Things About Max

• today he is 11 days old
  
• he pees on me at least twice a day
• sometimes he poops on me, too
• strangely, i don't really mind. chad and i just laugh about it like crazy people.
• he refuses to sleep in his crib
• he doesn't like to sleep alone
• he loves it when i put in him bed with me
• he will sleep in his bouncer, sometimes in his swing, and most recently in his play pen - but never in his crib. even if he was impossible to wake up five minutes before, as soon as i put him down in the crib, he wakes up and usually starts crying.
• he only likes the soothie pacifier from the hospital, not the other pacifiers that we have
• he likes to fall asleep with his pacifier, but once he's really sleeping he spits it out
• he hates to be naked
• he really hates diaper changes and sponge baths
• i can't stand to hear him cry
  
• today his umbilical cord fell off
• today he tried to talk to me with baby noises that weren't cries or grunts
• he smiles right before he poops
• he purses his lips when i run a finger from his nose down to his chin
  
• he always sleeps with his hands by his face
• the sound of the microwave door closing startles him (but the microwave dinging doesn't, and neither do most other loud noises)
• his tiny head makes my tiny child hands look huge (my little sister's hands have been bigger than mine for over 4 years, ever since she was 10)
  
• he is pretty much the cutest baby ever
• he is pretty much a peeing machine
• he spits up a lot
• he makes me worry about him constantly (is he eating enough? too much? is he pooping enough? is he gaining weight? is he spitting up too much? am i completely screwing him up?)
  
• i am hopelessly in love with him