Firsts – Page 39

Saturday outing

August 15, 2011

Hope you all had a great weekend. Ours was fun and HOT. I’m not going to be sad when summer rolls out and the crisp days of fall move in…even if it does mean football every. single. weekend.

Saturday was spent running some errands. Maxwell took along his new favorite toy to play with in the car.

Yep, that’s a spatula. Why do I buy expensive toys again?

We ended up stopping for lunch at Flip Burger where Maxwell and Robert looked cute while waiting for a table…

and showing off their cool tennis shoes.

We finally got seated and Maxwell gave me this face….

But then I gave him a french fry and all was well. I think this was his very first french fry ever.

I see the beginning of a long, happy – albeit unhealthy – relationship.

See you tomorrow!

What’s that? More shoe pics?

August 9, 2011

You didn’t think I’d let those iphone pics be it for the new shoes, did you? Of course not. We had to have a little “new shoe photoshoot”!

Enjoy the pics of the new kicks…

Best picture of the day coming up…

Are you ready?…

Here it comes…

Wait for it…

Boom!

Goodness gracious he’s cute…in my totally unbiased opinion! 🙂

While he may not be walking in his new kicks yet, they sure haven’t slowed down his crawling!

Happy Monday! Our weekend was very un-exciting and productive….love that. We did take advantage of the Tax Free Weekend and got Maxwell his first pair of real shoes! I’ve already shown you my love of footwear and so it wasn’t hard to convince me that Maxwell needed some real shoes for “school” in the fall. (school = mother’s day out 1 day a week). We got to the shoe store and, after measuring his foot, learned that our little buddy has quite a fat little foot! His foot measured a 3.5 wide!

First we tried the cute Keds in both navy and white…

Even though they were a size 4 wide, they just wouldn’t go across the top of his foot. So, we moved onto the New Balance…

Success! See that little orange tag on the shoe? Yea, it says WIDE in all caps! I love my baby – chubby cheeks and chubby feet!

After going for a little practice walk…

we all decided they were keepers!

I’m sure this first pair of real shoes will get Maxwell walking on his own in no time! In the meantime, he can just stand around and look cute…

Hope you all had a great weekend too!

The boys

August 3, 2011

Maxwell LOVES his dad. Robert definitely has favorite status in our house right now. I can’t blame Maxwell though, Robert is pretty darn great.

In other very exciting news, Maxwell is finally getting a tooth!! yay! Yesterday we felt the little poke of a tooth breaking through on the right side of his bottom gum.

He might have some teeth to eat that birthday cake after all! 🙂

Monday Funday Food Update

June 27, 2011

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!

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