The Boldens: Max's 15th and 16th months

Ok so I am a bit behind. I'm really not sure how I got a month ~~or 2~~ behind. Anyways I am condensing this blog down for 2 months into one. However condensing is now what Max has been doing! Max has been developmentally exploding! LOL

In the last 2 months Max has officially become a walker. Basically the week he turned 15 months he was walking(or tottering) around every where! He has gotten a little smoother but he still falls a lot. He had a continuous bruise on his forehead for about 3 weeks, and every few days get a new boo boo somewhere. He will be walking or running through the house and it still amazes me that he is walking!

Max's vocabulary has also increased greatly. Some of the words he says are- hi, bye, hello, mama, dada, poop, scout, snack, mine(not a fan of this one), go, out, okay, milk, cheese, thank you, hot, no, wow, uh huh...I'm sure I have forgot a few. We are working on colors, shapes, open/close, and on/off. Max still uses his signs as well. He is also understanding more and more. If you ask him if he has pooped he will walk to his room and go to his changing table, if he hasn't he will tell you no. At bedtime we tell him to clean up his toys and he starting picking up and will put everything away and then walk to his room for me to get his jammies on. After jammies I say lets go brush your teeth and off the the bathroom he goes. After brushing he walks and gives Scott a hug and kiss then runs to his room and try's to turn on his little space heater(yes it is safe) and then walks to his crib for me to put him in it. I guess a lot of it has to do with routine but it cracks me up!

Max also has become quite the Picasso. He loves to color. If we are sitting at the table he goes to the drawer where his crayons are and signs please. As much as he likes to color he likes to take the crayons out of the box and then back in even more :)

We still have him on a mainly organic/healthy diet. I am so glad we did this because he will eat anything we give him. He even eats his veggies! As a matter of fact he loves frozen peas and corn...yes random. We love the baby food pouches. They are a mix of fruit and veggies that we can just hand to him and he sucks it down. On Thanksgiving Max enjoyed all the traditional holiday foods thanks to Aunt Jackie...until he spit up on her treadmill(he was playing near it...we were not making him exercise...lol). Poor thing just is not used to the greasy heavy foods.

We put out our Christmas decorations on Thanksgiving day. Max is just amazed! He says ohhhh ahhhhh when he see's Christmas lights. He has not messed with the trees(and we have 3 up). I think it is because he thinks because of the lights they are hot. One of his balls rolled under a tree the other day and he stood there and whined and pointed at it for me to get instead of him climbing to get it. Max is also a hugh fan of Christmas music. We have been playing it a lot and will catch him humming and "singing" a lot. If I change the station while in the car he gets mad. One day while at target going up and down the Christmas isles he kept pointing at everything and saying "WOW"! He actually started yelling yet. I told him to quite down and Scott told me I was ruining Max's Christmas spirit :) I have a feeling Christmas will be Max's favorite holiday.

I do have one item I am sad to report though...Max appears to be a Snoopy fan. As you may(or may not) know Scott is obsessed with Peanuts/snoopy. He used to have an entire room set up with his various knick nacks. I let him go hog wild at Christmas time so needless to say every where you look in our house is peanuts/snoopy Christmas. Max started playing with a few of Scott's items and they are now his favorite toys.

Oh and I found Max's first freckle the other night while giving him a bath!