Max's First Snow!

Yup, that's right! We have already had snow covering the ground here in Ohio! This past Monday night it snowed, but once it hit the ground it melted. Then last night, my baby (no, not Max actually, but Samson of the canine variety) woke me up to go outside at 4am. When I opened the sliding glass door, my jaw almost hit the floor. Not only was it snowing huge white flakes, it was accumulating on the ground and not melting. So, Wednesday morning we woke up to a blanket of snow on everything. Kind of weird to see trees with red, orange, yellow leaves with snow on top! It continued snowing all this morning. I think we got about 2-3 inches, but the weatherman keeps promising us that it will be 62 degrees on Halloween. We're keeping our fingers crossed.

So, Max got introduced to snow for the first time (and it's still October!!!). He kept looking all around him because it was snowing when I took him out. Of course Matt was at work and I was trying to think of a way to get Max's picture with the snow, so the best I could come up with was to use his little seat. We don't even have gloves, mittens, or any snow gear for him. Just a jacket that it's a tad to big, a hat my mom gave us while I was pregnant (thanks Mom), and some boots (thanks Auntie Natalie and Ruthie). As for the other two babies, they had mixed opinions about it. Grace loves the snow, while Samson can't wait to get back inside.

Enjoy the pictures and hopefully we'll get some Halloween ones up this weekend.

House Updates

Well, we have done some work on the house making it our own. Mostly we've gotten some painting done (a big thanks to Matt's mom and dad who helped with the family room and kitchen). Now I'm trying to work on curtains and pulling everything together. It all just takes time (what doesn't?). So, here are some pictures of what we've done so far.

Max is Five Months Old!

Well it's official today - Max has hit the 5 month mark! I really can't believe it, but I think I'll be even more shocked when he hits 6 months. Let's see ... Max now reaches for anything he can (you've got to be much more careful) and really loves grabbing our noses or mouths. Grabbing at toes and socks has also been a new obsession. We also found some online computer games for infants, so he enjoys reaching for and banging at the keyboard (ahh, your precious and expensive computer becomes a baby toy and is baptized in Max drool - got to love it). He's rolling over, but gets frustrated after he's been on his stomach for a while and usually forgets that he knows how to roll back the other way. He can also sit up for very short chunks of time. Max is now much more into the dogs and will laugh at them. He likes looking at books, yelling loudly, eating his rice cereal and pears, and kicking in the tub. He still only takes short naps, but sleeps nonstop for 11-12 hours a night (usually).

We've had some visitors in Ohio in this last month. Matt's parents came for a long weekend and helped us get a lot of work done around the house. Unfortunately I didn't take that many pictures when they were here (too busy painting I guess). Then last weekend Matt's grandparents and great aunt and uncle stopped by on their fall color tour. It's really nice to have company! Enjoy the pictures and 2 videos!

New Tricks

Well, today Max officially rolled over from his back to his stomach! We had some close calls in the last week, but he could never figure out his arms. So far he has done it twice today - whoops, make it four (he just did it twice while I was working on this and I got part of one on video).

Also, yesterday Max started doing this spitting thing with his tongue. It makes it especially interesting when he does it while eating his rice cereal. These are both from his dinner tonight. Enjoy!

And here he is rolling over.