Guess My Weight

We've been wondering how much the little man weighs (and people keep asking because it feels like a ton). Yesterday Doug decided to put him on the scale. He actually did so using the method of holding Mac and then subtracting his own weight, but of course Mac then wanted to get on the scale himself. Then he wanted to bring the scale to the kitchen where I was cleaning up. He loves to pick up things especially if they are heavy and Doug really enjoys encouraging him. Doug's favorite new trick is to say "take it to Momma" or "go show Momma."
Anyway, Mac now weighs around 27 to 28 pounds. Yes my arms are tired.

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Where's my blankee?

So he doesn't have a name for it or anything like that, but Mac has become attached to his blanket. During the last few weeks he has started going and getting it out of his bed especially when he is tired. Now he wants to get it and drag it all around the house behind him. It needed washing yesterday so I put it in the dirty laundry basket in his closet. When we got home from church the first thing he did was go dig it out. (Dumping clothes everywhere in the process) Last night he slept fine without it, I don't think he even noticed. However this morning he saw it in the basket of clean laundry and pulled it out. (Dumping clothes everywhere again). He really did not want to leave it when he went to school. There was a major meltdown, I'm pretty sure he has never cried that much at being separated from me.
After I dropped him off I hid the blankets in the guest room closet so hopefully out-of-site, out-of-mind will be enough to break him. I at least want to get him hooked on a smaller blanket because this one is too big for him to really carry around and you know I don't want him dragging anything because it will get completely dirty.
If anyone has any great suggestions for how to handle this please let me know.

More swimming

 

So the swimmies look a little ridiculous, but he actually seemed to like them. He enjoyed being able to put his face in the water. He probably drank a ton of pool water, but hey he had fun right?

Happy 4th of July!

 

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White Coats Everywhere

From White Coat

This post is a little late, but its been a busy week. Last Friday we went to a ceremony in Augusta for Aunt Jessica's dental school. She recieved a white coat, it was a big deal. Mac also required special attire for the occasion. His coat, if you can't tell, has Dr. McFarland inscribed above the pocket. There is also a pen in his pocket and an authentic UGA pharmacy school patch on the sleeve. (Saved from Mommy's white coat ceremony).

Swimming!

 

I decided that even though Samantha had to work, I would take Mac to the pool by myself.
It took us an hour and three calls to Samantha, but we finally got ready and out of the house. He loved the water at first, then he fell over (1'-6" pool) and that made him a little afraid and fussy. He cried every time we started to get in the water, so we sat in our chair and went to the happy place courtesy of goldfish.

I finally was able to get him in the water and trick him into relaxing. Then we had a great time.
One question that I still have: are the swimming diapers floatation devices? Mac's rear end kept floating up - both in his float and in my arms.

Another important thing I learned - its not easy to change a diaper when there is no changing table and he has to stand up in a chair. I guess at least there was a chair...

The best part about the swimming is that he went right down for an afternoon nap when we got home.

First Haircut

So many things have happened in the last week, but we didn't have a computer to put our photos on or any time to blog about stuff. I'll try to recap. Mac and Mommy spent a week down in DeSoto helping prepare for Aunt Jessica's wedding. We finally got her married off on Saturday and now we are back home.
Daddy came down after work on Thursday and we were able to go get a haircut Friday morning. Mac was very good and sat pretty still long enough to get it cut.
He got really excited about the mirror and the camera when we first sat down. Don't think he was this happy the whole time, but this was one of my favorite pictures. Strange that I now realize we didn't take any pics afterward so there are none of his new haircut. Hopefully there will be some good ones from the wedding stuff.