That's my boy!

 Max has now learned that he can pull the VHS and DVDs off the rack.  He loves to do it - now if only I could teach him how to put them back.

Brittany had made spaghetti for lunch and I was holding Max while trying to eat.  He, likes he always does, was grunting away because he wanted to be eating too.  So, I decided to let him try a little.  Spaghetti is my favorite food so I hoped he'd like it...

He loved it!!!!  YEAH!!!!  He did a great job.  This was his first time eating noodles or a tomato sauce.  He is really good at feeling when there is food on his mouth so if a noodle didn't make it in his mouth and was stuck on his lip, he'd notice and push it in.

I am thrilled that he likes spaghetti!  Now if only I could get him to start liking avocados...

Some things about Max lately:

• He has learned how to take his toy basketball and put it in the basketball hoop, then grab it from below the hoop and put through again.
• He loves making the "b" sound
• He will say "da"
• He is starting to try to clap by at least putting his hands together when we are showing him how to clap
• He high 5's by touching his palm to yours
• He lifts his hand to my lips for me to kiss when he's nursing.  I think it's really sweet.

Happy Anniversary Britt and Joe!

Peter says people probably don't read my blog because they are tired of reading about Max.  I would love to write about my thoughts on motherhood or being a working mom or something having nothing to do with being a mom.  However, I am so far behind on this blog (today is Aug 4 and I'm blogging about May 25 - 27) that anytime that I can spend blogging goes towards trying to catch up.  So, maybe someday this blog will be more than just Max but for now, it's all Max all the time.  This is my journal/photobook so I don't want to leave anything out. 

We celebrated Brittany and Joe's anniversary but first, some other pics mainly pictures that I took while trying out my new camera...

 Max is a sympathetic crier.  If Landen starts crying, Max will cry right alongside him. 

My new camera sure captures details well.  Sometimes I will notice food on Max's face in a picture that I didn't see normally.  It also does a good job of showing how wet Max's clothes get thanks to all his drooling.  This boy has so much drool but I refuse to keep a bib on him all day, it just isn't cute.  So, instead he will just have wet shirts.

Video - I have mentioned how Max has started blowing raspberries anytime he can connect his mouth with skin on Peter and I.  We commonly get attacked by raspberries in the morning.  I love it.  Here's a video that shows a little bit of that and then you can also enjoy some more teeth grinding.  I don't love that.

We did more house hunting over the weekend.  Haven't found the winner yet.

To celebrate Brittany and Joe's anniversary, we did some grilling.  We grilled a lot at our apartment last year but this year for some reason we haven't been doing it.  This was the first time this year.

The master chef!

Cute boys  -  Landen and Hayden

Action shots with the new camera  -  awesome!

 The love birds feeding each other dessert.

Dinner was awesome - I love food cooked on the grill and can't wait until we have a house and can just walk out into the backyard and grill rather than packing everything up and going downstairs at our apartment to use one of the grills in the common areas.  Although, eating outside has become complicated with Max because he's not happy sitting on our laps and not eating when we are eating.  And he's a grabby little guy which makes it hard to eat because everything needs to be out of his reach.  But then we can't put him on the ground because he'll crawl around and put everything on the ground in his mouth.  And he's not going to stay put on a chair by himself.  It's tricky and usual it ends up with Peter and I switching off - one of us eats while the other holds and entertains Max and then we swap.

Max has now sort of started waving.  It's not a true wave but he will put his arm and hand out and move it up and down a little bit.

Happy Birthday Kallie!

Woo hoo!  I am now 32.  No day off for the birthday girl - I headed to work!

 Here's what I push to the car each day.  Max in the stroller, diaper bag on one handle, pump bag on the other handle, laptop bag in the basket under the car seat.

 My sweet perfect husband sent me flowers at work - he knows so well what I love.

 Brittany had In-n-Out waiting for me at lunch.  YUMMY!

She gave me this awesome baby food recipe book.  You'll see more of this in the future.

 Max showing off his drumming skills.

 My team did cake and sang happy birthday to me.  I chose a Red Velvet and Marble cake from Nothing Bundt Cakes.  Ridiculously good.  My mouth is water just thinking about it.

 Peter had presents for me when I got home from work.  Max helped me open them.

 He was sorta into it.

What?  Peter!  You shouldn't have!  You are such a generous husband.

He gave me the super nice Canon Rebel.  Look for some better quality pictures on future blogs - wahoo!

Checking out the new camera's ability.  Yup - pretty good.  It captured how cute Peter is.

We went and picked up Panda  Express for dinner - - no cooking for me!

Video - So Max has this new awful habit of grinding his teeth.  It is the most horrible sound.  And I don't know how to make him stop!  Turn your volume up, there's some grinding right at the beginning.

It was a good day but was also a bad day.  Peter did everything he could to make it a special day and I really appreciated that.  However, regardless of that, it was just a bad day.  The entire day it just felt like something was missing and without that, it wasn't going to be a good day.  What was missing?  My mom.  I missed her terribly today.  I felt more alone and abandoned and sad without her than I did on Mother's Day.  There was no birthday card in the mail.  There were no presents in the mail.  There wasn't a phone call from her.  It just sucked.  I miss my mom. 

big...Bigger...Even Bigger...BIGGEST

Woah!

Life is good for a cute little 9 month old!

Life is good!  We are blessed.  Max is so much fun to have in our lives.

He's a sweet sleeping baby.  (Notice how he's got one arm completely out to the side?  That's his normal position now.)

Who needs special toys?  I like playing with water bottles.

whaaaaaa

Mid Sneeze

All good!

 Chillin' while he eats some puffs - cracks me up!

 Good dexterity with those fingers, Maxwell!

After having fun at Brittany's he got to have fun at home.  He found this box from Amazon by the door...

This looks like fun - what is it?

Whoops - Momma caught me!

Video - Max really enjoyed playing (while supervised) with the plastic packing bubble things

Video - Max can make anything into a toy!

Video - Max enjoys being read to or playing with books by himself.  Life is good!

All that fun makes for a sleepy baby... (note the arm out to the side touching the pack n play)

Movin' Around

Max is everywhere!  Pulling up on everything.  Here's some of his travels up, down, and all around.

 We had what is now our regular weekend - house hunting.

 Our realtor, Jon

Brittany watched Max during the long day of house seeing so that Max wouldn't be stuck in his car seat.  He was pretty happy to see us though (and we were happy to see him) when we went to pick him up. 

It's hard because looking for houses isn't fun for Max but then if we leave him at Brittany's then it means we miss out on large chunks of time together when it feels like we get so little time together due to us both being working parents.