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My Max

My Max

I love how he always says, "Mommy, I love you bigger than space."

 

I love listening to him singing in the truck when he thinks no one is listening, "Daddy is the best! Daddy is the best dad ever!"

I love how he takes Aspen's hand when we are out and she starts to wonder off. She lets him bring her back to where she needs to be.

I love how he takes pride in his new room and always keeps it clean without me having to ask him.

I love how he never lets us forget to say the blessing before every dinner...no matter if we are at home or at a restaurant.

I love this boy and I'm so lucky to be his momma

Little Smartie

I have to do a little brag post on Aspen. The other day (about a week ago) I have a University of Louisville shirt on and I was showing Max all the different letters and words on the shirt. Aspen was there with us at the time so I showed her the letters too and she said them and repeated each one. So today after a week, I had the same shirt on and she noticed. So I asked her where the "O" was and she showed me. Then she found the "I", the "T" the "S" and the "V" without me having to tell her where they were. I thought that was pretty impressive for only being 19 months old and having only showed her one time a week before.

Little Piggies

Aspen's hair is getting longer and thicker...slowly but surely. I can put bows in it sometimes. I did real pigtails the other day. Her first ever!

Decorations at Stuckyville

I didn't really buy much this year, but I can't wait to add more to our decorations for next year! Now that we have a place that we actually want to decorate, it will be loads of fun to do a lot more than we did this year.

Max wanted a Christmas tree in his room, so I let him and Aspen each get a little tree for their rooms. Aspen's is pink and Max picked out a white one.




We put the Christmas tree in the front room. I wanted it right in front of the window, but with the little couch there, it would have seemed really crowed, so it's off to the side.


The mantle. The cool thing about our mantle is there are three sides to it. So I kinda did a different thing on each side.


The stockings


Some festive garland on the chandelier


Advent calendar on the back of the front door.


Some lights in a glass pitcher in the kitchen.


The snowmen figurines on the tv. The one with the tall hat is an LED one that changes colors. It's neat.


Welcome snowman sign on the front steps. The lights went out on the sign, so I just wrapped some lights around it, lol.


The wreath is the one thing we did buy new this year. It's one with LED lights and looks really nice lit up at night.


And my little Christmas children. Max wanted to take pictures for Curt since he was out of town. So he put a nice outfit on and I put a dress on Aspen and they sat in front of the tree for pictures.

Playing Catch Up

I can't believe how much I slacked off on the blog the past couple months. I have a good excuse though. Still trying to get everything set up in the house. We're almost there and it really feels like home now. I've been working a lot more lately, so between that and the kiddos, life is a little hectic. But I want to play catch up on some stuff, so I'm going to make a few posts here.

18 month appointment

Aspen had her 18 month appointment last Wednesday (November 17th). I love my pedi office and always look forward to her well checks. We saw the NP that day and she spent about 30 minutes with us playing with Aspen and evaluating her milestones. It's so nice to just be able to TALK to a professional about your child and be reassured that everything is going as it should.
Aspen talked quite a bit for her and she was really impressed with her vocal skills at this point. She has no problem speaking her mind and getting her point across, lol.

She's hit a mini growth spurt as well. She is now up to 19lbs 6oz and was 29" tall. Still not on the chart, but getting closer!

Other than that, she got two shots, screamed bloody murder then asked for a sucker and was fine!

Recents

I finally got some pictures uploaded today. My mom has been asking about new pictures. So I thought I would try to post some for everyone

Max fell asleep in our bed one night. He looked so small to me laying there. He acts so big all the time, I sometimes have a hard time finding that little baby boy that he once was.

Max's letters for his room. We did finally get them hanged up, but I have yet to take a picture

Aspen and my friend Kristie's little boy Ethan. He's 10 months old and is about 7 lbs bigger than Aspen. He's so cute and they are going to be T-R-O-U-B-L-E when they get older, lol.

Aspen helping Curt wash the board game off.

And grabbing a quick drink,

The horses in the field behind us are SO friendly. They come up to the fence in the evenings and we feed them carrots and apples and they let us pet them. It's awesome! Some of my family was visiting a couple weekends ago and they enjoyed feeding them as well.
My dad with Aspen,

Aspen sleeping...surrounded by her silkies of course.

Her "look"

TNMNT needs a ride.

Jumping on our bed,

Max looks so tall here!

Max gives me a goofy look every.time.I.take.a.picture. I still like this one though 

Max started Fall Ball last week. So far he loves it, although, it's a little more strict than I wanted. But I guess that's what you get for being on the older kids' team.
In the duggout,

Up to bat. They put him on the wrong side he's first time (he's a lefty batter) so he had a hard time hitting the ball.

Finally turned the right way,

That's all for now...I do have some more to share, but they are uploading. I'll try to get them up tonight or tomorrow.
Thanks for looking!

Pretend Play

Aspen has started doing pretend play and its sooooo cute!!! It seems really young to me though. But I can only compare to Max, and he didn't start "pretending" until he was well over 2, maybe closer to 3. She is 15 months...almost 16 months. One thing she does is she will go to her lunch box from school and will bring it too us and reach into it and get "pretend" food for us and hand it to us (or put it in our mouth) saying "yum! yum!". She will pretend to eat it too. She also pretends with her dolls. Giving them pacis, pushing them in strollers, etc.

Anyways, Curt and I thought it was pretty neat to watch her last night. And we thought it was really early for her to be doing stuff like that. But we could be blinded by biases though, haha!

Day of Firsts Tomorrow!

Tomorrow Max has his first day of Pre-K and his first baseball game of the fall season. Aspen starts MDO tomorrow as well. They are both going 4 days a week from 9:30-2:30. I'm not worried about Max because we met his teachers the other day and he is pretty excited. I'm a little nervous about Aspen though. She's been so clingy lately and just wants to be held. Plus she'll be the youngest in her class since she barely made the age cut off for that particular class. I think the teacher in there requested to get her because she had Max and wanted Aspen too, lol.

Max is really excited about his baseball game tomorrow too. He is on a team with 5 and 6 year olds this time because they didn't have enough 4 year olds sign up for the fall league so they just put them on the older kid's teams. They will actually pitch the ball to them and they get 5 chances to hit it and if they don't then they can hit off the tee. Max will probably like that better since he outgrew the tee a while back. He has 3 games this week! 

I can't believe that summer is "officially" over tomorrow. Not that we've had much of a summer at all this year. It's been a weird one.

Still a Peanut

Aspen had her 15 month appointment yesterday and got one shot and a weight check. She's still such a peanut at 17 lbs 3 oz. But the girl LOVES food and she has tons of energy.
Anyways, she hated the shot. Screamed like crazy.
Her personality is really coming out lately. She is quite the diva and has the little attitude to prove it. Going to have to work on reigning that in before it gets out of control, lol.
Anyways, just a mini Aspen update. And a few pictures from this week

I know this is out of focus, but I like it anyways. Plus Max took it 

Wearing Max's Spiderman shirt,