Max's Milestones

Cutie Patutie!


Getting ready to chow down on some Christmas dinner

1st bath with sissy

Playing with sissy

Eating some puffs

Playing some basketball

Holding his own bottle, chillin.

Max will be 11 months old in a couple of days and although he's been a bit later at doing things, all of a sudden, he can do LOTS of things!
This time last week, Max still wasn't really crawling. Now, he gets around so fast that we had to put up the ugly baby gates. And boy does he find the craziest things to put in his mouth. Talk about needing to vacuum DAILY!
He has also been 'talking' a lot the last few days. Daddy was holding him and they were looking at a picture on the wall of Callie Grace (sissy) and he said 'sis sis'. When I give him a little ducky toy, he says 'qua qua'. Such a little smarty pants.
He pretty much can't stand baby food anymore- but he can eat just about any kind of 'real' food you give him as long as it's in really small bites. He's been a pretty good eater for us.
Max also has been enjoying his nightly baths with his sissy. They are so cute, and it's pretty great that he doesn't need the blow up baby tub anymore.

Now it's time for him to start pulling up. He's getting there, but not by himself yet. It's funny b/c his sister was doing all this stuff months and months before he has, but he is just the most laid back little baby I've ever met. And we LOVE this about him.

Home for the Holidays

Santa came!!

Our most precious gifts

Max's first snow- and the lovely manger scene

PawPaw and the cousins

The cousins and Nana

Grandaddy and Callie

Max likes opening gifts!

Santa Baby

Callie's First Dance Recital

It has been so much fun these past 2 weeks getting to be at home with Callie Grace and Max. I love Christmas time! There are so many different reasons why this is my favorite time of year. It's so great to be off of work for a while so that I can actually spend some quality time with my children. It's also a time for us to see all of our family. My sister and nieces came down and spent a few days here. It's fun getting the cousins together. Callie Grace loves them SO MUCH! Of course we spent time with our parents, too, but this Christmas morning was especially special- now that our family is finally complete, it was really nice for the 4 of us to wake up on Christmas morning in our own house to see what Santa brought. This is really only our 2nd time to not have any other family here. It's different, but it's fun to start new traditions. Then we all drove to Grammie's house to spend the rest of the day. And no one could believe that we had an actual WHITE CHRISTMAS!! Not sure that's ever happened in my lifetime.
But the real reason that this is my favorite time of year is because it is when baby Jesus was born. Thank you God, for the gift of your Son.
We are teaching CG all about the real meaning of Christmas and she's so cute- she just LOVES baby Jesus and it's precious. When we were trying to pick out a blow up Christmas thing for the yard this year, we were asking Callie if she wanted the snowman or the Santa Claus (because they were the cheapest!!). She kept insisting that we get the manger scene with baby Jesus- the only problem was that it was $100 and we were NOT planning on spending that much for 'yard art'... We kept trying to push for the other ones, and she started crying in the store b/c she only wanted Jesus. Next thing we knew, that silly manger scene was in the shopping cart and we were out a hundred bucks! Oh the things you do for your kids. So every night this month she asks "Can I go see if baby Jesus blew up yet?" haha