was santa good to you?

santa was good to us! we had a nice quite christmas here at home and we couldn't have asked for anything more! max liked his presents and his big one is set to arrive sometime this week...we got him a learning tower so he can stand and watch mama in the kitchen...he loves to see what is going on.


papa got a new heavy weight gi for jiu jitsu and some new shirts.

mama got a kindle (papa has used it more than i have!) and new diamond earrings!!! woot!
we had some friends over christmas night for pizza night...T&W, W's little bro A and P. T&W went to italy about a month ago and she brought back spices and she brought them along for the pizza...yum!! we ended the evening with some white russians and the big lebowski...i think a good time was had by all!


max is officially walking...he goes all by himself...we don't have to tempt him with a remote any more and he is going pretty long distances...i think this was the best christmas present:)
max really likes to help out...he loves to help me shut doors, like the refrigerator and he loves to put his diapers in the diaper pail...its pretty awesomely cute!!

merry christmas

things have finally started to slow down in these parts...thank goodness!
max turns 13 months today. we did a small photo shoot in his chair and he cooperated surprisingly well:)

he got his second flu shot yesterday and took it like a champ...he didn't even cry. it was just a quick appt with the nurse but he did get weighed and is now tipping the scales at 25.4lbs. my arms get quite a work out through out the day:)
papa and i have had small colds over the course of the last week, either that or its just the beginning of a very long cedar season:( hard to tell at this point.
we had papa's holiday party at work...we forgot to take a picture before we left the house so we had to make due with the phone:)

this is what it is like to get mauled by a baby/toddler who thinks it is HIGHlarious that you have the hiccoughs!

we got all of our christmas decorations up a couple of weeks ago. max loves the tree because it has lights on it but he is not allowed to touch...we have walled into a corner with the couch and a chair. he can reach it if he stands at the end of the couch. he likes to bat at the ornaments.

mamamamama

max is now saying mama...boy, does that warm my heart! i don't think he knows i'm mama but i know its coming soon:) will try and get it on video and post when i do!
he is now starting to walk a bit more. he will take 3-4 steps on his own. i know one day soon i'm going to see him running down the hall.

my trip to chicago was great and papa and max did smashingly without me!! they went to the park both days and even went to a party...they are soooo popular. i stayed busy enough i didn't have too much time to miss them and i think they did the same:) here's brenna with G&G after the christening

its been really busy around here the last month and its been great but its starting to wind down this week and we are all looking forward to that. we will be spending a nice quite christmas here in ATX. we went to a super fun holiday brunch yesterday at the O's and got to meet their new little guy J...what a cutie, and oh, my the cheeks this kid has:) i should have snapped a pic!
max got a play tent for his bday (thanks Csquared's) and he loves that thing!!


max knocked his monitor off the crib a couple of times...here's the view:)

what a crazy kid!! he's such a good little guy and we just love him sooooo much!!!

awesome!

i was watering the plants in the front of the house and max was watching from the window, i looked up and saw him doing this!


i had to go in and grab the camera and see if he would do it again. he was laughing and giggling...it was sooooo awesome!
i also forgot to give his stats from his one year appt...he is 24 lbs even and 31.25 inches tall:)

stuff

i keep forgetting to mention some of the fun things max has been doing but as i sit down to type this, of course, i can't really remember too many:) here's what i got so far!
he loves to use his pointer finger...to point at things, make the iphone go, work papa's xbox controller, impale raspberries (there is no better way to eat a raspberry than off the tip of your finger!), find his belly button, etc.

he knows where his belly and bee-bo are...bee-bo is the tiny hippo way of saying belly button:)
he can climb onto and into things now (oh, lord!), he can get into his wagon and up onto the couch.


he prefers to go down the stairs head first...this is always supervised!
he can feed himself with a spoon...its pretty messy and i'm not sure how much food he gets but we did it yesterday with pumpkin custard and he did a great job! he can scoop some out of the bowl but the custard was pretty thick so he didn't get a ton on the spoon unless i helped.



he can open the dvd player and now more importantly, he closes it:)
oh, and he whistles...we haven't caught that on video yet:)
mama is getting ready for a trip to chicago this weekend for B's christening. the boys will be baching it! please think some good thoughts for good weather so all mama's traveling goes well!!
if i remember any more i'll post it in the next one!!