Take a minute to guess....

We're having another wonderful little boy! We're so very excited! iTs a funny thing because I think I was almost hoping for a girl, but the second the ultrasonologist said it was a boy I felt so excited and relieved and I knew that thats going to be the very best thing for our family!! I can't wait to see our new little precious one! It was sweet in the ultrasound because he gave us three or four sweet little waves, as though to say, "Hi mom and Dad!" or more likely, "Hi Max!" The best part is that he looked perfectly healthy. I'm so glad. Also the docter put me on progesterone shots to hopefully stop all my crazy early contractions. I have to give them to myself in the hip with a 1 1/2 inch needle. Hows that for crazy? I already did the first one though, so its not too scary anymore. I hope it works. Max was 4 weeks early and the docter was just a little worried that sometimes people get earlier and earlier with their babies and my contractions started at like 14 weeks this time. I am just glad that my new docter is taking it seriously. Im sure it will all be fine.

Counting

Max has learned to count ( only in Spanish) but it is the cutest thing. He will point randomly at things and pretend to count them, saying, "dos, dos, dos, dos, tres, dos." If Im ever clever enough to get it on video, you can bet I'll post it.

Thinking about Santa...

Hey there y'all, if any of you have ever enjoyed one of the Abe and Max movies that our dear friends the Marshalls made I am directing you to thier blog again. They just made the MOST interesting post about Santa Claus that I think every parent or future parent should read. Not that every parent should agree with them, I just know that it made Javier and I think a lot and I think its something worth thinking about. Soooo here's the link: http://andrewandariel.blogspot.com/2009/12/do-we-need-santa.html
Its interesting anyway. I read all the like 28 page long comments and those are really interesting too. It appears to be a bit of a sensitive isssue as you might imagine.

What Max does when I am busy.

I dont know how he got this butter off the counter and onto the floor, but when I found him, he was eating it with a little spoon which he found who knows where. By the time I got to him, he had already eaten half the cube! Its a good thing he's a skinny child!

Max LOVES the phone!! If you can never get a hold of me it is probably because our phone is always off the hook because Max is constantly gabbering away with and imaginary Mimi on the other end. I love when he waits as if the other person was talking and then chimes in with "um (smacks his lips and pauses as though thinking)...jabawaja..." HE also likes to hold the phone between his ear and shoulder and walk around the house. He is a pretty observant little monkey.

He loves to climb up on the table and pour out salt everywhere. In this picture he is eating salad dressing.

Of course Max loves to take everything out of our cabinets. I just found 7 out of 8 of our butter knives today in a corner under the sink where they have been stashed for 2 weeks. There is a picture just like this of me when I was Max's age and the other day I was cooking dinner and there he was, sitting naked in a pot just like in that picture. How funny.

On another funny note. Max thinks burps are HILLARIOUS!! Whenever he or anyone else burps he spends the rest of the day growling trying to burp again and pushing on his tummy.

Some people Max loves very much!!!

We spent this Thanksgiving this year in Salt Lake with my grandparents. My parents and little sisters came up as well as some aunts and uncles and cousins. From almost the minute they walked in the door Max showed Mom and Dad and Maddie and Sophie how much he remembered and loves them!!

He kept grabbing my mom's hand and leading her on adventures. He also learned how to say Mimi and he got so excited every time he saw her to shout "Mimi!" I dont have any pictures of him with my Dad from this time, but he crawled up in his lap every time he could. They had a very fun walk around downtown together too! During Thanksgiving dinner Max lap-hopped. He ate all the cranberry sauce on oe plate and then moved on to the next person who would feed him theirs.

He also really enjoyed Maddie and Sophie. I love this picture with sweet Soph! He kept crawling up in their laps and snuggling with them whenever we were all sitting around talking.

Here are a couple of pictures of Max with a super distant relation cousin named Eden. She is two and they LOVED eachother. We couldn't get them to stop kissing eachother this night! She kept saying, "Oh Max!" every time he knocked down her block tower.

And of course Max adores my sweet grandma and Dadu who we get to see every week. Grandma lets him crawl up in her lap and play with her glasses, which he loves. Last Wednesday he sat on her lap and cuddled her for like a half hour. He also loves to follow Dadu around and everytime he finds something cool at their house he always likes to find Dadu to show him what he has.

I am so grateful for family to help love my baby and give him so many rich relationships!