Book Babies

Every Friday at the Provo library they have a little program called Book Babies. I have been taking Max since he was around 3 months old. It is a fun program they have all sorts of songs that are interacted with the babies. They also will bring out wooden sticks so that babies can learn rhythm, they have puppet shows, today they even brought out bubbles for the babies. Max loves this little program. I think that is because he is a social baby and he loves people and it is chance that he gets out of the house and he gets to play with other babies.

Baby Signing

During the summer Mikey mentioned that one of his co-worker was teaching his kids sign language. I thought that was interesting so I looked more into it. I found a lot of people who loved baby signing. They claimed all these amazing things...

*That babies learn how to speak more words earlier.
*They are able to speak in complete sentences earlier.
*By 47 months they can speak up to 1500 words
*They score 12 points higher on their IQ test at the age of 8 years old.
*They have less temper tantrums because they are able to communicate what they want.

I also heard from some people that it slow down their speaking because they are learning sign. I don't know if that is true because you are saying the word as you sign. I also don't know if signing is the reason why your baby can do all those things. I think a big part of it is because you are playing with them and working with them one on one and most importantly you are spending time with them that helps improve their abilities.

Mikey and I did attended a 3 week class of baby signing. It has been a lot fun. We have learned fun games to play with little Max teaching him sign language. I do believe that Max is figuring out that we are trying to communicate with him through sign. It is hard to know if he is signing or not because he seems to clap when we are signing with him. For example the sign for "more" you put your fingers together. He claps because I don't know if he has the abilities with his fingers to put them together. Another example is "ball" you make an imaginary ball with your hands and he also claps. But with car he does makes driving motions and he can sign Dad.

In the end I think it is just has been a lot of fun signing with Max. We have now have a new way to communicate and play with each other.

Ten Months

As of yesterday Max is now ten months old. I can not believe how fast time goes. He is so much fun to have around. I love playing games with him. Our favorites are Peek-a-Boo, chasing the empty hot chocolate can around the house, playing with cars, and reading books. Max is also in love with Popsicles, and clapping.

I am also very excited because we are starting to teach Max some baby sign language. I have heard some great things about it with child development. Because babies learn how to communicate first with their hands and with verbal. We are going to be taking a class on baby sign starting this Tuesday.

Happy Anniversary

We just celebrated our 2nd year anniversary. The great thing is we are just as head over heels in love as when we got married. We got ourselves a babysitter for Max. For our date we went to Benihana. The Food was alright but it was fun to watch them with their knives and cooking in front of us. We also went dancing at the Murry art center. It is a great place and the only place that I know of that does ballroom dance. They also have a dance class that you can go to. We learned how to do the street hustle. I love going there because there are so many grandmas and grandpas dancing. You can just see how good of a relationship they have after all those years. It also makes me feel like a great dancer until the BYU Ballroom dance team showed up. They are amazing. It was just as fun to sit back and watch them.

Mikey couldn't wait to give me my present that he gave it to me early. I got something that I wanted and needed. I got a tripod. I am so excited to use it. I on the day of our anniversary got some yarn and made a maze throughout my house so he had to follow the yarn. He went all over the place until he found his present. I got him Mario Kart. We been having a lot of fun playing it.

Max was having fun playing with the wrapping paper.

My Christmas Deco

Last year I hate to admit it but I only put one Christmas decoration. Our little nativity set that I got when I was like 12 years old. The reason why is that I did not want to buy anything at full price so I waited until after Christmas to buy anything. Here are a few things that I bought and made.

Merry Christmas

I love Christmas. We had a great Christmas season this year. It started out going to Mikey's Grandparents house where they made a yummy dinner and than the little kids did a great job doing the nativity play. Afterward his family has a great tradition were we all played the game Bingo. Bingo is not my game but lucky for me they have prizes for everyone. I got some great kitchen towels and Mikey got some yummy chocolate.

On Christmas Eve we went up to my parents house and had a little party with my family at my sister's new house. My mom read a Christmas book that we all get every year.

On Christmas we were so excited because it was Max's first Christmas. We knew that he wouldn't understand the gifts from Santa but we were excited anyways. We got Max some clothes and a few toys. He is starting to enjoy cars. I got Mikey some intertudes so that we can go sliding in the snow. Mikey got me the Wii. We played Mario Brothers all Christmas.

Christmas was so much fun that I really did not want it to end. I struggled at putting down the Christmas tree. But after the New Year I realize that Christmas is over. I think the reason why I don't like it to end is because there is nothing to look forward too until Spring comes around. So I know that I have a long winter ahead of me.

We tried to put Max in the sock because we thought it would be cute but I guess he is a little too big for it.

Mikey vs. Tonsils

Last week Mikey had his tonsils removed because he had what you call tonsils stones. They are gross white chunks that collect in the back of his throat. He also had a septoplasty where they removed some of the bone from his nose so now he can breath a little easier.


Well the nurse said that it will hurt a lot more days 3-5. I think that Mikey would disagree with that. That it kills from days 3-7. He has been having a hard time sleeping because he wakes up at night in pain. For awhile the pain pills would take about 45 minutes to start working and it would last for about hour maybe hour and half than the rest of the time he is in pain waiting for the fours hours to be over with so he can take more pain medicine. On the first day he throw up blood a couple times. He said that it wasn't that bad because he could not taste anything. He still does not taste much unless it is really strong. He is doing much better today. He has been working on the laptop all day. Mikey's work has been very good to work with him at home. They even were so nice enough to bring over an ice cream cake which I have eaten most of it. Mikey is such a trooper.

During this Max also has been sick and I caught myself a cold. So we really have not been the best people to hang out with this week. But we are definitely on the uphill:)