Max turns 2, June 26th, 2009

Max had a great 2nd birthday filled with lots of family fun! We first celebrated the same day as Ryan's blessing so the family that was in town could enjoy it! He had a cake with a train on it and in the video, he's noting that the candles are HOT!

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Max loves everything Curious George.

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A few of the party goers

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Max opening up the bristle blocks and yet still playing with the train that came on his cake. His aunt and uncle enjoyed the bristle blocks though.

On Max's birthday, we spent time as a family teaching Max to navigate his way through plastic tunnels and enjoying sand boxes and swings.

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This is how far Ryan would let me be from him.
To round off the birthday fun, we took him to the zoo with Aunt Stacey. Here is Max laughing at the meerkats.

As Max would say...

crackers: cuckoos

oatmeal: elmo

sunbeam: sunbean

Favorite things to say: I go, Up please, airhaine

Light as a feather

Tony has come a long way since the plane crash last November. I thought it would be kind of cool to remember some of the things he's done in physical therapy. Lately, he's been using this treadmill that you get zipped into and it makes it so you are walking without bearing all of your weight. It's called the Alter G and sometimes marathon runners use them to build up their endurance.

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Fuzzy Wuzzy

A caterpillar crawled it's way into our house, or somehow we tracked it in. It totally shocked me to see a brown fuzzy crawling across our back doormat, but we had to keep him. As soon as Tony came home, he built him a little habitat (I love having a husband who can create things and fix things). Here are some pictures of Tony and Max observing our new friend, Billie Jean (He came into our home the same day Michael Jackson died and we had to keep with our theme of 80's music names with our pets. We've had two beta fish, Devo and Major Tom).

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We kind of worried that we might kill him, but the next day, lo and behold, we had a cocoon. We're excited to see what kind of creature Billie Jean morphs into.

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Not to be too Martha-y, but...

I wish I'd known about these two handy dandy things earlier (the Shark vacuum steamer for hard floors and a pumice stone for toilet basins). So, I am so not going to be posting about cleaning products on a regular basis (probably never again) but, I have recently been shown these two items which have saved me from having to spend a lot of time on cleaning (not my favorite thing to do on a sunny day). Thought I would share.

Max in the Dash

Grandpa J sent this video today so we can all see Max's race debut during the Sound to Narrows. He was so excited that Tony had to hold him back so when it was time to go, he tripped with the momentum. Then he ran, well, as you can see, it was not straight! But he loved doing it! What a champ! He is on the right side!

Ryan's baby blessing

Ryan was blessed on Sunday, 6/14/09. It was a great day. Uncle Roger and Sean drove Grandma and Grandpa up and all of Tony's family was able to be there. My brother Dave was unable to make it because of crazy flight loads and we missed him. Here are some pictures of family and some individual ones I took of Ryan today (a week later because last week was so busy)! Thank you to all family for the support and love you've given us!

Ryan's baby blessing