Meeting Baby Maxwell

Aka the cousin with the largest head (which in a family of Shaner-sized noggins is quite the feat). 

Some helpful things we learned for our next baby:

#1: Luke still likes to "hold and dump", i.e. shove the baby off without warning when finished (as he did the first time he held Derek). 

#2: Derek is most likely going to be quite jealous, as he needed to be held immediately after Maxwell when I took a turn. 

#3: The baby will probably need to be watched pretty closely for a good long while; poor Maxwell, who hardly ever cried and handled all cousin-mauling like a champ, was still pretty thoroughly smothered whenever he was left in a baby chair at cousin level.

But most importantly: Calm, content, pleasant, un-bored babies do exist! And can be produced by members of our family! As Ken said the other day, "Maybe we will finally get a baby that will just like to sit."