A Boy and His Panda - A Love Story

I'm a Lucky Aunt!

How cute are Mabel & Weston? Josh took these pictures last week and I just had to share them. The one of Weston looks like he's straight out of The Little Rascals and Mabel's crazy side is evident in the next one. No matter how much they beat each other up, tackle each other and make each other cry it's obvious they love each other a lot!!

Indiana Trip

Happy Fourth of July!

Crazy boy!

My Grandma/Max's Great Grandma, me & Max

Max got his own seat for part of the flight home

We Survived!

Thanks for the prayers! We survived two plane trips and 4 days of a messed up schedule and now we're back home. Max didn't sleep at all on either flight, but he remained entertained by the books, toys and,most especially, the food that I brought along. On Wednesday he was awake from 4:45 a.m. until about 1 p.m. without a nap. I believe he got about 5 minutes of shut eye in there somewhere. He made friends with a little girl at the airport and they crawled all over the place and chased a ball and tried to eat disgusting things off the floor together (twist ties, half of a banana, ants...) He LOVED all the attention and activity at my Grandma's house and seems to be suffering from a new type of ADD - the kind where there are not enough people paying attention to you at home.

I was curious as to how Max would respond to his first experience with fireworks. We went to a park in Beech Grove and waited until about 10 p.m. for the show to start. He sat on my lap, started shaking a little and looked confused and scared, then immediately wanted to nurse and then fell asleep while nursing for the whole show. He even slept as I carried him most of the way back to my Grandma's house. I felt bad about keeping him up so late, but it was fun to go down to the park and see some of my Grandma's friends and hang out with my cousins and aunt and uncles.

In other news, Max is currently the king of TemperTantrumLand, but I think it's because he's getting ready to walk as well as getting some more teeth. I keep wondering if it's just that he's very advanced and is going through the terrible two's at 10 months old : ) . Anyone else have experience with this?? It's very frustrating and I hope it passes soon.

Thanks again for the prayers. I hope to post some pictures from the trip in the next couple days.