What is this?

Max keeps getting what looks like hives or a heat rash the past 2 days. Yesterday Max had them on his legs and today is even worse. It's on his arms and legs and looks bad. Tell me what you think. My vote is heat rash but what's your vote? Whoever figures out what this is gets a nickel and a hug!

Balloons

Max and I took a little trip to the Dollar Tree today. He fell in love with the Mylar balloons. So I came across those punching balloons that have a rubber band attached. I blew it up and was happy to see that he figured it out quick. Only problem was he kept laying on the balloon and I was worried that I was going to have an "after" picture of the balloon.

Children Please Avert Your Eyes!

I went to go check on Maxwell as usual on my way to bed last night and this is how I found him. I guess he wants to start sleeping naked to air out. I'm sorry to inform him that isn't going to happen. Lucky for me his diaper was wet and his bed was dry so I at least avoided that disaster. One day he might kill me for this picture especially if it makes it into his senior yearbook, but it makes me laugh!

Riddle me this.

Max before "the change" happened. You can see he made quite a mess before hand. Max left the room and I noticed I had not seen of heard from him. A quite child is a messy child in my experience. Oy!

Why did none of you inform me that a minor change to Maxwell's room would bring a nervous brake down from Max?!?! I thought we had built a relationship on trust and understanding. I scratch your back and you scratch mine! Apparently I was wrong. OR I should have shared my plans with you and you could have told me what a bad idea this was. Whats done is done and now the Browns are all suffering the consequences. Here's what happened.  First of all Max's bed has been away from the wall for a little bit. Our house is not big therefore are room aren't either. At first we had Maxwell's bed against the corner and that was very close to his window. We didn't realize it at first because he was so small but doing this was a bad plan because any time he didn't think he had to lay down he would look out the window. At one point he tore down the mini blinds that were there. So after that we moved his bed down the wall so he couldn't reach the window. Blast! That didn't work either!!! He could reach the light switch with the bed being moved. It took effort at first but he mastered it. I think he would use the light to accompany the music box on his bed. We tried covering it taping it but nothing worked. So I finally got so ticked that I moved the bed away from all walls and it sat taking up a ton of space in the middle of his room. After putting away his laundry this weekend I got sick of the bed being in the way so I started to pull everything out to move the dresser and bed. Max seemed to like it and not have a problem until... it was time for bed. You would have thought I cut Steve (his favorite blanket) right up in front of him. He cried so hard I thought he might never go to sleep. That has happened for the past few days, however, it does seem to be getting better. I'll keep you posted!

Here is the room after I rearranged everything. Remind me to keep it this way. Also I was told a story about how my sweet husband FLIPPED when Yaya sold his favorite car. It reminded me how much Jeff hates change. It goes to prove that Max might look like me but acts just like daddy!

craftastic!

Here are my newest projects. I have been dying to make a camera strap cover for those fancy cameras that some people have. Unfortunately I don't have one but lucky for my sister and sister in law they do and they get to be my guinea pig. I made the terry cloth one for my sister and the pink one is for my sister in law. First thing I learned is it is going to take some major convincing to ever make one out of terry cloth again. It's nice and padded so it will be comfortable but very hard to sew. I know you all have seen my tutu's before but this is for Maxwell's physical therapist Jamie's little girl Callie. Let's see what if anything I can create next week.

The Browns

I know it may seem strange that I am posting 3 videos, but this is the only way that I could post a video this long. I have been feeling sentimental lately with everything that has been happening with Maxwell. I made this video for him right after his 1st birthday. I wanted him to know the story of his mommy and daddy and how much we love each other and him. I'm proud of it, but then again it stars the sweetest most handsome little boy I know. Life throws so many things our way and I'm learning this year that with Jeff we are able to do anything. Also The Browns have it pretty good. We are happy and working on getting healthy. Here's to all the good! Also keep in mind that this is a total of about 20 minutes so only watch it if you have a minute.

Happy 4th of July

Max likes to help daddy water the new tree.



I had so many great plans for this holiday. I'm proud of my town and love being from Edmond. Edmond loves the 4th of July and does it up right. On Saturday we woke up and planned to go to the parade in downtown. I thought that the streets wouldn't be shut down until about 30 minutes before the parade, but I was very wrong. The streets started shutting down an hour early. Papa Mike was with us and we tried FOREVER to find a place and finally called it quits. We called Jeff since he didn't want to go to the parade and went to get breakfast. So first event can be considered a miss. Then on Saturday night we had my dad over for dinner and a movie. I made a great all American dish... enchiladas! Well maybe not all American but definitely delicious! Then Sunday on the 4th I had to work a 12 hour shift and got off at 6pm. We had planned to get ice cream and go watch the fireworks. Mother Nature had a different idea though. It rained ALL day. they still did fireworks, but they didn't start until 10pm. And I had no desire to keep Max up late just to sit in mud in the rain. So I had great intentions of playing outside in Maxwell's new water toys, eating ice cream, going to the parade and seeing fireworks. Maybe next year will be the year to do it up right!

Unpluggits

We found this really great place here in Edmond that Max can go play and do crafts. It's called Unpluggits and for those of you that are local it's between 15th & 33rd off Kelly on Enterprise. Of course we went with Maxwell's crew that consists of Kacee and Nicholas. It's a fun place because there is a room for crafts and things like a play-doh station, a chalk table and an easel to paint at. This time we went in the playground area instead. It was good because there was a toddler play area and a "big kid" play area. Max really fell in love with this Little Tikes tree house they had. After he had his fill at the tree house he wanted to go to the "big kid" playground. He really wanted to climb it but several older kids came and since he cant walk he was almost ran over a few times. I knew he was done after he hit his mouth on the slide and took a nose dive off the stairs and I had to catch him by his face. Jeff would be quite proud seeing as how he claims I cant catch (I cant.) But this was precious cargo. I'm sure it was funny to anyone who saw it. He started to fall and I put my hand out catching his face right before it hit the ground. But there was another good reason for going. I was thinking about getting Max an outside sand table for his birthday. He couldn't have been less interested so at least I found that out now before the $100 had been spent. And my absolute FAVORITE part... it's all indoors! It was cool and fun and we all loved it.

An afternoon of crafting.

Jeff was at an early baseball game today so during Maxwell's nap I finished a project I started last month. It was a bed roll that I was hoping to take to Texas when Max and I went for Eric's graduation but I couldn't get it finished in time. Well I got motivated to finish it today and it turned out really cute. I wish I had an embroidery machine so I could stitch his name into the pillow, but oh well. Also I have been noticing a trend that in my blogs lately that Max seldom has pants on. One of two options either he is turning into his daddy... or he had just gotten up from a nap and had a diaper change. Also Max really seemed to love the nap mat. He kept laying on it to watch a movie. I would say that this project ended up being a success!

Hot Lava

So Jeff might kill me for this but I thought it was hilarious. About 15 minutes before these pictures were taken Jeff was telling Max not to let his feet touch the ground when he was getting off a chair. I yelled out hot lava and took Max to the kitchen. Jeff then proceeded to demonstrate hot lava to Max all the way from the living room across the kitchen to the fridge. It was hilarious and he even managed to get a glass of water. Have no fear Jeff never touched the hot lava! Now the only thing you have to ask yourself is why does my husband think it's okay to put his bare feet all of the kitchen cabinets?