Brothers

Which baby is Max and which is McKay?

Max - 1 Week

We are really enjoying having our sweet little Max at home with us. In some ways it is hard to believe it has already been a week! In other ways, it seems like a lot longer than that! :)

Max's Grandma and Grandpa Moser are on a mission in the Marshall Islands and won't get to meet Max until he is almost a year old so I am going to be posting a lot of pictures of this boy. That is my excuse anyway, if I needed one. :)

Max - 1 week old

Maxwell Lester Moser

Maxwell Lester Moser was born at 3:01 pm on May 20, 2010 in Mountain View, California. He was 7 lbs 8 oz 20.5 inches long.

Labor was induced a week past his due date. I was hoping he'd be born on 5-10-15 or maybe 5-15-10. I didn't think it would be 5-20-10! I walked over 13 miles during the week between his due date and when he was born. McKay ran most of them with me.

Ready to go home from the hospital.

Max is truly a miracle baby! He was posterior (like McKay was) and turned 180 degrees when I pushed on my side. Yay! He had the cord wrapped around his neck two times and a true knot in his cord. He is an answer to many prayers and we feel so privileged to have him join our eternal family!

Maxwell - In January, when I was about 5 months pregnant, Jordan and I went to the Oakland Temple to do a session. During the session, I was thinking about the new little baby that would be joining our family and the name Maxwell popped into my head. We had mentioned Maxwell when we were thinking of names for McKay but that was about as far as it went. I thought about how cute it would be to have a little Max running around but we had pretty much decided on another name so I never said anything about it to Jordan. A week later we had just gotten home from church and Jordan was helping McKay with his lunch. He casually said that during church he had thought about a name for our baby: Maxwell. I couldn't believe it! During sacrament meeting the name had literally popped into his head for no apparent reason and he thought it was a cute name. Then I told him about my experience in the temple and we knew our new little boy needed to be named Maxwell. After he was born and we got to see him, we knew he would be our Max.

Lester -This one is a two-for-one. My dad, Verl Lester McCleve is named after his dad Rufus Lester McCleve.

Playing the WAITING Game

Yes, we are still waiting for our little guy to decide to come. Sometimes we feel more patient than others but all three of us have asked the baby to 'com'on out!' several times. We weren't planning on having another Saturday so we took advantage of the day by getting a few more things crossed off our list. Then we went to the park for a picnic and to play. After browsing through a few stores we got some frozen yogurt at Golden Spoon. Yum! It was a nice day being 'all together', as McKay says.

We had our afternoon quiet time and then Jordan and I walked 3 miles. Yesterday we walked about 2 miles and just HAD to try out our new double jogger stroller that arrived. McKay is anxious for the baby to be able to sit next to him. On Friday McKay fell asleep during our walk. Then on Saturday, he asked Jordan to adjust his hat so he could sleep like he had the day before. Made us laugh. Definitely my boy - he stayed awake until HE was ready to sleep and then he was O.U.T.!

Oh so comfortable! Now if we could JUST get his little brother to come!

The funniest thing happened while we were at the park. We were playing on the playground when a little boy who was probably about 4 years old came up to me and asked what was in my shirt.
I said 'what?' not understanding him.
Boy: 'I know it's a ball. Look I'll show you.' At this point he grabbed the bottom of my shirt and started to lift it up. I took my shirt and said 'No, it's just my tummy, I have a baby in my tummy.'
He said 'No it's a ball, I know it.' I lifted my shirt just a little so he could see my tummy and said, 'No, it's just my tummy.'
He was satisfied for a minute and then said he wanted to see again. I told him no, he could just believe me that it was my tummy. We never saw anyone who looked like they belonged to this boy but Jordan and I got a good laugh out of this experience. Too funny!

The Last Days

Our family of three is about to become four any day now so we are doing our best to fit in as much as possible before he makes his entrance. Thursday morning, I took McKay to the Discovery Museum for almost 3 hours. It was fun (and tiring).

He really enjoyed painting on this wall and told me today that 'green' was his 'favorite one' to paint with.

I tried to get him to say cheese and look at me to take his picture while he was painting. In the top left picture he is saying cheese but his eyes never leave the paint. Funny boy. He was very intent on painting his lines across the wall.

In the bottom pictures he is putting the black and white balls in the red circles where air pushes them up and they come down through the different obstacles. Every time we go we spend at least half an hour at this spot! He kept picking up all the balls at once to put them in and inevitably one or two would drop and roll across the room. Made me laugh every time but I couldn't convince him it would be easier to pick them up one or two at a time.

As always, the Water Works were a hit. Today when I asked McKay what he liked most about the museum, he talked about the green paint and that we had a peanut butter and jelly sandwich at the museum (for lunch). AND that he wanted to go to the museum again today!

Here I am at 39 weeks and getting more and more awkward by the day, it seems. At my appointment on Friday the doctor checked me and I am 50% effaced and dilated to a 1.

Today we went to the track again for the 4th week in a row and McKay and I did our 2+ miles while Jordan ran. It is a lot easier for me now than it was the first time we went. I've been walking for about 15 minutes each evening for the last couple of weeks too so I'm sure that helps. McKay LOVES going running and asks if we can go all week long. For the first lap he was several yards ahead of me the whole time. I finally caught up to him when he stopped for me to bring him some water. Several others at the track commented on how many times McKay went around and at how much endurance he has. My favorite comments from him today were the following:

"Good running, Mommy"

"I must keep going!"

"I must hurry!" (We are glad 'hurry' is part of his vocabulary now, though it doesn't necessarily mean he 'hurries' very often.)

Me: "Good running, McKay" (after he told me my running was good)
McKay: "Thank you, Mommy" (I love it when he say's thank you. It is so sweet and sincere.)

"Just do it, Jordan" (Copying what I said. This is the first time we've heard him say Jordan. McKay wanted him to put sunblock on his face and Jordan didn't want to. McKay changed his mind, much to Jordan's relief, and I helped him put the sunblock on.)

Things to Remember

4-28-10
McKay has started putting himself in time-out when he doesn't want to do something we've asked him to do. It usually only lasts a minute or so and then he happily does whatever it is, usually go potty or get dressed or from having gone potty. I think it is a control issue. oh boy... He usually either gets in the bath tub or puts his nose in the corner in the kitchen. Cracked me up the first time he did it, especially because we don't make him put his nose in the corner!

I told McKay he was my peanut butter and jelly sandwich boy and he said 'no me peanut butter and jelly sandwich boy, me kay'.

4-25-10
McKay likes to sing with me in church and will point to the words in the hymn book as he tries to sing the words with me. Today he even sang with a special musical number. :)

All the way home from church, McKay exaggerated his yawns to make 'mommy and daddy yawn too'. When he was successful 'all yawning!' :) He was successful most if not all of the time!

4-23-10
After Jordan had been gone 'sleeping at work' at a training in Fresno for a week, McKay told him he was 'really really happy Daddy home'. Every morning McKay would come wake me up and ask if 'daddy home'?

4-20-10
'Thats funn-A'

When we want him to repeat a word he'll say 'no me say (the word we want him to say)'.

At the end of a very wet day, McKay said it 'rain all day yong'.

I told McKay he was my peanut butter boy and he said 'no, me peanut butter and jelly sandwich boy'. That fits too!McKay taking advantage of Daddy leaving his massage pillow out. He knows how to turn it on and sat there for at least 10 minutes.

4-16-10 (Friday)
McKay woke up at 6 am today and came into my room with his arms full of his stuffed friends. He saw Jordan wasn't in bed and said 'no Daddy home?' I told McKay Jordan was in the shower and he got SO excited, put all the animals on the bed and ran to knock on the door 'Daddy, me come in?' He must have felt like it should be Saturday when Daddy stays home because he did not think Jordan should go to work today. 'Stay home first'. McKay has really really enjoyed his one-on-one time with Jordan since I have been so busy with tax season. It is so cute to see how much he loves his Daddy!

4-13-10
We had lasagna and salads for dinner and Jordan said 'good lasagna Mommy'. After each bite McKay took he'd say 'good lasagna Mommy' or 'good tomatoes Mommy'. Good example Daddy!

The next morning McKay told me several times 'good oatmeal Mommy'. Seriously made my day.

When McKay says the wrong word (yes instead of no or strawberry instead of grape, etc) he'll say 'Me said wrong one!'

4-12-10
McKay pulled one of my cookbooks off the shelf and began to look through it. He pointed to a picture and said 'Mommy, this one!' After I asked him if it looked good he started saying 'Mommy, this one looks good'.

4-11-10
McKay had an accident on the couch so while he was in the other room, Jordan worked on cleaning the couch. I pulled one of the clean cushions off to see if there were cleaning instructions. When McKay saw the cushions off, Jordan asked him why and he said 'me pee pee this one, Daddy pass gas that one'.

Tummy has become synonymous with baby for McKay so when he is full and doesn't want to eat anymore, he says 'Me baby full', as he rubs his tummy.

Everything is either 'perftet' or 'no perftet' (perfect).

4-8-10
I told McKay I was going to give him some medicine to help his runny nose and cough (since he insisted he wasn't sick - he is a boy). He drank the medicine, sniffed and said 'nose no run Mommy, thank you!' That is fast acting medicine!

Since McKay was sick I REALLY wanted him to take a much needed nap so I turned his bed around so he couldn't get out and put extra coverings over the windows to make it darker. Of course, it didn't work but I enjoyed hearing him sing the Itsy Bitsy Spider, Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, and the ABC's. He sang the ABC's about 30 times. He has known the ABC's for quite a while but lately he can't seem to get enough of singing the ABC song.4-5-10
When McKay doesn't like something we are eating or drinking, after taking a bite (or drink) he'll scrunch up his nose, shake his head and say 'no'. Makes me laugh every time.

4-2-10
'No perfect Mommy, me try again.'

McKay was looking at my tummy (baby) and noticed the baby doesn't have arms. I explained we just can't see them yet.

4-1-10
McKay has overcome his fear of the vacuum enough to help me vacuum. It takes A LOT longer but the grins of 'look at what I am doing! I'm so big!' are SO worth it.