4 Month Update

At 4 months, here is the skinny on Maddox:

-He weighs 13 pounds, 8 ounces (10th percentile) and is 25 1/2 inches long (50th percentile)

-His hair is over 3 inches long

-Maddox laughs a ton and has a cute, flirtatious smile

-He especially loves his dad and can't look away from Scott when he gets home from work

-Maddox kicks his legs and flaps his arms when he gets really excited

-He loves bath time and is really good at kicking and getting mom wet

-He gets excited to take his vitamins

-He likes watching mom wheel Great Grandpa Layton's toy tractor around on the floor and he tries to push it around himself

-Maddox likes to sit at the table with mom and dad during dinner; normally he is in the Bumbo, but if we are holding him, he'll try to grab our glass when we take a drink

-He likes looking at the computer, TV, iPhone.... basically anything with a screen and color

-He is very ticklish on his back/sides

-He can stick his pacifier in his mouth AND let go (that was the tricky part for a while)

-He is a master at sitting in his Bumbo now

-Maddox can roll from his tummy to his back and is so close to rolling from his back to his tummy, he just needs to swing those legs over

-He is almost able to sit up on his own

-He is finding his legs and feet a lot more

-He puts EVERYTHING in his mouth

-Maddox helps turn the page when we read

-Maddox is rocking cloth diapers

-He currently spends 3 days a week with Mai while mom and dad are at work; she is wonderful with him and he is always happy at the end of the day when we get home

-He sleeps a lot better than a month ago; currently, he'll take 2 good 1 1/2 hour naps during the day and at night he's going down between 8:30 and 9:30, waking up 2 times on a good night, and sleeps for about a 3 hour stretch at a time... we are constantly working to improve his sleeping habits:)

-He is liking tummy time a lot more and will rest his head when he needs a break instead of immediately crying

-He had his first tears a couple weeks ago...sad:(

-Maddox has this cute little cry/shrill that Scott has dubbed "the dinosaur cry" (he compares it to a baby velociraptor or pterodactyl)

-He went to his first motorcycle show last weekend

-He went on his first hike two weekends ago

-Maddox went on his first road trip (to Connell at 3 months) for Christmas; while we were there, he also cheered at his first basketball game

We opened gifts here at home Christmas Eve before heading to WA.

First road trip!

Maddox at 3 months.

Christmas Day 2012

Enjoying some spoils from Christmas.

Mom's first day back at work.

This is Maddox after he finished his burger at Red Robin.

My two cute guys in their Sunday best.

Maddox at 4 months.

First hike!

We found Maddox's doppelgänger... Nick from Scott's work.

Maddox loved the motorcycle show...almost as much as
dad loved showing it to him.

A few weeks before Christmas, I had a work trip that we've been meaning to share pictures of.  Most of the family has heard about it but haven't seen the pictures we've promised.  I just went on another trip this month that was related to my last trip so now I have to put some more pictures up.  I make that sound less fun than it really is... it's just this writing part that I dislike.

I had a chance to go to China to help get some prototypes made and start the manufacturing process of some helmets we have been working on.  I was really stoked that I was able to make the trip on such short notice and learned a lot from the experiences I had while there.  Trisha might view that all a little different but she was awesome in supporting me while I was away for work.  She's always been great about that even when that means she's going to have it extra hard for a while.

I traveled with a fellow designer from work which made the trip a little less foreign than it might have felt had I traveled alone.  We flew into Hong Kong and stayed the first night there, then took a ferry to Zhuhai, then rode to the factory which was about an hour or so away by car.  That week while we were at the factory we had the same daily routine so the days started to blend together.  We were at the factory all day except for when they would take us to lunch and dinner then back to our hotel.  We had lots of Chinese food, which was different than Chinese food (in America).  I'll spare all the details but it was a successful trip in lots of ways and it was a great experience.

A little group of us from work went to Denver for a snow sports show that happens there each year.  We had some clients showing new products there and we were meeting with some others that we are hoping to start work with soon.  Cinco did the booth design as well but I only worked on the actual helmets that our client showed off at SIA.  Everything looked great and it was a good short trip.  We walked a ton the two days we were at the show and we enjoyed one late night watching some boxing that Electric sponsored and gave us tickets to.  Danny Kass was the referee and we saw lots of other riders around the show and at the fight, pretty cool.  There is less to tell or show about the actual trip but I am excited to show you some more of the stuff I've been working on over the last few months... and while on my trip to China.  Here is a link to a video Cinco made for these helmets as well.

http://www.electricvisual.com/video/index/view/id/63/

This is a taste of the show and a cool Porsche.