A fun day in the cul-de-sac

We were enjoying a nice evening outside letting Max stretch his legs. He loves to run now and it is getting difficult to keep up with him! Good thing there are two of us!

I am sorry that I have been so negligent to the blog as of late. There is so much going on during the week that by the end of the night I just feel like sitting down and doing little to nothing. I feel like just doing the easy day to day stuff is sapping all of my energy these days.

Max is doing so wonderful and is the brightest thing in our lives! I am continually amazed at how quickly he learns new words these days and he works so hard to communicate with us by repeating everything back. He has started to put two words together into a very basic sentence. For example, the other night we were finishing dinner and he kept saying "kitty, kitty!" (usually he won't quit saying a word until we acknowledge him saying the word) so one I repeated "kitty" back he added "chair!". I looked under the table and sure enough our big cat Corbin was sitting on one of the empty chairs across from me.

Max also knows his entire alphabet and says each letter by sight and is just now learning his numbers. We were so shocked how quickly he learned the letter and he was really the one who initiated it. He would point at letters on the cover of the book I was reading and I would tell him what each one was in turn. We have been trying to get a little demo on film, but anyone who has kids knows that all bets are off once the video camera is rolling.

Anyway, I am going to post a few videos tonight as Max is sleeping and Curtis is off at the Baylor football game. I had planned to take Max for the first half but he refused to nap this afternoon and needed to go to bed early. Oh well... there will be other games.

This video is of Max doing one of his most favorite activities which is playing "owside" on the deck squirting water with his "cup"!

All good cowboys need boots!

I am sorry this video is sideways. I used our little point and click camera and it is not as high tech as our other cameras. But it is so cute that I decided to add it anyway. Enjoy!

Ride 'em Cowboy!

Our little Texan showing off his stuff!

Learning to Stomp in "du waadder" aka the water

Rain and Puddles

So you need to know two things in order to understand this series of pictures.

1. It has not rained in Waco for MONTHS! This was a very special treat. It even knocked the temps down to a cool 94 degrees!

2. We are hard up for entertainment in this house! A few raindrops and we rush outside with cameras and ipods and phones and just go crazy for a few minutes. Sure wish it would have lasted longer... about 10" longer!

We started small with the puddle splashing... just hands at first, but it wasn't long before he was in stomping through the puddles.

He wen back an played in the next little rain shower getting his hair wet and plastered to his head.

Food Allergy!

And here I thought we were in the clear for food allergies! He has never reacted to anything we have given him to eat. The bad part is that I'm not totally sure what cause this. I switched brands of lunch meat, but everything else he ate leading up to this he has eaten many many times. Poor baby. It is all over everywhere!

On a funny note... you know your son watches too much Sesame Street when he walks up to his daddy, taps him on the leg with a lint roller, and says "Two! Ah ah ah!"

These were taken last night before bed. His face wasn't too bad yet.

This morning it was all over his face though! He has still been acting pretty happy and normal though. He and Papa are reading the Bee book together.