Maxaroni

My baby will be turning a year old in a couple of weeks, but he has been changing so much in the past month that I see him turning into a toddler before my eyes. In his eleventh month he has been crawling all over the place and mom has been finding it hard to keep up with him.

Adam and I have seen him escape through doggy doors and attempt to escape through the front door.

So far, he has not shown any signs of being shy or timid and if he sees something new, he is not afraid to go check it out and throw every social norm out the window--oh to be so uninhibited!

He is fascinated with anything that has wheels and will even keep an old lady at church from getting down the hallway so he can inspect the wheels on her walker.

As we begin to teach him to restrain himself, he has begun to show a dramatic side. Any mention of the word no gets a very strong reaction of scowling faces, growls, screams, whines, head banging, and sometimes tears. We are still deciding on whose side of the family this originated. :)

Some of the fun new things Max is discovering is how to chew. This week he has been cutting 4 new molers and it has been tough on all of us, especially Max. To test out these new teeth he is trying all kinds of new foods. He loves macaroni with marinara sauce the best. Adam likes to call him Maxaroni. I don't know what it is, but Max loves to eat all by himself...which is awesome because I can hide his veggies in there too!

Sometimes I get preoccupied on my computer and Max goes exploring. Today he discovered that mom had forgotten to lock up one of the kitchen cabinets and there was a brand new can of flour just waiting for him inside...

Good thing this boy is so cute or I might have been really upset. He was more upset that I insisted on taking photos of him and wouldn't let him crawl around with flour all over himself.