{the malley family}: October 2009

10.23.2009

VOTE FOR MADDUX...EVERYDAY!

I entered Maddux into the BabyGAP casting call. So we will see what happens, but if you vote for him EVERYDAY, we COULD possibly win the fan favorite vote and THEN a much needed REAL vacation! Here's the link for his entry. Unfortunately you do have to register with family.com, but you'll do it for us right? And here's the picture we submitted for him! Thanks to everyone who has voted so far and is going to vote and will continue to vote! ;) WE LOVE YOU ALL!
http://family.go.com/gapcastingcall/entries/AlliMalley/213491162/

10.18.2009

GROWING!

Maddux just keeps getting bigger! What's up with that? He has finally out grown his infant car seat and is now in a big boy chair. He LOVES it! It is so funny to watch him because now he can see where we are going and be next to the window. He also thinks it's funny to look at us in the rear view mirror and plays peek-a-boo with daddy. He is walking so much now, hardly ever crawls and just wants to go all over the place.
Some amazing news...Maddux has started, for the last week or more, to go to bed early AND sleep COMPLETELY through the night. I can't tell you all how amazing this is! Early for us is like 8:30 or 9pm. It used to be between 10:30 and midnight before he would calm down and not cry for forever in his bed. And then he would wake up hungry at about 5am. Not anymore! Now we have to wake him at 7:30 to take Daddy to school! LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL!

10.14.2009

A GREAT YEAR!

This last year with Maddux has been absolutely wonderful. With a bunch of friends being pregnant and having babies, it is a little bittersweet to look at my own baby and know that he is growing and will never be a baby again. So I had to post a few of these pictures from his first year with us. We love him so much and are so grateful to have him in our life. He truly makes us complete...but I still want more babies!

1 DAY

1 MONTH

3 MONTHS

4 MONTHS

6 MONTHS

7 MONTHS

9 MONTHS

10 MONTHS

OUR LITTLE MAN...ALL GROWN UP!

MADDUX AT 12 MONTHS

10.02.2009

PARTIES!

Here's some pictures from Maddux's little party we had Thursday night. We had some good friends and family over and all the little kids loved all of Maddux's presents. Especially his sweet cousin Connor. He tried to leave with Maddux's new police car. It was so funny, but he willingly gave it back. Now we know what Connor next gift should be! ;) We had lots of fun and it was great to have everyone there, crammed into our little place! I love this picture of him standing and walking. It's like "Yeah, I walk. No big deal!"
Tonight we went out to dinner with some friends for Skyler's birthday and then went and played lazer tag! That was so fun. I can't remember the last time I did that!

10.01.2009

ONE!

I just have to say how bittersweet it is that my baby is not a baby anymore. He is ONE TODAY! He just seems so old, walking so much now, like it's no big deal,,,wearing big boy clothes and shoes....WHAT HAPPENED TO MY LITTLE BABY?!

We are going to have a little party for him tonight, so I will post pictures from that.

MOMENTS WITH MADDUX....

Maddux talks all the time now! But I'm saving these so I can remember them...

Well, Maddux isn't quite talking yet for me to post the funny things he says, but this boy is an "adventurer" Grandpa Donn says. So here are the latest "moments with Maddux."

*The other day Skyler is calling for me to come up from my in-laws basement only to find Maddux standing at the top of the stairs laughing and holding a Dr. Pepper that he cracked open just enough to get some drink out. Apparently Skyler had shoved it into my purse the other night when leaving our friends house, unbeknownst to me, but obviously not the little man.

*I came down stairs because Maddux was being unusually quiet, and I knew he was not napping. I found my purse dumped out with wrappers from "my not-so-secret-anymore" stash of candy all over the floor and him covered in chocolate with two suckers in his hand. To top it off, he had a big smile and his hand out to share with me. ;)

*Two nights ago, after Maddux had his bath I put on his diaper and delayed getting him into his pajamas for whatever reason. About 5 minutes later I find him trying to put on his jacket and light up Spiderman shoes to go outside. It was too cute. I had to let him go out and play.

*Maddux has started trying to get me to pay attention to him, when he is a whining wreck, by falling to the ground and slowly hitting his head on something to show me that he is hurt. He started this in California a couple weeks ago. Friends were over for dinner and he began to throw a fit and he fell down next to a bike helmet. So he stopped crying for a second, scooted over and bonked his head on the helmet and resumed crying. Grandpa Donn says he should take his act to Hollywood!

More with Maddux...

We took a little family trip to Best Buy a couple days ago and while Maddux and I waited for Daddy to be through with The Geek Squad a very tall man walked by in a very long black trench coat. Luckily, he was out of ear shot because Maddux grabbed my hand and says, "Momma, bad guy. Bad guy, Momma." I just had to laugh! And then I told him he was not a bad guy, of course!

Maddux the other day was climbing on something and not listening to me when I told him to get off. So walking by a gave him a little tap on the head and told him to get off again. The boy jumped off and followed me into the kitchen saying,
"Ma! No hit! No hit me!" Totally calling me out! I guess he does listen to me!

I guess Maddux pays a lot of attention to Skyler. While at my in-laws he was playing with some fake little money, handed me some and told me, while pointing to himself, "Go work." Then rubbing his face, "Shave, go work." I asked him if he was going to go shave his face and then go to work like Daddy? "Uh huh."