Never Expected This to Happen!

This is what a Zimmermann family wedding will do to you.

11 Months Old

Every month it seems like I'm getting further and further behind on the blog. Better late then never! Anyways, the day after Max turned eleven months we had an early birthday celebration with the Muresan family. Dave and Phyllis are in Florida so we wanted to have a celebration before they left. We did a Curious George theme and had decorations, party favors and a cake from a local bakery to go along with the theme. Well you know Max loves his food, so he had no problem figuring out how to eat his cake quickly then smearing the leftover icing all over.

At the beginning of the month Max was standing and starting to take a couple steps here and there, but over the past weekend he is walking much further distances sometimes six to eight feet. As everyone says I'm sure it won't be long before he's running all over the place! I think my mom was surprised but the amount of energy he had last night when we visited my Grandma McCoy.

I decided it was time to wean Max almost three weeks ago. It wasn't as hard as I thought it was going to be or should I say he didn't seem to mind. So now that he's bottle fed he's finally sleeping through the night. Although he naps well during the day, his new thing is to fight going to bed at night. Whenever we lay him down he's been crying but a little classical music soothes him and puts him right to sleep.

A couple other things is that Max has seven teeth now, throws mini tantrums when told no and laughs at the television. The other night we watched Toy Story with him and he thought that was pretty funny. There's never a dull moment here! J

Max's Favorite Book

Max's favorite books are lift-the-flap books. Whenever I need to distract him I just open one of his Fisher-Price Little People books. Thanks to Aunt Beth and the kids for donating their old books! J

10 Months Old

Yes it's been awhile since our last blog. A lot has been going on, mostly me trying to keep up with Max. He's standing up and pulling himself along anything he can find. Mike and I finally decided it was time to buy him some tennis shoes a few weeks ago. Max was kicking and screaming the entire time the girls at the shoe store were trying to put on his shoes. Needless to say it took him a couple of days to get use to his new shoes.

Max likes to dance or bounce to music or commercials on TV. He jumps up and down in his pack n play and crib. Every morning when we go in his room he's standing up jumping up and down with a big smile on his face. It makes getting up early not so bad!

Max loves to eat. He's a bottomless pit! He eats finger foods now fruits, veggies, grilled cheese, veggie burgers, chicken, cereal and bread. Bananas and grilled cheese are two of his favorites. Max has five teeth now! The two front teeth just started to poke through last week.

Mostly over the last month I've been busy chasing him around. He gets into everything like the dirty laundry basket or the other day as I was getting ready to finally sit down he pulled over the trash can on himself and there were coffee grounds everywhere! I've resorted to closing all the bedroom and bathroom doors and building a barricade out of chairs to keep him out of the kitchen and away from cat food. The less places I have to chase him the better!

It was too hard to choose just a couple photos so I put together a slide show of what Max has been up to. J

9 Month Checkup

I took Max to the doctor yesterday for his 9 month visit. All is good. He weighs 19 lbs 13 oz and is 29 inches long. Hard to believe he is already half my size! J

4th of July

Well our 4th was pretty uneventful thanks to the gloomy Missouri weather. We went over to Zach's to barbecue and shot off some cheesy fireworks. When it became dark it started to rain so we didn't see much of any firework displays. A the end of the night Zach gave Max Duncan rides which he really enjoyed. Duncan didn't seem to mind and Max kept on giggling. J

Sweet Success

This is one of those moments I've been waiting for. For Max to fall asleep due to pure exhaustion! Yeah! Max has an endless supply of energy, which he probably gets from his Dad. I snapped this photo on Wednesday evening after a day out with a girl friend who was visiting from California. We went to lunch and went swimming at Phyllis's and Dave's afterwards. Like always Max never naps when were out because I guess he's afraid he'll miss something. So he fell asleep an hour earlier this evening. J