Max William Jones Before & After!!!!

This is Max at a few weeks old with no work done at all!!

This is Max a weeks or so before his surgery with all of the navoalveolar molding completed!

Here are some of my favorite pictures of max right before his surgery was done. I have to admit i miss this smile so much but his personality has not changed at all and his new smile gives me the same warm fuzzy feeling his WIDE smile did!!

He is so happy and content no matter what smile he has!!

In the Hospital waiting to go into surgery! it was a hard day for all three of us but everything turned out fantastic and Max did great. Paul and I are so proud of him!

Our little family waiting for the surgeons!

Max and Dad right after Max woke up from the anasthesia(not sure if i spelled that right) with his new smile he looks fantastic and we are so impressed with his doctors. A Huge thank you to Dr. Singh and her team, and Dr. Glick and her team!

My handsome little trooper in his arm restraints after surgery just waiting to go home!!!

A little more than a week after the surgery he is healing great and looking better every day! i am slowly getting used to his new smile. i love him so much and couldn't ask for a better husband to help me through all this. they are both fantastic. A huge thanks to all our family and friends for all of your support and prayers. One surgery down and one more to go for this year. We love you Max and are so excited to see the handsome boy you will become!

I just had to add this he looks so angry but he was being so happy and fun at this moment. plus it was a really good shot of what his surgery looks like today!!!

Pre-Surgery Picture Overload!!

So Max's Surgery is in one day so i have been taking pictures like crazy! here are some of my favorites (i know there are a ton) but he is just so dang cute i couldn't decide on only a few for you all to see. I am so nervous but i know it will be great!

I will post some before and after pictures after the surgery with his outh piece out!

This is mostly for my memory!

Look at his cute smile!

I am going to miss this smile so much when it is gone. i am really struggling with the fact that i will never see him like this again!

Seriously adorable.... he just brightens up my day!

He is getting so big he can hold his own bottle now.......sometimes!

I love him!!!

He gets cuter everyday!

After his surgery he will have to wear arm braces for 10 days... i am so dreading this fact because he loves to put his fingers in his mouth he is going to be a terror but i decided he can do whatever he wants with everything he has to go through i should let him be king for the month!

Paul and Max watching the superbowl together, are they not so handsome! P.S. you will have to excuse my husbands french pedefile mustache he is trying to win a bet at the firs station and win 100 dollars so that is why he is allowed to keep this look up!!!

Bitter Sweet Picture Overload!!!!!

So my handsome little boy is having surgery in less than 2 weeks so i have to take as many pictures as i can of his wide smile so #1 he can see them one day and see how far he has come and #2 i just realized in two weeks i will never be able to take another picture of him again with his cleft they way it is, and to be honest it makes me a little teary. Paul says i am silly because i cried when i found out that Max would have a cleft and now i am crying because it is going to be fixed. I know I know i am just a big fat girl and shouldn't be crying but he i have just gotten so used to his cleft and have grown to adore and love his smile so much i am not exactly sure i want it to go away! Anyway here are some pictures i have taken lately and believe me there will be many more to come in the next few weeks.


He is so happy!!!



I think in this one he is saying.... "Okay Mom enough pictures already!"
He is getting so big and so Handsome!!
Good Morning!
This is one of my favorites. Paul is such an amazing Dad and i love him so so much, as does Max he is so good with him and they have so much fun together. doesn't his picture just make you want to hug them!!

Nothing Beats Smiles, Love and Sugar Cookies!!!!

Max had his first adventure in the kitchen with me this week, he is finally able to sit up on the counter with me in his bambo chair(which i adore) and we made sugar cookies for Dad and the rest of the fire department i am sure. Anyway loads of fun and i know i always say this but he is adorable!

This is the nothing beats love part of my title for this post, is this not the most precious picture ever. i am so lucky that my child has such great grandparents. Not only are my parents so amazing to him but Grandma and Grandpa Jones just love him to pieces as well they just do it from a distance.

And TADA this is the smiles part we were singing songs and Paul was making him dance! i know fun huh yep that should be our middle name is fun!

Fun Filled Saturday!!!

So one of Paul and my new years resolutions is to be more active as a family so today we went for a hike! it was wonderful to get outside together and spend quality time as a family.

This is horseshoe bend the beautiful place we hiked to i can't believe i have lived here most of my life and only have come here a handful of times!

I love my family and our new goal!!

My two boys max is sleeping so we didn't want to take him out!

Oh My Freekin Gosh!!!

Seriously he is the cutest little person ever! i know i know everyone says that about their child but how can you look at that face in these pictures and not agree with me! I know you can't!
I almost caught his smile in this one!
And would you look at those beautiful baby blues, don't they just melt your heart and make you want to squeeze him til you cant squeeze any tighter! i know i am one proud mama but how could you not be with a son this adorable and fun and cute and oh i could go on forever!

Could he be any cuter?

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Photo and video editing at www.OneTrueMedia.com

This is Max just being his happy self he is getting so big and cooing so much i love it. he is so much fun!Sorry i had to post both of them i know they are similar but they are a little different and both so adorable!

Ho Ho Ho Has Come and Gone!!!

Well another christmas has come and gone. sorry it took my a few days to get our christmas pictures up. but here they are. we had such a wonderful first christmas as our new little family together. Of course Max didn't care much but Brooklyn was so much fun to have their on christmas morning and our traditional christmas eve family night and dinner was delicious and uplifting as always.

Grandpa and Max watching a football game on christmas day!!

I told Paul not to make a stupid face but he did so this is what he gets for doing it a picture on my blog for all to see! P.S. this was christmas morning!

Max with some of his presents! Grandma and Grandpa got the play mat for him he loves it and is finally starting to grab things!

He loves the ball with the bell in it he will sit there and hit it for hours!

Brooklyn on Santa's present. it took her a minute to wake up and decide that she wanted to play but once she was awake she was so fun and so excited!

Me getting the poor girls hair out of her face on christmas eve. she couldn't see a thing!

Brooklyn wanted to hold Baby Max!!

Max in his first ever christmas eve pajamas!