ELMO

This weekend, we headed over to ToysRUs to find Max an alphabet puzzle.  While Mike and I were searching for the puzzle, Max had a plan of his own.  He found an Elmo book that was in a box with a small Elmo stuffed animal.  He tried ripping the Elmo out of the box and refused to the put the box down.  He's never wanted something like this before so we had to get it!  


He absolutely loves it.  He cuddles with it when he sleeps, carries it everywhere, and even tries to share his food with Elmo.  


It might have been the best $9 we've ever spent.  


 

Challenges

Attempting a picture with our little man can present some challenges.

Before....

After...

Watermelon

As a little girl I was in a watermelon eating contest.  Cheesy...um, yes it was.  Anyway, this picture brought me back to that day.

Poppin Collars

Father's Day

To celebrate father's day, Max and I got Mike a heart rate monitor and an electric orange juice maker.  Our goal was to encourage his new healthy lifestyle.  After we opened presents, we had a nice breakfast with OJ of course and then headed out to Trade Winds Park.  We took a ride on the steam train and watched the pony rides. 

Look at all the pictures Grandma Sandy took of me

Fun at the park

After our morning at the Farmer's Market we headed over to the park for some fun.  Besides a little girl being kind of mean to Max it was a great time.  I think Max's favorite part might have been when he was trying on my sunglasses.

MBA Graduation Day!

After 2.5 years of hard work, graduation day has finally come.  My mom came down to celebrate the occasion with us.  I'm so happy to have finally accomplished my goal of getting my MBA.

A rough couple of days...

Max has been sick for what seems like forever.  He has had a 103 fever for 3 days.  The doctor was thinking that he had a viral infection.  Besides being a little cranky he has seemed OK.  Until today.  He woke up this morning and all he wanted to do was lay on the pillow and watch TV.  He was interested in eating, walking, talking, etc.  We took him back to the doctor.  He gave us an antibiotic to help try to speed along the process.  His thought was that Max might have roseola but there is no way to tell until after the fever breaks.  As soon as he broke the fever, he broke out into a full body rash.  Mystery solved - it was roseola.

Allergy Test :(

Our poor little guy has had this horrible rash on his face for about 2 months. We've been to the doctor several times, applied creams, eliminated fruit, bought all new bottles, withheld the paci until bedtime, went back to our old detergent. You name it we tried it, but still the rash remained. Some days it would seem like it was getting better. Then all off a sudden it would come back full force. This weekend I had had enough. I called the pediatrician and obtained a referral to see an allergist as our pediatrician was pretty confident it was an allergy to something. We headed to an allergist this afternoon and they gave us a sheet of the most common allergies that kids have. We went through the list and highlighted all the things that Max has been exposed to. They had to test for allergies to dogs and I was praying that wouldn't be the issue as Mook is part of the family. After many skin pricks we had a partial answer. There are several things that Max reacted to, but that doesn't necessarily mean all or one of them is the culprit causing the rash.

For the next 4 weeks we have a Do Not Eat list which contains:
1. Apples
2. Strawberries
3. Walnuts
4. Mushrooms
5. Onions
6. Shrimp
7. Scallops

 Hopefully after removing these items the rash will go away. We'll revisit the doctor in 4 weeks to check our progress. If it hasn't gone away more testing is in our future. If it has gone away then we can slowly introduce the foods back 1 by 1 to see which one is causing the rash.

We found this awesome park down the street from our house.  It was so cool we went there twice this weekend.  Max now climbs the steps and slides down the slide on his own. 

Lightening McQueen Fun

Beach - Round 2

We've been doing a lot of skyping with Grandma Sandy lately and I could tell that her and Max missed each other.  So what better mother's day present than a trip down to visit us.

We headed down to the beach on Friday.  If I'm being honest here, I'm not sure who had more fun Max or Grandma Sandy.

Max's fear of the water was still present, but he did play in the sand a little.

Unfortunately I trip was cut short due to the giant rain cloud you see in the pictures.

What a little cutie

HELLO?!?!?!?!?!

This is just the cutest thing.  Max constantly picks up the phone, attempts to put it to his ear, says his version of "hello" and then carries on a conversation with himself.  I can't stop laughing every time he does it.