Capturing our adventures one photo at a time...
I have a slight obsession with puffy vests. I own several and love them. When I saw the baby puffy vests at Old Navy, I knew Maxwell had to have one. I am now slightly obsessed with how unbelievably adorable he is in his puffy vest…
Are you kidding me?! I could eat him up. seriously.
I love this next one. As I said on Facebook, “Next stop? GQ.”
Somebody get this kid an agent.
Happy Monday everyone! It was a beautiful fall weekend here and we enjoyed every second of it! After feeling like this most of last week…
(so pitiful) Maxwell was finally back to his happy self by Saturday morning. hooray! Maybe it has something to do with the awesome bed head he woke up with that morning?
Ha! I think it probably had more to do with the fun birthday party we got to go to that day! Maxwell’s friend, Smith, turned 1 and there was lots of celebrating to do, including some bounce housing! Yep, Maxwell got to jump in a bounce house for the 2nd time in only a few weeks. Lucky boy!
And lucky for Momma that this time Dad was the one that got in with him! 🙂 Maxwell LOVED it…
especially when Dad double bounced him!
There were smiles and giggles all around.
Maxwell had so much fun at the party, mostly because it meant he got to play with someone else’s toys!
This was the cute cake – a lion cupcake cake. Adorable!
That afternoon I ventured out to Jo-Ann Fabrics and Hancock…and I will NEVER return. I mean wow. It was like torture having to spend any time in either of them. The fabrics were terrible too. Where do you find cute fabrics these days?? Anyone have ideas? I just want some cute fabrics for making applique t-shirts. Just some nice ginghams and stripes…is that too much to ask? Apparently so. If you’ve got any ideas of decent fabric sources, would love to hear them in the comments.
Later that day we made a spontaneous trip to the outlet mall and scored pretty big at the Polo store. Baby Polo shirts 30% off! awesome! We also did pretty well at the Nike outlet with some new workout clothes. You always work out harder when you look the part, right?
On our drive home the sky was literally glowing pink….
My phone picture obviously doesn’t do it justice. It was gorgeous.
Sunday we went to church and then over to Whole Foods to order our Thanksgiving turkey! gobble gobble! I’m cooking for a small group of family this year and am excited to test out all of my mom’s recipes! yum!
It was a great weekend. Here’s to a great week ahead!
Today’s Friday Favorite is not a favorite of mine but sure is a favorite of Maxwell’s. The dishwasher!! ha! As soon as we open the dishwasher, Maxwell can’t get over to it fast enough.
He’s just so helpful at taking things out…
If only he was tall enough to reach the cabinets!
Have a great weekend!
Maxwell has been a little needy and sensitive this week. He just wants to be held a lot…and I’m not complaining about that. I still do think it’s just his teeth that are bothering him. Hopefully we’ll move past this soon.
Some pictures from a few weeks ago…
Nothing exciting. Just my cute little buddy.
I made the little M tshirt he’s wearing. It was my first attempt at applique.
I was pretty proud of it until I realized that the M totally looks like the m&m logo! ha! My little m&m…sweet as candy!
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!