happy stay puff and giggly stick baby…

my crazy clan of kiddos…

Ah, the time it is a scootin’. So, I swear yesterday I was one BIG belly and all of sudden I have babies who sit up, hold their own bottles, babble like crazy, roll all over the place (Mercy only on this one, Max is too fat and can only roll front to back and then he’s stuck…)

SO, Stick Baby is first in the lineup…
As you may have guessed by my fat comment re:Max, Mercy is AKA “Stick Baby”
Just like her older sister, she is such a petite little bean, only possessing one fat roll per side at the very top of her little thighs. No potbelly or double chin on this baby bug. She is COMPLETELY addicted to her johnny jumper, perfectly content to spend at least an hour twisting, jumping, doing the “lick and wipe” and generally observing the clan mac happenings.

Observing, preparing the “lick and wipe…”

She is mostly NOT happy if you leave her to her own devices on the floor. Since that is simply not acceptable, she tends to hog the mommy during the day, since her brother would be happy staring at the ceiling fan for hours on end. She is most picky about the temperature of her food and is known to “demand” a reheat on the bottle. This usually consists of pushing the bottle out of her mouth, letting formula dribble off her chin, and the occassional squawk. She is also QUITE loud, preferring to spend her days yelling random syllables at anyone or any stuffed animal in eyesight. I’m in deep doodoo when she starts talking. I may have to wear earmuffs. or take more pills. or drink more wine. or… well you get the idea!!
She simply adores bathtime, getting quite the charge out of drenching mommy and every near surface with feet that NEVER stop moving. I envision a future in serious martial arts. That child is NEVER still! She makes rolling revolutions around her crib, the floor and every other surface she can stand for a few minutes. Truthfully, this adorable, smiling, giggling, super ticklish and snuggly sweet bean SCARES the ever loving cr*p out of me. I have a feeling she is going to give me a serious run for my money… (more pills…more wine… 🙂

And now for the Stay Puff Marshmallow Man…
For those of you who are trying to figure out who that is… see Ghostbusters again…you’ll get it. Now imagine that dude shrunk to baby size and wasn’t pasty white and had blonde hair…that is my Max man. He is all rolls, all the time. Rolls on his arms, rolls on his belly, rolls on his legs, rolls on his fat little fingers, even rolls on his ankles! And his chin, that is the cutest of them all! My little man is, bar none, the happiest baby ever. The only thing that pegs his fun meter is loud noises, poopy diapers and a delay in nourishment. I swear he is convinced his stuffed puppy is real. He spends inordinate amounts of time chatting with and chewing on that poor dog. Bedtime consists of the face plant, followed by the face rub, followed by a binky and settling into the middle of the bed flat on his belly where he will remain unmoved until morning when he might flip himself over if he can get enough leverage…and then he’s stuck since he hasn’t figured out how to get enough leverage to flip back over. The good thing about those adorable rolls is that they are darn helpful in keeping him upright when he’s trying to sit! The funniest part of this little marshmallow must be the expressions on his face. I swear he is looking at us half the time, like: “What the heck where you thinking,” or “What on earth is this silly thing you just stuck in my face? Do I look that dense?” and my personal favorite: “just what is HER problem NOW?!” I’m relatively certain this dude will spend his formative years hiding out from his sisters to avoid estrogen overload. Poor guy.

“What the heck where you thinking?”

So for the Stay Puff/Stick Baby major moments:

July 2: Max can hold his own bottle!
July 20: separate cribs…I cried.
August 2: Max sat up!
August 7: Mercy sat up!
August 8: First torture session at Chuck E. Cheese…(oh the things we do for our children)
August 11: First official road trip not related to moving in any way. Headed home to Maryland for fun time with crazy extended family…

So, that’s it for now. Yes, I still have the Bigs who deserve their own post… and my 20 year reunion… THAT is a post in the making…
Stay tuned!

tiffers