jueves, el 26 de julio de 2012

Max, more coffee with breakfast?

So…Max is now falling asleep at night waaaay easier then he did before. It is all about letting him roam the bed, a quick rock and then he lays down and is lights out.

The new problem? He has become soother dependent during his night sleep. Two days in a row, whenever he wakes up without the soother in his mouth, he gets antsy and cannot fall asleep again.

We stick the dumb thing in his mouth and he is lights out. So…my back is better because I do not need to rock him so much t get him to initially fall asleep, but now I have to go into the bedroom every hour or so and look for the soother. Doph

So how did that affect last night’s sleep? Maybe the worst one yet for both Bex and I. Max crawled over at midnight and plopped himself onto my chest.

That was kinda nice, but he squirms every 10 minutes so it was not a sound sleep for padre.

I tried to roll him off, but he was waking up and we left him there. The problem came with my snoring and inability to put my breathing mask on with Max on my chest.

So poor madre had to move out and sleep in the otra recamara…where the ventilador is noisy. So in comes the floor fan and that is so-so…and it was a chilly 29,0 grados last night. Yikes. Lo siento madre.

Max slept in and at 715am we were up.

Usual rutina, but today he wasn’t into eating solids during his desayunos o comida…he was a leche monster…go go madre!!

No walk with me today…after our 30 minute siesta (the ONE day I could have used 60 minutes), we went for some grass time. We found some dry grass in the shade, and I let him loose.

Max loves the freedom and to explore and climb. Oh, we are in trouble when he starts to walk!! Ja ja ja

A little crawling in the grass.

Led to some standing under the skull and cross bones sign. Doph.

Madre missed us so much, she came down and joined in and then took over Max time for the rest of the day.

I hit the rack for a quick cat nap, took the truck to el gimnasio and then hit up Che. Hola to some lomo cerdo!! I bought 2 and we are having one mañana con papas puree y gravy…salsa Moreno (brown sauce) as they call it here.

Raced home and cooked up the pasta sauce as I had a 4pm meet with Roman y Sergio and didn’t want to be rushing la cena when I finished up.

A good meeting…all about where lights, fans and the such will be located in the casas. Not exciting stuff, but a drain on the brain. We reviewed everything and I have the plans with me to double check, and need to get them back to the guys over the weekend.

Grabbed some bollo on the way home, heated up la cena and the night rutina started again. While the pasta was cooking, we had Oma y Opa niño sit Max via the FT.

I took the track and field session…the one where you just sit back and watch Max go through his decathlon of events. Hilarious…and then he comes over and let’s you know he is done, but just needs some help because he is only a lil’guy.

And that was the day.

Rest of the fotos?

While eating desayunos, Max spotted someone trimming an arbol outside our window.

Max has been working hard on figuring out the sock monkey Jack in the Box.

Beating the crap out of it and yelling at it, hasn't yet provided the results he was looking for.

Time to regroup and rethink the situation.

Mañana…sleep in, sleep in, sleep in…but probably up at 5am and then 7am. But we will go crawling in the grass again and forget how tired we really are!!

Have a great viernes.

Marco, Bexico y Max

miercoles, el 25 de julio de 2012

I think we can “see the light”!! Madre’s back is slowly getting better, my gripe is slowly disappearing, and Max is slowly learning how to fall asleep on his own!!

That and he has freed himself from his floatie.

Buenos noches.

A great day, but wow has it been hot lately. The thermo is reading 35,5 grados and with a 65% humido…that equates to 50,0 grados mas o menos. Not hating, just baking!! Ja ja ja

Talk about baking…round 2 on Chef Bex’s pizza was a huge success. Tasted great and once we get pizza pans, all will be good.

The day followed the usual rutina…some leche during the night, some rocking, some chest napping from 515am-630am and then ol’bright eyes telling padre to get his butt out of bed.

So Max and I did what Max and I do and enjoyed all of it. I think he likes his early morning “padre time”…or maybe it is the fact I feed him? Ja ja ja

Due to the early start, it is normally a slow start and that means siesta antes our walk. So we climbed in at 830am (first nap at 830am?) and at 1015am our ojo opened and guess who was there to greet us?

Hola madre!! A tank up for the lil’guzzler and then we slinged up and headed out. It was a quick walk as it was already a scorcher out there, but all good as after we were done walking, madre took the lil’swimmer to the alberca.

Me? I puttered around and then helped get Max in slumber mode for siesta #2 and then hit el gimnasio.

Day #2 was better then ayer, but trying to get back in the rhythm of working out is tough if you have gripe…worse if it is 50,0 grados in the gym!! And where has Jhanhet gone? No good bye? Sham wow.

Hustled home and on the way, I bumped into Amy y Victor for the second time in the día.

And then when I get home, what is this?

Amy is hilarious. He leaves me while I am walking home, makes his route in the camioneta and stops at CP. He comes up to B10 and sees Bex is busy, so he comes on in, drops the water in the bodega, asks where Max is, goes to the recamara and when he returns to the cocina where madre is, he has Max in his arms.

I promised the boys I would join them for pizza sometime soon, and then told them to leave mi hijo alone!!! Ja ja ja

You know what I did for the first time in months? I sat in the sun!! When we would vacation in Mexico, it was all about the 8 hours in the sun and the tan….the trophy to bring back to show all the mates.

Now with Max, we hit the shade as much as possible and I was feeling a little pasty. So 15 minutes in the oven, followed by another 15 in the pool, and I am a little crispy. Doph.

Raced up to help get the lil’guy to sleep for nap #3 and when he wiped the flowing red hair away from those blue eyes and then said to me…”padre, how about a chest nap?”, I could not refuse.

Score!! After the nap, off to the pool for some floating and standing on the chair.

Then it was an early dinner and we had Max into the bedroom shortly after 7pm and after 30 minutes of walking the bed with madre watching on, I came in and had another 20 minutes of the same. The kid has energy!!

But after 20 minutes, he wiped the flowing red hair away from his blues eyes and then said to me…”padre, it is time”. I took the lil’bundle of joy into my arms, rocked him for 3 minutes and he was in slumber mode.

Onto the bed where he circled around like a dog trying to get comfortable, and then lights out!!

Currently 930pm and for 90 minutes I have had his butt in clear view on the monitor and all is good!! Phew. Madre says hola from the oficina and I am updating you all while watching some pretty funny Jimmy Fallon sketches on TV.

Mañana? It is already jueves? Huh? Che and no sé what else. It looks like a possible meet with Roman on viernes. He is also headed 2 hours away, where the city hall that covers Mojon resides, and will pay our taxes. There goes another $600 pesos…$47 Cdn for the year. Ja ja ja

Have a great jueves.

Marco, Bexico y Max