Christmas

Christmas Pictures and Videos over at the Max Blog!
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Combining the Two

In an effort to consolidate websites for the family I'm going to try and make all new posts on a single website. So I will be using the max attack web page for future updates!
Stay tuned and check back often for lots of pictures and Max anecdotes.
www.maxattack.typepad.com/

I will post links on Aspen's blog for those who get emails updates. So you'll still get updates! Blogger is just too hard to post pictures on so I'm sticking with typepad for now!

Cheers! Have a great day!

Sick Girl Again

Aspen is sick again. Poor thing has been battling a cold for almost two months now. She has had periods of days where she feels better, but then that follows with several bad days. We are going on day 3 of a really horrible cough and lots of yucky green stuff, so I decided to finally take her in to the pedi today. Please send some get well vibes for her if you have them. She needs to feel better. She has pretty much stopped taking solids over the past month. Every once in a while I can get her to eat some jar food, but its very rare. Plus she doesn't want to nurse much, so I'm afraid she's just not getting the nutrients she needs.

Here are a couple pictures from last night. She looks so pitiful it just makes me want to cry!


Trying to smile for daddy,

Poor baby



UPDATE:
We are back from the pedi. He seems to think that she has allergies. Since the cough has been ongoing for so long he thinks that is what the main problem is. He didn't see any signs of any infections or asthma. So he gave her Zyrtec and wants us to try that for two weeks and if that doesn't help he wants to do allergy tests on her. Hopefully the zyrtec will do the trick!

Also, she hasn't been gaining like I thought. She was 14 lbs 3oz today. That's only 1 oz gain from her 6 month appointment. She will be 8 months this week. The doctor didn't say much about that, so I guess he's not worried about it? Seems like she should have gained more than that though since then? Oh well.

Pictures to share

And a few more because I think she's cute ;o)

Doing what she does best :)

Hey Mama!

I love the ear stuck in the coat, lol


A little help from daddy,

If you don't stand for something....

Aspen is trying so hard to stand by herself! It's crazy! We joke that she is never going to learn how to crawl because she won't sit down long enough. She's trying to crawl though. I don't think it will be too much longer. I'm in NO hurry for her to be more mobile though! It will be a hard battle to fight to get Max to keep all his toys up off the floor and away from her.
Here she is trying to take off the other day.



She'd much rather do this though,

BUSY Update!!!!!!

GAH!!!! I have been ridiculously busy lately. I finally finished up shopping and was able to wrap some presents today while Max was at school. I took my last final yesterday, so I'm done with school for a while thankfully! Aspen is sick again so she isn't sleeping well at all. I'm going on my fourth or fifth day of getting about 4 hours of sleep a night. While studying for finals I usually go to bed about 11pm and then get up at 2am or 3am to study until it's time to take my test at 8am. So between studying and dealing with Aspen during the night while she's sick, I'm pretty much useless, lol.
Max's MDO school was out last week and this week is his final week at his other preschool. They are having their Hanukkah party on Friday that I'm going to try and go to. We are also leaving to go out of town on Friday for the whole weekend to celebrate Christmas with my side of the family.
I finally got our Christmas cards today. I'm going to try and get them out tonight. Hopefully they will get to everyone by Christmas!
Oh and I've been getting picture orders done for a couple clients that I did sittings for last month.
I think that may be it. Somehow I've got to fit cleaning my house and my truck out before Friday.

Some Merry-tainment!

Christmas Foggy Christmas Seas, lol, WITH BLEE!


Christmas just isn't Christmas without "Dingle Bells"

It's Christmas Time!

I love this time of year! It's especially fun now that we have kids. Watching their faces light up with excitement over anything that is Christmas-y at all makes this time of year so amazing! Max is really fun this year too. He is old enough to understand everything and you can just tell that it is so magical for him. Ah, to see the world through the eyes of a child.
Here are some recent holiday pictures and videos for you to let you know what's been going on around here this year.

Our attempt at getting a good picture for our Christmas cards this year. I did them last minute last Saturday and these are what we had to choose from. I think these pictures really show off their personalities, especially Max.








Curt and Max adding their homemade star to the tree. Afterwards Max proclaimed, "The tree is FINALLY beautiful!" (I just realized that the chair they are standing on looks like its about to buckle. I assure you it wasn't, lol)


Max during his Christmas program at preschool. He was so cute! He made sure to hold his star way up high and you could tell he loved being on stage!



A family picture attempt afterwards,


Aspen helping me wrap presents at home. I sacrificed quite a bit so she could get some practice crumbling it up. It was instant entertainment for her!



And the Santa picture for 2008. Max asked for a Batman watch and a robot. I was a little worried about how Aspen would do, but she didn't seem to mind him at all. I think having Max there with her helped though. She can't help but smile when he's around. She loves him, lol.

Be still my heart...

I'm pretty sure Max has his first real crush. There's this little girl named Sadie in his preschool class whom he declared was his girlfriend the first week of school. Since then he has talked about her and how he much he likes her. At first it was really cute, but now I think he really must like her. He always talks about Sadie when we are driving and after sitting quietly for a bit in the back of the truck he will usually say something about how Sadie is a princess and he wants to buy her something. Like one day he said that he was going to build Sadie a pink castle so she could live there and be a princess.

The other evening we were driving home and Max declared his love for Sadie once again. He said, "Mommy, I want to buy Sadie a ring. A special ring with a diamond in it. That way she can be my princess and I can be her prince."

My heart fell into the bottom of my stomach at that moment. I don't know why and I can't explain the feeling, but I had a slight sense of panic. It was like I realized right then exactly how fast his childhood was going to go by. I was saddened by the fact that my time spent with him just as he is now was such a small sliver of time compared to his whole lifetime ahead of him. I realized that in a blink of an eye, he may be talking about buying another girl, whether it be Sadie or some other special princess, a ring 20 or so years from now. Although I'm excited to see what kind of man he will become, I'm also reluctant to give up these years of innocence so quickly. No matter how hard I try though, time just will not stand still. So I laughed and told him,
"I think that would be a fun idea Max!"

The Thumb

Aspen has become quite the serious thumb sucker. She never would take a pacifier and as soon as she figured out how to uncurl her fist when she was a newborn she was addicted to her thumb and it became a constant source of comfort for her. It's really SO cute to, so I don't mind. Lately though she has become quite serious about it. Poor thing sucked a little blister on her left thumb knuckle, which is the predominant thumb she sucks on. The skin on the bottom of her thumb is also chapped with a rash from the constant sucking. She has been trying to suck on her index finger instead or her other thumb, but you can tell it just isn't the same to her. I've been trying to keep lanisoh on the bottom of her thumb and the rash is starting to look better.
Little Sweetpea

A Family of Elves

Send your own ElfYourself eCards

Turkey Legs

At Max's school on Thanksgiving day they made a craft. I assumed that most kids make top hats or feather headresses to represent pilgrims and indians. Max's class made Turkey leg hats. He was sooooo proud of his hat too. Curt thought they were champagne bottles before I had to tell him otherwise,

Update on Vaccination Situation

So last Tuesday I called the pedi and talked to someone about what needed to be done to get Aspen's shots. It was getting close to her being a month late on them (she'll be 7 months this week). The lady on the phone was very apologetic about what was going on with the whole situation. I basically told her that something needed to be done or she wasn't going to get anymore...end of story. I asked her about a delayed vaccination scheduled. She agreed that would probably be best since we were having to pay out of pocket for them. The pedi's office agreed to give us a discount on the vaccinations. I'm not thrilled with the discount, we really only save $40 dollars or so, but what do you do.
So I took her today and she got one shot and one oral vaccination and it cost me $142 today. She will need two more shots in a month and then one more at her 9 month appointment. But Max is going to need shots in January at his 4 year appointment. Hopefully we can get some new insurance soon and have something better.
But the positive side to just getting one shot is that she isn't fussy at all like she was when she got 4 shots in one day. I really like doing it that way.

Oh and she was 14lbs 4oz today. She had just eaten a 4 oz jar of babyfood right before we went, but I'm not sure if that matters or not.