All Things Max

Ok, ignore the title for now.  First, a few pictures of Clara because last week, she turned 7!  She got a cute new haircut, and had a swim party with a few of her friends.

A week before her party, I saw an idea for a Candy Land cake in a magazine.  Clara loves playing the game and HAD to have this cake, so I simplified it (a lot) so it was do-able.

Clara and her friends swimming...

 Blowing out the candles (the wind actually did half the job)

(Transition to Max...) 

Aunt Kat and Max at the party



I love these pictures of Max with his Grandma's.  Neither of them were here in town when he was born so it was about a week later that they met him.

Grandma Carla has been here for almost 2 weeks helping out and has impressed us with her "baby whisperer" skills.  She's good at getting him to take a pacifier and rubbing his feet til he falls asleep (with a big smile on his face).

Aunt Cathryn was a hit!  My kids LOVE her.  Benjamin especially does and would cuddle up to her whenever he could.  She flew back home on Friday and ever since Benjamin has been asking where Aunt Cathryn is.

I love taking pictures of the little man sleeping.  He does a lot of deep, profound dreaming...

"hmmm...I wonder what I'm gonna eat for lunch."

I like his baby toes too...my babies have the long, skinny foot variety.

I like watching him get droopy-eyed just before falling asleep.

I also love dressing him up.  Actually, this was Scott's funny idea.  It was midnight and Max was still wide-eyed, and ready for the fiesta...

I love watching him dream.  He dreams with his eyes open a lot so it's sometimes hard to tell if he's awake or asleep.  He must have some really funny memories from his earlier life, cause he laughs a lot in his sleep.  He laughs so hard, that he startles himself awake.  It's hilarious to witness.  I grabbed my phone and caught the last little bit of a dream episode he had (missed the laughing though):

My favorite though is when he smiles.  He smiles a lot in his sleep.  Just once though, I got him to smile when he was wide awake laying in my lap.  I was talking to him and tickling him and suddenly he did the hugest grin.  Luckily I had my phone next to me and caught it!

As fun as Max is, he's fussy and hard too and Scott was sweet enough to kick me out of the house the other night during Max's witching hour and send me off to shop and get ice cream with my mom and sister.  It was heaven.