Piano Man

Jaja has been busy teaching Max to play The Farmer In The Dell. Here is Max singing along.

Meeting the Great-Grandparents!

Max was finally able to meet his great-grandma and great-grandpa Taylor. They are visiting from Utah for two weeks and Max is excited to get to know them. He first met them two days ago when they arrived. Today, we all took a road trip over to Whidbey Island to see the house they used to live in and to meet an old friend for lunch. We then took the ferry home. It was a nice day. To finish it up, Grandma and I made homemade sweet potatoes and sweet squash for Max. He tried the potatoes but I think he's still on the fence about them. We'll get there.

First attempt at camping

Over the weekend Dad had a BBQ competition at Alki Beach. We all left for Alki early Saturday morning, pitched our tent, and started cooking. Max did great, but we think it was all just a bit too much excitement, because we would not sleep at all. At 10pm, after two 20 minute naps all day, he was still wide-eyed and playing. We finally decided to go home for the night when everyone started up their smokers, there was a nice BBQ haze up and down the shoreline. Probably not the best for Max to breathe. Mom and Max packed up and by the time we drove a half block Max was sound asleep. Dad later reported that it was freezing at night, so Mom and Max were happy to wake up in a nice warm house. We then headed down the next morning for some more fun BBQing. Later that day Grandma and Grandpa Nick came down and picked Max up and then auntie Jennie babysat while Mom and Dad went to the Seahawks game (boo). Overall a great weekend, we will just probably have to wait until next summer to get a full night of camping in!

Max at Book Club

Max had a good time visiting
with the ladies at Grandma's
Book Club last night. His recommendation for a good
read was Baby Beluga, his new
book from our trip to the aquarium.

Time to Grub!

Max had his first taste of rice cereal this morning. At first he didn't quite know what to think of it, but after the first bite we think he enjoyed it...at least the part that stayed in his mouth:-) He also will have a little bit more help with eating from now on, his second tooth came through today!