Max’s First Birthday Pictures

All though he is not quite one yet we wanted to get some pictures done to celebrate this huge milestone. We had so much fun at this shoot and the photographer at the Picture people where awesome. Here are some of my favorite ones.

    

Christmas

We had such a great time at Christmas this year. It was Max’s first Christmas so we where even more excited to celebrate this year. We started the day off at our house and we opened a lot of fun presents.

 

Cookies and Milk for Santa and Broccoli for the Reindeers (we were out of carrots)

 

Gifts from Santa

 

After we were all done at our house we went to Greg’s parents house for breakfast and to open some more presents.

 

Box Boys

The New York Gifford's sent our Christmas gifts in a big box this year. Jordin and Max had more fun with that box. They both loved it. They played with it for about a week straight.

Thanks New York Gifts for the awesome box :) 

Christmas Break

Jordin is on Christmas break so we have really been enjoying our time together. Max really likes having him home too. Jordin and I had a night out together to go watch an Allen Americans hockey game. We had a really good time. They won too :)

We have also been busy decorating the house. Jordin got an elf on the shelf this year and his name is Flynn. He has been moving all over the house and Jordin looks forward to finding him every morning. We also did our first gingerbread house as a family this year. It was a pain in the butt, but it turned out really cute. All Jordin wanted to do was eat the candy.

Max is 11 months old

December 8th 2010-Max is 10 Months old

Milestones achieved this month have been:

He is crawling on his hands and knees. He looks so cute doing it. Army crawling is a thing of the past. He is also starting to cruise. He loves to play with his brother. They have a lot of fun together. Max has recently gotten some teeth. His top and bottom two pretty much at the same time. He has figured out how to use them too. He has tested them out a few times on Jordin. He is picking people out of pictures when we ask him to. Its pretty fun to watch. He is also up to about 7 different signs in sign language now. He can tell us what he wants most of the time. He has recently started pointing at things and signing more. It makes it a lot easier on us.

We didn't have a Dr. appointment this month so we will not have stats until his 12 month appointment.

He has officially given up nursing. I am totally bummed but after three days of offering him the breast and him rejecting it every time we decided that maybe it was time to stop. He hasn't looked back to say the least. I made it almost the full year which was my goal. He is still a really good eater and we have not found one thing that he doesn't like. I hope it stays that way.

Thanksgiving

It was great this year because we had a new addition. It was Max’s first thanksgiving and he loved all of the new food. We celebrated at Greg’s parents house. We ate way to much and really enjoyed each others company. Here are a few pics.