Samantha Claire

has arrived!! She was born at 5:14 p.m. weighing in at 7 lbs. and measuring 19.5 inches. Everyone is doing great. We don't have any pictures yet, so I thought I'd share some of my sweet sleeping baby to tide you all over until we get some! Good night!

3 Weeks To GO!!!

Three weeks from today Max will be a 1 year old! I just cannot believe it!! He is feeling much better this week and is ALL over the place. We have some new pictures we thought we'd share.

This is Max's new sleeping position - that boy is FLEXIBLE!

He had a great time playing with the box!

Here is one of the invitations I made for Max's first birthday party. It was SO much fun, however it will probably be the last time I EVER make his invitations again. I would not have gotten them all finish with out Lauren's help! YAY Lauren!! The inside is yellow with all the information for the party. We can't wait for his big day!!The McNultys are expecting ANOTHER girl!! Isn't that wonderful!! Samantha Claire is due to be here tomorrow! We are SO excited for Shawn, Molly and Ben. I wish Sam would have waited until Friday to make her appearance on my birthday (unlike Kelly I think it would be great to share my birthday)! O, well. Please keep Shawn, Molly, Ben and Sam in your prayers. Hopefully, I'll have pictures to post. What a big year for Max - two GIRL cousins in ONE year!! WOW!!

Poor Baby Max

Max is taking a much needed nap, so I thought I'd update. We've been at Children's Hospital since Monday. Apparently Max caught the normal cold virus but rather than giving him a normal cold he got a really bad respiratory infection. He was admitted and we stayed at Children's until this afternoon. I can't believe what a good little boy he was the WHOLE time. He was SO sweet. Needless to say, we are TIRED!! He's doing SO much better and we go to the dr. tomorrow for a check up. Thank you to EVERYONE!!! We are so blessed to have such great friends and family! Here's a picture of our sick little guy (please ignore his mother - remember, I was at the hospital with my sick child.)

On a happy note, Max turned 11 months old yesterday!! All in all it has been a FABULOUS 11 months. Monday was the first time he'd been sick - so I can't really complain. We are so excited about his 1st birthday. I'm almost finished with his invitations and they'll go out soon. We aren't really going all out but are planning just a nice day with family and close friends. (We are also going to have a night out at Cajun's the night of his party with grown-ups - my dad's band will be there! FUNTIMES!!)

Max spends his days crawling EVERYwhere and in the hospital he would get on his knees and try to pull up on the crib bar - this is something new. Also, last weekend we went to Memphis for AC/DC and, for the first time EVER, he slept through the night away from home. He has completely weaned himself from his mommy at his own prompting - no nursing in about 2 weeks. It's a little sad, but I'm so happy he did it on his own rather than me having to battle him later. He's just too independent these days.

He wears 18 month clothes. He's about 25 lbs and 33 inches. He loves to eat but these days he really won't take things fed to him - he really only wants to feed himself. Eating baby food has almost become a battle because he turns his head from the spoon. So, he's getting lots of big boy foods.

Well, I'm so exhausted and am going to sneak in a nap while he's napping. Happy Wednesday.
Love, Us