Nine months old

Yup. I know it is true...It has already been another month and Maddux is 9 months old as of January 28th. I know I say it every month...but what the heck? STOP GROWING! haha ok so he is really fun but still my baby is getting too big too fast for my liking. I am such a crazy mom I can already tell I am going to be one of those that cries at all his birthdays and just think he is going to leave me and never look back haha. oh jeeze. Anyway on his 9 month birthday he had his check up at the doctors. He is lookin good but my little man is just so little haha.

Here are his stats:
Weight: 18 lbs 8 ounces (18%tile)
Length: 28 inches (42%tile)
Head Circumference: 17.7 inches (42%tile)

He had to get one shot this visit because they were out of it last time so I felt bad for him on that because usually at nine months they don't have any. But at least he only had to get one this time and he cried a little but then looked up at me and smiled and was being so tough. I have such a tough little man. He just makes me smile so much. Also while he was there I asked about his cough that has been making him throw up and his fever and the doc said he would give him an antibiotic and then he checked his ears and my mellow baby had the start of a double ear infection and we didn't even know because he hasn't even been that cranky. Poor baby. Well now he has the medicine and is on day 6 of 10 days so it is really helping him a lot. He doesn't have a cough anymore and he seems to be feeling better. It is bubble gum flavored and he LOVES it he always opens his mouth for more when he is done taking it. It is so funny. Well, at least we don't have to fight him to take it. He also got his cyst by his eye checked and the doctor said it should hopefully be going away on its own but if it doesn't by a year they might have to drain it, but for now it isn't dangerous and he said it should be fine unless it noticeably starts growing.  Everything else is going well as far as the doctor is concerned and he will be going again when he is a year. I can't believe he will be a year in three short months. CRAZY TALK! 

Here is a little about our little "M" at nine months old:

**He loves his Sunday after church naps (evidence above :)) Doesn't he look so precious and peaceful when he is sleeping. Awwwww he melts my heart.
**Maddux does the cutest thing when we say we are gonna get him or growl at him he will smile crawl away and burrow his face in the bed or pillow like he is hiding from us.
**He wear size 3 diapers and size 6-9 and 9-12 depending on the brand in clothing.

**He enjoys Sparky's crate....up that is right he climbed into this the other day while we were at Grandma Julie's. He was loving all the attention after and all the pics we were taking of him....What a stinkin Cute ham!
**When we cough he will mimic us by doing his fake cough it is so funny. How does he even know to do that? Silly boy. 
**He is still loving our CDs and flings them off of the stand. It is like a game to him he gets some sort of excitement out of it. Silly boy. I don't mind cuz he can't hurt them. I just clean them up when he goes down for a nap and he usually comes and gets them again when he wakes up haha I probably clean them up 3 or 4 times a day.

**Maddux has become such a busy body and is everywhere...he is just all over the place and is so fast it is hard to keep track of him. Man when he starts walking I am going to be in trouble. haha
**Dux is always trying to copy us and follow us around everywhere. He is very into the mimicking thing lately.
**He really likes to be outside which is sad right now since it is cold but even when we are only outside for a sec from the car to the store he is loving it.

**Maddux loves the make his cheesy smile face...especially at Grandpa Doug. My day will do it to him and he will do it back it is so cute. This pic was taken on my mom's birthday at Red Robin.
**He always smiles after he sneezes...He thinks it is funny which then makes me laugh and then he laughs more and it is a big cycle...so fun
**He is starting to like to walk while holding onto our fingers. He is getting really good at it. I wonder when he will walk on his own? probably around a year but I wouldn't be surprised if it were sooner.

**One day on our way home from my parents he decided he was going to be extra fussy so we decided to give him a bottle. He doesn't have bottles very often but it is so cute to watch him feed himself. I was chillin with him in the back seat of the car to try to cheer him up. Oh and after this picture was taken he started coughing his flemy cough he has which made him gag and throw up all over so all the food he just ate came right back up and I ended up nursing him when we got home anyway. oh well.
**He still loves paper...everything about it: the feel, the sound it makes, and the taste...yes the taste he is always trying to eat paper....stinker I don't want to find anymore paper in his poo
**Maddux is loving the little girls in our ward right now. He is such a flirt. There are these twin girls that he loves to follow around, and then there is a little girl a month younger than him that I always tease they will date one day (She is adorable) and then there is a new little cutie that is a little older than him that he likes to follow around cuz she just learned to walk. During sacrament meeting we usually end up in the foyer with all these cute little girls.

**This is at the doctors office for his nine month check last Friday. Isn't he so cute he loved the crinkly paper on the bed and the mirror. He even kept giving himself kisses it was so cute.
**He gives us kisses now. This milestone makes me the very happiest mama ever! When we ask for a kiss he will open his mouth and lean toward us. Yesterday I was laying on the bed and complaining of my headache to Ty and all of a sudden Little M came and gave me a kiss with out me even asking. This is the first time he has given a kiss without us asking for one first. I wanted to cry it was sweet.
**Maddux has started to lean toward us when he wants us. If someone else is holding him and he wants me or Ty he will lean to us telling us he wants us to hold him. Or he will be right at our feet waiting for us to pick him up. So cute. 

**He still loves to be naked...that is his favorite part of his check ups is when he gets to chill in his diaper and goes to get weighed.
**Maddux still loves the bathroom because he likes that it is a different floor in there cuz the rest of our apartment is carpet. We have to close the door or he would be in there getting into toilet paper and the trash for hours. yuck.
**He celebrated his first New Years Eve in his ninth month.

**He likes to follow uncle Zach's yo-yo around the house. Zach was pulling his yo-yo around and Maddux was following him for like 20 minutes it was so cute to watch
**He doesn't fall asleep in our arms very often so when he does we really cherish it and he did twice this month with me while he was eating so of course I snuggled him and took a nap with him and I seriously LOVED every minute. If he would nap with me snuggling him every day I totally would, but he usually prefers his bed.
**He likes to roll his little ankles around. He will just be sitting there watching TV or something and just roll around his ankles I love to watch it it is so funny and cute.

**His favorite toys are still his rings and he LOVES his soft Elmo book he gets so interested in it like he is reading it to himself and he likes to twist it in his hands and pass it off between both hands.
**Baby Einstein is still his favorite show. If he is sad it always cheers him up. If he is having a hard time eating if we turn that on in the background he does awesome....he also still likes dinosaur train and the cat in the hat.
**Dux loves bread. He is constantly wants to steal our rolls or bread when we are eating. Of course we share with him.

**He is always so mischievous and likes to get into everything. He likes to explore and learn what everything is.
**He is such a good little eater. He had his first real non baby food banana and peas this month and he liked them both especially the peas. He is also still doing really well with the nursing and nurses about four to five times a day.Dux also loves the feed himself finger foods with no help. He likes to eat baby Cheetos and puffs (we call those his treats...and when we ask him if he wants some treats he gets so excited. His breath always smells like Cheetos haha) all by himself. Such a big boy :)
**Maddux is usually found right at our feet lately. Very clingy and likes to follow us around. He wants to know we are not going out of his sight. I don't know where this fear of us leaving him is coming from.

**He always has such a huge smile on his face. He is so easy to get to laugh or smile and show off his new teeth.
 **Maddux likes to watch sports and Wipe Out with his daddy. It really keeps his attention and he will even snuggle with daddy while watching them. 
** He loves cords. Any kind of cord: to the vacuum, a charger any thing and it is a pain in the butt because of course we don't want him playing with electrical cord but this boy is so hard to keep away from them.

**Do you see those top two teeth. Yup he had 2 bottom ones last month and now he has two more on the top. They are so cute. They both came in on the same day and they have a cute little gap in them. He also has two more top teeth on the verge of breaking through. I can't believe he will have 6 teeth soon.
**Little M loves bath or shower time he knows when the water turns on that he gets to have a bath or shower and gets to play in the water. He LOVES it! His baby bath smells so good :)
**He sleeps with his little glow worm sea horse that he got from us for Christmas. He sleeps with him at night and every nap. He loves him. It is so sweet.

**He does this new thing that when we click our tongue he will do it back to us and now he will just do it on his own sometimes. He is in the middle of clicking his tongue in this picture. He is so proud of himself when we clap for him for copying us. :)
**Dux is such a good little sleeper and sleeps about 10-12 hours straight at night
**He loves to play with my phone but he knows when it is not a real working phone he wants mine that lights up and calls people. I am pretty sure he has called China on my phone. Seriously this boy loves electronics. Plus I think he likes to see the picture of himself that it my wall paper on my front screen. I mean it is the cutest little face in the world.

**Maddux has a new open mouth smile that he likes to flash at us a zillion times a day just because he loves to melt our hearts.
**He has had two colds in the last month...poor baby it just keeps going around in our home. The humidifier is helping his nose and cough so much  though and so are the lovely antibiotics.
**He is getting more used to drinking apple juice and water out of his sippy cup but we are still working on learning how to tip it on his own. I think because he is nursing and not bottle fed he doesn't really get the tilting the cup thing like a bottle fed baby would. But he is getting the hang out it we just have to show him sometimes. I can't believe he is working on a sippy. He is getting so big.

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**He has just started to dance. When he hears music he will stand up holding the table or couch and bounce up and down. Ty says this picture he is doing a wrestling stance...I say he is dancing but really he is just trying not to fall.
**Maddux interacts and plays with his toys more and loves when we play and share in the excitement with him.
**He has started to give 5s. Smarty pants. His daddy taught him this trick

**This little man is pulling up on everything and loves to be standing up all the time.
**His ABC wall in his room is finally done and up this month and now we just need to finish the rest of his nursery. 
**He has 3 naps a day

**He loves his picture taken and is always wanting to pose for the camera. He gets so excited when mommy or grandma pull out their cameras.
**He loves remotes but he wants the real ones not the ones that we let him play with (How does he know? the little stinker)
**Dux likes to sit in the cart at the grocery store without his car seat. He is so big. We only do this sometimes though because sometimes he is so sleepy it is better to keep him in the car seat. A couple weeks ago I just had him in the seat and he was getting so tired he almost fell asleep sitting up. Poor guy. He was all slumped over and pitiful looking.

**Maddux has the most beautiful face in fact there was a cute lady at Walmart last week that told me he was almost too pretty to be a boy haha. He does have a very pretty face and if I dressed him in a dress he might even be mistaken for a girl plus look at those beautiful eyes and eyelashes...he actually gets those from his daddy.
**Maddux is starting to learn what no no means and it is so cute to see his little reaction to that phrase. But he is starting to realize that he should stop when he hears it. Good boy!
**He has started to wave bye bye but he does it with his whole arm not just his hand and he is still learning so he will only do it sometimes. But it is fun for me to watch him learn these new things.

**I caught some pretty funny faces of Maddux. The first one is him in the middle of a cough...the poor little guy has had a bad flemmy cough for like a month now. The middle one is his big surprised eyes and the last one is him after his cough medicine no haha j/k but doesn't he look drugged there haha. I think he was in the middle of baby babbling to me.
**He likes lemons. No seriously he does. He will bit and suck on it and make a really funny face but then he grabs for more. He kept doing this with hilarious faces on my mom's birthday at the restaurant last week and the guys sitting next to our table were just cracking up over it. It was so cute and funny. 
**Peas are his favorite veggie and apple sauce is his favorite fruit

**This month he has started baby babbling a lot more...he says "BABABABABA" all cute like. I love it!
**He loves necklaces because I have one that I love that is long with a really heavy duty chain that I let him play with all the time but then he thinks he can play with everyone else's like his grandmas so that's not good I guess I shouldn't let him play with mine so he learns not to. But it keeps him busy in church haha

**Maddux gets so excited when his daddy gets home from school and just wants to be held by him. He is bored with me since he sees me all day long. Also when mommy goes to the gym at night M plays with daddy for a few hours just the two of them and I think they both just LOVE every minute of it and then I am able to get a break and some exercising done as well. Check out my exercise blog here
**Dux loves buttons anything with a button on it catches his eye and he loves the pull at it with his little fingers luckily he can't break them off yet. 

**He has been a little more clingy lately and like to be held a lot more. Which is ok with me....I love it actually.
He loves his binkie and it is constantly hooked to him now. I bought him one of those things that you hook to the binkie and then to their shirt and it is so nice because then when it falls out it stays close and you don't loose it but it is also bad because I am nervous he is getting a little too hooked to it. We will see he is still young right?!

**He has become such a fast little crawler.
**He has started to flap his arms and slap the ground when he is excited and it is so fun to watch. 

**He loves his aunts and uncles and all his grandma and grandpas so much. He gets so spoiled by them :)

We love this little dude with all of our hearts and can't even remember life without him. He is such a blessing in our home and just makes me want to be a better person to be worthy enough to call myself his mommy. We love you baby and love to watch you learn and grow...keep flashing us that beautiful smile and melting our hearts.
Love, mommy and daddy

Little "M"s ABC Wall

Now that Little Maddux is almost 9 months old and we have been moved into our new apartment for almost 7 months I finally got these suckers up on the wall! Yahoo!

...and I am in L.O.V.E!
When we first moved in his room was pinkish white and Ty's grandma said that we could paint his room so we went off to home depot and I found a mis-tint for only $5 and then we got another gallon at regular price but we ended up saving $25 and it was the perfect color we were looking for. I love the brown with the white trim. Thank you mom for helping practically painting the whole room for me. :)

Also I will get better pictures of it later but that dresser right there on the right Ty and I redid too! We got it done actually before Maddux was born so that was nice. We got it for FREE yup that's right Free. It doesn't get much better than that. When we got it it was a sold oak old brown color with gold hardware and I really wanted to paint it blue. So my mom and I went to Lowes down in St. George while our boys were golfing and again we found this PERFECT color in a mis-tint and I got a whole gallon for only $5. And we didn't even use half of it to do the whole dresser. We also decided to do rope pulls for the hardware and it is so fun for a boys room. We are also working on a project right now for above his crib that we will be using some more of that blue paint for. I will post pictures of it as soon as it is done. So make sure to check back.

So back to the ABC wall. I have wanted one of these ever since I found out I was pregnant with Maddux. This was my inspiration and I just wanted to do my own version of it. Well I have been collecting these bad boys from back when I was preggers. I bought some and my mom gave me over half of them for one of my baby showers. Isn't that soooo awesome of her?! She is amazing and she wanted me to have this wall just as much as I did. We got them from different stores such as Hobby Lobby, Walmart, Roberts and JoAnnes because we wanted different fonts, styles and sizes. We got them all plan and none of them had color on them so we could pick out the colors to match his room. As soon as we got them all. My mom and I got to work choosing the paint and the paper that we wanted to cover them with. I used some I had, some my mom had, and I bought some new.

...Then we got to work and painted some plain colors and Mod podged paper on the others. Little M's room is Blue and Brown with an accent of red if you cant tell. After we got them all done it was time to get them up on the wall. I first placed them down on the floor in an area that I measured the same as the space I had on the wall and I laid them down how I wanted them to look and took a picture and then I used that picture as a map for when I put them up on the wall and Wala! This is the finished ABC wall. We still have a lot to get done with his room but once everything is up I will take a picture of his whole room completed hopefully that will be within the next few weeks. I know most people get their nurseries done before the baby gets here but since we were moving just 2 months after he was born I couldn't do it before and then after the move and everything I am just getting to it but I am loving it and Maddux is getting to the age that he loves having colorful stuff on his walls too.

I also love that the ABC wall is cute for not only babies but he can have this in his room when he is a toddler and a growing kid. It will be so fun to teach him his ABCs from this wall and he can see them whenever he wants.

My favorite part is for all 27 characters up on the wall to complete the ABCs (the alphabet and the & symbol = 27 if you were wondering where I go that from haha) I only had to put 1 nail hole in that whole wall. Yup ONE! and it was for the O which is the clock. The rest of the letters were hung up with these bad boys....Command strips. My mom introduced me to these and I just think they are the best things ever invented.  If you have never used these...you HAVE to. They are awesome and you don't have to worry about all the holes especially if you are renting. I only had to get 2 packages of 12 and I got $1 off coupons online for each package so for both it was like $10 and so worth it.

....Now I just can't wait to finish the other projects for his room and get them up on here for ya'll to see.

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Little M's wall has been featured at: Creative Catalog, and Craft Gossip Home and Garden

Self-Portrait Fun!

Yup, This is me and the many faces of me. LOL. I felt a little weird doing this at first but just like Ashley at LMM said, it is really fun. So I took her challenge and joined in on the "Self Portrait Link Party". I don't quite pull it off like she does but it was still a blast. I love this blog you should for sure check it out if you haven't already. I love her outlook on life, her mommy stories and her fashion. Also you should join the PARTY! Who doesn't like a good party anyway.

Ashley writes on her blog:

Yep, we're really doing this.

We're busting out the camera,

setting aside our fears,

stepping out of our comfort zone,

channeling our spunk,

embracing the beauty that is YOU,

capturing the moment,

and then posting those pictures

right here, right now

so others can see

your shining faces!

A cute girl from here said this about the link party: "No this is not a contest to see who is the hottest! it's about embracing who you are. Loving yourself and being proud of yourself."

This is why I love these parties because then I can see what other lovely and talented bloggers are out there. Mine is more like just a journal but I love to look at the craft/ DIY/ fashion/ photo/ other talents blogs. I am a bit addicted actually.

Welp...here I am...no censoring...just my goofy self

Lady gagaing it up

The closest thing to a serious glamour shot I got haha...embarrassing much? yeah Maybe Ty will like it at least I don't know

Hmmmmmm

Last one is me thinking about how I need to get to the gym...As you can tell I'm not took excited about that, but this baby weight has got to come off sometime right?!

I love being a wife and mama!!!!

I'm a stay at home mommy

I attempt to cook

I love to clean

I'm a house wife

I like teen shows

I love to blog stock

I like to run

I am gonna teach PE one day

I like to decorate 

I love my family

I went to the Dashboard Concert here in SLC with my little sister and I frikin had a Blast! It reminded me of my single college days of going to concerts and pushing my way to the front...touching the railing, singing my heart out, getting pushed around and just plan having a fantastic time. It was such a fun experience to go with my little sis and let her see that crazy but fun side of me. I hope I didn't freak her out too much. I LOVE being a mommy but it was fun to have a night off and just let my hair down for a bit. Ty was the best hubby ever and stayed home to play with our little M all night. What a good Daddy. 

Me and Manda Panda...at the concert

Oh and of course I had to buy my shirt to prove I was there and yes I did push myself to the very front. I almost touched Chris. If you don't know already I get a little crazy around celebrities, Especially if I Love their music.

I'm not sure why I am surprised here but I do like workin me some Lady Gaga poses!

L.O.V.E. 

Perfect for the Hubby! 

(don't you think he should keep this on his night stand?) haha

Perfect for V-day coming up.

This is my .Pretty little Liars. picture

Have you ever seen this show?

Haha well confession time:

It is on ABC family and is probably geared more toward teens not 20 something year olds but I love it and am addicted to it. In fact the time when we were moving and didn't have cable for a while I missed it and need to get caught up on hulu. The show is based off of books which I need to hop on over to the library and get ASAP

It is also a pretty good secrets picture...don't ya think? 

Which reminds me Ashley also has this Sisterhood of Secrets segment that is really interesting to read about.

I think I should be her mascot or whatever haha j/k

Baby Maddux just woke up from his nap so it is off the computer time and back to real life. Playing with the babe and enjoying every since laugh and smile. Make sure to visit LMM and link up to her party! 

Loves-Whit!

8 months old

I seriously can't believe this little bugger is 8 months old. Well he is technically 8 1/2 months old but this post and the picture are from when he turned 8 months on Dec. 28th 2010. He is continuing to learn and to grow and is just a happy pleasant fun little man. He is our whole entire world everything we do is for him and we just love staring at him, playing with him, teaching him and making him laugh. He was so spoiled this month with seeing all his family and cousins and with all the fun parties and get togethers for Christmas and New Years. Pretty much his whole 8th month was a party. He is getting cuter and even more fun every single day. I don't know how that is possible but he manages to do so :)

 Here is a little about our little "M" at 8 months old:

 **In his 8th month he had his First Christmas- This is daddy and Maddux on Christmas morning right before going downstairs to see what Santa Brought 12-25-10
**He had fun at the Ulrich Christmas party and the Jacobs Christmas Eve party

**Maddux loves the lights on the windows and the tree-decoration for Christmas. He is mesmerized by them and likes to eat the ornaments off the tree too.
**He did a lot of Christmas shopping with mommy 

**Yes, he is naked here. HE LOVES to be naked he tries to crawl away before I can get his diaper on him. He would be naked all day if I would let him.
**He loves Ty's cousins little boy Carson and they have so much fun together. Carson is only 7 months older than Maddux and I think they will have a lot of fun together when they get older especially. 

**He is still in love with his binkie. This could be a problem later but I don't see anything wrong with it now in fact it is kind of nice that he can soothe himself  sometimes.
**This cutie pie is getting so stinkin big and too smart for his own good he just learned how to pull himself up one stair at grandma and grandpa Ulrich's house. He gets better at it each time we go over there and thinks it is a fun new trick. 

**He is such a happy baby and is constantly laughing and smiling. Even when he is upset we can make a funny face and he will smile at us.
**He loved being able to hang out with all of his cousins during the holidays and has a lot of fun playing with them and following them around. 
**Dux loves his grandma and grandpa Jacobs and his grandma and grandpa Ulrich

**Maddux loves food and is such a good little eater. He is eating fruits, veggies and some meats. He has also had a little bit of ham, turkey and mashed potatoes.
** Maddux can feed himself his baby Cheetos and puffs. It is fun to watch him pick them up and feed them to himself he has gotten really good at it and doesn't want us to help him. We call them treats and whenever I ask him if he wants a treat he goes crazy and gets all excited he knows exactly what treat means :)
**He also just tried the baby mum mums and loves them...they are rice cakes and they don't leave a mess on them. He also just tried the dried yogurt bites and seems to really like them. I tried them and they are pretty good :)

**Little M is crawling...like real crawling now not just scooting and he is sooooo fast at it. He is a little maniac.
**He was so spoiled this month and got to see daddy a lot more during Ty's 3 week Christmas break. Maddux loved his daddy time and all the extra attention.
**The Christmas lights at temple square were his favorite...he couldn't get enough of them and he loved just being in the sling on mommy's hip the whole night all bundled up and warm.

**Maddux loves his grandma Julie's dog sparky and his aunt Jess' dog Daisy he will just follow them around and tries to pull their tails. They are so patient with him. When Sparky does try to lick him he has already learned to push him away it is so funny. Also when we go over to Ty's parents house sparky is the first to come and say hi to Maddux he will stick his little head in Maddux's car seat to see him and it makes M so happy.
**He is still sleeping really well through the night and taking 2-3 naps a day. He also sleeps really well in his new port-a-crib. He took a lot of naps in the port-a-crib when all his cousins were here when we did a lot of visiting

**My little Dux has two teeth. They are his middle two on the bottom. He got his first tooth on 12-4-10 and then his second tooth broke through the next day.
**He loves to wear beanies and his favorite ones are his orange Mohawk one, his green one from grandma Julie and the blue one that grandma Leanne made.
**He has some really cute baby mittens that look like little blue monsters and he loves them and of course they keep his sweet little fingers all snug and warm

**He is pulling himself up on furniture. He pulls himself up on his crib, the couch, the coffee table, the TV stand and anything else he can find to help him get to his feet. Whenever I go and get him from his nap he is always on his feet now hollering for us.
** He loved Christmas and all his new toys
**He is a little bully to his cousin Seb who is two months older than Maddux. He climbs all over him and takes his food and toys away from him. You can't tell he is an only child can ya?
**He likes to have his pointer finger up all the time and picks stuff up on his own with his little pointer finger and chubby little thumbs

**During his 8th month he got to go to the festival of trees with mommy, grandma Julie and cousin Ayla. He loved all the lights and decorations and mommy had fun looking at all the trees too.
**He loves his Sunday naps I think he likes them just as much as his mommy and daddy. He always seems to sleep more on Sundays it is so weird its like he just knows. Probably because we would have to wake him up for church when it was at 9
**He likes to sit in his bumbo when he is watching his shows or when he is watching mommy get ready in the morning, but he has learned how to get out of it so there is no more putting it on raised surfaces 

**Dux gives us kisses now and it is so cute. If we ask for a kiss he will open his mouth and lean toward us
**He is starting to do baby talk and is babbling all the time...it is so cute
**He likes to play with the keyboard buttons
**He loves paper..especially eat it which is a big no no the little stinker
** Dux does this really cute thing that when he is sitting around, laying in his car seat or when I am just holding him he will sit there and roll his little ankles around it is so cute 

**This little stinker loves the bathroom. We have to keep the door closed or he is in there. I know it is silly but he love sit. I think because our whole apartment is carpet except the bathroom so I think that's why he likes it.
**He love bath time and showers. He is all smiles the entire time and loves to splash and float on his back.
**Dux likes to stick his tongue out and do raspberries with it
**This little man is the most ticklish baby I have ever seen and he cracks up every time we tickle him. He loves it.

**Dux Loves with a capital L Loves baby Einstein videos and is constantly watching them on the Ipod and has one DVD to watch on the big TV. He will even hold the Ipod in his own cute little hands lay on his back and watch the video without a peep.
**He slept over at grandma and grandpa Jacobs house on Christmas eve and on new years eve and on new years eve he slept in uncle Ammon's room which Ammon was so excited about. We woke up to hearing Ammon playing with him the next morning...we heard it through the monitor

**Maddux loves to hum and make the mmmmmmmm sound he is constantly doing it. I think it feels good on his gums.
**He likes to watch dinosaur train and the cat in the hat on PBS
**He likes to sit on mama's lap when he is watching TV if he is watching a show and I sit down he will crawl up into my nap....aww it just melts my heart I love it so much. I almost started crying the first time he did that. Ok maybe I did cry :)

**This little man is in size 3 diapers
**He wears mostly 6-9 and 9-12 size clothes depending on the brand.
**He wears size 2 to 3 depending on the brand of shoes
**He nurses well still but has bitten me a few times.

**He loves to play with mommy's necklaces, ear rings and watch bands.
**His new favorite toy that he sleeps with every nap and at night is his new glow seahorse
**He loves music it makes him smile and calms him down. when music is playing it gets his full attention especially at church. He loves when daddy plays the piano for him.
**He loves to play with daddy's guitar and it constantly trying to pull himself up on them.

**He is still working on the sippy cup but we need to give it to him more so that he can learn to use it better. He can use it with help but doesn't know how to tip it by himself.
**He still likes car rides and they usually will put him to sleep. He especially likes when it is time to get in the car to pick daddy up from the bus stop
** I found the whole sheep from the nativity that was on my coffee table through December in his mouth on multiple occasions apparently he likes lamb haha.

**This little mischievous boy has a girl scream and it is hilarious but sometimes embarrassing when we are quiet places like church.
**He also likes to burp really loud in the middle of sacrament meeting.
**Dux HATES to have his nose wipes and cries every time he also hates to have his nails clipped which is not fun
**He still likes to be swaddled up for naps and night time but likes to have his arms out

**He likes to sit in the cart at the store out of his car seat and buckled in the cart like a big boy. He likes to be able to look all around and flirt with all the people in the store. We get so many compliments on him and how beautiful his eyes are at stores. I love it in fact just a few weeks ago at the DI there was this cute older gentleman that kept playing with Maddux and it was so stinkin cute his wife just kept saying how much he loves babies.
**He is always sleeping with a humidifier now because the air is so dry this winter if we don't have it one he has dry boogies everywhere but every night we have it on he wakes up clear. So it is his new best friend going all night long
**He sleeps on his tummy. We will lay him on his back but he flips right on over to his tummy to fall asleep

Our little man is so so so so sweet and I seriously couldn't ask for a better baby. I am so blessed to be his mommy and I know his daddy feels the same way. I am so grateful to be able to stay home with him and to teach him and watch him grow. We are so in love with little "M" and feel so blessed and thankful he is apart of our little family. We just feel whole with him in our lives.

Make sure to read on...There is the New Years post below this one :)

Happy New Year

I can't believe it is already a new year the last year flew by...so many good things happened throughout the year most importantly was the arrival of our little man Maddux in April. We hope that 2011 will be just as wonderful.

Sometime during the week in between Christmas and New years we were back and forth between our house and my parents house to see my sister and her family as much as we could before they had to go back. This picture is me, Amanda and Traci playing Just Dance and Emilee is watching us waiting for her turn. Emilee and Amanda were the best ones at this game. But it was so much fun  I just need more practice. 

This is another night at my parents. We were up there late one night playing card games and Maddux just woke up from his nap but was a little cranky still so we put him in his seat, got him all snuggled up with a blankie, gave him his passy and turned on his favorite Baby Einstein for him to watch. He was so good and loved every minute of it and it was nice for us to be able to finish our game. 

The night before new years Eve Ty and I invited my little brother Ammon over for a sleepover at our house. It was a lot of fun and since we just got cable he was in heaven with all the cartoons that he got to watch. He was up until 12:30 watching cartoon network :) He brought along with him some of his new Legos from Christmas and so the next morning he was setting them up and taking picture of them. I later found a couple on my camera. So cute.

For New Years Eve we came up to my parents and spent the night that night there too. We laughed, talked, played games, cooked, ate junk food, and just hung out all night. At 10:00 pm we had a little pretend New Years celebration for the little kids so they could go to bed and then the rest of us stayed up and played card games and ate and celebrated the real thing at midnight with the older bunch.

Happy New Year at 10pm...shhh don't tell the little one's they didn't stay up until midnight haha. They wouldn't have made it anyway they were getting really tired. But this way they were still able to yell happy new year and use the noise makers. Plus from where my sister and her kids were from it was midnight in their time zone so that counts for her kids right?! haha

Ammon and Zach are very excited for the new year to start...either that or they are just excited to stay up late and get a sugar high either way they were having a lot of fun.

I think the neighbors and the cars driving by probably thought we were a little crazy when they saw us and heard us with our noise makers and screaming happy New year on the front porch at 10pm haha oh well it was a blast and this way the babies could go to sleep and wouldn't get woken up by all the noise later. 

Ty and I taught my family how to play a card game called Lucky Under. It is so much fun and they all loved it. It is my dad's new favorite game and he doesn't like many card games. 

Even Zach and Emilee played with us. Ammon was on a team and would pick a different partner each game but he later caught on from watching us play so many times that he knows how to play on his own now too. 

I think we all had a lot of fun! But I ate way too many peanut butter cookies and fudge.

Me celebrating the new year! Very excited for a new and fresh start :)

BTW those little maracas were Maddux's and Seb's favorite toys ever. Maddux still plays with his. I guess I should have just gone to the dollar store and got a bunch of toys like that for him for Christmas haha. 

 This is the real Happy New Year Celebration at midnight witht he older clan. 

Cheering to the New year with our sparkling grape cider. MMM...

Me and my cute hubby bubby starting off the New year right with smiles, loves and right next to each other. I love you honey and I'm excited to see what this year brings us as a couple and as a family. 

After midnight we finished our game and went off to bed. 

On New Years day we headed over to Odgen for the Ulrich New Years day lunch and Volleyball tournament. It was a lot of fun to be able to hang out with the Ulrich clan and eat yummy food and watch the Odgen Ulrich's vs. the Salt Lake Ulrich's in Volleyball. Ty played and did really good and Maddux and I watched with some of Ty's cute cousins. The Salt Lake Ulrich's ended up losing but it was so close I thought we almost had it. Darn. I would have played but I am pretty sure I would have just made our lose even worse not better.The rest of that day we hung out with my family again and then headed to Ty's mom and dads for dinner and a game. It was such a fun and relaxing day.

On Monday January 3rd me, my mom and Traci all ran some errands while the boys went to lunch. I ended up getting an awesome book called Organized mom at seagull book for only $1.99 and a couple board books for Maddux I also got an awesome sofa table for only $20 at the DI that I will be repainting soon so make sure to watch for that post coming soon and to end the day us girls went to chilies and had some chips and a chocolate molten. mmm.

When we got home it was time for my sister, brother in law and my cute nephews to finally go back to their home in Canada :( We all packed up in the cars and went to the air port with them to help them get everything in and say bye to them. This is Ben getting ready to hit the road to the airport. 

Cute little Julien ready to go. It was sad saying bye to them since we only get to see them once a year. We had so much fun with them here and can't wait for the next visit. 

After dropping them off at the airport my family came over to our place to eat dinner and hang out for a little bit since it is close to the airport. It is always fun to have them over and since it was family night it just seemed perfect. 

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!