My Guest Post on Auntie Tam's Blog

Have you read Auntie Tam's blog lately?  Are you following her?  Are you following Mad Max?

Don't miss out!  I was the special guest blogger today!  Check out my post at: walks with Bella.

Thank you for having me, Auntie Tam!  I love you!  Let's do this again soon.

Love,

Mad Max

Love and Rock 'n Roll ...

I received a surprise in the mail today!!  Much needed after two crazy days with Train Wreck Mommy sleep training me.  Love you, Mommy.

"Auntie" Jax and "Uncle" Jeff sent me an awesome Swaddle suit and some organic onesies from Giggle.  I'm sure Train Wreck (TW) Mommy loves the packaging!  Check it out.  Thank you Jax and Jeff.  I hope you come visit soon from NYC!  Or I hope I get to go to NYC soon.  Mad Max is ready to hit the Hamptons this summer.

Today I wore my monkey and dot outfit from "Auntie" Brownie.  I didn't do so well with my activity times so far today, but don't tell Mommy I was hittin' the clubs on Washington last night.  Mad Max is tired.

Look at me!  Hey ladies, you made Mad Max a tired Super Infant today.

I also need to show you that my Super Rocker finally arrived!  Gpa A and Daddy went to pick it up this past Saturday.  It's perfect, isn't it Mommy?  I think it needs more of my spit up to be complete though.  Sometimes I just fly right out of my bed to lay in my rocker.  Seriously.

Hey, Cowie .... what are you looking at?  This is Mad's chair.  Love you, Cowie.

-Super Mad Max

My Bed Before the Bed ... and My Mini Lambie Seat

"The Situation" has his shirt BEFORE the shirt ... but apparently I have my bed before the bed... Mommy and Daddy call it my "bassinet."  Aren't they silly?  They think I'm not ready for my big boy crib!  I think sleeping in my crib sounds much easier than breathing underwater for 9 months!  Try that, Superman.

Either way, Daddy did such a good job putting it together!  He's turned into quite a handyman.  Thank you, Daddy.  And thank you to "Auntie" ... LAR, Rita, and Michelle for helping Mommy buy my Bed Before the Bed.

This above is Daddy confused... looking at the directions.  Just kidding, Daddy.  Ahem.

Wait for it ... wait for it ...

Tada!  Look... it's my Super Bed Before the Bed.  Take that Cowie!  Cowie is keeping the peace between my Bed Before the Bed and My Crib.  My "Bassinet" also turns into a Super Duper Tee Tee and Poo Poo table (Mommy says "Changing Table.")... once I decide to exit the womb, Mommy says she will put it right next to her so she can watch me sleep.  (Crazy Train).

Mommy and Daddy love collecting things that they can sit me in.  What?  Is there not enough room for me on the couch?  But... Daddy's co-worker, Liz, got me a super awesome Mini Lambie Seat!  Mommy and Daddy's couch doesn't bounce - so take that!  Thank you!

-Mad Max

My Lambies

Mommy finally finished my lambies in my nursery!  They match my Pottery Barn Kids crib bedding.

Here is Mommy, Daddy, and of course... Mad Max is a lambie:

Look at me above as a lamb.  Oh, Mommy!

-Mad Max

Rock Rock ... Rockabye Mad Max

Mommy has been M.I.A. again this week with her horrible cold and bloody nose (and wrapping up the end of the semester at YES).  Excuses I say!  Meanwhile, I am now in station -2, and I have much to update you on.

Daddy bought my rocker today (from Baby's 1st Furniture ... Mommy is not too impressed by their website, but she loves the store)!  Or rather, Mommy's Christmas gift.  Check it out!  I could live in this thing (Daddy wanted to make sure Mommy would be comfortable enough to sleep here... in case my crying is disturbing his beauty rest.  Oh, Dad!).  It leans back like a bed.

Mommy's Christmas gift won't come in for 4 - 6 weeks.  I'm due to arrive in 3 weeks.  Don't worry Mom, I won't cry too much.  I'm a super fetus.

More blog updates soon!  (Mommy finished my lambs yesterday).

-Mad Max

Painting My New House

Today I started painting my lambies on the wall with Mommy and Grandma and Grandpa A.  Well, Grandpa A did a good job of watching golf and sleeping, mostly!

Mommy and I drew them by hand!  No stencils needed here.  Pixar is already blowing up my fetus iPhone.  Mommy is a perfectionist though, so we didn't finish today (plus her cankles turned into well... cankles!).

Here is the beginning:

As you can see Lambie the Lamb also serves as a cloud!

My current house is not too noticeable from the back.  Or is it?

I said, "Knock, Knock, Knock!  Mommy, my house is hot in here!"  Mommy is painting my Lambs like my bedding lambs from Pottery Barn Kids.  I love Pottery Barn Kids!  (By the way, not only are the holidays coming up... but my BIRTH day is coming up too.  Hint, Hint.  Mommy likes to say ... her 1st Wedding Anniversary is coming up on 1/2/11... we know, we know, Mom.)

WHOA!  Mom had to sit down shortly after her feet turned into beached whale feet.

I'm not sure if I showed this yet (Mommy's memory is rubbing off on mine).  This is in my nursery too!  Great Grandma Lippiatt made this for Mom and Auntie Tam when they were babies!  Now it hangs in my nursery (then it will hang in my cousin's nursery at Auntie Tam's house... when my cousin arrives!).  I'm sure she loves seeing my nursery from heaven.

Here is one lambie so far.  Grandma A loves the chocolate color!  Me too.  We still have a ways to go on each lamb.  We are making three: one of Mommy, one of Daddy, and one of me!  Mommy was the plump one, but we switched that to Dad.

I can't wait until Auntie Tam and Uncle Michael come down to see my nursery!  Now I'm gearing up for going to a Rockets game with M & D.  Then we have our first Thanksgiving together.  It's Dad's favorite holiday!

HGTV with Mad Max

Move over Martha Stewart ... the Alcancia and Johnson crew is new in town!  Check out the progress we've made this week on my nursery.  I can't come home to an undecorated house!  My current house is so decorated right now (and tan!).

Grandma and Grandpa Alcancia put on my cloud curtains!  Mad Max loves looking at a sunny and cloudy sky.  All the books are saying that I can see now in the womb, but you try looking at the sky from inside of someone's belly!

Daddy helped put together my Lambie the Lamb bedding with Grandma and Grandpa A.  Mommy thinks she needs to take it apart again to make sure it's safe.  Oh, Mom!

Look at Lambie the Lamb checking out my spot in my crib.  Does that blanket say "Lambie the Lamb" or "Max"?  Something to think about Mr. Lamb.

Daddy is winding up my mobile.  Nothing like music and movement to drown out Mommy's snoring.  Daddy said Mommy snores like a Mario Williams the Texan when she is tired.

Grandma A came over yesterday to help more with my nursery.  Don't you love my fences?  We can't let those lambs escape.

It's Mad Max's room!  In case anyone forgets!

Party in my crib!  With Cowie the Cow, Piggie the Pig, and Devil the Blue Devil.  Grandma A says the Devil doesn't really "go" ... but you try telling that to him!

I like to call this Mad Max's Spa... or I like to say "Enter at Your Own Risk."

More soon ... we aren't finished with my nursery yet!

Who said a fetus can't paint (upside down)?

Mommy and I have been so busy this past week!

From school, to our 10.5 billion hour Birthing Class with Daddy (he only fell asleep 3 times!), Grandpa Johnson's Retirement Party, to the Texans / Rockets losing (again), preparing my nursery, and more!

More including meeting "Auntie" Ashley ... Sandy ... and Alicen on Sunday for some pottery painting at The Mad Potter on Sunday.  Mommy found a Lambie Bank for us to paint!!

Here are the before shots... oh Mommy, don't we look better in a spray tan?  Poor Mommy, I hope she forgives me for making her so bloated.

Mommy, My House, and "Auntie" Alicen

This is the Lambie before!  The Mad Potter lady said "are you painting him black for the black sheep of the family?"... (maybe because Mommy and I ordered a lot of black paint.. we are very goth!)... although she already knows my family too well, I'm not the black sheep yet!

"Auntie" Sandy and "Auntie" Ashley

Lambie after!  Didn't Mom and I do a great job?  It'll look even better after they fire it.  We also wrote Max on his bottom.  Most appropriate.  It took us forever to do his brown ears.  They gave us broken paint!

Lambie the Lamb

Mommy is having a pretty hard time focusing on anything but me lately.  She doesn't realize I am a pretty independent fetus!  Despite my current living situation.

Daddy even put down his dust buster tonight, and he put together my Lambie the Lamb mobile!

Look at my Lambies!  And my Lambie quilt from Grandma and Grandpa A.  I love it!!!  They are on my crib from Grandma and Grandpa J.  Mommy got my Lambie mobile.  It'll be so nice to look at my Lambies instead of watching the blood rush to my head in my womb.

Lambie.  Homeboy!

Mommy is CK Obsessed with Lambs.  Check out my Lambie night light!  Silly Mommy.  Doesn't she realize I can get around in my womb without a night light?

Lori and Lauren... Auntie Tam's Mother-in-Law and Sister-in-Law got me a Max blanket!  It matches my blue wall perfectly!  Thanks L and L  The feline was already eyeing my soft blanket.  Back up Bro Herm!

While on the subject of blankets (apparently it's colder in Tejas than a fetus would first assume) ... I have to share my favorite blanket.  Great Grandma Lippiatt made it special for me (and Auntie Tam's future fetuses) before she went to live in Heaven last year.  She didn't even know me yet!  I love you Great Grandma L.  Piggie the Pig fits in great with my Farm Animal theme.

Look at my funny and soft Lambie blankets I got from "Auntie" Mandy!  I also got a mini thumbie blanket.  It's for a tiny fetus!  Mom is not sure what it is for, but she loves it.  So do I!

Speaking of blankets ... Mommy said it is time to go to bed ... aka go sleep sideways in the same position for several hours.

Bahhh ...

My Tee Tee and Poo Poo Table

Look!  Look what Grandma and Grandpa A got me.  A tee tee and poo poo table.  Isn't that funny??  Thank you!

Mommy and Daddy call it my "changing table."  Don't forget to put on my seatbelt strap, Daddy!

Look at the feline jealous of my tee tee and poo poo table.  Mommy and Daddy call him my "big brother."  I hope I don't come out as hairy as him.

From Womb to World

I'm Mad Max the Super Fetus.  First known as Mini ... next Blue ... and now Mad Max (and sometimes Mighty Mad Max).

I'm scheduled to go from Womb to World in a little over two months (1-1-11)!  So it is time to start preparing for my arrival through my blog (we all know Mom can't find the time to keep up with her blog!).  I would have been blogging since the very beginning in April, but ... not only is the high speed Internet connection low in my womb (aka my house), Mom's hurling (that lasted until late July) was really disruptive.  And it's hard being a fetus.  You wouldn't believe how tiring it is growing all of these body parts!  And Mom thinks teaching is difficult.

I won't be blogging too much over the next two months, and I'll need to add the bells and whistles later.  I'm currently very busy adding my fat.  Just ask Mom, it's very tiring!  Luckily Dad is an awesome cook, and he keeps me well fed.  Check out the homemade scones he made this weekend.

I'm also very busy helping train wreck Mom!  We make a difference daily at YES Prep SE, and Mom has an extensive To Do List.  One of my favorite hobbies is getting my nursery ready.  That is where "Lambie the Lamb" lives.  And who doesn't love Lambie the Lamb?  In fact, Crazy Train Grandma and Grandpa Alcancia bought me a present yesterday - a Lambie the Lamb swing!  I hope the feline doesn't find it and use it for cat naps.  Daddy put it together today.

Thanks Grandma and Grandpa A!

I'm also excited about my new crib (from Grandma and Grandpa Johnson - thank you!)!  I hope it's more roomy than my current house.

This is a photo of my current house at Auntie Tam and Uncle Michael's Rehearsal Dinner.  Mom is feeding me a mocktail and apps!

Mom says it's time to go lesson plan.  Oh, Mommy!  Until next time ... stay tuned for updates on my kicking (Dad is training me to be a professional NFL kicker), my lamb nursery, and other adventures.

-Mighty Mad Max