Baby on a mission...


Check it out. RINGS!


Hey, didja see my RING!?


But how can anyone make a cranky face at the rings?


See? Check out the rings!


And voila. No more cranky face.


aww, tickles.


And smooches!

Today is Max's first birthday! Go Max!


Max says "holy cow, I just realized that means I'm one year old! That is AMAZING!"

look at that grin!



ooh! a kitty!


I will go get it!


but wait, what's this? TOY!


oh man, toys are hilarious!

there's a lot of concentrating involved in being adorable.


lots.


but you can't forget the cheeks.


and the plaintive baby looks help too

(because it was summer, and pjs were onesies and onesies were pjs)

one of them just woke up, and was wearing spidey!

but this one is one of my favorites

ooooh camera!


poke poke poke


Someone found the camera strap, which considering how much he loves sucking on webbing/straps, is really not surprising. seriously, the kid always manages to find the strap on his car seat and then it's all sucksucksuck smacksmacksmack sucksucksuck.


things are looking up!


and this is his latest smile, which I think is more horizonal because of the teeth. And also because he was saying "MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM!" at the time

Here are some more nice shots of Jen playing with Max in the park.

Interesting stuff about how kids change while they growing up -- Max used to never like this alien toy, he'd just ignore it and move on. Until one day that Jen showed him the little tentacles have squeakers in them, and all of a sudden he loves it, it's one of his favorite toys.

I really don't take enough photos of Jen and Max together. Hopefully this begins to remedy the situation. These are some of my favorite photos ever of the two of them. They are both cute as the dickens, no?

but man he's cute.

ah the excersaucer. what allows me to go to the loo while he's awake.

nomnomnom


and this face cracks me up


as does this one: