Our Family

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Max recently figured out how to open our doors. His two favorite doors to open are the door to the garage & then the pantry door. I don't like him getting in the pantry because he makes a mess. Today I found him playing with the soup cans. I just couldn't get mad at him because I was super impressed with his tower making skills, and he was very proud of himself!

I say if you can't beat em, join em!

This is what happens at dinner....

Sunday Evening

I feel like every day Max is doing something new and funny. Today he said 3 new random words to me & I was like ok. The first one was buddy. The context went something like this:
Mom: "Hey buddy did you poop?"
Max: "Buddy, poop." And then he ran into his bedroom to get his diaper changed.
When your son tells you he went to the bathroom does that mean it's time to potty train? I don't want to jump the gun but I think he's getting pretty close, I'm crossing my fingers!
The other words were water and sandwich. Those weren't as funny but equally exciting for me his mother.
Max's new thing is he likes to tell us no. It always comes in a high pitched wail something like Noooo! Really long and drawn out. It's moments like those that make me love being a mother.
On the flip side of that Max is finally understanding and liking giving "loves" as we call them. Today he randomly went up and hit Tuff with his cup. I told him that wasn't nice and that he needed to give Tuff a love. So he walked right up to him and wrapped his arms around Tuff's neck. It was so precious. Max adores Tuff, whenever we walk in the door after being gone he always runs to the back door and say heyo Tuff. (Max doesn't just say hi, his hello goes something like Heeeyyyoooo.)
I love days when I just get to stay home and hang out with Mr. Max man. It amazes me how quickly and easily he picks up new things every day. He is a busy, funny, kid, with a very strong sense of independence.

I love being a mom!

Not Our Typical Monday...

Max & I had two little visitors today:

This is Max's new face...he walks around and goes "Oh"

Hilarious

Whoa...Max looks huge!

AnnMarie and Carly came over this morning for a few hours. Max had a lot of fun playing with his big cousin AnnMarie.

He really wanted Carly's bottle once he saw me try to feed it to her....

I forgot what it is like to have a baby in my house.

Carly is such a good little baby, and oh so sweet, don't you just want to eat her?

She just sits and watched the other kids running around

& is always smiling.

Thanks, Sharee for letting me watch your girls we loved having them!

Sunday Afternoon

Things I Love About This Video:
1. Max's bucky beavers
2. His contagious laugh

Busy

(This picture has nothing to do with this post I just really like it!)

Sorry, I haven't updated this week. We have been very busy, by we I mean I, have been very busy since I'm the blogger of the family. Work is crazy, which is good, but doesn't leave much time for anything else after taking care of Max, Clint, & Tuff.
Max is doing really good, I think he has finally kicked his ear infection, which he had for like 2.5 weeks. No fun! He had his 18 month appointment last week and is in the 70th percentile for heighth, and 30 percentile for weight. So somehow we still have a tall and skinny kid. Who knew? He is talking like crazy all of the sudden. His new favorite things to say to us are why? what? and no. Nice. He really likes watching football with Clint and playing with his farm animals and cars/tractors. It is so funny to watch him with his cars because he makes those car noises and crashes them into things. He is all boy that's for sure.
Clint is keeping himself busy with work and football games. I swear every night there is a "great" game on that he just has to watch. I am starting to consider myself a football widow. Sad.

Well, we hope everyone is doing good!