Naples trip

We went to Naples a couple of weeks ago to visit some family and to try to get some sun. Max met the ocean for the first time. He loved it at first, but, to mommy and daddy's dismay, he was over it after about an hour. We got some good pics, though. This first picture is us leaving the house for the pool. What a stud in his shades!


This is such a funny picture. Max found a Mr. Potatohead toy and all of the accessories. These are Mr. Potatohead's glasses. Max would put them on and walk around with them like it was no big deal. He actually got mad if we tried to take them off. Too funny!


I just loved this picture of Max and Phil walking to the ocean. It is a little blurry, but just so sweet!


Max looks like he is the only one on the beach. I think he was trying to throw all of the sand into the water. Or, maybe he was trying to see which way the wind was blowing.


Daddy buried Max in the sand, and he thought it was the best thing ever. Look how happy he is to play in the wet sand.


Another obsession with glasses.


Just a sweet picture.


Phil called this the sand chug. It looks like he is pouring it in his mouth, but really he is just pouring it down his chest. I kind of wanted to play "Pour some sugar on me" while he was doing it.



Footprints in the sand. Mommy, Max, Daddy.

Future Fireman

For some reason, my mom has bought Max a lot of fireman themed toys, most recently being a hat. I caught him one day just playing by himself, and he had put the hat on his head and just continued on playing with his other toys. I thought it made for a cute pic, even though he isn't smiling.

Downtown on the canal

We took a family trip to the canal downtown to let Max run around. Nothing exciting happened, but here are some sweet pictures from that day.

Graduation

Phil graduated from medical school a couple of weekends ago and the ceremony was approximately 2 hours long. That is a long time for a 17 month old to sit still. So, mommy had to get creative to try to keep him happy. He ended up with my sunglasses at one point. I think he thought he was a movie star!


There were 261 names announced at the graduation, and every name had a small crowd cheering for them. Max caught on to this quickly and clapped and yelled for a lot of the names. It was so funny! Here is the picture I got of him doing that.

Water

We got home from the park and I guess Max felt like he needed a bath. He got a hold of my water bottle and shook it up and down. Water went everywhere and he thought it was super funny. When I tried to close the bottle, he would just open it back up and shake it again. He got soaked!

Playground

We found a playground in the apartment complex next to ours. It is walking distance, and it has been my saving grace on these beautiful days! Max loves going there. Here are some pictures of his favorite things to do at the playground. Not included are the slide and the steering wheel that spins.



Max loves to walk back and forth across this bridge. It is one of those bridges that you can jump on and it moves. He loves to see how unsteady he can get by jumping on it. It doesn't take much!


This is usually where we end up at the playground...the rock pit. He loves playing in the rocks and getting really dirty. He is such a boy!


Mommy and Daddy like the playground too. While Grandma was playing with Max, Mommy and Daddy had a swing jumping contest. Here are some of those pictures.

Finally, an update!

I know, I know...I have not been good about updating this. Several of you have made that known to me. We just haven't been very good about taking pictures this month. Here are a couple that we have taken.

Max loves being in the bathroom. We are lucky to have any privacy in there. You can see in this picture how he will stick his little hand under the door to play while you are in there. It is pretty cute!


We got Max a little rocking chair that is his size (which actually used to be mine as a kid). Well, he is so big and insists on standing in it, so he ended up breaking it. Now he has to sit in Daddy's rocking chair. He has learned to climb up in it and rock back and forth.


Max will shove food into his mouth until he cannot even chew. He does this mostly with bananas. He is such a little monkey!