Toyota Stroller

We went to the zoo the other day and the accelerator on the stroller got stuck. Max wasn't able to reach the gear lever to shift it into neutral so away he went. Lucky for us thought the stroller has a speed limiter and can't go past 5kph. That combined with the fact that the dry weight of the stroller is less then 14Kg I was able to just reach out and stop it.

Girl

These are some of the first pictures of our daughter.

popsicle

Max, up until today, has not liked popsicles. If you tried to give him one he would run away from it. Very unlike Max, who will normally run up to strangers if there is food involved. Well after having him stick out his tongue to have a lick he decided that he did indeed like it and took the last of the popsicle.



after I stopped filming he started looking around for the bit of popsicle that I had taken out of his mouth because he still wanted to eat it. I had ,however, already eaten it, so all he got to do is lick the empty stick.

renovations

The reno is coming along slow and steady. I will have a before and after pano for the blog once it's finished and I take the after pano :) For now, however, I just wanted to share a quick video. On the wall with the butlers pantry I moved the power outlet up to counter height and then added another outlet. Easy enough when you have wood studded walls, but when the walls are concrete it's gets to be a bit more difficult.

enjoy the video

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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