I like to make waffles and freeze what Max and I don’t eat. This was a waffle making morning. Oh and I just use bisquick I don’t make them from scratch so its super quick.
Here’s Max helping stir. He also got to dump in the ingredients and loved all of it. This is Max’s camera smile now.
Max’s friend Noah got him an owl hat for Christmas. My friend Tina and I had to get pictures of them together. Prior to this photo they played with dirt and dump trucks in Noah’s backyard. They may have matching coats too…
I was getting ready one morning and Max found my stash of headbands. He insisted on wearing all three at once. Maybe I should start taking style tips from him?
Max was eating dinner when he thought it would be fun to try and balance his fork on his head.
Kelly cuts his hair at home (I touch it up and it turns out nicely…sometimes). Here is Max getting his first at home haircut from Daddy.
Last weekend we went to “Work “n” More” to get Kelly new jeans etc. This place is actually great for little kids. There was a wall of different colored construction hats, and lots of space to run around. Max also enjoyed crawling under the dressing room door to help Daddy select the perfect jeans.
Its cliche to say that kids grow up fast but it really is true! Max is a talking, running, jumping, energetic toddler. Here’s what he’s up to:
New words since 18 months (I keep a list): Meow-meow (cat), please, thank you, baby, slippers, key, sneeze, peek, mailman, more, Costco (yes!), book, go, on, spoon, frog, down, what’s that?, where’d it go, another one, back pack, new shoes, boat, clock, cold, oreo (the neighbor’s dog), in, excuse me (oh yes!), daddy go, hole, snack, stinky, chomp, shake, scratch, sad, pasta, bright, touchdown, mess, block, pea, eye, ear…
Likes: having his be-be (blanket/s), taking us by the hand to show us stuff, chasing the cat, playing outside, TRAINS, cookies, seeing firetrucks, police cars, buses, playing in his sensory tub, watching Dinosaur Train (thanks Cousin Addie!), playing with friends at church, watching construction, TRAINS, playing with cousins, aunts, uncles, and grandparents, taking bubble baths(emphasis on the bubbles), TRAINS, reading books with us (lots and lots of books), story time at the library, indoor park at the Kent Commons, TRAINS, horses, playing with his stuffed animals in his crib, playdough, coloring, painting, art projects, dancing to music
Dislikes: Daddy leaving for work, Daddy being gone, having his diaper changed, putting on clothes, when we don’t keep reading him books when its time for bed
Food likes: fruit snacks, yogurt, gogurt, shredded cheese, toast, waffles with strawberry freezer jam, milk and cereal, oatmeal, most fruit, peas, green beans, corn
Food dislikes: anything meat (we’re not vegetarian), broccoli, basically whatever we would like him to eat for dinner
Sleeping: After a bath and three books Max goes to bed around 8pm. He wakes up around 7am. He’s napping around 11am or noon for anywhere between an hour to two hours. Hopefully he will continue being a good sleeper when he is sharing a room with a little sibling.
Play dough
Sensory bin
Stylin’ in his new rain boots.
The look on Max’s face after being banned from markers for a while. I wonder why he was banned???
I was attempting to organize my closet and get rid of stuff I’m not going to wear again. Max insisted on wearing this and he knew how to wear it!
About once a week Max and I visit my parents. On this visit Max and my dad did a lot of playing.
Here my dad is tickling Max.
Max loves to sweep and clean in general. I can’t say the word vaccume unless I’m actually going to vacuume right then. The kid will open the closet where the vaccume is and jump up and down and scream with pure joy. The same is true with the steam mop. Also If if finds something on the floor he likes to throw it away in the garbage. I don’t I clean that much but I must do it just enough that it looks like fun to him.
One day he insisted on wearing my sweater and cleaning with one of the parts from the steam mop.
Over Christmas break we got to go up to Whidbey Island with Kelly’s parents, grandma, Kelly’s brother, his wife and their daughter, Grace. A good time was had by all.
Max in his kitty sweater and Grace in her bunny sweater. Kelly’s grandmas made them!
This little car was a huge hit! Grace would stand on top of it all on her own with no fear. Max decided to try it on his own too but wanted down right away. It will be fun to see what these kiddos are like in the years to come.
Betty, Grace, Christopher, Buddy, Max, me at Fort Casey.
Max loved the gun barrels at Fort Casey. He would have crawled up the barrel as far as he could if I would have let him.
Me, Grace and Max looking into an elevator shaft.
A picture of a rainbow that Christopher took. So pretty!
