Maximo mo mo!

Max is growing up so fast! I have to keep documenting his cute little sayings because I don't want to forget how much he makes us laugh! He is such a sweetie and he's really interested in the baby in mom's belly. Today we were talking about the baby and Max said,

"When the baby is born, Jesus will talk to her." It was so sweet. We still don't know if it's a girl, but Max only refers the baby as his sweetheart princess. We will find out next week, if I can get an appointment! We are really excited!

Max says he wants to name the baby "Baby Ayla."  That is Chris and Staci's baby's name, so obviously we won't name the baby Ayla, but it makes us laugh because he hasn't even been around Ayla at all. She was a preemie, and just got home this week, so little cuties like Max can't be around her yet.

Every morning when Max wakes up he yells for us from his room and says, 

"Mom, I'm not asleep anymore! It's a sunny day!" 

When he says that it's a sunny day that usually means he's not tired and he doesn't want to take a nap. Our conversation usually goes like this. 

Mom: "It's time for a nap Max."

Max: "But mom, it's a sunny day outside and I'm just happy. I'm not grumpy at all."

Mom: "Take a quick nap and when you wake up we can play with cars."

Max: "I'm not going to sleep at all, I'm just happy. Ok mom?"

He is so funny, and he remembers the funniest things. He will watch a movie one time and 3 months later he will start talking about specific parts that I don't even remember.

He can recognize all of the letters in the alphabet and knows thier sounds. He has known this since he was 2 thanks to Letter Factory!

He can count to 11.

He knows all of his colors, his favorites are blue, green and black and he reminds us all the time.

He knows his shapes and loves to cut out 'baby triangles.'

He likes to make up songs about whatever is going on at the time, and they usually consist of one word being repeated over and over again at different volumes.

He loves his cousins and aunts and grandparents, and he thinks we live with them because we are with them so much!

He loves to dress up in his superman cape and will only be refered to as 'Superman Max' whenever it is on. I have to wash it at least once a day lately!

He is such a sweet boy. We are so lucky to be his mom and dad!

Snow Day!

It snowed like crazy last night! We decided to take advantage of the warm snow weather by building a 'Spartan Snowman'!

Baby #2!

We are excited to announce that Baby Ulrich #2 is on the way. I'm almost 14 weeks and the morning sickness has finally left, for the most part! All this baby talk has sparked Max to say some really cute things! I have been really sick everyday, and lost 7 pounds in my first trimester from throwing up, sorry for the details! As I was bending over the toilet every day Max would try to comfort me by patting me on the back and saying,

"Good job Mommy! You made it in the toilet!"

"Oh Mom, I want to watch, is the baby coming out today?"

"Is everything o.k. in there Mom?"

"You still throwing up in there Mommy?"


After we told Max the news, we watched his baby videos, and a video from the night we left for the hospital to have Max! When he saw my belly in movie he said,

"Oh Mom, your tummy is huge, your tummy is still too tiny!"

He pats my belly every once in a while and says,

"It's still too tiny, it has to get bigger and bigger first!"


Then when we went to the doctor to hear the heartbeat on Tuesday Max said,

"Oh, that must be the baby's heartbeat, is the doctor going to take her out?"

Yes, he refers to the baby as his 'little sister' it's really funny! I teach nursery and Max was walking around with a camera saying,

"I'm taking pictures of my little sister!"

He also refers to the baby as a princess, and himself as a King! It will be funny if it's a little boy!

Those are really just a tiny fraction of the funny things he has been saying about the baby lately. It would take me all day to write them all down!


Here are some pics of Max with his princess/ sweetheart Daisy! He loves his puppies and tells me everyday! When we went to Disneyland we left them with Julie, when Max finally noticed they were gone he said,

"Mom, where are my puppies, we need to go get them!"

Ok, I know this is overload of funny things Max has been doing lately, but I know I will forget if I don't write them down. So here are a couple more funny things he has been doing lately.

He loves to put on his Superman cape and run around the house, catching the bad guys and saving his baby sister, he yells,

"I'm flying like the wind mom!"


And when he and his dad have sword fights Max says,

"I'm tougher than you think I am sister!"

He is always asking questions and he makes us laugh every day! I don't know where he gets half of the things he says!

Disneyland!

A couple of weeks ago I convinced Mike that we needed a family vacation, so we used the money I made from helping the cheerleaders to go to Disneyland! It truly is the happiest place on earth. Max loved every minute of it, and so did Mike and I. We were there at a really good time, the lines were not very long and the weather was a wonderful 72 degrees in the day!


Max's favorite characters were in a parade at California Adventure, and we had a perfect spot to see them. Max was so excited that they stopped right in front of us!
Here are Mike and Max on the little rides at the Bug's Life part of the park. The lines were the longest here, and not the most exciting, but Max liked them a lot!
Here we are kicking up our feet with a little Subway! Got to love the 5-dollar foot long after a day of 8-dollar cheeseburgers in the park! Max got that cute little Buzz Lightyear gun after we went on Midtown Madness (a fun ride where you shoot things for points.) He wouldn't stop shooting it all night, and batteries went dead in a couple of hours! He loves that thing!
Here is Max watching the parade! You can see the anticipation on his face, Lightning was a few blocks down and Max couldn't wait!
Another Bug's Life ride at the end of a long day! Our feet were killing us by the end of each day!
Max's favorite part, too bad they only let you look at them for 20 seconds!


Max didn't know what to think of Pluto! This was the first character we waited to see, and decided it wasn't worth the wait, since Max preferred to watch from afar!

Overall, it was an awesome vacation, for a really good price! I didn't have any morning sickness while we were there and Max was a good boy the whole time. I would go back tomorrow!

What the ... who says that?!

Okay, some strange things have happened to me at the grocery store lately. Today I was at the local grocery store, getting ready to check out and this man comes up behind me and says, "It's a good day not to die, isn't it?"

I'm sure I gave him the strangest look, and then I just responded, "yeah, of course it's a good day not to die."
It was the most odd thing I'd ever heard anyone say. Weird! Who say's that? Seriously... Now I'm wondering if I should have asked him if he had a brush with death or something. Then I was wondering if he was planning on killing me. It was very strange.

Now rewind a few months. I was at WalMart in Springville, I was by myself and I noticed this man looking at me in the store. I didn't think much about it, I just went about my business. Then, as i was loading my car up with a few groceries, the same man comes up to me and asks, "Do you want to be my friend?"

I thought he was trying to get some money out of me or something, so I responded, "Why do you want to be my friend? Do you need something?"

He said "No, I just want to be your friend."

I was so confused. I thought he would ask me for something if I said we could be friends. I just kept saying, "You must need something if you want to be my friend."

Finally, he said, "No, I just was wondering if you would like to be my friend, you know... like go to dinner with me... be my girlfriend."

I kind of laughed and said, "Well, sorry, I'm married."

He started to back up and began apologizing saying, "I didn't mean to scare you, I just saw you in there and wondered if we could be friends. Sorry, no disrespect, just sorry!" He walked away and I quickly got in my car and drove away.

Although it's nice to know the strange man found me attractive, it makes me wonder why these wierdo's keep approaching me. I must look like I'm a weirdo too...

I just had to write this down, strange. Seriously though, who asks someone out by saying, "will you be my friend?"

A Good Day!

Just a quick update on what's been going on lately. Chris and Staci had their sweet little baby today. It was a rough road for them... really long story, but after 6 long years of trials they finally have little Ayla Rose. She was 7 weeks early, but is healthy and beautiful! We are so happy for them. They are great examples of hard work and perseverance. We love them and hope they will get to enjoy their sweet new addition at home soon!

Also, although very trivial compared to the great news above, Cedar High took 1st place today at a USA cheer competition at Riverton! I was so excited for them. They are 3A and won two 5A teams and two 4A teams. It's been so fun helping with the cheerleaders! They really are awesome!

That's it... just wanted to do a quick post:)

Christmas Highlights!

We had a great Christmas, of course these pictures are out of order a bit, but you get the picture. Here is Max with his 'poppa Dave' and cousin Connelly playing 'hungee hungee hippo.' They loved that game!

Here we are opening presents at Dave and Julie's house on Christmas Day. Everyone went to get their chair and Max came into the room with his booster seat. Of course he sat in the middle of the room since he thinks he's the center of attention everywhere he goes!

Every year we break open a pinata at my Grandma Bev's, this year was no exception! My parents made this sweet pinata with three pockets of pinata goodness. Max loved smacking it!
Of course I had to take my turn! Everyone kept teasing me, saying that I swing the bat like a cheerleader! That fired me up, and I smacked as good as I could!
Here' s Mike taking a whack at it! There's nothing better than taking your aggression out on poor Frosty the Snowman!
This was Christmas morning. Max got a doctor kit and was fixing everyone up!

More present opening and reading the letter from Santa.
Lisa and Max were so giddy on Christmas Eve they snuggled on Lisa's bean bag chair and enjoyed the Muppet Christmas Carol.
Andie, Max and Lisa made reindeer food and were strategically placing it outside for Rudolf! It was cute.

Max thinks it's still "almost Santa Clause time,' and I keep telling him it's already over. He doesn't understand why I'm taking down all of the Christmas decorations. Maybe next year it will make a little more sense. He loved all of his wonderful gifts and we loved watching him get excited about everything! Good times...