Toddlerhood

(R) Max had a photo session with Margot's dad, Tarsey. He really captured Max's funny faces!

Max threw his first tantrum yesterday. I was a bit shell shocked. My darling, adorable, cute baby started crying hysterically when I took the spoon that he was putting on his bare foot, then into his mouth away from him. I seriously was SPEECHLESS! I just asked him what he was doing. I did not give the spoon back to him. I did hide it though. It seemed like forever, but it was probably a few seconds and he stopped crying. He was finished eating, so we went outside and he was totally fine! Good-bye crocodile tears! He's been a bit moody lately (I so wonder where he gets that!?)... He's not walking or even cruising yet. I'm ok with that. We're moving next week and I don't really think I can handle much else going on! He wants to be held, held, held, then when he wants, he goes slack against my hip and slides down. Then up again. He has quite the vocabulary! He says mama, dada, ball, boon, egg, leaf (I haven't heard that one yet), yaya (his daycare provider), and various other ba, la, da, pa... We ask him where his nose is and he points to it! Of course, if we ask where anything else is, he points to his nose! Max holds the book correctly (Yah! CAP test for kindergartenders!) and will point to pictures in the book. He loves playing with his blocks, especially knocking down anything tall! He giggles every single time he knocks them down!

If I say, "Max, where's your ball. Bring me the ball, please?" He will find one of his many balls and bring it to me or at least show it to me. I am so delighted that he is where he is developmentally. Equally so I am glad that I can talk with my fellow mommy friends without feeling like we're competing (it's HARD!). We all recognize that our kids will hit milestones at different times and that's ok. Max did get teeth on April 30!!! Two of his bottom ones popped up! Maybe that's why he's been Mr. Moody? He's also down to one nap a day!

My bookclub book just came today, so I need to get reading. I'm almost out of boxes to pack. Is anyone reading this?

Toddlerhood

(R) Max had a photo session with Margot's dad, Tarsey. He really captured Max's funny faces!

Max threw his first tantrum yesterday. I was a bit shell shocked. My darling, adorable, cute baby started crying hysterically when I took the spoon that he was putting on his bare foot, then into his mouth away from him. I seriously was SPEECHLESS! I just asked him what he was doing. I did not give the spoon back to him. I did hide it though. It seemed like forever, but it was probably a few seconds and he stopped crying. He was finished eating, so we went outside and he was totally fine! Good-bye crocodile tears! He's been a bit moody lately (I so wonder where he gets that!?)... He's not walking or even cruising yet. I'm ok with that. We're moving next week and I don't really think I can handle much else going on! He wants to be held, held, held, then when he wants, he goes slack against my hip and slides down. Then up again. He has quite the vocabulary! He says mama, dada, ball, boon, egg, leaf (I haven't heard that one yet), yaya (his daycare provider), and various other ba, la, da, pa... We ask him where his nose is and he points to it! Of course, if we ask where anything else is, he points to his nose! Max holds the book correctly (Yah! CAP test for kindergartenders!) and will point to pictures in the book. He loves playing with his blocks, especially knocking down anything tall! He giggles every single time he knocks them down!

If I say, "Max, where's your ball. Bring me the ball, please?" He will find one of his many balls and bring it to me or at least show it to me. I am so delighted that he is where he is developmentally. Equally so I am glad that I can talk with my fellow mommy friends without feeling like we're competing (it's HARD!). We all recognize that our kids will hit milestones at different times and that's ok. Max did get teeth on April 30!!! Two of his bottom ones popped up! Maybe that's why he's been Mr. Moody? He's also down to one nap a day!

My bookclub book just came today, so I need to get reading. I'm almost out of boxes to pack. Is anyone reading this?

Family and friends visits

From Last Import

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Here's a picture of our niece, Ashley, pushing Max at the park. She lives about an hour away and came on Friday, spent the night and took care of Max while I worked on Saturday. Max loves her!!! We can't wait to have her back! Max is enjoying the outdoors as the weather becomes nicer (sometimes). He's very happy outside. When he cries (rarely), if I take him outside he will stop no matter the weather.

Today Max and I visited Mia, Lena, and Mikaela in Armonk. We had a wonderful relaxing day playing inside and outside.

Blog slacker...

End of March 2010

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I apologize for being a blog slacker, I'll try to be better. We've been very busy with birthday parties, parental visits, and work! Max celebrated friends' birthday parties and then celebrated his own on March 13 at Blend. Our Music Together teacher was the one who led the party and it absolutely rocked! We didn't sing Happy Birthday to him because I thought he would freak out. He knew exactly what to do with his cupcake baked inside the ice cream cone (Thank you Jaymie!!!). He put the cupcake up to his toothless mouth and went to town on it! He really enjoyed it! We gave me another one on Sunday (his actual birthday) and sang to him with a candle in the top. He definitely likes sweets. He actually really likes chocolate, so if I'm eating something chocolate, he thinks it's for him. I share a bit with him because we don't want to be the "NO SWEETS" parents; it's ok in moderation. He's not eating it every day.

My mom and Issi visited and kept Max home while they were here. We had a wonderful visit with Dan (my brother) also while they were here. My dad and Lynn came last week and hung out with Max. Although it's hard to live far away from family, it's so nice when they visit! I appreciate their company more having a long-distance relationship.

Max is a eating, toothless, crawling, goofy face-making little guy! He is an absolute joy. Yesterday he wasn't feeling so well and was a bit crabby--Lou and I didn't know what to do with him! Poor baby! Until next time...

Chanukah and snow

From Chanukah and snow

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Not much has been going on in New Haven the past few weeks and we like it that way! Max is scooting on his bottom and has many funny faces. He's sleeping like a champ, but wakes up and screams sometimes (night terrors Anne A. thinks...). He takes two naps a day and sleeps about 12 hours a night. Usually I have to wake him up in the morning to get him ready to go to daycare. He's Mr. Smiley when I go in to get him in the mornings, which totally gets my day off to a great start. We celebrated Chanukah without fanfare or presents for each night. We figure we only have this year to do that, so we took advantage!

Lou is on the SICU this month and next month is Transplant. I'm working at a neighborhood school tutoring small groups in reading. It's very rewarding, but certainly frustrating when children are running and screaming in the halls. I'm still at New Haven Reads and enjoying running the Science Park location.

Max's 7th month

From Max's 7th month

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Max is growing more and more each day! It's so fun to watch him discovering life. Today we had a family photo shoot at the park. Max sat up for more than a few minutes independently! Yah! It was wonderful to have a family day. Max had an ultrasound last week to check on his head. It's a bit large, so our pediatrician was somewhat concerned... but he's fine!!!

Max's 6 month update and Papa's funeral

Max's 6 month update: He's still a little peanut at 14.2 lbs (10th percentile), 27 inches (75th percentile), and his big ole head is in the 85th percentile! He's now going to eat 2x a day and I'm giving him juice for the first time. He seems to like it, but who knows...

From Chattanooga Oct. 09

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Max and I just returned from a visit to Chattanooga for Papa's funeral.  For more details visit www.emilyandgene.blogspot.com.  He was an amazing man and I'm proud to say I am his granddaughter.  He taught me patience by showing it to me over and over again.  While I am sad about him leaving Earth, I'm happy that he is not stuck in the hospital unable to life life to the fullest as he liked to do.  We had a wonderful visit with family and Max was pretty good traveler.  We missed Lou, but are excited he's off for Thanksgiving this year.  We'll be in Chattanooga again--Max's third plane trip!