Max @ 13 months (& 7 days)

Dear Max,

I can't believe how fast you are growing up and how much you have matured over the last couple of months and really the last few days. You can now stand up on your own without holding on to anything and walk across the room. Your favorite things right now are taking your Mega Blocks and putting them in empty dog bowls and dumping them out. If you aren't putting blocks in the bowls, you are banging the blocks against the bowl(s) or just banging the something to make noise. You are "talking" more making all kinds of different sounds. We often have conversations during the day about nothing. Normally I'm just telling you what we are going to do for the day or who we are going to see.

One of your favorite activities is taking a bath. If I let you, you would play in the water for hours. It will be fun this summer to take you to the pool to play in the kiddie pool. When you are in the tub you like to take the cup that I use to dump water on you and try and drink out of it. You usually end up choking a bit because you took in to much water at one time. The bottles of soap always end up in the tub with you and you bit the tops telling me that you are still teething.

You usually sleep through the night except for last night/this morning where you got up at 4:30 a.m. and didn't want to go back to sleep. You went down for your first nap at 7:30 a.m., today should be interesting for us.

Your favorite shows are Mickey's Clubhouse, Bob the Builder, Sesame Street, Thomas the Train, and Elmo. Daddy is trying to get you into Voltron as it is on Hulu but I'm not sure you enjoy it like the others.

Most days you are a good eater. Breakfast and dinner are your best meals meaning that is when you eat the most. Lunch is sometimes a struggle but I think you are liking that we are giving your peanut butter. You still eat an entire banana for breakfast each day and you LOVE your juice.

You are growing up so fast. Slow down just a little, Mommy likes you little, but also likes to watch you learn.

Love you Big Boy!

Mom