{the malley family}: GROWING!

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!

2 comments:

Anonymous said...: Who is he yelling at? Where are y'all?
Love Mom; 10/18/2009
Natasha said...: How cute! It's so funny what constitutes great news in the life of a mother but it's so true ... a good night sleep is priceless! The thing that I'm most nervous about with baby #2 is having a newborn that's up all night and then still having to get up with an energetic toddler at 8am!! Especially since Mark will be gone for 4 months and I will be doing it all myself. I figure if I can survive that then life is good.; 10/18/2009

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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."