Max and Kira

June 25, 2014

Fascinated

It was tough to get Max to turn away from the excitement of the garbage truck this morning.

June 24, 2014

Max is 2 1/2 years old today! He had a blast celebrating his "half birthday" by going to our neighborhood pool for the first time this summer. As a gift to his parents, Max agreed to stay in the kiddy pool; maybe the twos are not so terrible.

Max was so excited to put his bathing suit on after school. He wanted his mom to be equally excited about putting on a bathing suit, and kept telling her to, "take your shirt off".

June 23, 2014

Where's the beef?

Max thoroughly enjoyed the delicious steaks that David made for dinner tonight. "I want more beef", he repeated until he devoured nearly half his dad's meal. There's nothing like a hungry general barking commands.

"I'm taking Pawley to a basketball game, okay?" It's a good thing that Max speaks in full sentences now because how else would we know where he was taking Pawley in a suitcase?

From basketball to baseball- as soon as Max saw the Yankee game he was ready to bat.

June 22, 2014

Teamwork

Max and Timmy worked together to fill the pool and to soak mommy! The boys had a great time watering everything, alive and inanimate, on the deck. Disaster struck when Max's mommy cut her finger slicing watermelon. The disaster being Max's reaction to mommy's bandage; he has been begging and pleading to "take it off" all evening. "Where did your finger go?", he asked. When I said, "it's in there", and pointed to the top of the bandage, he said, "Mommy has a baby in the belly". Although totally unrelated to the bandage conversation, he clearly remembered the phrase, "in there", and immediately connected it to mommy having a baby. It was the first time that the big- brother-to-be brought up the baby all on his own. Max also predicted that the baby will be a sister, but no one will know that until November.

June 21, 2014

Hap-bir-day, Pa!

Max sang one of his favorite songs to one of his favorite people.

Major lunch time dance party; video with the moves coming soon.

June 20, 2014

Ice cream man fan

The hungry, hungry boy meets the hungry, hungry caterpillar

June 19, 2014

Dinner date

Unsolicited laughter and love

It is not easy to say goodbye at the end of a wonderful date.

June 18, 2014

Pearly whites

Despite saying, "No doctor, no dentist" in the car, Max did great at his first dentist appointment this afternoon. He insisted on lying on his mom [and future sibling] in the chair, but was completly calm while his teeth were scrubbed with strawberry toothpaste. The dentist was surprised by his agreeable demeanor and even more so that he had every single one of his two-year old teeth (a rarity for kids born with clefts). Max was generously rewarded with plenty of "treasures", but was only interested in his new toothbrush.

Mommy/daddy era waiting room toys vs. Max era waiting room toys (x-box- and no, he did not know how to play it, but he sure looks like he does)

Pink means plaque- but Max did not have too much.

No cavities!

June 17, 2014

Bathtime

Bubble goatee

Max found a bar of soap and was excited to wash himself. He kept scrubing his armpits- he said it was like daddy.

Soap is not a snack! "Soap yucky", Max said after he put it in his mouth- several times.

June 16, 2014

Happy to start a new week

June 15, 2014

Happy Daddy's Day!

These two are so in love

This little piggy had a cupcake...

Some kids play with dirt at the playground, Max plays with a $5.

Max took daddy to Fuddruckers for Father's Day. He was so excited to drink out of this styrofoam cup that he punctured a hole in the side of the cup, causing ice-cold wet shorts and a moderate-major meltdown.

June 14, 2014

Sick, sleepy, silly Saturday

Max started to feel sick last night so after sleeping on the couch/daddy for an hour, he went to bed early without a fight. Despite several false alarms, Max slept until 10:30am! That is definitly the latest he (or anyone else in our house) has slept since he was born.