San Diego Zoo

Disney

Max's first visit to Disneyland. By the way, Max has not seen "A Bug's Life" because I have not burned a copy for him to destroy and have not been willing to let him destroy mine. The Bug's life section of California Adventure was AWESOME!!! So cool!

 

 

 

 

Flight to L.A.

"Wait, this WHOLE seat is mine???"

I'm Max

So Max has been slowly increasing his vocabulary and his ability to string together words. Today, Wei Yan said this was the conversation he had with Max:
Wei Yan: "Max are you sleepy?"
Max: "No, I'm Max"
Wei Yan: "huh?"
Max" "I'm MAX"
Wei Yan: "oh, yeah, you are."

a few weekends ago he also told our friend that she was "Toooooo big!" to sit next to him in the chair with him. doh!

we have been in greenville visiting Wei Yan's family a few weekends recently and been busy with trying to wrap up selections for the house, work and being sick - so pictures hopefully will come soon. Sorry!

Mother's day

Our new apartment has a strawberry farm less than 1/2 a mile from it. It's small but Wei Yan suggested we do this for Mother's day. Max did really well and happily obliged my choice of berries for Max to "pick" and put in his basket. Only $1.40/lb so I might be stopping by again since it's so close when I am in the mood for some fresh strawberries. They weren't as good as some of the ones I've had in California, but vine ripe vs. stuff in the store was a nice thing.

 

 

My favorite pic of the day:

 

That afternoon after nap, Max ate about a pound of strawberries. After a few of Max's recent idea to eat the outsides of all the strawberries and leave a whitish slobbery mess, I figured out that if I cut them in 1/2 or 1/3s then he'll eat the whole thing (yay!)

Happy Birthday to Me!

Max likes singing "Happy Birthday" but right now it's "Happy Birthday to we" - or me most of the time. He did sing Happy Bithday to mommy though, so he knows when it counts. Here is us at the Pit in downtown Raleigh - we didn't get a group photo of the whole group, but I didn't forget all who came out to help me celebrate this year.

 

Max's sense of humor

So Max has a bit of a funny side. We'll often here him tell us stuff, only to wait a few seconds before saying, "Nooooooooo!" - for some reason he's also gotten into the habit of giving "stank eye" while doing this. Here in this video he jokes with me about his tray being mom's tray amongst other things:

NC zoo

Good Friday, Max's day care was closed, so we decided to head to the zoo - apparently so did everyone else, cuz it was packed. We hit traffic 5 miles before the entrance, but despite that we had a great day. Here are what Max keeps calling "saurs" (dinosaurs):

 

And Max's favorite activity was the chalk wall & washing the chalk away with wet paint brushes. His vocabulary is growing daily, the 2nd picture was Max showing us what "chock" is.

 

 

Gong Hei Fat Choi

So we missed the family picture on Christmas, but with family around for Chinese New Year I made sure we got a picture of the 3 of us. Happy year of the....uh, tiger?

 

Christmas photos

Please with a big smile:

And a picture with almost the whole Overman side - except Wei Yan wasn't in the picture. Sadly we forgot to take a picture of just Wei Yan, Max and I - but it would help if Wei Yan weren't sick every Christmas!

Way behind on posts

Seems like a common thing is that when there is a gap in communication, it usually means folks are not so eager to share bad news. Partially true in this case. When we were in Baltimore and in Greenville it was easier to update folks using facebook or phone conversation. Folks are a little better now that the shock has worn off a bit and we all understand what things need to be taken care of, but it's hard to believe it's been almost 3 months since Wei Yan's father passed away now. Here's his obituary.