First Haircut

Ok, so we took Max for his first haircut at this great place called Banana's Salon

It was really expensive, almost as much as I pay for me but worth it for the first one

They had cars he could sit in while he got his hair cut and they had TVs with each station so there he was, driving a fire truck and watching ELMO

He actually cried and got mad at us when we made him leave

He just wanted to stay and drive the truck

Recent Cute Pics

I love SCOUT

Playing with toys


Cheese

Ok, not a cute pic of me but oh well

Max and I were home sick this day

Chris took a pic of us

We both are shiny under our noses from wearing Vick's Vapor Rub

He's playing with the remote to the TV

First Birthday!!!

Ok, so the pics didn't upload in the right order and I don't have the time to fix it so - we'll just have to deal with them the way they are.

Anyway, we had Max several birthday parties. The official first birthday party was on Dec 19th and we had it at one of the party halls where my Dad lives. It's a nice facility and worked well for the party. My parents, Chris' parents, Lena, Aunt Lori, Mike Weston (our friend) and The Hodges: Todd, Marianne and Macey all came. We had a wonderful time and Lil Man enjoyed himself. Covered in cake

Posing, aren't I cute
Just started in on his smash cake

Macey Hodges with Mommy Marianne

Lil Man chewing on his blocks

I love opening presents and I LOVE tissue paper

Decorations galore

I did the theme in bright colors: all red, yellow, green and blue

I think it turned out really pretty and bright which is all I wanted anyway

Food, yum

Max's smash cake

Max's birthday cake

Really the cake for the rest of us since he had a smash cake

Presents!!

Pic of Max eating frog cake

Ok, so after the 12/19 party he got to have another party day on his actual birthday 12/30

I celebrated with him alone that morning because I took the day off of work

We had a blast and he and I made muffins with cream chesse icing which he loved

My parents came over that morning and celebrated with him too

That evening we went to Lena's house where Chris and Lori met up after work

Paul and Kathy had spent the entire day working on a frog cake for Max

So, technically I guess this Lil Man got several parties, but he deserved it and enjoyed every minute of them all

Nana and Pawpaw's Frog Cake

Christmas

Opening Christmas gifts from Granny and Papaw Stewart

Max is working on saying everyone's names so for right now he's calling Granny GG and Papaw Pop Pop

Loving his Christmas gifts under the tree, pups were curious too. Baxter is never far behind Max seeing what he's doing or more likely EATING!! Daisy usually isn't phased by Max unless he's dropping food. We have never been one to feed our dogs table food, however with Max that's pretty hard to stop. I think that's why Baxter is always two steps behind Max, looking for scraps he leaves behind. Max is very good at saying Daisy's name, it was actually one of the first words he ever learned. He can't say Baxter at all, but he calls him BB instead.
Ooooh pretty tree and lights
Max loved the lights and I hung ornaments on the lower part of the tree that he was allowed to touch / play with

Playing guitar with Pawpaw Stowers

He loves to play "tar tar" with Daddy and Pawpaw

He's pretty good at saying Nana which is what he calls Kathy

He usually just calls Paul Pop for now which is kinda neat because he distinguishes between Paul and my Dad. My Dad is usually Pop Pop and Paul is usually just Pop. Funny to me how smart he is.

HE loves saying Lena's name Nini. We're still working on Aunt Lori, that's taking a while.

Opening Christmas presents with Pawpaw

12 months old!!

Ok, so my blanket picture will no longer work. Max wouldn't sit still long enough. So, this 12mo pic will be the last one on the blanket. This is the best that I could get after DAYS of trying. He just won't sit still now for anything. So, Chris was sweet and built me a board for the wall that we will now mark his height on. Much easier to get him to stand still for a second than to lie still.

Sorry haven't updated the blog for about 6 weeks. It's literally been 6 wks of sickness in our house. Max would get a cold / stomach bug and give it to one of us too. We have passed around so many germs between the three of us that one if not two of us is always sick. March is going to be better though, I know it because Jan and Feb sure have sucked for being sick all the time.