Sunday, August 2, 2009

July 4th with Video!! and Max Update

We spent a fun 4th of July with The White's. Jared's family lives about 30 minutes away from us in San Juan Capistrano. The most exciting thing about it was that Max went swimming for the first time in Grandma and Grandpa's pool! Max has always loved his bath, and he also likes cold things. Really. He likes to hold Otter Pops (he'd probably eat them if we let him), and he always puts his hands on my water bottle or Soda can when I'm drinking. The water was a little cold at first but he didn't even complain one bit! We just put him in little by little. He was smiling and babbling the whole time.
Blowing bubbles with Grandma White
Family Shot
Getting all sunscreened up!

Wow! I can't believe this video uploaded! This is the first video of Max I've been able to get on here!


Max turned 5 months old last Sunday. He has so much personality and it is amazing all the things he can do! Here are a few:
- Puts the bottoms of his feet together.
- Grabs toes, puts them in his mouth
- Roll over from tummy to back both sides consistently
- He has rolled over from back to tummy twice in the last week
- Babble, laugh
- Reach for toys with both hands and put them in his mouth. Sometimes hold two toys at a time.
- Reach for toys when he drops them sitting in his Bumbo.
- Put weight on his legs (he loves this and has done it since 6 weeks!)
- He has successfully been sleeping in his own room for the past month. I wasn't ready for him to be away from me at 3 months, but by 4 months I was ready. Even though I now have to get out of bed when he wakes up in the middle of the night I actually sleep better because I'm not awake with every little sound and movement he makes.
- I don't thing he's really "slept through the night" yet but a couple of times he's only been up once between 8pm and 7am! It was awesome because the night before it was 4 times. But on average it's about 2 times.
- I probably shouldn't name every little tiny thing he does. It's just so exciting to see him discover what he's capable of!

9 comments:

Jared Blanco said...

If you watched the video and wondered why I kept panning out to the very not tan gentleman, I was getting squirted with a squirt gun by my padre.

Lisa said...

Oh man, he is just too cute. He's growing up so fast!

Angie said...

So glad that video worked, he is so adorable! Love that little voice.

Hey I finally met Jared's sister. We have a mutual friend and ended up going to the same event with her. I hope I didn't freak her out when I was like, "I know who you are; you're Jared White's sister, huh?" Lol. She's nice though!

M said...

Oh no, you totally should name every little thing he does. ;-) I love it!

pandorasbox said...

I love the video..I forgot about the squirt guns...but didn't Jared have one or two of those in his hot little hands too. I can listen to his babbling all day long...but I guess with me being a speech pathologist it makes it even more fun! I can't wait until he learns NO!! Then the fun begins!

Jean said...

Yay for little Max in the pool!! What a fun time! Oh my gosh, I can't believe he's 5 months already. That's nuts!!

Justin and Ashleigh Smith said...

No, you should keep a record of every little thing he does because you WILL forget and he WILL grow up way too fast! He is such a little cutie and I do believe he looks a lot like his beautiful mommy!

Jessie said...

Great pics and video! Happy late 4th of July!

Russ and Brie said...

I can't believe he's already so old! He's such a doll and I just want to squeeze those chubby cheeks! And thanks for the comments... you're so sweet! How are you guys? Are you loving living in CA?