Maxwell’s Deets:

15 weeks old...

Maxwell has just begun vocalizations; he will string multiple vowels together. It’s so amazingly cute to hear. He is also holding his head up fairly well now and he does crunches in his car seat and bouncy chair as if he’s trying to sit up.

“Stork bites” or birth marks:
The biggest one is on the back of his neck-it looks like he got a rash from his wetsuit while surfing…He’s got a little birth mark in the left corner of his left eye lid. And when he is upset, there is a red dot that shows up as a bindi on his forehead between his eyes. There I also a little red mark on the left side of his left nostril. The doctor says these will go away eventually. I don’t think anyone knows how they form…

Yesterday while at my friend and fellow Mommy Amy Sabik’s house, we came to the conclusion that Maxwell is teething. He is sucking on his fist, lower lip, and tongue all the time. He is holding on to my nipple to chew after he is done suckling. He is a little more cranky than usual. He loves to hold on to a blanket at his chest and pull it up to his mouth to suck on. Oh yah and he drools and blows bubbles …If a mom or dad cut their first teeth early, then their child will likely cut them early too. So I am off to buy teething rings. Luckily I already have teething gel, but I tasted it (always be willing to taste whatever you are going to put in your child’s mouth) and it really numbed up my tongue…

His feet are so chubby-I compared them yesterday to girl baby feet and they are much more like Flintstone feet (thick and square) but with nice high arches. He has cankles and no wrists. But he’s not as rolly-polly as some other babies I’ve seen. He is well proportioned!

Right now he is on the changing table, making noise and doing baby aerobics; his is moving his arms and legs up and down as if he is jogging. He seems very happy doing this. I’ve tried to get video of him when he’s happy, but I am enjoying it so much I forget to do it and when I remember, I only get 1 minute or so, then he gets cranky.