Now that I’m not doing the monthly photos anymore, it’s easy to gloss over all the new things that Maxwell is doing everyday.  So, here’s a little 14 month update with all the things I want to remember about him right now….

I know I said a few weeks ago that Maxwell was officially a walker.  Well, he’s REALLY a walker now.  Last week he just decided that he didn’t want to crawl anymore and he pretty much walks everywhere now.  His balance is getting better every day and his pants are staying much cleaner too!

He also has no problem at all with stairs.

Maxwell still loves sleeping with Nanner and Mr. Moo.  However, he knows that his friends are for sleeping only so every time we get him out of his crib and he has one in his hand we say to him, “We have to say bye bye to Nanner. Throw him in the bed.” and then Maxwell will toss his little friend in the bed and grin from ear to ear!  So cute.

I have a large photo of Maxwell hanging on the wall right outside of his bedroom door and every single time we walk past it, he squeals, smiles and points at the cute baby on the wall.

Thanks to Susan, Maxwell has learned to give kisses.  When I ask for a kiss he comes at my cheek completely open mouthed and I almost die at how cute it is.

Maxwell is becoming an expert dancer.  One day he just started stomping his feet back and forth like a little dance.  Wanna see?  Check out his moves here!

Maxwell has recently discovered his belly button and he loves to check all the time to make sure it’s still there.  He also loves to pull up other people’s shirts to make sure their belly buttons are still there too!  🙂

Sesame Street is a big favorite and he goes wild when he sees Elmo on the tv.  He’ll see Elmo and then point over to his Elmo doll.  super cute.

One of his favorite things right now is to climb on top of me while I’m laying on the floor and make me bounce him up and down on my hips.  He holds onto my thumbs for dear life and just giggles with a mouth open smile the whole time!

Apparently Maxwell is so pretty that people think he’s a girl.  Not just some people, a lot of people.  I can count 6 times in the past two weeks alone that he’s been called a girl.  And I always dress him like a boy…red shoes, navy blue, striped shirts.  Guess it’s just those pretty blonde curls and long eyelashes!

Maxwell is loving the lawn mower he got for his birthday.  He makes circles around the house pushing it…and gets a liiiiitle frustrated when he runs into a wall and can’t get it turned around!

His vocab these days includes bye, oh (in place of uh-oh), oooooo (shoe), ock (sock) da da, ma ma (sometimes), uck (truck) and even car. Dogs still get a double hum like a woof woof.  Pretty much everything else gets a finger point and generic duh!

It just keeps getting better!