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Its nuts to think that a year ago Max hadn’t even been born yet! He is becoming more and more mobile every day. Today Kelly and I saw him stand by himself for about 3o seconds and take a little shuffle step forward. So exciting! He love pushing his little cart thing to move around the house. He likes to be chased with it and walks as fast as his little legs can take him. He really likes clapping these days and will clap when you open the car door to take him out of his car seat. So cute! He also just randomly claps so we clap too and say, “Yay!” He is also waving more to people. Kelly heard Max say, “Sprinkles” when sh saw our cat a few weeks ago too.

Ears off in 3, 2, 1.

Max’s first spaghetti sauce! I can’t believe we didn’t do this sooner! I put in some spinach noodles and tofu and he actually ate them!

I made a chicken pot pie Tuesday evening. I couldn’t think of a more delicious and nutritious lunch for Max the next day…but he could. He spit out the chicken, crust and everything else. I gave him some Cheerios to see if he’d eat those. Yup, he munched them right up. Go figure.

My friend Emily’s parents gave Max this super cute onsie.

Yesterday my friend, Tina and her son, Noah came to visit. Tina spotted the green, plastic stool by the window and asked if Max used it by himself.

“Gosh, no! Not yet he doesn’t.” I answered.

Well, this morning I looked up and saw this:

I don’t know how he got up but he did…all by himself.

Max loves black beans. He double fists them.

I boxed up some of Max’s six to nine month clothes and he decided that he should help. (Yes, that is a onsie on his head).

Peeking

I gave Max egg yolks for the first time earlier this week and they were so crumbly and messy! Since he was also a mess I also gave him these teething biscuit things that are even messier. Its like they melt out of his mouth. So nasty! He loves them though so that’s what counts.

My mom got Max this tux romper. So cute!

Goofy daddy

Max and I got to spend time with his Aunt Laura and Cousin Grace this week. Kelly’s parents gave Max and Grace matching “Baby Police” onsies for Christmas and Laura took some pics of the two of them. I for one feel safer knowing they are protecting me.

Yes, she actually slugged him in the face. He didn’t seem to mind that, he did mind having to sit in a chair and be still though.

Max gave Grace a hug and a kiss! So cute!

Max did a speed crawl toward the camera. If it flashes or moves he’s all over it.

Miss Grace

A while after Max was born I signed him up to participate in research studies on a voluntary basis at the University of Washington. So a while ago I received a phone call from a scientist lady at UW. She described a study that involved nine-month-old babies. To participate we had to go up to UW three times a week for four weeks (lots of driving) but it was for the month of February (which I loath because the weather is usually icky) so why not!? Also my good friend Elisabeth works next door to where we were at UW so we visited her a few times and if the weather was decent we jogged or walked around Green Lake.

Each time we went Max and I sat in a tiny room with pillows and a touch screen television. He would watch a video of people speaking Mandarin and playing with toys. When the video would stop a photograph of a baby would pop up. If Max touched the screen another video would start. Once he bumped the screen with his bottom and got a video to play. After all of his exposure visits (12) the scientist wanted to see if Max’s brain waves were different when he heard Mandarin as opposed to English. So they put the below cap on him and exposed him to the different language. He sat in my lap the whole time and I wore headphones that played music so I wouldn’t consciously or unconsciously prompt him in any way. It was a fun opportunity for us, maybe Max will get to do another study some day.

This was a sad day because I found Max was too big for his overalls from his Great Great Aunt Patty.

Thank you again Aunt Laura for Max’s toy. It is still one of his favorites.

Here Max is enjoying some naked time before a bath. The lower shelves in the hall closet are full of stuff that he can get into. He seems to prefer the baby proofing gagets over anything else.

This is something Max loves to do with Daddy.

Daddy sharing his yogurt popsicle with Max.

Max is now 10 months old! Some things he is into are feeding himself. He loves bananas. He has been know to eat two in one day! He also likes “dancing” to music. He really likes his people and is shy when it comes to people he isn’t as familiar with. He likes pictures of other babies. He still likes Sprinkles and she tolerates him.

I knew a bottle would keep Max on the couch for a few seconds while I snapped some pictures.

So much for the bottle now he wants the camera!

Naked Max on the move!

Monkey Max!