Daddy's Home!

We're going backwards a bit but I wanted to share some sweet photos of Max and Dan when Dan returned from his most recent trip. Max was so happy to see him even though he was tired and sickly.
Dan had occasion to facilitate the challenge of feeding Max. He's still not real interested in table food and seems almost resistant to baby food now. It's a crap shoot as to whether you'll get food in him or just on him. The process involves a lot of laughing, smiling and picking up and dropping of spoons and toys. I love this photo of my two fellas.


Feeling a bit better just getting outside and going for a walk. Max *loves* the outdoors.

Last Sunday we visited with Kristi, Samantha and Chloe. We had a lot of fun. There was popcorn, ball rolling and lots of crawling around. Max had so much fun with the girls. Doesn't he look so adorable in his 80s jersey?

A Cat and His Boy

Max was home sick Tuesday and he had a lot of fun with Lyle a.k.a. Chubber Cat. Chubber, for his part, was quite amiable to Max. I think his desire to look out the window eclipsed his instinct to "run like h*ll". Even so, he was remarkably tolerant as Max tugged, yanked, patted and sat on him.


"Oh, oh, oh - the kitty!"


"This looks interesting."


"I got it."


"No. Please don't go."


Enjoying the view.

My First Fat Lip

We had a family photo shoot with Max and myself two Sundays ago. Dan was out of town and Ainsley, the photographer is due on 10/31 so we didn't really have a chance to reschedule. Max was on the move the whole time. No sitting still and posing for our little guy. As such, we tried to work with him and get some cute shots on the go. We were successful; however, Max suffered a little fall in the tunnel and bonked his lip on a block. Thus, he was officially photographed on the day he got his first fat lip. Here he is in the bath. You can see it pretty well if you enlarge the photo. Still cute as can be. Shades of a hockey player to come?

My First Jack O' Lantern

Despite a lot of shots and trips to the doctor, Max and I had a lot of fun this past weekend. On Saturday we helped out at a book sale hosted by the community service group I belong to. (Max is an unoffical member.) We raised nearly $300 for local food banks. Not too shabby. As a reminder, it's a great time to donate to food banks. They are always in need of both food and cash donations in the "off season", meaning the dry spells before and after the holiday season. Folks go hungry year 'round and demand is up with our current economy. I know I feel so blessed to be able to provide for ourselves and not worry about putting food on the table.


Max looking for books.

The sale was at Carol's house and she is ALWAYS up to date and decorated for every holiday. It is quite amazing. Not surprisingly she had her pumpkins already carved and on the porch. Max thought they were so cool.




Who needs apple cider donuts when you can eat leaves!

Ouch! Too many shots!

Poor Max! He had quite a weekend. I had to pick him up from childcare at 4 on Friday because he had a high temp. By the time we got to the doctor at 6 pm it was 102.5. He was not happy nor was he doing particularly well. It's this darn ear infection which he still had despite having 3 sets of antibiotics over the past month and a half. They gave him ibuprofen to help the fever and it helped but he was not happy taking it. Then he got Rocephin injections for the ear infection. I don't know if you've ever had to do this but it's two shots given simultaneously in the thighs and it's a dose a day for three days.

Friday was the first day and he got his last shot Sunday. Poor guy! He did not LIKE the shot at all. He cried so pitifully it made me sad. By the time we got to the shot portion of our visit on Sunday, he was totally in the know. As soon as he saw two ladies in the room with us and they got out the cotton balls it was a sad, sad wail from Max. It is so awful to have to hold them down. I sure hope this clears up his ear infection. I thought it had gotten rid of the fever but he was still over 100 yesterday at his check-up. Hopefully, it will have totally kicked in with the last shot. His digestive system is kinda shot and I can't imagine how it will be if he gets ANOTHER round of antibiotics. We have a check-up on Tuesday and we'll see where to go from there. If it isn't cleared up by then, we have to head to the ENT and then the possibility of tubes in the ears is on our horizon. Ugh!

Think good thoughts for our little guy. Here he is after his shots on Saturday. The most amazing thing is that he's still such a good sport even with all the poking and jabbing. He must get that from Dan...



Notice the sweater. It's finally cooling down. Yeehaw! I love fall.