Farm Day and Swimming!

My 2 year is sleeping.  His sweet body is resting from his "busy morning" and taking a nap.  He went down about an hour earlier than normal but how could ignore his yawns and zoned out eyes?  He's been sleeping for 2 1/2 hours which is also longer than normal.  Poor Max, he must be really tired.  I wish I could teach him to just sleep in later in the morning.  :)

So while he sleeps, I will blog!

Here's the fun we had over the weekend back on May 18, 2013...

We got together with some friends of ours for a Farm and Ranch Day at a local children's hospital but first we met for an amazing breakfast!  They suggested the place and now I can't remember the name.  We ate outside.  It was local and their menu was focused on local, organic, fresh, and homemade.  They even had steel cut oatmeal.  I loved it.  Totally my type of place.

Oops - I hear my Max "Kallie...."   "Kallie...."   I jinxed it!  I will finish later...  

He stopped calling for me so I left him alone.  When I checked on him he was awake but just hanging out playing with the slats on his crib with his feet.  We finally decided to go in and get him after about 3 hrs in there.

Max and S. playing on the iPhone while we waited for the food.

At the hospital, we first checked out the animals.  Max loved the goose (I kept calling it a duck and Peter corrected me) and would have stayed there watching it forever.

He wasn't interested in touching any of the animals.

Dad, Max, Andrea, and Jeff (S is on the playground)

It was really hot so Dad tried to cool Max off

S. checking out the big tractors

Future farmer?

Checking it out together

This is his "I'm hot and tired" face.

We didn't stay much longer.  We were all wiped from the heat.

When I checked on my boys during nap time, only one was sleeping and it was the wrong one.  :)

Max cooled off in the afternoon by playing in the pool.

Sleeping all tucked up, with his head in the corner.  I still check on him whenever I go to bed to make sure he's okay (breathing).  I rest my hand on his sweet back or belly and then I lightly touch his sweet cheek and LOVE HIM.  I am so grateful to have this sweet boy in our lives.  We hit the lottery.

On Sunday we got the kids all ready to go visit the splash park in our neighborhood (how cool is it that we have an HOA splash park!?).  Unfortunately, it wasn't working.  How disappointing!

Max trying to make it work

We still got some fun in the water by going next door to our neighbor's pool and enjoying some great brisket/food.  They are great hosts and always so welcoming.

Max enjoying his slice of watermelon

Landen liked the watermelon, too

After the little boys were done swimming, the big boys (the teenagers) took over the pool.  Hayden and Landen just stood there and watched the big boys, in awe.  It was funny.  :)  I am glad I have some time before Max gets to that point.  Those teenagers sure are fearless - yikes!

Saying "Cheese"

Video - Max does some pretty awesome jumping jacks.  :) They are first in the video and pretty fast.  And it cracks me up when he jumps right on his bum.

He's a talker!

So...think back to the end of my last post...Remember Maxing sucking so cutely on that baby food pouch?  Well, he liked them so much that I gave him one on Sunday morning a little bit before we were going to go to the store.  I was going to take it away from Max while we were in the car but Peter said that I should just let him keep it.  I was a little nervous about it just because he's still rear facing so we wouldn't be able to watch what he was doing but I went with what Peter thought we should do.  So when we got to the store and went to get Max out of the car seat, this is what we found...

The baby food is EVERYWHERE (the lighting makes it hard to see).  It's all over his clothes, face, hands, and especially all over the buckle and straps.  It was a MESS!!!!!!  He must have done a lot of squeezing and not so much swallowing.  The honor of cleaning up went to Peter since this was his idea.  :)

Here's the "after" picture with the frame for the screen up on the wall in the media room.

We finally took care of Max's crazy hair and buzzed it all off.  I wondered if he was going to freak out but he really liked it and wanted us to keep going after we were done.  I feel like he looks so different with his hair buzzed, I don't prefer the look.

Peter and I sure made a cute baby!

See?  he looks like he doesn't even have hair!

He can't figure out how to sit on the trike the right way but can get on it backwards.

Video - Max is doing great at learning his body parts and words.  This video is longish but worth it to hear his sweet voice saying words.

Here's the view of what our neighborhood looks like lately.

Maxwell loves riding the horse that Nana and Grandpa gave him. 

My sweet husband brought me home flowers - thank you babe!

I LOVE getting fresh flowers.

Some things about Max during the second week of December:

• He's great at letting me brush his teeth with the little thumb toothbrush that looks like a thimble
• Words that he's saying, "Hat, No, Up, Ears, Shoes, Banana (or more accurately, nana), apple, and turkey
• I have now stopped nursing Max at Brittany's during lunchtime.  He just isn't staying focused anymore and is distracted by anything so it's a hassle.
• He is so smart and it's clear that he now really understands most of what we say
• He's able to communicate with us (which is crazy!!!)
• He is "singing" more
• He's really talkative
• He has 2 molars that have broken through each side of his mouth on the bottom but no canine/incisor teeth yet so there's a gap there