Portrait Innovations

Hi all! Quick post to let you know I just posted our pics from Max's first professional photo session today on the shutterfly site. We got lots of prints to distribute, but wanted you to see them as soon as possible.

Enjoy! :)

Fun with Family

Happy Sunday all, from a very tired Greer family. We've been back and forth to Lebanon quite a bit this week hanging out with Zack, Misty, and the girls from Texas, along with Adam, Bri, Caitlin, and Gamma and Poppy. Lots more pics are posted on the shutterfly site. Sorry for so many duplicates...wanted to make sure Misty and Bri get a chance to pick the ones they like to have printed. As you'll see, cousin Reagan is a big fan of Baby Max. She always wanted to hold him and help change his diaper. She will be a great babysitter one day!! Isabella loves Max too, but I think she is a little over babies - she's had to deal with them in her house for the last 4 years almost! :) Caitlin and Delaney are always excited to see Max too, as long as their mommies aren't the ones holding him!

Max has also had a big week because we have been focusing on getting his nap schedule down before he has to go to Ms. Wanda's in a few weeks. Currently, he eats every day roughly at 7am, 10am, 1pm, 4pm, 7pm, 11pm, and sometime between 2-4am. We're working on getting him to take 1 1/2 hour to two hour naps between each feeding (at least 1 hour after he eats, of course). So far, so good. It's a work in progress. However, we have managed to break him of needing the paci to go to sleep this week. It was a long couple of days at first, but he caught on VERY quickly, and now we put him down while he's awake, and he soothes himself to sleep with his thumb or fingers. He typically wakes up about 45 minutes into his naps. Most of the time, he'll soothe himself back to sleep. Very rarely we'll have to go in and either get him up or talk to him for a few minutes until he goes back to sleep. He is such an amazing baby. I know we've had a lot of skeptics about our methods, and we understand that we're doing things a little differently than most. But I hope eventually everyone will understand why we chose to follow the BabyWise schedule when Max is a well-behaved little boy. I know Max's cousin Maddie is a great example of how well BabyWise can work for baby and parents...she is such an wonderful little girl and I know her little brother Rivers will be the same. By the way, Welcome Rivers!! Click on the Frantz blog to the left to see pics of their new addition to the family. We can't wait to meet him!!

The new pics also include some of Max hanging out on his changing table - I tried really hard to get a good pic of just his feet, but as you can tell I pretty much failed miserably. :) We also got the camera out this morning for Max's bath. He really has started to love bathtime...you'll see what I mean in the pictures! Finally, if you're wondering who the other little boy is in the pics amongst all the girls, our friends Rachel and Nathan had their little boy Jack over with the rest of the family last night. Jack is 5 days older than Max, and they weigh almost exactly the same. He's a cutie!

Have a great week!

All the Greer men

Gamma and Poppy with all the Grandchildren. Believe it or not, this was the best pic! :)

Max LOVES bathtime!!

New Pics

Hi all! Just letting you know new pics are on the shutterfly site. Max's cousins from Texas are in this week and I wanted to go ahead and share some of them. More to come after the weekend!


Max with Gamma and Delaney (22 months old) with Aunt Misty




Reagan (3) with cousin Max. She LOVES baby Max!


Belle (6), Reagan (3), and Caitlin (22 months)
They LOVE Poppy's 4-wheeler, and even have their own!

Thanks Oma!!

First of all, thanks for all the thoughts and prayers during the last week. A big thanks to Oma for taking a week off to help us out and to Gamma and Poppy for watching Max during my surgery so my mom and Matt could be there. We are so blessed to have such an amazing family.

This past week has certainly been eventful for us. Oma came in last weekend to stay for a week and help during my surgery and recovery. My surgery on Monday went really well. I was in and back home in just a few hours, and I slept most of the day on Monday and Tuesday. Wednesday and Thursday were pretty rough, but finally by Friday I was feeling a lot more like myself. It was so hard not holding Max all week! Tuesday I was going to take a nap and went to kiss him on his cheek, and his face screwed up into the most pitiful pout I've ever seen. I think he missed his mommy as much as I missed him!

Max is starting to show so much personality these last couple of weeks. The video is of one of our favorite activities - Show Me Your Tongue. After Max eats, he is always in such a great mood, and he will laugh and play and stick his tongue out usually for about an hour. It's my favorite time of day.

Here are a few more pics from the last week. He is getting so big...I have to remind myself to take pictures all the time so we can keep track. More pics are on the shutterfly site (link to the left).

Such a pretty baby!

With Oma and Jiggs

Big Smile!

Hope you all have a great week! Love you!

Fun in the Sun!

Max has had a great weekend with Oma outside in the sunshine. Daddy bought a kiddie pool on Friday, and Max has had a good time splashing around in it.

Last weekend Max got to spend some time with Josh & Lindsay, and met his possible future wife Dylan at our friends Kellie & Davy's.

More of these pics are on the share site.

Some of mine and Matt's favorite times are on the weekends when Max comes to hang out with us in the bedroom as we're waking up (the absolute best is after I've gotten to sleep a little late on the weekends, of course!). He is such an amazing baby, and we treasure these moments when he loves hanging out with Mommy and Daddy...we know they won't last forever!!

Hope you all have a great week! I may be out of commission for a few days with the gall bladder surgery...keep us in your prayers! :)

Sorry so long!

Hi all! Happy Wednesday! I'm sorry it's been so long since I posted. I have updated the pictures on the shutterfly site in the last week or so, but I've been remiss on the blog. I tried uploading a couple of videos last week, but it wasn't working very well.

So, what's been going on with us? I guess since I posted last, we have gone and come back from Vardaman. Max enjoyed his first week in Tater Town. He got to see all of his extended family and friends that he hadn't met yet. We had a great time hanging out with everybody! Can't wait to come back again. Since we've been back, nothing much has been happening. A lot of swinging, laying on the ottomon, looking at the mobile in his crib, that sort of thing. We did start letting Max sleep in his crib at night when we got back from Vardaman. The transition went surprisingly well. He is doing so well with the sleeping at night, and we are so grateful for that! Currently we put him down around 8:30 or 9:00, then wake him up at 11 to eat again. He usually will go right back to sleep, total awake time is less than 20 minutes most nights. Then we let Max wake us up for his next feeding...that time can range from 2:45 - 4:15. Most of the time he'll go right back to sleep after this one as well, but it usually takes more like 30-45 minutes to be sure he's good and asleep. All in all, not too bad of a night for us. We're getting much more sleep than we ever imagined we would at this point.

We're gearing up for my surgery next week. Oma is coming in for the week to help out - we can't wait to have her here!

Below are a couple of videos from this morning. Disclaimer: the first one ends with a little spitting up. The second one is after I cleaned up the spit-up. Max has discovered his tongue in the last week or so, you'll see it in the videos.

Hope you all have a great rest of the week!