Newborn Pictures...

These are the very precious few that actually turned out.

As I said before, our little Max is an INCREDIBLY strong baby boy. So instead of laying contentedly and sleepily in the adorable poses he was placed in (like most newborns), he used his overdeveloped muscles to be as difficult as physically possible for a 2 week old baby. Luckily, Max found that he actually quite enjoyed being naked and cuddled into a soft fluffy blanket. So my talented sister Noelle was able to capture a few keepers :)

So go ahead and stare at our sweet baby... we know you can't help it.

He is just too perfect!

Weeks 2 and 3

Baby Max is now 17 days old and we are only falling more and more in love with our little man! He is growing at, in my opinion, an incredibly inappropriate pace… but since he’s just getting cuter every day we have decided to allow it. Here are some more pictures of our little heartbreaker!

And here is just a little about our Max:

He is a fatty. No joke. You see, babies are supposed to reach their birth weight by at least two weeks. Our “little” Max regained his lost 3 ounces at the ripe old age of 1 week 2 days. At 2 weeks 1 day Max weighed 8 pounds 6 ounces!!! He gained half a pound in 6 days! Absolutely incredible. That’s all I have to say.

Max was circumcised on Tuesday the 13th. Poor little man. Luckily he slept through 90% of it. Which was great…but even better we found him the most incredible pediatrician. Seriously he is awesome!

His little umbilical cord finally fell off on the 9^th leaving him with the cutest little belly button I have ever seen.

Hands down, the cutest thing Max has ever done is fake sneeze. When he sneezes and thinks another one is coming and it doesn’t, he makes this little noise that resembles a sneeze. Depending on how severe his sneezes were affects the number and intensity of his fake sneezing. I desperately want to video tape it because it is honestly the cutest thing ever, but how can I? It’s impossible to predict his sneezes. Any suggestions?

We had his newborn pictures taken on Monday, which resulted in very few pictures because it turns out the Max is a baby hulk. Before the session even started he demanded that he be fed, proceeded to leak through his diaper all over his dad, and spewed the before mentioned bottle all over the floor. Of course then he was wide awake and refused to stay in any pose he was put in, but fortunately for us he is so adorable we somehow managed to get a few extremely cute pictures. I’ll be posting the precious few asap.

When we first brought Max home we were really impressed with how good he slept at night, which as you know didn’t last very long. Well apparently turning 2 weeks old had quite an effect on him and he felt that he needed to step up. Since then he has been sleeping between 4 and 6 hours between feedings. AMAZING!!!

Anyway, as I’m sure you all know by now, we have the world’s most incredible baby and you are no doubt all jealous. As you should be. :)

1 week old!

Baby Max's first week has just flown by! He is such a good baby and we love him so much!

Here are just a few of the millions of photos we have taken this week.

Just an overview of Max's first week of life:

• We are all just infatuated with little Max! Especially Tucker... he has taken it upon himself to become Max's own personal bodyguard. He follows him EVERYWHERE. Pretty sure this is much better than him thinking baby Max is a new chew toy!
• Max is only a week old and I am already panicking! I do not want him to grow up! So far I'm pretty sure his arms and legs are the only things growing. :) but I have been desperate enough to even consider not feeding him! But don't worry, that idea was VERY short lived. He can be fairly persuasive when he gets hungry!
  
• Speaking of eating... Max loves to eat! He will eat his formula from any bottle at any temperature. He's not picky. You can tell when he's hungry when he starts eating his hands and that he needs to burp when he starts to squeak. :) But when he's not hungry he clamps his little lips together and there's no getting through them! He does get the hiccups almost every time he eats which he despises.
  
• Jason has become the worlds best daddy and now feeds, burps and changes diapers like a pro. In fact, even though I had to show Jason how to burp Max, he is now MUCH better at it than I am and is sometimes the only who can get him to burp! How does that work?
• Max is a pretty good little sleeper... most of the time! Sometimes our sweet little Max turns into a little monster. The good news is that this only happens at night while we are trying to sleep, so once morning comes he sleeps like a champ! How awesome is that!?! ha ha Really though most nights he sleeps really well!
• This kid is STRONG! He is already moving his head all over and is always lifting his head to make eye contact with you! He also likes to help hold his bottle and pacifier in his mouth.
  
• Max loves to stretch out! He absolutely hates to be swaddled and acts like you've put him in a straight jacket when you try. He's a funny little boy!
• He is EXTREMELY kissable.
  

Jason and I feel so blessed to have this little guy in our lives!
We think he is pretty incredible!