33 Weeks Old

I LOVE OUR NEW CAMERA!!!! Just look at that picture! Amazing. OK, enough of that!

Well, we had a little bit of a rough weekend last weekend. Max had a pretty nasty cold and was trying to cut another tooth.The darn thing finally cut on Sunday, I think. He now has one top front tooth and two bottoms.  He's such a trooper though. He really wasn't too upset...he slept a lot, but didn't let the crud get to him too much. On Saturday, we went to have pancakes at the North Liberty Fun Days. It was a little rainy, but the pancakes were oh so good! Max decided that he wanted to try some orange juice right when we sat down so he and Mommy were pretty sticky the whole time. After we finished eating and visiting with the Vavras, we came home and washed off all of the stickiness. Other than taking in a few garage sales around the neighborhood, we didn't do anything the rest of the weekend. The nights were toughest for Max. That's when he would cough and wake himself up. Saturday night was pretty bad. Eric and I had to take turns sleeping on the couch with him so that he was propped up. He would sleep better and cough less that way. We tried to put him in his swing like we did when he was smaller, but he was having none of that! I kept him home still on Monday just to give him another day to rest and he did really well! Unfortunately, we have had a relapse with the thrush. We are doing another round of the meds and I hope that clears it all up this time. I have taken up all of his toys and sanitized them and put them away in bins until his mouth clears up (because everything goes in his mouth). I have only a few out for him to play with and I clean them every night as well as rotating his rags and blankets because he chews on all of those too.

The biggest event this week was that Max started a swim class. We enrolled with some of our friends for a 4 week class. Everyone seems to be enjoying themselves so far. I don't think Max quite knew what to think of it the first day, but the second day he was having much more fun splashing around and kicking under the water. 

Other than that, not much going on this week. Last night, I told Eric that he needed to get up with Max when he woke up in the middle of the night (usually around 2:30) and of course, that boy slept until 6:30 this morning. Oh well...I hope that is a sign of things to come. It sure was nice not to have to get up for an hour in the middle of the night, but I'm not going to get my hopes up. 

This weekend we are going to celebrate Father's Day with Eric's dad and family. Plans are to have a grill out and just enjoy the day with family. I hope it doesn't rain.

Wishing all of you a Happy Father's Day and Max is sure to have something extra special for his Daddy!

This was the scene last weekend as he was trying to get another tooth through!

Looking out the front door.

He loves playing with laundry baskets...and pulling out my folded laundry

Oooh...water!

First day of swim class getting used to the water!

Taking a stroll around the pool on the paddle board!

Enjoying the water!

My friend Allison and her daughter Ava.

He finally let me float him on his back near the end of class.

This is how we are greeted at the end of nap time or in the morning...he is so tall!

Looking up at Daddy from Baby Jail

Please Daddy, set me free?!

This picture really reminds me of one of me when I was a baby.

My beautiful boy!

Having fun banging on the table.

How you doin?

I just love this picture!

Something else to chew on...

A storm rolled through this evening...here are some pictures.

This is my attempt at being artistic