Max seems to get bigger overnight!

This is what I get to wake up to every morning.

I seem to have developed a "BAD" habit. Every morning when Max fusses and wakes up either Mike or myself goes and gets him out of his crib and brings him to bed with us and I cuddle him and we all go back to sleep. It started out as maybe an hour most mornings and now I think Max is on to us. He has been fussing earlier and earlier and ending up in our bed for 2-3 hours of sleep every morning. I know its a bad habit to allow ourselves to get into, but I just LOVE cuddling him so much!

As I mentioned in my last post, Mike's mom came for about a week long visit to get her new condo ready. We got some good quality family time in while she was here. The usual sunday dinners and little Ellie's 5th birthday at the Living Planet Aquarium. It was so great to have all of Mike's family (with the exception of Grandpa Tony, it is always sad when he's not here for a visit as well) together. Max thinks his cousins Ellie and Ryker are hilarious and extremely interesting to watch.

Here is Mike's mom Sharon, Ellie, Ryker and Max playing together

Wow! What a WEEK!

So I've decided that being a single mom just isn't for me! 

Mike went out of town for a work conference and I was left alone with little Max for the first time overnight. Now, I'm completely confident in my abilities to take care of him by myself. But I just don't like doing it all myself! I knew Mike is a great dad and helped me a ton but I really started to realize it when I had to juggle everything myself. Mike is a HUGE help in the mornings especially. He always gets up with me and Max, changes him, dresses him and helps me load him in the car. On top of taking MY dog out and feeding her. He then goes to work for 10+ hours and then comes home and helps me some more, AND makes sure I eat a decent meal. And those are just the days he works. On his day off he works a second side job and picks baby up and spends time with him til I get home. And on his only real day off he spends the whole day with Max. I am really lucky to have a guy like him to be a parent with and Max is really lucky to have him as a dad. 

I just felt so out of sorts while he was gone. Granted I did get sick and that may have been part of the offish feeling I had, however I believe a lot of it was that my Mike wasn't by my side. 

It was a rough week for a few reasons. This was the first weekend of the haunted house and it felt strange to not be there. It felt like I kept forgetting something all week. It has been about as hard as I'd expected to not be there. I miss all the fun, laughter and in a strange way the stress. I always felt like the best parts of myself came out during haunted house season. I guess its just time to find a new way of expressing myself. As I mentioned before I got pretty sick last week as well. Thank goodness Mike's mom Sharon was so eager to take Max for the day on Friday. I got to take an extra long much needed uninturrupted nap on the couch. It was my first time alone in the house since Max was born. It was nice, but only for a few hours. Then I missed my boys!

I was SO excited for Mike to come home on Saturday. He thinks I'm a total sap and such a nerd but he really is my best friend and the person I enjoy being around the most and it was a little rough being away from him. Someone has to be the romantic in our relationship and it sure ain't him! My excitement for him to return was overshadowed however. I went to our friends Sean and Jamie's house on Saturday to watch the Ute game and meet Mike. Well I got totally plowed into by their neighbor and my car got totally crunched! So that was the cherry on the sundae of my week.

Here's to a better week!

Mike had me send pictures of Max to him every morning while he was away, so here are some of my favorite of my smiley little boy!

Trying to be better about this blogging business...

Maddox AKA "Max" is getting so big. I can't believe he's already two months old. He is truly a little ray of sunshine in my day. He is starting to smile and coo and jabber a ton. Yesterday morning while Mike and I had him in bed with us hanging out he was having his usual discussion with the pictures above our bed and he full on giggled. It was really more of a chuckle than anything but none the less it was ADORABLE! We both just looked at one another and laughed. Those are the moments we live for. I had never been so happy in my whole life, well since he smiled a real smile for the first time, and the day he was born and pretty much everyday in between.

Being this kid's parents is by far the most rewarding thing I think either of us has ever done with our time. Each day I think I can't possibly love him more and then the next morning when I wake up to his sweet whimper and cry for me I do love him more than the day before.