Capturing our adventures one photo at a time...
Before we went to the lake last weekend I got Maxwell a life jacket…safety first! I was hoping to get some cute pics of him floating in the water while wearing it. But, we all know what happened at the lake! I did take 2 pics on my phone though when it came in the mail…
He couldn’t really move in it but it sure was funny to watch him try!
In other news, Maxwell got to hang by the pool yesterday sipping a cool drink…
He’s got such a rough life.
Today’s Friday Favorite is our new carseat! This is a bit of a risk considering we’ve only had it one week and I don’t really know if it’s going to be a hit or not. But, we committed to the Britax Boulevard so I’m going to be optimistic and make it a FF! 🙂 You can read all about it here – Britax. We’ll have it for a while as it goes up to 70 lbs and will turn into a forward facing seat when Maxwell reaches 40 lbs.
We got ours at Buy Buy Baby and couldn’t wait to get it out of the box. Luckily Robert had a helper to get it all ready…
A super helper who couldn’t wait to get in there…
A helper who really wanted to do it himself…
A helper who eventually pushed Robert out of the way so he actually could do it himself!
Then it was time to hop in…
And I think he likes it!
We’re off for a fun weekend driving around with the big boy car seat! Hope you all have a wonderful weekend too!
As you’ve seen before, Maxwell is quite adept at using the computer. He’s such a computer wiz, he’s even got two laptops. Yep, two. This awesome one from Lulu and Granddad and the one on his table of fun. He’s a very busy little boy with lots of emails to send and sites to check out!
Getting ready to sit down and explore the world wide web…
Such a friendly home screen…
“Hey Maxwell, whatcha doin’ on your computer?”
Just surfing the web, Momma….googling the trailer for the new Muppet movie, checking out YouTube videos of Elmo…important stuff.
My friends at playgroup were actually telling me about the street the Elmo lives on and it sounds pretty cool…just typing in the web address now…
Whoa! check this place out…there’s all kinds of crazy looking muppets on here!
Including one very big yellow bird. hmmm…I’m not so sure about this street…
“Oh Maxwell, I think it’s a very fun street that you are going to want to visit a lot!”
Ok, if you say it’s fun then it’s gotta be fun! Now let’s pattycake!
I’m sure we’ll be getting plenty of Sesame Street on the tv and the computer in the near future!
Guess what we did this past weekend? Got a new car! A new car for Maxwell, that is. Robert, Maxwell and I headed out to Buy Buy Baby on Saturday (which should be a post in itself – that place is huge and overwhelming!) because I wanted to get some sort of push walker that Maxwell could start to use since he’s pulling up on everything in sight. After looking at all the options, we decided to go with the 4 in 1 walker/rocker/pusher/rider. It’s a super cute little red car with a horn that honks and a steering wheel that actually works…which is a little difficult when your driver doesn’t know how to steer.
Oh boy! A new toy that Dad gets to put together!
Luckily Dad had his special helper to assist…
Almost finished…
Awesome!
Maxwell isn’t quite coordinated enough to walk behind it on his own yet…
So we decided to let him go for a little ride instead!
Around…
and around…
and around the house they went!
Honking the horn and shifting gears the whole way!
Maxwell then kind of fell out of the car…so we decided to put on the sidebars. Safety first!
We then took his car outside for a little spin around the driveway!
I’m not sure who was having more fun, Maxwell…
Or Robert!
Yay for new toys!
Happy Monday everyone. Today is a good day because Maxwell did something fantastic yesterday. He finally decided to pick up the puffs and yogurt melts that I’ve been putting in front of him for weeks and put them in his own mouth! Not only that, but he also figured out how to chew them (even without teeth) and get them down without gagging. woohoo! I know this probably doesn’t sound like a big deal to you…but it’s a big deal to me! It was literally like something just clicked in his head and he started picking up the food, putting it in his own mouth, chewing it and swallowing it. After he had done it a few times I even gave him whole puffs and yogurt melts (I had been breaking them up into smaller pieces) and he ate them all with no problems. Bring on the finger foods!!
In other feeding news, Maxwell has become a straw master. He can drink out of any straw now and loves his straw sippy cups…
He loves to just play with the straw too…
He’s a good sipper!
So, now that I’ve got a self-feeder…tell me what your favorite finger foods are for little ones! I need ideas!