ZOO

Maddax loves looking at himself in the mirror, or things that look like him. And what looks more like him than a giant smiley face balloon....He is obsessed with it!! Best buy from the dollar store in a while....this is me hidi
ng it and him looking for it....

Here it comes!!!

YES!!! hahahhahaha he is so funny!!! He did this for about half an hour this morning...

And this is him all satisfied after a good play with his Balloon/ I think this is the first picture of him smiling where his mouth isn't WIDE open..... :)

So I decided to take Maddax to the zoo this week...it was a pretty lame zoo....cool if you like looking at gophers, deer, buffalo, etc. Oh well the quality or lack thereof was irrelevant to Maddax who could have cared less about the animals and was extrememly excited as to what the zookeeper and kids were doing. I would take him out of his stroller and hold him right up to the animals and he would crank his head to see what the kdis were doing...he is such a people person.

However, Maddax and I both got a HUGE kick out of peacock mating season at the zoo. I was dying I was laughing so hard! There were about 10 male peacocks all chasing the same girl...I have never seen anything like it before, except when I was at BYU. It totally reminded me of the dating scene at BYU and made me so glad to be out of it!! None of the male peacocks were successful in my eyes and I think it all goes back to the peacock theory of dating. ...too many boys are like the male peacock, displaying all their feathers at once....leaving no mystery at all. girls like to see one feather displayed at a time to keep them interested...oh he's playing the funny feather...he is so FUNNY!! Next date....oh he is playing the SMART feather, oh he is so FUNNY and SMART!! Third date...oh he is playing the spiritual feather...oh wow he is so funny AND smart AND spiritual, I must see more feathers! That is how the male peacock should mate...by displaying one feather at a time...unfortunatley they get WAY too excited..like most hormonal returned missionaries and show everything on the first date and thus the girl is no longer interested....mating unsucessful. And as witnessed by the male peacock, no amount of shaking or crying out to the girl will help. Sorry boys! Yeah for trips to the Zoo.
Maddax making sure his top two teeth are still there...he has to check every minute or two, they are still a novelty, so much so that he also grinds them with his bottom teeth to create a fascinating noise that makes me feel like my teeth are falling out...

Maddax loving being outside, even if he has to wear a silly hat! Oh I love this boy sooo much!!!

Highlights of this week

* We FAILED to mention one of the better things that has heppened to us two Sundays ago...after church Brent and I decided to go down to the Forks...it is where the Red River and the Assinoiboine Rivers meet up...anyways it is a really nice park with tuns of cool things to look at...anyways we are strolling along and all of sudden we see a man wearing a purple cape...random, but we are in downtown winnipeg so whatever....we keep walking next thing you know we see rainbow bikinis everywhere and guys with wings on their backs and a dude wearing a shirt that says "nobody knows I'm a lesbian". Anyways Turns out Brent and I inadvertantly attended the Gay Pride Parade and Festival....we were laughing really hard simply because it reminded us of the episode of Arrested Development when Tobias thinks he is attending a pirate convention when really it is a gay protest.....hahaha. Anyways good times...I still laugh really hard when I think about it...us in our church clothes, super conservative, attending the Gay Pride festival after church....

* Maddax is sleeping through the NIGHT!!! Oh happy day!!! We finally bit the bullet and let him cry it out...SADDEST night of my life!!! He cried for almost two hours and I was sitting downstairs on the verge of tears, pacing, swearing, and Brent was watching the NBA final game....haha. Anyways this week he has slept through the night every night and now he only cryes for like one minute before going to sleep. Best thing ever!!! I am so glad we finally did it, even though it really was the worst, I was seriously so sleep deprived it had to be done. I don't know if you notice a direct correlation between how long this blog post is and how much sleep I am now getting...I bet you all wish Maddax would stop sleeping through the night...haha.

Maddax drinking drunk....hahah he loves his water
Maddax loves playing with his little basketball, almost as much as he loves not wearing clothes...is he related to Jaxson? oh no...the other day he did have his diaper on backwards...haha

There was a suit sale....couldn't resist...

Brent and Maddax at the go carts...

He loved watching everyone drive round and round

Highlights of the week

- Maddax now has FOUR teeth, its been a long week. Me = exhausted. 2 hours of sleep a night does not a well rested Rachel equal...somehow Maddax is still the happiest little guy.

- Maddax loves when we sing little drummer boy to him. Don't even ask how we found that one out, he LOVES it though! Par-um-pum-pum

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I love this picture of MAddax cus his eyelashes are soooo long :) I love him!! Oh and he heard he might have better luck with the ladies if he rocked the shades...

AHHHH the teeth that cause so much pain and yet he smiles through everything!!

EEk he is standing...kind of :) And he now rolls from one end of the room to the other...he is crazy!!

The highlights of this week

* Brent started P90X. him and a work buddy do it every morning....I am nervous for him, but excited at the same time. Somehow he is still walking and working so that is good :)

* I bought running shoes so I at least own something I can look at and pretend I am in shape :)

* I caved and went out and bought a cheap crib for Maddax, he is too big for his pack and play...

* I had to buy him a new car seat becuase he is too big for his other one that is supposed to last him until he is one year old....lets just say it has been an expensive week for Maddax.

* We held a blind auction in the office for the reps and it was pretty fun picking up different prizes....the prizes ranged from brittney spears tickets to black licorice cigars to a tent to hockey cards to a soccer ball to an inflatable dolphin to a thug "PEG CITY" shirt....good times. It was a lot of fun, I made vivint money for them to bid with...good times.

* NBA playoffs...need I say anymore. Brent is loving coming home to games.

* the NHL is coming back the peg...people here are out of control about it!! I am super out of the loop with hockey these days...all I know is that I am missing out becuase in game one of the play offs someone got bitten...yes bitten....apparently the dude missed the training on manly fighting and started out in the Womens league...

That is all I can think of right now...Im sure there was more, but I honestly can't think right now...sleep is always missing these days sooo thats all I got for now!