) and we started him with squash first.  The fight night did not go so well.  He was ready to eat but then started gagging!  The next night he did better.  We are about to finish carrots tonight and then on to sweet potatoes.  Then peas, green beans, and zucchini.  Tonight I started to make some fruit.

Max has his 6mo Dr visit on the 15th.  I will try my best to update the blog then.

Vote for Max!

Max is in a Valentines day photo contest.  In order to vote for him you have to be on facebook.  Look up precious moments photo's and "like" them.  Then go to their photo albums and in the "I LOVE that shot contest" album you have to find Max's picture(#25) and "Like" it.  We are currently in 2nd place and 1st place has a ton of votes...but the top 3 get a prize.  So if you have a couple of minutes please vote for MAX!!!  Thanks!!

Green=Gross!!

Ok so I just finished making Max's green veggies(they are still cooling as I type).  Now sure this went as well as the orange ones.  Today I made green beans, peas, and zucchini. 

Well the green beans seem real clumpy.  I pured and pured but still kinda clumpy.  Now don't get me wrong I do think he will eat them, not too clumpy. 

The pea's actually turned out ok.

The zucchini on the other hand....yucky!!  No where did it said to peel the skin off, so I didn't.  Plus the zucchini is very watery.  I didn't even have to add any breast milk(which I'm afraid means he won't like it, because he is used to the taste of my breast milk).  So I have this watery dark green flecked concoction in my food processor.  Well I did put it into the freezer tray and I will eventually try to feed it to him, but yuck! 

So to all my baby food making mommas, did you have this same experience or did I do something wrong?

Oh and though I would share a pick of Max's frozen cubes.