Yesterday, Maddox and I went with our friends Marcy and Riley to the Jackson Street Roundhouse. Unfortunately, my camera batteries died shortly after getting there, so we only got a few pictures. The boys had a TON of fun though and both were quite unhappy to leave the trains. We'll have to go again next time - remembering camera batteries and a good snack for mommy!!









Last night Maddox and Kaden had a pre-bed snack of yummy fruity cereal. Here they are in their matching bug pj's!



Tonight thier pre-bed snack is popcorn that Kaden talked out of Maddox's Uncle Lewis!



After snack, they played for a little bit.







It's Kaden's last night here. Tomorrow we are bringing him over to my mom's house and then his mommy, daddy, brother, and sister come home in the evening.

Continuing from yesterday

They had Popcorn for a pre-dinner snack


Kaden in my pretty shoes


Maddox's eye last night


Maddox's eye today

Kaden!

Tuesday night, my mother and sister (and kids) came over and dropped off Kaden. He is staying with us until Sunday. Tuesday night he was pretty sad and I had to rock him to sleep. Wednesday, we decided to bring him to daycare, but today we kept him home with us. He was very happy and very good all day!

We started the day out with French Toast. Kaden LOVED the french toast. He has 5 half pieces (oink oink!) But he didn't want any of the mandarine oranges I had to offer...

The boys started out happy and close.


Than one got bored and so they were moved apart.


Kaden was told to sit down and keep his hands to himself... and he did.


But not too long after, he was back at it!


Then we moved on to playing with cars. That went well.


then Maddox decided they both needed their blankets.


Cute little tootsies!


Then it was bath time (they both NEEDED it!)




Then before naptime, Kaden decided to destroy the bedroom.


The rest of the day Kaden did alot of walking around in everyones shoes. Maddox got a black eye from the broom. They had Mac & Cheese for dinner - which was a hit, but not as much as the french toast. And then Kaden and I hung out while Maddox went to school with his Daddy.

I'll have to upload the pictures of Kaden in jeweled high heels and of Maddox's soon-to-be black eye (it's just pink, puffy, and full of little red cuts for now) tomorrow, they're still in my camera.

pictures!!!

Friday, March 2nd, Maddox got a hair cut! I love his fluffy, crazy hair, but it was all different lengths and we was starting to look like he had a mullet.

Before





After



This hasn't anything to do with anything.. but it's just a picture we took when we were playing around that day.



Maddox's Grandma Diane and Grandpa Kirby bought a new sink & cabinet for their bathroom and Maddox got the box afterwards. Here is is last Sunday playing with it.









Lining up his Goldfish - OCD?!



Maddox discovered a new game to play. He crawls into the laundry basket and yells "I'm stuck!" And then I go and help him out. And repeat. Sometimes he throws in a little crawling whlie under the basket....

Sick

Maddox woke up yesterday morning at 1am. It took until 3am to get him back to sleep. After repeatedly telling him to go to bed, giving him benadryl, and a sippy cup of water, he finally caved. We had school yesterday morning, so at 8:30am, I had to get him ready in his sleep. When I changed his clothes he felt warm, but I figured it was just from the fleece footies, 2 fleece blankets, 1 comforter, 1 regular blanket, and Clayton's and my body heat. Apparently not though because when we got to school he didn't want to play at all. He didn't even want to walk around by himself. He wouldn't participate in circle time either. And about 5 minutes before we were about to come back into the children's room, one of the helpers came in to our room telling me that he was throwing up :( Well I walk in the room and Maddox is curled up in Liz's lap (one of the regular teachers) and there is puke all over the snack table, all over his blanket, all over his shirt, and the poor kid is just burning up.

We came home and rested on the couch, then took a 3.5 hour nap and he was feeling much better. He still had a fever and was still a little tired and slow. He is perfectly fine today though (besides the insane amount of crab in him). He is fever-less, puke-less, and tired-less (and very much so). Whatever it was that made him sick didn't last long. So Yay!

Hello Everyone!

We haven't been taking alot of pictures lately, but Maddox is still cute and still growing alot!

Maddox is a strange and silly little boy and STILL loves to relax just about anywhere he can. His Aunty Amy bought him a ball pit that was on Clearence at Toys R Us and he flipped the thing upside down and laid around in it!



We've been having bedtime and wake time issues lately. Maddox, for quite a few months now (almost 6 I think) has needed one of us to lay down in his bedroom with him while he fell asleep. At the beginning of this month, and also in January, he not only was going to bed late in the evening, but he was waking up at 5:30am! One morning, this month, he woke up at 4:30am and would not go back to sleep. Dad fell asleep on the cough the night before, so I sent Maddox out into the living room with some cereal, a sippy cup, and his blanket to watch Diego and by the time I woke up at 7:30am, he was passed out in his little Papasan chair. I don't know for how long, but I picked him up and moved him to a bed and he slept til 8:30am!



We are borrowing a book from a friend called "No Cry Sleep Solutions For Toddlers and Preschoolers". It is a fantastic book! We have adjusted a few things with Maddox's sleep and bedtime routine that have helped and we are in the process of moving out of his room. I'll be spending 2 weeks sitting next to his bedroom door while he falls asleep (instead of in the rocking chair), then I will open the door for a week or 2, still sitting in the same spot. After that I will be moving to sitting in his open door way, then to sitting outside of his room in his doorway, and then hopefully sitting out of site. I am working up to sitting out of site with his bedroom door closed so that I can just lay him in bed, leave and close the door behind me. One thing is that the book recommends that only one person put him to sleep EVERY night..... So wish me luck!

He has actually been doing fairly well so far. He's been going to bed around 9-9:30pm, which is late, but also, he has started walking up around 8-8:30am! Now it's just trying to get him to fall asleep without me in the room.

About a week ago (ish) I decided that I wanted to make some hearts with chocolate melts and vanilla melts. We bought some stuff at Michael's and Daddy and Maddox helped me! They turned out really good! The only draw back is, now Maddox asks for a "har" every morning!





On Valentine's Day, Maddox and I got to babysit Bella for a little while in the morning. Maddox was excited to see her, but quickly displeased at the way she needed everything he had. He climbed up onto the couch and held his Goldfish and Sippy Cup up as high as he could, just out of her reach!





Here he is yelling "Cup!" at her, to show her that she has her own cup lying on the floor just a foot away from her!



And then he went on to give her nasty looks!



Bella was not offended and discovered that she had tasty wagon wheels to eat instead!



So then Maddox tried to play it off with looks of innocense!



Later on I tried to get some pictures of Maddox in his "Hunk of Burnin' Love" T-Shirt that Aunty Amy got for him. He was less than cooperative.







Here he is commanding me to "SIIIIIIIIT!"



Here are two random pictures - Just because he is cute...

Maddox with his oh-so-precious Diego Field Journal



And taking a drink from his Thomas the Tank Engine Straw Cup



Lately, Maddox has been talking non-stop. He's been repeating words like "Pygmy Marmoset" & "Tree Sap". He says "Cocoa" over and over again all the time because he is obsessed with hot cocoa! And it is pretty cute. Basically anything you can say, he will repeat! It's alot of fun and he is pretty amusing!