We are so excited to welcome our new baby boy in less than two months! I can't wait to smell that newborn scent again and cuddle a tiny bundle all day. Most of all I'm so excited to watch Madden become a big brother. We are anticipating him to do okay with the slight loss of attention, but we're working on teaching him to be "soooooooft" before the baby comes. Mad is such a rough and tough little guy- ex. I just recovered from my second black eye given to me by this wild child. Lately his favorite thing to do is stick both his pointer fingers in my ears and head but me in the nose. It's going to take a lot of training, but hopefully we'll make it through the first few months without any injuries.
At the beginning of November we got an exciting phone call from a residency program in Des Moines Iowa offering Jeff a position! We weren't planning to find out where we were going for residency until match day in February, so we were thrilled to pre-match. Now we have some time to relax and not worry or stress anymore. Des Moines was our first choice, so it was an easy answer to give them when they called. I am so proud of my man. Everything we've been working toward for the last 4 years has led up to this, and I'm so grateful for all of his hard work and huge sacrifice he's made for our family. We're planning to move mid-March so it's going to be pretty crazy packing with a new baby and a totally nuts toddler, but we can't wait to get out there and get settled. We're going to freeze our Florida buns off for the next few years, but we're going to love it!
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| Seriously, how cute is he?! |
I can't believe I almost have a two year old!! At 22 months, Madden...............
- He talks constantly and makes everyone laugh all day long- including himself. The best thing is listening to him talk through the monitor when we wakes up. I think his mouth opens before his eyes do, and he starts talking and laughing and calling for Dadda at the top of his lungs. It's so sweet that he calls for Jeff, but he never acts too disappointed when he sees me come in the door- as long as I have a sippy cup of milk to offer. Also, I always know before I go in to get him if he's messy because I hear, "yuck mom, yuck!" over and over through the monitor. At least there's no surprises!
- Some of the words or things he says most often... book, bike, dog, cat, yuck, stuck, this, that, elbow, chin, eyes, head, bye bye, stop, go, up, down, what, why, on, off.
-He's getting very stubborn about certain things too, and doesn't like it when I tell him no. Whenever I do tell him no, he furrows his brow and points his finger at me and stays "stop mom!" I've been trying my hardest to put a stop to that madness and I'm trying to teach him to just say, "OK, mom" when I tell him no. And just this week, he's started doing it! Success!! I love how he says it too, "Oh tee, mama."
-Whenever he loses something, he comes over to me looking confused and holds out his hands and says, "where go?"
- When Madden is really excited, his voice gets really high and squeaky. Anytime he sees something new or exciting, he gets so happy and squeaky and says, "Wow, dat!" or "WHOA, what's dis!!!!" He's just recently started to notice my growing tummy, and he lifts up my shirt and points to my tummy and says, "whoa what's dis??"
- Every time I go and get him out of his crib, he likes to walk out of his room on his own and says over and over, "Hi! Hi! Hi!" to all his toys he missed while he was sleeping.
-Whenever I ask him if he like something, he says, "YA I DO!!" It's the cutest.
- When I'm putting him to bed, we usually sit in the chair and snuggle for a bit, and then I stand and hold him a little longer before putting him in his crib. As soon as I stand up, he perks up and points back at the chair and begs, "sit, sit, sit!"
- This is totally my fault because he doesn't exactly where clothes everyday, but whenever I'm putting a shirt on him he thinks we're going outside. He starts jumping up and down and says, "bye bye?" and runs to the door. This kid hates being inside. We can't wait to give him a back yard to run wild and free!
- And whenever he's having a really fun time playing or exploring, he turns to me and says, "Fun mom! Fun!" I shouldn't be so excited that he's talking so well because it just means he's growing up and getting big too fast, but every time he does something new I completely melt into a puddle. Being a mom is the best.
- Madden's favorite movie of all time is Rescuers Down Under, which is fine by me because that movie is awesome. He will sit and watch almost the whole thing, which is amazing because for the first time in two years I'm able to get something done outside of his nap time.
- He is a little jokester too. When he gets really excited he tries to show off, and usually he'll jump up and land on his bottom, or he'll close his eyes and walk into a wall and fall down laughing. Lately he thinks it's hilarious to stick his finger in his nose and wait for me to look at him. I always swat his hand and say, "get your finger out of there!!" And he laughs and puts it right back up there.
-He loves to dance, play hide and seek, tackle mom out of nowhere, jump on the bed, jump on the table, loves playing with his hot wheel set,
- He loves anything to do with cars. He asks for the car keys all days long and takes them over to his bike, flip it onto it's side and uses the bike wheel as a steering wheel and sticks the keys into one of the screws. He can turn anything into a car and its so fun to watch him use his imagination. But the thing that makes him the happiest is giving him the keys and actually taking him down to the parking lot and letting him sit in the drivers seat and play. He could sit in there for hours, and sometimes Jeff and I will take shifts sitting down there with him.
- Even though Madden can open all the doors, he's started knocking on the door first and sticking his face in the crack and yelling before he opens it.
- Madden's favorite room to play in is the bathroom. He always finds Jeff's toothbrush no matter where it is hidden and prefers to use that to brush his teeth instead of his own. He has to put the toothpaste on himself without any help. He also loves to suck the minty-ness off of the floss. He loves the bath tub and he's been taking some seriously long baths these days. He stays in so long that his fingers get really pruney and he stares at them and says, "owie." And lately one of his favorite bathroom pastimes is to rip up the toilet paper into teeny tiny pieces, then blows his nose/breathes into each piece one at a time, opens the toilet lid, drops in the TP, then runs around to the other side and flushes. Over and over and over again. He's gone through almost a whole roll this past week. As long as he doesn't stick his hand in the toilet or throw anything other than TP in there, he can do this as long as he wants!
- We've been struggling with eating habits this past month. Madden does not like to eat much other than his milk. Every once in a while I'll give him something and feel really happy when I watch him chew his food, but he'll run off and later I'll find little pile of half chewed food on the carpet somewhere in the house. He's like a little hamster and stores his food on the roof of his mouth. So when I offer him a new bite, he'll spit out his hidden food to make room for the new bite. Apparently he hasn't quite grasped the concept of swallowing and it's making me insane. He asks for apples all day long and he gets so excited when I give him a slice. But to this day, I don't think any bit of apple has ever reached his tummy. He chews it up, sucks out the juice and spits the rest onto the floor. He's visited time out a few times for spitting food on the floor, so now he just comes to me and grabs my hand so he can spit it out into my hand. I'm hoping this is a phase, and hoping that it won't last much longer. He loves his milk and knows the difference between his milk jug and mine and Jeff's. His milk jug has a red cap, and even though the other one is pink, he pulls his out of the fridge every time. He also loves carnation instant breakfast. I mixed it into his milk to make it chocolaty one time and now he's hooked. He knows where its hidden in the pantry, and he points up at the shelf and says, "gish, gish, gish!" begging for it. Heaven help me!
- Several times a day, Madden and I will be playing and out of nowhere he will drop to the ground and lay on his tummy and pretend to sleep. He shuts his eyes and does a fake little snore. He'll peek his eyes open and look at me, and every time I say, "Oh you must be so tired, lets go take a nap." But then he pops right up and says, No no no no.
- When it really is bed time, he all of sudden gets frantic and has to play with every single toy he never even looked at during the day. He's already trying to dodge bed time and he's not even 2! He loves saying prayers and he sits on his bum and folds his arms and closes his eyes for about two seconds. The rest of the prayer he looks at me and Jeff smiling, but he keeps his arms folded the whole time! When prayer is over, he claps his hands and loves when we tell him what a good job he did.
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