An Early Birthday Treat

Jeff's parents visited us this weekend and we celebrated Max's 1st birthday with them. Max loved spending time with Grammy and Grampy and having a fresh audience for all of his new tricks. Here are some pictures from their visit and Max's first cupcake....

Opening birthday gifts.

Building with Grampy

Cupcakes!

"What are you people doing?"

Yum!

Max loves looking at his hands, especially when covered in frosting!

Max does not love cleaning up.

Checking out his new wheels.

On Sunday we visited the Frist Art Center. It is in a beautiful art deco building, built in the 1930s by Messer . The building was originally Nashville's main post office. Jeff and I had been wanting to see the inside of it, so it was great to finally have the opportunity to go.

Max behaved wonderfully in the museum for about 20 minutes, and then he discovered that if he made really loud noises, it created a fabulous echo.

No, no, no!

Why just shake your head, when you can use your whole body?

4th of July

We celebrated our first 4th of July in Cottonwood. Independence Day is a big deal in our neighborhood. Events start at 7am with a 5k run (Max and I watched from our front porch!)and go until the 9pm fireworks. As Max gets older I'm sure he'll want to be part of all the festivities, but this year, we were mostly observers.

Waiting for the parade to start.Watching the parade go by.

Swinging at the playground.

This is Max's "innocent" face.

This is how Maggie spent most of July 4th.

11 Months Old

It is so hard to believe that Max will be our "baby" for only one more month. Time is flying by. Here are some pictures from yesterday, his eleven month birthday. He was pretty grumpy all day so I didn't get one picture of him smiling. Ironically, his shirt reads, "Happy as a Clam."

Max loves pulling all his toys out of the toy box.

Helping Mom in the kitchen.

This is how Max fell asleep last night. Looks comfy, huh?

(We had to take the crib bumper out because he was using it as a step ladder.)

New Discovery

While attempting to get ready for an interview this morning, I suddenly realized that Max had become very quiet. Never a good sign....

Happy Father's Day!

It was a very hot and humid weekend for Jeff's first Father's Day. We spent Saturday afternoon at our neighborhood pool. It's been so hot lately that the water was really warm, just barely refreshing! Saturday evening we went to a small music festival at a blackberry farm in our area.

Sunday we spent the day at home. Max is crawling and climbing all over everything and is now on a mission to climb the stairs. I wouldn't necessarily call time at home "relaxing," but it was wonderful to spend quality time with just the three of us. Max is lucky to have such a great daddy! I know it's hard to read, but Max's shirt says,"My Dad Rocks!"

The perfect ending to a perfect weekend.

Water Baby

Jeff, Max and I headed to our neighborhood pool for the first time this weekend. Max loves bathtime, so we were pretty sure he would enjoy the pool. We were right! He liked splashing around in the baby pool, but he really loved floating with us in the big pool. He was in the water the entire time and could have happily stayed in much longer.

Thanks to the generosity of my parents (and their fear that I might stop taking pictures of Max) I have a new camera! It is 12.1 MP and takes awesome pictures. Stay tuned for new and improved pictures of Baby Max!