April outdoor adventures

So despite our allergies, we are making it out quite a bit these days. I did have a slight asthma attack one afternoon, but nothing major that my inhaler (which I didn't bring with me) couldn't nip in the bud really quick. Anyway, my mom was here for the week of easter, so here are some pics of our outdoor outings.

 

 

 

 

Growth Spurt

Grandma is here for a visit and reports that the growth spurt that started a few days ago (well, we didn't know it at the time, but think is started Thursday now that we look back on it) is still going strong.  He's been eating more than not since he woke up today!

Back in action

So Max is definitely over the stomach bug and Wei Yan & I seem to be OK so far. Yesterday we went to dim sum for lunch. Max started out eating some chicken bits from the green bean dish - which amazed me since he usually shuns anything resembling meat. Then he went to town on the fish - and even gobbled up a black bean that got mixed in. Between the fish & the stir fried ho fun, Wei Yan & I were having a hard time putting food on his plate fast enough. After a few tries, he tried the rice congee/jook too and seemed to really like that. So usually I'm opposed to dim sum - at least here in NC, but looks like I've been officially out voted now by the boys.

In other news, work got hit by this worm:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/03/27/60minutes/main4897053.shtml
And I just that 60 min segment last night after the Carolina game (go Heels!) so I'm booting my PC at work. It was acting strange & I'm super paranoid...seems like I should know more, but I'm just a programmer, not an IT specialist.

stomach flu

So we got the call from day care to come pick up Max at lunchtime today. We took him to the pediatricians office and looks like he has some sort of stomach flu - a few other kids have something at day care too. So we've seen some things today we could have very well lived without. The dr. said that the vomiting should subside in ~48 hrs, so I guess that's something to hope for. Luckily Max likes pedialyte and he still has a little bit of an appetite so we he ate a few puffs at least. We'll be home with him tomorrow (dad in the morning and me in the afternoon) - so we're hoping neither of us gets this thing too!

Mmmwwwaaa!

New heights

He's been trying to climb for a few days, but tonight he finally got it. We'll work on "not climbing" tomorrow. For now we just had to celebrate what he's been trying to do for a few days now.

New words and tricks

So this last month or two max has really learned so much! He loves to sit on my lap, blow kisses, give hugs, and give slobbery "kisses". He says bubble & up (at least so we can understand him). He makes this questioning sound and babbles up a storm. He's also thrown a few fits, can shake his head no and angrily shove or throw away our wrong offerings to his demands. He says "uh oh" whenever he tips something over or we drop something and when he purposely tips over his cup at meal times. He does a lot of copying things that we do and yesterday he even started bouncing up and down (without leaving the ground when I said "jump! jump!") which I totally did not expect.

He is not a fan or oatmeal, french toast sticks or any kind of meats. At school we can pretty much count on them telling us later that he wanted nothing to do with any of the meat. He's also started smushing up green beans before eating them, where as a few weeks ago, he would not touch anything that had been squished. So things these days seem to be going at the speed of light. Oh, and he has 7 teeth now. His 4 front teeth, 2 bottom front teeth and 1 on the bottom has just come int.

Round the neighborhood

It's been nice out so we have been taking the car out for a spin.
Tried take a picture of max eating his zipper with his forehead in the
steering wheel, but typical - I whip out the camera & he quits doing
whatever he was doing!

Thanks uncle Ryan

Here's max playing with the toy that uncle Ryan bought him.

Percentiles

So I just found Max's 1 year appointment paperwork and plugged his numbers in a growth chart website:

your child is 19.1875 pounds, and that is
at the 4th percentile for weight.

your child is 28.5 inches, and that is
at the 9th percentile for height.

your child has a head circumference of 18.125 inches, and that is
at the 35th percentile for head circumference.

Course he has no trouble eating, 1/2 grilled cheese sandwiches, mandarin oranges, cheese and yogurt are his favorites these days. We just started him on the citrus fruits and he was screaming "moa!" with the most pathetic, panicky, insistent voice yet. We ended up having to show him the empty wendy's container before he quit asking for more.

Season Moore Photography Gallery

So here is the full gallery.

http://www.seasonmoorephotography.com/slideshows/slideshow.php?Slideshow=chan

It's only available until this Thursday - when Max officially turns 13 months old, so get a peek at those 1 year old portraits while you can!

1 year old portraits

We took Max out for a nice photo shoot last Friday (before we found out he was starting a nice little ear infection). I can't wait to see them all, but here are a few.

1st ear infection

So Max woke up night before last crying inconsolably and we were a bit baffled at what was bothering. We knew that he had 1 other tooth starting to come in (tooth #4, right next to his top fang) and he didn't have a fever, so we gave him some tylenol & tried to distract him while that kicked in. He was super tired, so after it kicked in he was ready to go to bed again. Yesterday morning, Wei Yan took him to the pediatrician (morning walk-ins at our ped's office rock) to check on his cough which is pretty bad right now. They said is cough is fine even though it sounds worse than anything to date, but that he has an ear infection. So we've been keeping some tylenol in him when we can and started the antibiotics. He hasn't woken up crying again, but I can't see a huge improvement just yet. So we'll keep up with it for the next 10 days and see how he does.

High Five

Max gave me a high five today for the first time this morning.

Max's 1st birthday party

Pictures from Max's 1 year birthday party:

 

 

Click on this link below for all the pics:

Max's Birthday Party

Of course the day went on and we felt like we didn't know who to talk to. I personally felt like the typical socially awkward engineer who should have been a better hostess in introducing folks to other folks (we had old childhood friends, college friends, work friends and poker friends, etc. at the party) But it was priceless to have a bunch of folks in the same room who have seen us become who we were, helped us get to where we are now and who we hope will be along with us on the path to the future which is just so very exciting especially when we have seen all that just 1 year can bring. So thanks and much love to everyone who could make it & those who were there with us in spirit (as I know many of you blog-stalkers were)!

Monkey Joe's bday trip

This last one is Max going down one of the big slides...he wasn't very happy about that one. But at least dad liked it!

Happy 1st Birthday!

 

 

And this one is Max after a little help in digging into his birthday cake...

 

Ball! Orange!

Max saw the oranges that were given to us by Wei Yan's parents for Chinese New Year and promptly said, "Ball!" We were just at home for Chinese New Year and on the alter for Wei Yan's grandfather there was a giant lime-green fruit. Max pointed at it & said "Ball!" Since I had no idea what it was I just said "yup, that does look like a ball, but it's a fruit". The label said "Red Pomelo" but it was green...go figure.

oh, and please note Wei Yan's "Wassup!"...so I'm hoping that doesn't come back to haunt us at a most inopportune time....

Quack Quack

Not the best quacking, but like I might have mentioned before, it seems that as soon as we turn on the video camera he stops doing whatever it is that we were trying to tape. He actually tries to say duck - and there is almost a "k" sound at the end, but here it is:

No No No!!!

Max's day care teacher was telling us today about how she thinks he is definitely ready to move up to the toddler room. He will move up with another boy who just turned 1 (Max turns 1 in exactly 1 week) - who's name is Hawke (cool name, huh?) Hawke just joined Carolina Kids Academy and he is a walker - so Max and Hawke have been having lots of fun running around the room as the only walkers. Ms. K said that she would miss Max and that he was a really good kid. She said that he knows his name & knows when you don't want him to do something specific. For example, today, she said Max went over to the cupboards where he is not supposed to mess with and he walked over, grabbed the handle, looked over at her, shook his head "no", jiggled that door a few times & then walked away.

The other day, he was pulling on some chords that were plugged into a power strip. I gave him a sharp "No!" which was probably the harshest I've been with him, but one of the chords was to the baby monitor which is on top of his armoire & could fall down on him or bring other stuff down. He stopped right away and then started reaching again. Since I knew he heard me the 1st time, I said "no" again slowly a few more times as he continued to reach. I had to laugh when he grabbed a pair of socks that was right next to the power strip and when the chords got a little caught on his arm, gently pulled them off his hand and then got his socks & showed them to me (so proud of himself). What a ham. I'm gonna have to watch this guy!!!