first dip

Today, I think the temp got up above 100...so I decided to put Max in the wading pool and see what he thought. He liked it for about the first 5 minutes and then he was trying to climb out and eat the petals off the rose bushes.

New blogger in town...

Well, Adam has gone and done it. He's joined the blogging community. However, he won't be giving you all the of the exciting details from his day to day life with family and friends(he leaves that narrative to me, no matter how skewed my perspective may be!)...his blogging will mainly contain all the action and suspense that makes up his life as a stone mason.

I ventured away from blogger and tried out Wordpress. It took a little time to figure out the new layout. Hopefully that doesn't make me a traitor, but I thought it looked a little bit more professional for a business blog. Anyway, he is all set up and ready for some new followers, so head on over to MadisonStoneWorks.com and check it out. You don't even have to have a gmail account to leave a comment, so please let us know that you stopped by!

NINE

My baby is 9 months old,
but most people who ask are pretty shocked that he is that young.
He is a solid kid and definitely living up to his gladiator name Maximus.
I'm not sure what he weighs exactly,
but I'm sure it's up above 30 lbs.
He already wears size 3T, yep T for Toddler.
When he stands on my lap he's about a head taller than me.
Luckily, his coordination hasn't caught up with his size quite yet.
He isn't crawling, but he scoots around like a madman
and is now working on getting up on his knees...
it's all a matter of time before I will be making sure everything is either
3 feet off the floor or locked away.

He is already showing signs of a quirky personality. Whenever he is eating he has to be distracted in order to get through the entire meal. This means he either has to fidget with something in his hands(which I prefer not to compete with him putting toys in his mouth while I'm trying to shovel food in there) or he must watch two specific music videos on YouTube. We've run the gammit of musical genres from Country to Sesame street, but there are only two songs that will hold his attention while I feed him: Michael Buble Haven't Met You Yet and Train Hey Soul Sister. It is a strange phenomenon, but hey, whatever works to get the food down!

He is very impressed by most things he sees, even if he has seen them 10 times before. I guess I would be too if I had only been in the world for 9 months. He lets us know just how impressed he is by saying WOW! OOOOOoooOOO! & WHOAA! It is so fun rediscovering the world with him.

I am always trying to take his picture and he just won't have it.
Most of the time the photos look like this:

Mom, why are you making me sit on a board full of slivers and insist that I keep looking up into the bright sun when all I want to do is put those ants and rocks in my mouth?!


The only way I can get his attention is to sing the primary song Once there was a snowman like a crazywoman and attempt to focus my camera between tall, tall, tall and small, small, small.

If I work hard enough, he will reward me with a gem like this:


Oh, how I love this boy!