Hey everybody! It's been a horribly long time since I've posted any pictures or a blog - so sorry about that. My good camera is broken and I don't like taking pictures of Max with the little one because it does a double flash and he always has his eyes closed. There are some below - it's crazy how big he's getting!
What's even crazier is that Max was 6 months old yesterday! I cannot believe how fast time is flying! It really seems like only a few weeks ago that we were in the hospital. A lot has happened since the last time I posted. Max had surgery a couple of weeks ago to remove some scar tissue and perform the circumcision they couldn't do when he was born. The surgery was a little more involved than we originally thought, but he came through it amazingly well! We were worried about him going so long without eating - he couldn't have anything past midnight. Luckily we were scheduled to be there at 7am. We hoped it wouldn't be long before they took us back for the surgery, but it was 2 hours!! He was such a little trooper...even took a little nap before they came to get him. All the nurses said he was the most adorable little thing they had ever seen. The surgery took about an hour, and he was only in recovery for about 30 minutes...after sucking down 3 bottles of pedialyte, they said he was ready to go!
Recovery at home was a little scary at first, but he has done so well...only a little screaming at us during diaper changes...but who could blame him! The worst part about it all is he can't get in his walker or bouncer for 3 weeks. Only a week and a half left now, but it's hard to occupy him for 2 hours of waketime without one of those!
I'll try to get another video up soon of him "crawling". He still scoots, but can go a lot faster and further now. When we talk to Oma and Jiggs on Skype, we put him about 6 feet away from the computer and let him scoot toward them. He shimmies his way over there pretty quickly!
This week we went to a 4-hour feeding schedule, so Max's meals line up a lot more with ours. He eats now at 7am, 11am, 3pm, and 6:30pm. He has a bottle, oatmeal, and a fruit for breakfast, bottle, fruit and veg for lunch, just a bottle for the 3pm snack, and a bottle, rice cereal, and veg for dinner. We still feed him around 9:30pm, but he very rarely wakes up for it. He has a pretty big variety of foods now...sweet potatoes, avacados, green beans, peas, peaches, apples, pears, bananas...he likes them all! So far we haven't put anything in front of him that he won't eat!
We're so excited to see everybody when we come home for the Sweet Potato Festival the first weekend in November...it will have been 3 months since most of the Vardaman family has seen Max...you guys will not believe how big he is! Hope you all have a great rest of the week! Enjoy the pics!
Enjoying the fall weather - he can sit up by himself, but we were sort of on a hill so Oma had to help steady him a little.
Hanging out after eating breakfast this morning...love all the fall clothes! This one is a 9 month, by the way!!
It looks like he's sleeping, but it's really just the camera flashing and making him close his eyes. I put this picture so you can see how long he is...we're going to have to start changing him somewhere other than the ottomman!
Playing with Tip Top after dinner.
