Just humor a sappy mom for a moment please....

I'm a very smell and sound oriented person.  Certain scents take me back to happy or sad times. Certain sounds or songs do the same.  This afternoon Charlie, Max and I sat down to watch a Baby Einstein dvd called World Animals that Max received for his birthday a couple of weeks ago. Charlie & I used to watch this daily when we lived in London.  Because it was a UK dvd we gave our Baby Einstein movies to friends before we moved and have never watched any together here in the US.  

Well.... I was immediately transported back to our London flat with the first sounds of this dvd. Max had very little interest in watching it, so Charlie sat on my lap, like the old days.   We snuggled and I was amazed at this huge almost 4 year old sitting on my lap.  It was quite the teary moment. 

If I could just bottle up those moments forever....

Don't pen me in....

This

has changed my life.

Not sure what took us so long to put up baby gates.  But we finally gated off the front room of our house.  We have some peace in our home that we haven't had in many weeks.  I can now give Charlie the space he needs from Max.   I can actually cook and do laundry without a baby on my hip.  And Max seems to like his alone time playing, 

safely away from his big brother's antics.

The change came none to soon as today Max took his first steps on his own.  Yea!!  

A little Irish, A LOT Ornery....

Happy St Patrick's Day!

Peek-a-boo to you!

Happy Birthday Sweet Max!

Paddington Bear

Reading books on Mama's lap

Playing with your hair while you drink your bottles

3 am cuddles with Mama

Pirate Booty

Hangin in the Ergo

Ear infections, antibiotics and tube surgery

Dada, Mama, uh oh...(sounds more like ho, ho...cute!)

Balls

Waving bye, bye and hello

My sweet second boy.  Wow, you stole my heart from the first moment, really from the first heartbeat.  Second time around a mom knows so much more...how much my heart will be taken, how hard each day and night will be...and how quickly each moment with a sweet baby flies by.   I truly have enjoyed most every 3am wake up call with you...let's keep them coming.  Happy Birthday Sweet Max! 

* I had this post set to 'post' at exactly 3:03am on 3/4/09- the exact time of Max's birth.  First time I realized perhaps there is some heart meaning to why Max always wakes up at 3am for a cuddle.  It was our first introduction time.  Smart lovable boy:)