14 Months!

Time just keeps trucking on in little Max's life...and he is close to trucking along as well.  Max finally decided he likes his "walker/car" and has started pushing it all around the house...well actually if an item can be pushed Max uses it to help him walk around.  When you go to set him down instead of sitting he straightens his legs so you have to stand him up.  He will walk all around holding onto the walls and will go from furniture object to wall to chair....you get the point.  I go up to him and say lets go walk and he will get up and hold one finger on each of my hands and off he goes, sometimes he will even walk just holding onto one finger.  As soon as I let go though he plops to the floor.  What I think is super cute is when I go into another room and he realizes I am gone he starts yelling "Lacey"(Scott and I both swear that is what he is saying; yes he is calling me Lacey before ever saying mama) and I will say where I am and a few minutes later there he is pushing his "walker/car" and he is so proud of himself!

Max has gotten a little picky about his veggies; only eating peas so we have became a little creative.  So we have found out he loves a spinach omelet, veggie fries, and any of the pouch baby foods such as plum organics and happy baby.  Those come in super handy!  We just take the cap off and hand it to him and he sucks it right out.  Happy baby also makes "Munchies" that a packed with veggies but like a cheese puff.  We also tried to switch him over from cow's milk to coconut milk but he was not a fan, we even mixed it with cows milk; he would not drink it.  We found out that coconut milk has no cholesterol about half the calories and twice the calcium of cows milk and it has more vitamins.  On the Silk website you can see a comparison chart.  Oh well....but I have noticed that both kroger and publix brand milk is from cows that are rBST-free.

Saving the best for last on Oct 1st Max was a very busy boy.  First he started the day by deciding MAMA was a better name for me than Lacey!!  Yea!  Finally!  Now he says mama all the time!  Then later in the day while Scott's mom was over visiting she and I witnessed Max take his first step!  Then a few minutes later we tried to get him to do it again and he did.  As soon as he takes the one step he realizes what he did and sits down...but it counts!!  He has since then taken a few more steps between Scott and I, but never more than one at a time.  Max's sign language is also progressing, he now says please, thank you, drink, eat, all done, and more.

We left on Vacation on the 3rd(Max's 14th mo) and I didn't get an actual posed 14mo pic, so here is a pic from my phone as we were taking off on the plane.