Obama Wins! Free Breakfast!

Since our breakfast was focused on the election bet, the kids wore read white and blue. Nik's shirt even has a flag on it, although that flag is behind Max.

Max believes that elephants should be cute and decorative...

Max hangs out with Wendy at breakfast. :) She's been the bottle giver at breakfast, but now Max has moved on to having a fruit breakfast in his high chair instead of having a bottle. But he still loves Wendy!

Thanks Shaw!!!

Shaw and Max.

And Max with Angie. :)

Many thanks to Shaw for paying up on his election related bet. And for posing for photos to commemorate the day...

Femmes Festivities

Baby Cole!!! And his mom and grandma too.

Wendy and Max have some quality time. And in honor of Jennifer's return, Max is wearing one of the doggie onesies she sent him.

Random Cuteness

Crashed out on Daddy. I love that he tucked his hand into Mark's sleeve.

This is what mittens are for...

Mark and I bought this little fleece hat and mittens set when we were in England before we got married. I think it was a Primark Special...

I was trying to get a photo of Max in his hoodie, but it was a day for props, apparently. Here you can see one of the "magic" pacifiers.

Max enjoying a self-portrait style photo shoot. His pants have a little froggy face on them. This is one of the outfits I got for him before we knew if he would be a boy or a girl.

Max in a hat. :) And a little outfit from Kathy B. Thanks!

Thanks Patty for making a sweater!

Standing in his playpen in his ducky sleep sack.

How could I resist a soft brown jacket with ears? It also has matching pants that have little feet on the bottom!

Max has fun with Daddy. And another hat! This one was from Krista. Thanks!

Thanks Stacia!

Max in his playpen with his mozart music box toy.

Max dancing to techno with some help from Daddy. He's definitely a baby who likes music. And techo seems to match up with his strong desire to bounce. I'll have to put on Phish to see if he likes to bounce around the room..

He just loves to pose for the camera. How lucky is that for me? :)

Now that it is cooler at night, we try to dress Max a little more warmly at bedtime. We have some sleep sacks that are great since they are warm and fleecy and make for an easy diaper change. But he can't walk around in the sleep sack. Luckily he has two cute little fleece sleepers from Stacia.

Queer Eye for the Baby Guy

This weekend Max wore one of the outfits he got as a gift. He had a little white long sleeve polo onesie with a little red bear logo. He had a black and white shirt with a little red bear logo. And he had grey cord pants, also with a little bear logo. It was almost like the days of garanimals yet clearly he isn't to the point of picking out his own clothes, so the logos must be for me. :) I was pleased that I owned little grey socks to complete the ensemble. I know I am biased, but I'd say this outfit definitely made the MaxFactor at the high end of the cute scale!

Max Stands!

Max spent a lot of his weekend walking around. He managed a few moments of standing on his own. About 5-10 seconds before he grabbed onto something. He spent so much time walking around that his brothers had to help out before his parents became permanently bent over! He loves to walk around and he's walking fast fast fast. He even knows to lift up his food for the step between the kitchen and the living room. He can't manage the second step since it is full size, but the first step up is a little one and he can lift his foot up on to the step. He is very excited about walking around and would happily do it for hours. When we need a break he is also willing to spend a little time walking around inside the playpen, although he hasn't yet mastered walking along the sides where the "walls" are higher. He also likes to hold on to the playpen or our hands with just one hand, while he practices balancing. He's such a happy baby!

He is also very fast at rolling over on the bed, and is starting to get the hang of getting his feet/legs under him in a crawling kind of motion.

Photos to follow shortly...

Ma Ma!!!

This morning on the way to school Max said Ma Ma! And then followed it up with da da da da da. Qwagsie said he must have meant "Ma Ma is awesome" and I think that is a fair assessment.