Kallie turns 33

Max isn't typically the type of kid who gets into everything and makes a huge mess.  He has his moments, of course, but most of the time is just normal making a mess with his toys.

I found him checking out my lotion

I had a business trip to Denver with one of my co-workers so I had to take advantage and hit up the Cafe Rio!!  (He LOVED it - naturally)

MMMMMMMM...sweet pork salad  with chips, salsa, and queso.  He got a smothered burrito which also looks amazing to me right now.  Come on Cafe Rio!!!  Come to Texas!!!

Momma and Maxwell

Making him giggle

Brittany surprised me with a nothing bundt cake complete with a candle fork - cool, right?

Sweet little sleeper...sleeping on top of his blanket, all tucked up into the corner of the bed

My cool dude

My birthday was fantastic.  My co-workers got me my favorite oatmeal from Jamba Juice for breakfast plus flowers, a card, and a gift card.  One of my employees sent me a picture frame.  And my awesome husband sent me flowers at work.  I sure felt loved.

Video - Max not really telling me happy birthday

That night Peter and I went to a Japanese steak house for teppanyaki after Max went to bed.  It was POURING when we went to leave the restaurant.

We stopped at best buy but nothing interested me.  So instead we just took home some balloons that one of the employees was taking down.  

Peter bought me a new small digital camera since my old one stopped working in Florida - thanks babe for being so generous.

We have two walk-out attic spaces in our house and there's a ton of space up there that wasn't decked, and we wanted more storage space (especially since we are going to have some new roommates in a week...more to come on that).  So we had a guy who did our neighbor's attic come and do ours.  I forgot to take before pictures.

It's hard to tell how big this space is in the picture but it's a really good sized space that before was totally open.  This is by the bedroom upstairs.

I forgot to take a space of this before we loaded crap onto it but this is by the game room.  The space goes all the way to the back wall.  It's nice to have all this storage space since we don't have a lot of storage space in the garage.

A big update about Max now that he's 21 months old!  (It's interesting going back and writing this up since I am typing this blog nearly 4 months later.  So many of these things he doesn't do anymore.) :(

• He says "A boo boo" for peekaboo
• He loves Dora The Explorer and will do the dance at the end.  He has also started saying "Oh man!"  all the time thanks to Dora.
• He also loves to watch Barney the Dinosaur and the Disney movie Tangled
• He fake sneezes
• He knows what a burp is and will say "burp" when he burps.
• He used to make the "f" sound when blowing out, like blowing out candles.  But now he can really blow out.
• He will since the last word of most songs we sing if I stop before the last word and let him do it.
• His hair is getting long and needs to be cut.
• He has started saying 3 and 4 words sentences occasionally... like "I will hold it"
• He loves wearing his hat with his "eyeglasses" (sunglasses)
• He is ticklish on his neck, armpit, knee, feet, and bum.
• He likes to buckle things together like his seat belt.
• He comes home with random bruises... I don't like this but he's a boy, he plays hard - it's going to happen right?
• He can be rowdy
• He loves climbing
• He LOVES the iPad
• When he sees an iPhone, he says "Max" because he wants to look at pictures of himself
• He likes playing on the keyboard we have in the office and the alarm clock in our bedroom.  He has figured out how to turn on the music on both.
• He is struggling to take his first nap and rarely takes a second.
• He likes to eat bananas, yogurt, oatmeal, spaghetti, bread, pizza, chicken, and tilapia.
• He is so helpful and good at cleaning up and putting things away.
• He says "catch" when he throws a ball at you.
• He says "B Ball" for basketball, "nana" for banana, "p-pa" for Grandma
• He wants to talk on the phone but when he gets it he just sits there and doesn't talk
• He doesn't want to listen to classical music in the car, or even pop music.  He only wants to listen to his Kindermusik CDs.  However, when we are in the house, he wants to listen to pop music.
• He is amazing at going to bed when we do our bedtime routine.  It is NEVER an struggle or an issue.
• He is still a daddy's boy.
• He is turning into a little boy and looking leaner, taller, and older.