Moments with Max

Carrie hates doing dishes (thankfully though she still does them, because I hate doing dishes more then just about anything) so she enlisted some help. The dishwasher is coming but I don't think it can get here soon enough.



The other day Max decided he was hungry and since we are redoing the kitchen our cereal is sitting down in the living room. To be honest I didn't think he would get the box open so I didn't take the box away from him. Well as you can see he did get the box open. I'm not sure if he got more in his mouth or on the floor.



Recently Max has started doing head stands, er I guess more like head leans. Anyway it is funny to see and he loves doing it.



Even though Max is gold most of the time he still has his moments of "I will do whatever I want" so he ends up getting into trouble for not listening. Yup that means that it's off to "time out."

Birthday

Last Wednesday Max turned one year old. Here are a few pictures of his birthday celebrations.

Before the party begins


After singing "Happy Birthday" to Max, he decided that instead of blowing out the candle he would use his hand


I don't think it went exactly has he may have planned


After that he got down to the business of eating his cake


This is from his party on saturday. Laura made the cakes and they were delicious

Life Poster

Awhile back (okay so it was 2005 when we did this but that still counts as "awhile") we printed a "Life Poster". We really liked it and have decided to do one for every year (starting with 2009)

We just got it back from the printer and now have it hung on the wall.


here is a close up.

Max on a plane

This picture is just too good not to post.

Max's first flight

We were both surprised at how well Max did on the plane and in the airports. Here are a few pictures of the trip.

An Early Gift

The tradition started last year with our couches and continued this year with another early gift.

Recently we had a friend of ours visit and it wasn't until then that we realized that we really needed a new toilet. The old one would have trouble filling up the tank. So if someone used the toilet during the middle of the night it wold run and run till you went back and giggled the handle. Aside from that the old one had mold growing in the underside of the tank and it was stained. (that's all I'm going to say about that) So we needed a new one. After dropping Daniel off at the airport, Carrie Max and I went over to the Home Depot and picked out a shinny new toilet, and one of those fancy soft close seats.

Having never removed or installed a toilet before the first thing I did was NOT look at the instructions. I find it much more fun to read them once you are finished and see if their method was as good as the one you worked out for yourself. I will say that removing an old toilet was one of the more disgusting things I have ever done. Removing the old wax I wore two pair of gloves and once I was finished with everything I washed my hands 3 or 4 times then took a shower. I still didn't think I was clean but didn't want to waste any more water. I also, and this has never happened before, disinfected my tools when I was finished with them. The bathroom floor and the tub got a once over with Comet, (go ahead and sing the song if you want) and some Mr. Clean wipes.

It was all worth it though. Having done the toilet I now want to redo the rest of the bathroom. Maybe that will be next Christmas.

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new

Olympic Torch

As promised here is a picture of the Olympic Torch as it passed by our place.

We were thinking about going down town to see the torch, until we looked on line and saw the route map. The Torch was going to pass right by our place. So we waited for the torch to get here then went outside to see it. As we drew closer to the street we heard the crowd starting to get louder. So I began to run with Max in his stroller we caught up to the torch and I began taking photos. I thought I would try for a zoomed in shot and that is when I noticed that I had set the camera to manual focus. What else could I do but start running again to catch up to the torch. Luckily there was an exchange of the flame just up the road so I was able to catch up to them. This time the photos where in focus.

here is a map of the torch's route.



And here is a picture of the exchange.

a cheesy reaction

As we are introducing new foods to Max we like to get his reactions on film. Here is what he gave us, when we gave him cheese.

this first one is with cottage cheese.


and here we have mozzarella


as you can tell he is a huge fan of cheese. :)

In the end he did eat all the mozzarella we had given him, but the cottage cheese, well he still doesn't like it. Don't worry the remainder of the cottage cheese didn't go to waste, Carrie made a delicious lasagna with it.

another ish

Max took his first steps the other night. We took video of it but it's pretty dark so the next morning we got Max to walk again.



He seems to want to run, but his feet won't keep up with his upper body so he ends up mostly falling towards you. With a little practice he might be walking by Christmas. For now we will have to settle for walking(ish)

Trick or Treat

Max dressed up as a chicken for halloween. He even got to go out "trick or treating". We went to our building's lobby and our sister building's lobby.

Here he is getting ready to head out the door


And here is a close up of the little chicken