Max Walks!!

Max's account of learning to walk is a bit different than my other kids. When my others started walking they had the skills necessary, but just didn't know they could do it, so continued holding on to things. Max on the other hand thought he could walk, but was missing the necessary skills. As a result he has experienced quite a few face plants.

After months of boo boos, Max is actually walking...well, sort of.

Take 2:

A Story Worth Telling

This is a story from last summer. I have never taken the time to record it, but I think it is one worth telling. My friend Kristen, her son, her nephew, Max who was about 6 months at the time, and I were in the van driving from Danville to Pittsburgh. About half way into the trip, one of the boys in the back said, "Miss Tesha, Max has poop on his face." The other little boy then added his two cents and said, "Why is your baby eating his poop?"

Fortunately there was a rest stop right there and I quickly pulled off the road. Now I wish I had a picture to show you what I saw next. Max was just starting solid foods and must have had a good helping of carrots recently because he had bright orange poop all over him. He had it in his hair, on his face, in his mouth...along with a big smile. It had leaked out of his diaper and his little hands found it and was having quite a good time with it.

I am so thankful that Kristen was there with me and was able to laugh with me. Had it been Bob, there would have been no laughing. I started cleaning up Max and Kristen tackled the car seat. Max came clean pretty easily, but the car seat was another story. It has gotten all through the padding...so much so that we decided to pitch it in the rest stop garbage can. Fortunately, I had an extra car seat since Samuel wasn't with us. Once we got to Kristen's house, she gave me an old car seat to borrow.

Oh the joys of motherhood!!!!

Emily's 6th Birthday

Since Bob had to work over the holidays we were able to take a long weekend in January to travel back home to celebrate Christmas with family as well as Emily's 6th birthday. Emily chose to have a cousin birthday party, so we decided on a bowling party. Our kids had never gone bowling before and they thought it was great fun. Here are some pictures:

The Birthday Girls - Emily's cousin Jenna has a birthday close to Emily's so we had a joint party.

We had to get an updated "Sisters" photo with the newest member!! (I guess it isn't official until August, but we're sure Alyssa fits in just great!)