the many faces of maddux

i ordered maddux' one-year picture frame like the ones i have for the other two.  but then it occurred to me that i don't know if i will have enough pictures of maddux' face to fill the spot for each month...  so here are some pictures i took as options for the "10 month" spot.

 

 

it also occurred to me that with everything else going on, i haven't really done a post about what maddux is up to so here are some notes i made...

- his upper, right molar has been a huge swollen nightmare of discomfort.  it still hasn't come in, but the left, upper one came in on 9/13 (or that is when i noticed it) quietly.

- he is a dancing machine!  the kid hears a beat he likes and he starts bopping along.

- he is also a biter.  not while nursing (thankfully!), but any time he is hungry he will tear into you.  there are times when i am covered in bruises up and down my arms and shoulders.

- maddux puts everything in his mouth - everything.  madelyn was like this too but i forgot after mason since he didn't do this at all.  while we were at the wedding i was holding maddux' hand and letting him 'walk' in the grass.  he was bending down and picking up fistfuls of grass to put right in his mouth.

- maddux points.  he has done this for months (and i think i mentioned it in another post) but it still amazes me how he gets his little index finger out to point at what he sees.

- when maddux is done with something he throws it down.  finish getting a drink, toss the cup on the floor.  finished eating cheerios, toss them on the floor.  some kids throw things down as a game but his is more of a i-am-so-done-with-this.  there is no attitude to it, it is just his nature.

- he had the weirdest moment of separation anxiety.  i was nursing him and letting him hold my finger (as a way of keeping him from flailing about).  i needed my hand to reach for something and he went crazy like i was leaving him.  hellooo, you are nursing!  i am not leaving you.  crazy kid.

try as i might, i am not giving him the same level of documentation as madelyn...  oh well.  i love him just the same though.  love.