1st Haircut!

On Saturday morning Maverick had his hair trimmed up for the first time.

Mamaw is his personal stylist :)

 Cousin Dora the Explorer Maya Jo was there to video the big event!

 Look at my handsome guy!

He just needed a little bit cut off the sides and the back.

He wasn't really sure what to think of the whole process!

 He thought Mamaw did a good job!

 He sat still and was very serious the whole time!

 He did wrestle the cape at first. He DID NOT want to wear it!

Here is some video!

Thanks Mamaw!!

September has been busy!

I haven't had a chance to update my blog in a couple of weeks.

We have been busy and I knew I couldn't keep all of my readers waiting any longer :)

So, what have we been doing this month?

Well....

Maverick has now discovered the inside of the fridge. Everytime we are in the kitchen he wants in it.

He likes to play with the condiments on the side door. He always goes after the bottle of wine on the bottom shelf. He must be mine!!

 We have been shoe shopping. Maverick has an XW foot. There are only a couple of companies that make shoes in his size so we don't get a ton of choices. This is his first pair of tennis shoes. He always tries to bite them.lol

 We went to the Amish Auction.

Here is my nephew Brevin trying to occupy Maverick so Mommy could shop.

 Aunt JJ was trying to outbid everyone on a stuffed Rudolph that Maverick squealed for when he spotted it!

(she won!!)

 Mammy found a make-shift pack-and-play. He was excited!

 Cousin Biwwy and I had a fun time people watching!

 We found a big pumpkin!!

 The Amish were selling pumpkins. They let me put Maverick in their wagon for a mini photo session!

 We have been watching Maverick get more and more brave while holding onto things!

 We have been trying new foods. Who doesn't love spaghetti?! lol

 We have been carving pumpkins. I don't want to share the finished product yet, but we had fun!

 Cousin Billy loves being my 'Manny'!

 We still don't sleep!! Actually, he is doing better. This night was kickoff of the regular NFL season. We are pretty sure he just wanted to stay up to see the game!

 We have been using utensils!!! Matt and I couldn't believe it! We bought Maverick a spork and spoon and he does great with them. It's messy, but we are working on it!

I went out to dinner with the girls to celebrate one of my BFF's birthdays! Happy birthday, Kylie Mae!

 

 We have been to a wedding! Sam and Sara were married this past weekend and it was beautiful. Maverick was so cute in his tie! I wish I had some better pics, but I didn't think to take any pictures!

 During the reception Maverick played with his friend Cameron. They look like they could be brothers!

They both have lots of blonde hair and big blue eyes. It was so cute to watch them play!

 We went to the St Mary's fall festival. We only stayed about 20 minutes b/c it started to rain, but it was nice to go and support the church and school. Aunt Sarah and Aunt Lish with us!! (Sarah will kill me if she sees this;) )

 Here is Maverick with his Uncle Bo!! He watched hi for a few minutes while Matt and I danced!

Mav loves his Uncle Bo!



Mamaw and Papaw's zoo!

Sunday afternoon we went to our local petting zoo!

It is also known as Mamaw and Papaw's house!

Dixie and Sadie!! Aren't they cute?!

 Mamaw apparently wasn't feeding them animal crackers fast enough!

This is Mamaw, by the way. Her title is Mamaw Zookeeper!

 This is Bret Michaels the rooster. You can't really tell from this picture, but he has big 80's hairband hair.

I HATE chickens/roosters/etc, but I love that this one is still stuck in the 80's!

This is the real Bret Michaels. See, you can barely tell them apart!

 Baby goat loves to ride on the golf cart. Maverick was not impressed that she took Mommy's seat!

 Mamaw put him in a swing and he thought that was pretty cool!

"Hey Papaw, where do you keep your food and your cups?"

 

10 months!!

10 month Stats:

Height : 28 and 1/2 inches--this was last month and I don't think we have grown any!

Weight: My guess is about 24 lbs!

Size: 4 in diapers 12 and 18 month clothes

Teeth: He officially has 3 bottom  and 4 top!! 

Sleeping: I don't want to talk about it! Lol I think he has been used to getting up a lot b/c of teething. Now he is still in the habit and no longer wants to sleep 12 hours. Boo.

Eating: He drinks about 5 bottles of formula/day. He loves all of his baby food and oatmeal too!!
This month he eat a lot more table food. He likes pasta, bread, ice cream, and oatmeal cream pies!

Movement: He is pretty fast at army crawling! He seems very close to walking. He can pull himself up on anything in the house! He also much prefers this to crawling anywhere.

Words and sounds: He tries to say 'Meow' at the kitties at Mammy and Aunt JJ's house! He also has developed a little mouse squeak when he isn't getting what he wants. It gets louder and longer as he doesn't get whatever it is that he wants!

Milestones: 1 tooth on the bottom, officially able to pull himself up on things, and 1st injury ER trip!

Favorite toys: He loves his new LeapFrog table that he can pull up on and play with. He also still loves cups with or without straws, bowls, his bouncer, and books! Oh and he loves a little ball that Cousin Billy gave him!

Dislikes: sleeping, diaper and clothing changes, not getting what he wants right away, being told 'No' (he will pucker up and cry every single time)

Places I went this month: The Indiana State Fair and the Children's Museum

Other special things about me this month: He wants to be very independent when it comes to eating. He loves table food and grunts at anyone with food!! He also wants to stand up 24/7!

**I can't believe he is getting so close to his 1st Birthday!**

Sleep? No thanks!

My last post was about Maverick's recent dislike for sleep.

The response from my readers has been overwhelming wanting pictures to accompany the post!

The Today Show, Oprah, and People Magazine have all made offers for exclusives!

I kid, I kid. Of course out of the 5 of you followers out there Dana has complained :)

 I thought I would snap some pictures the other night while Maverick was having his own pajama party.

Let me preface this by saying that I know many of you are wondering why he is 'up' and walking around.

You may be wondering why we aren't holding and rocking him back to sleep.

Well, my sweet little boy will only go #2 while standing up!! (yes future Maverick, I will tell all of your future girlfriends about this issue :) ) 

So thinking that maybe an upset tummy could be the problem we let him stand for a few to see if we get any results!

 All of these pictures were taken at approx 1am. He was quite the party animal!!

 He was giggling, screeching, and moving all over. His favorite activity is to push everything off of the table!!

 Some of the pictures are horrible quality.

It was dark in the room and I didn't want to fuel the fire by turning lights on just for pics!

So now you might ask if he was tired or cranky the next day?

I will let you judge for yourself!

Ummm..does anyone know the number to the Sandman?

Yes, this is a blog post without any pictures. I know, I know I can't believe it either!

The reason for me doing this blog is really to remember all of the little (and big) things.

I hope to look back at this, sooner than later, and be thankful that he is back to being a good sleeper!

Right now Maverick thinks that sleeping is funny. He had always been a good sleeper until teething hit.

Now he is in such a habit of waking up at night that it has stuck. We have tried sleep training and it seems to be regressing. I've tried explaining to him that mommy needs her beauty sleep, but he doesn't care :)

Last night (I wish I had a picture to insert here) was so funny. It had been a long day with little naps.

We went to meet Aunt Dana in Greenwood and to pick up Mammy. By the time we got home and fed him it was an hour past his bedtime. I went ahead and laid him down b/c he was so exhausted. He immediately was mad at me. He was crying so I just walked away. After a little bit I decided I should check on him.

He was standing up in his bed with his pants off and jumping as he was screaming!!!!!!

He has never taken his pants off or stood up in his bed before! It was so cute!!

I took him out to put his pants back on and it was like he had a red bull. We spent the next few hours trying to get him to go back to sleep!!

::yawn::

Maverick goes to work with Mommy

Thanks to Aunt Dana we have lost our nanny for about a week!

Yesterday Maverick came into work with me for an hour.

He did much better than I thought!

It's amazing how much persuasion puffs have :)

Here he is checking his email!

 Now he is making calls to clients!

(this pic was taken right before he knocked my big cup all over the desk)!!

 Daddy brought the walker so that Mommy could get some things done!

 He was having a blast!

 You guessed it...Perry came too!!

 Thanks for helping Mommy today, little buddy!!