Texas, Texas

Charles, Judy, Aunt Ivy, Max and Paw-Paw


Max's first haircut!

Max and Grandma climb trees

Cowboy Max

Cute overalls

Sam Houston museum in Huntsville, TX

Max loved riding in this wagon


Blowin the leaves

Max is riding Mr. Pooh that Charles and John rode when they were youngins'




Max meets Granny!


Max did awesome on the plane ride there and back which was a big happy surprise for Charles and I.

We ate too much, caught up with family and enjoyed the warm weather down there. Max absolutely loved Paw-Paw's shop especially the leaf blower with which he blew leaves all over the yard and even blew our shoes clean.

At Grandma's house she showed Max how to climb trees. Good grandma! We spotted a few turtles in the bayou and checked out all the Christmas lights in the neighborhood.

I wanted his first haircut to be at children's salon but he needed one badly (in my opinion) so we found a place that would take us without an appointment and went for it. It started out good but went down hill about midway and ended with full on screaming and crying. Ohh well.....

Max's first day back at daycare after a whole week with mom and dad wasn't easy but by the second day he was back in the swing of it.

Of all the many, many things we love about Max right now my personal favorite is that he asks us for hugs and kisses. He doesn't just put his lips on your face anymore, now he puckers up and makes the sound affect as well. His kisses are big and wet and usually land smack on the lips. So sweet!

As for Charles and I we are trying to do some minor improvements to the house. I bought some fabric to make curtains for our kitchen windows. I might finish it this weekend and I'll post a picture.

I see onions coming up in our garden!

Fall at Woodland Park

Joi's friend Rebecca, who's a professional photographer, took these photos of us at the park by Woodland Park Zoo right near our old house in Ballard. What a nice fall day it was, and she captured some great moments! Click on the image above and it will take you to a full-size slideshow.

Halloween 2008

Max the Frog went to a few parties and the Pumpkin Prowl this Halloween and had a whole lot of fun. Then on Halloween night, he went trick-or-treating with Daddy in our neighborhood. Max liked knocking on the doors and saying "trick-or-treat" to the people. And thankfully, he could care less about the candy at this point.

Max Sings "Twinkle Twinkle"

The Past Week

Max has sure had some fun this week! He went to his first party he was invited to from his friend Skylar at daycare. It was a fun event for parents and kids alike . I enjoyed meeting his schoolmates parents and seeing him and his buddies in action.

We also went to the Sing along at Preschool with featured local artists Helen and Richard Sholtz.
Our other weekend activity for the past few weeks has been visiting local farms. We've done this several times because Max is so enamored with the tractor rides and seeing the animals.

We've had intermittent success with potty training. We've noticed that he seemed to be quite proud of himself the past couple of times he's used the potty so maybe that's a good sign.

We have a few parties next weekend and we are meeting some friends at the pumpkin prowl at the zoo so Max will get several opportunities to wear his costume!

I still haven't posted the video of his great singing skills. One of these days!!!


Max, Izzy and Lucas

Skylar and his brother Max's halloween party


All School Sing-along for preschool

Max and friends bobbing for apples

Max gets some sugar from teacher Melissa at Skylar's party (We all love her)

I took 6 pictures of Max sitting on the pumpkin and not one is he looking forward
Carkeek

In the patch!
Hitching a ride on Daddy

Our tomatoes and peppers

Max Turns Two! A visit from Grandma and 2 year check-up

Max had an amazing visit with grandma. He enjoyed playing with her and learning how to eat properly. (mommy needs to work harder on one bite at a time with Max). Grandma made us lots of good food, she put several of our tomatoes to good use in a sauce and made one exceptionally good spinach salad with fresh strawberries from the farmers market. An unexpected treat in October!

At Max's 2 year check-up he was sick with his first cold of the season. He 's better now, but his nose is running constantly again. He was 351/2 pounds and 371/2 inches. He's still going strong at the 95 th percentile for height, weight and head circumference. I am really psyched to have a new friend for Max at preschool. Owen is 36 pounds and slightly taller than Max and he is only 18mo. old. It is very comforting to have someone his age and size that I can see and relate to his mom.

I can't say enough how much Max loves preschool. He talks about it all week. He is really putting words together especially when he sings songs which is so darn cute. He is at the point where he's trying so many new words that we often can't understand him right away. He isn't quite so chatty outside home ( a little shy) but once he gets comfortable he opens up.

This is a 2 part post.

Daddy and I love to build zoo's. I put dinosaurs and spiders in my zoo!

I love you Grandma

It's my Birthday!

I feed the chickens

Grandma feeds Max
Fairbank animal farm with Grandma

Mommy made me a sock monkey for my 2nd birthday!

Cute picture of Max eating his birthday cake

Max in his lumberjack hat


We three
Max and Grandma at Fairbanks Farm

Max 's Birthday Party!

Max's birthday party was very small . Just Grandma and his BF Malik. Since we don't have any family here and Max doesn't technically have any friends yet we thought we'd wait till next year to do something bigger.

We did of course, want him to know how special he is and how much we love him!



Happy 2nd birthday Max!

Max eats his cake!

One candle for good luck. Max was afraid of the fire on the candles.

Max finally got to wear the vintage outfit I made for him before he was born.

Max and Malik in their party hats