smart mama

Woo hoo, I am now doing a blog post for the first time on my very own. I've decided part of my mom duties include updating this with pictures of Max, instead of constantly bothering Josh to do it. hee hee. So here are the ones we took in January - not too exciting, just playing and eating. He started clapping a week ago, which is lots of fun. He also loves smacking the table, so we're trying to learn "high fives" by sneaking my hand there on the table when he's smacking it. Seems he just decides he wants to do something though, and doesn't need training. Still no teeth yet, and no crawling yet - we're getting tired of saying "He's so close!" - it's been that way for over a month now. But we are having lots of fun every day and trying to remember these moments since they go by so fast. He also loves the fireplace - so much that when Josh blew out the candles for his birthday, Max got really upset and started crying.

Some other things he's doing are playing with the carpet in the kitchen (pulls it back and scratches underneath) while I'm fixing his food. I put on a Baby Einstien video (I know, I'm poisoning my child, whatever) and surround him with toys so he's entertained while I get some stuff done around the house, and he doesn't even touch the toys, he's just mesmerized by this video! It's pretty funny. He loves looking at the camera, so if I want to take a picture of him without him looking, I have to be really sneaky. Otherwise he just stops what he's doing and just stares.

Click here for Max's pictures from January.