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Christmas in July

The other day I was feeling a little sad so I told Jeremy I was going upstairs to exercise.  When I came downstairs I found that my sweet hubby had made me Christmas cookies to cheer me up!  I had dough in the fridge left over from the cookies I made for my Young Women lesson.  So he decided to roll out the dough, use the Christmas cookie cutters, and make red and green frosting!  I know this sounds like a weird way to cheer someone up… but anyone who knows me knows I am OBSESSED with Christmas.  He knows that I love decorating Christmas cookies so he had them ready to go.  After laughing, we spent the evening decorating cookies while listening to Christmas music.  Yes. We are weird.  But it definitely cheered me up! And some of our lucky friends got some Christmas cookies in July:)

I should have taken a pic before we gave them away.  These are the not so cute ones we kept for ourselves.

Some of Max’s Loves:

• clapping when we say “Yay!”
• waving to pretty much anyone. 
• cheerios, bananas, apple juice, yogurt, most fruits and veggies
• rolling when I am trying to change his diaper
• being lazy.  I am totally serious.  This kid has no desire to crawl.  When he wants a toy and I put it barely out of his reach, he doesn’t even try to get it.  He just looks at me and then grabs something else, or if there isn’t one he plays with his hands, the carpet, or whatever.   
• rolling to get somewhere.  He can turn himself 360 degrees so whenever he wants to get somewhere he turns himself in that direction and then rolls and rolls.
• looking at books.  well, half looking half tasting
• naps.  He almost acts excited for his naps when we lay him down.  I swear he loves them as much as I do.  Now that we are transitioning to 2 naps he seems to sleep a little longer.
• Sleeping on his tummy.  If he isn’t on his tummy he is in other funny positions like on his knees with his bum in the air.
• No more spitting up!  Finally, Jeremy and I can come home from church without having spit up on us.
• reaching for people
• toys!  He can stay busy with one toy for a long time. He has this look on his face like he is concentrating hard to figure it out
• This toy.  His cousin has one that he loves to play with so I got him one.  I was surprised at how fast he learned to play with it.  He can get some of them to pop up, and he loves putting them all back down

• He likes some of the table foods we have tried.  So far gerber puffs, cheerios, yogurt melts, real yogurt, and fruit have all gone well.  All attempts with real veggies and meat have not.  I think he is just not used to the new textures.
• While writing this post I asked Jeremy, “help me think of things Max does”.  His answer was, “what ever he wants because he has you wrapped around his finger”.  So there you have it.

Max had his 9 month check up this week.  Here are his stats:

weight: 20 lbs. 8 oz. (50th percentile)

height:29 1/2 (85th percentile)

      

Max showing me his teeth :)

Happy Independence Day!

We were able to go home for a quick trip last week to celebrate both Independence Day and my sister Lindy's birthday. We had tons of fun with both our families swimming, barbequing, and eating great food night after night:) We ate so much of my Dad's yummy homemade ice cream it was ridiculous! As we celebrated I couldn't help but think of how incredibly blessed I am. I am so thankful to live here in America, for all the freedom's we enjoy, and for all the people who fought for that freedom. Happy Independence Day to you all!  

Visit from Grandma Knudsen

Jeremy’s mom came out for a visit a few weeks ago.  We had such a fun time with her and she was even nice enough to let us get away on the weekend for our anniversary. Thanks again for coming to visit! We had a great time at the pool as you can see…