"No, I do it"

Preparing his peanut butter sandwich (under close supervision)

Max insisted on "cleaning the snow" this morning with Pa, but thanks to the sun today it all melted.

Gone fishin'

Got it!

The alphabet song sounds even better with the acoustics of the bathroom 

Chef Max

Moon out!

After days of saying, "Oh moooooon, where are you?", Max finally found it! It was too cold to spend much time outside, so Max pulled up his own front row seat.

Oh moon, Max found you!

Hi!

Snow crazy

Max did not get the memo about sleeping in on account of the snow day, so when he woke at 6:15am, the countdown to leave the house began.  We took a quick trip to the bookstore, but most of the day was spent playing around the house and being silly.  Nap time took up a good four and a half hours (two hours before actual sleep ensued), but a boy as energetic as Max needs his rest.  And so do his parents.

Smiling and soaked (yuck) after nap

Max loves to "flop".  We should start fining him like the NBA.

What mommy heard: "I want guacamole"

What Max said: "I want to watch a movie"

What he watched: Baby Einstein's Baby Bach

Max's review: TOUCHDOWN

Battle of the P O P C O R N for breakfast

Max vs. Mommy

Mommy wins and even gets a smile!

Freshly squeezed juice

Starting off another snow day with some fresh squeezed clementine juice.  Really quenching the counter's thirst.

Max's favorite hiding spot

Max fought against his nap for an hour and a half, but he finally succumbed and fell asleep on the floor.  His brave daddy put him in his bed, where he napped until nearly 6:00pm.  New record officially set.

When Max woke up from nap he asked for waffles.  Perhaps he slept so long that he thought it was morning.  We are in for a late night, but school is cancelled for tomorrow, so we can all sleep in.  Did you hear that, Max?!

Dream team

Max and Jackson are really stepping up their game.

Max fell in love last summer- with the pool.  Ever since, he says, "pool closed" every time he sees any body of water, so imagine his delight when we found an open pool the night before a snow storm.  He loves the water even more than before and our venture only came to an end when Max was mad that he could not swim on his own.  Swim lessons, here comes Max!

Napping in a toddler bed is tough 

Baseball cards

Where's the gum?!

Two of a kind

Meet Max's shadow

Max met his shadow this morning and it was fascinating to see him interact with his spiked-hair reflection.

We stopped at an ATM tonight (to get cash for choo choo train and carousal) and before David put his card in the machine, Max said, "daddy gets money".  David and I could not recall ever taking him to an ATM, so how did he know that?

Blotting and enjoying his pizza pie

"One, two, three, four, five!" 

Hmmm two or five?

"I go sleepys..."

"...in the water."

Max made his bed...

...and hopefully tonight he will lie in it!

Snow sweeper

Catch!

Girls game

Max was surrounded by girls as ate, and occasionally cheered on, the South Lakes girls basketball team.  At one point he ran onto the court during a time out.  If only he had a responsible mom to look after him.

Max made it though his first night in the toddler bed.  He only slept from 9:30pm to 6:45am, but he did not wake up once in the night.  Success!

BED time!

After exactly 26 months of sleeping in a crib, Max climbed and cried his way out of bedtime behind bars.  Unfortunately the absence of the crib does not equal the absence of crying.  Or the presence of sleep.

Max finally passed out at 10pm last night; we were all exhausted from hours of fighting the crib battle.  But when he woke up at 7am this morning rearing to escape again, the crib was officially retired.

Max helped turn his baby crib into a big boy bed!

Max loves his "new" bed from the inside...

...and the outside.

All a boy wants...

This was a Jekyll and Hyde kind of weekend.  By day, the sun was shining and Max was laughing, talking, singing, and playing happily.  But by night, he morphed into a colicky newborn, waking every two hours and only falling asleep after hours of being cradled and rocked.  While "cry-it-out" does not work on boy who straddles the side of the crib, there has been no shortage of crying.  These newborn nights have been creeping up all week but this weekend's nights were especially sleepless, not to mention the days nap-less.  But despite his (and mine and David's) lack of consecutive sleep, Max was in a terrific mood all day and cracked us up with his ridiculous orders, such as "I coaching, daddy shoot!", and saying "ready, set, go" before we go down the slide together.  If only he would take one big order, and finally go to sleep.

A ball and his daddy

A boost from daddy

Chicken on a stick- breakfast of champions!

Warm enough to play outside, but cold enough for this snow to block our path to the playground

Hair cut! 

Max does Mardi Gras

Mardi Gras carnival 

Max did great at the games that required him to throw a ball, but he cheated at the duck fishing game.  Who fishes for ducks anyway?

Sunshine and a dry playground! 

Morning mood swings

7:30am- Silly and smiley

7:20am- Sleepy and grumpy after waking up every two hours. All night long. 

More basketball games, please

Max went to the South Lakes girls basketball game with his friends from school, Giselle and Joseph.  He enjoyed the entire game- and Giselle!

Sticker shock

Daddy's biggest fan

Max went to his first full Varsity basketball game tonight.  The game and Max were full of excitement, but despite an awesome effort by the team, Oakton did not win.  Max, however, made it through the whole game, and stayed up until a record-breaking 9:30pm!  

"Hi, Daddy!!!!!!!!!!"

Max just found out he was going to see "daddy coaching"