My boy is three!

today is max's third birthday.  this morning was different then other mornings.  max woke up first, before grey and lilly.  nick and i brought the fully awake birthday boy into bed with us.  he sat between nick and i, the first thing he did was point to me and say "mom" and then to nick and say "dad" with a huge smile on his face:)  since he was in the talking mood, i asked him to say other family members names and he did!  he tried every time and was so proud of himself:)  he then signed "drink, milk, please" i responded "okay max lets go downstairs".... he then with the sweetest face signed "cookie"!  how could a mom say no to that! 

max and daddy!  i could just tell max was cheering wake up daddy, lets celebrate today's my birthday!!!

max and his cookie and milk for breakfast.  oh, and i loved this picture because i asked him who's birthday it was and he pointed right to himself!!! what a big boy:)

i just wanted to make a note that we did have yogurt and crackers with cheese (max's favorite things) after his cookie! 

Happy Birthday Little Man!!!

max is 2!

we celebrated max's 2nd birthday yesterday! he had a packer themed party, since he loves watching the game with his dad:)

max in full gear.

touchdown maxers! it's time for cake.

we finally found out what max's favorite flavor cake is,

and he inhaled it! yum:)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MAX!!!

max is one!!!

my son is one today.

i can't believe a whole year has gone by.

the emotions this child has allowed me to feel, i am nothing but grateful.

looking back a year ago i didn't know what i was missing, i see now that i didn't take in the full joy of life. i was worried about small unimportant things, and wasn't really appreciating the actual important ones.

so it has been a whole year since my life has changed for the better all thanks to this blue eyed little boy with cake on his face:)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MAX !!!

i can add crawling to max's list of amazement's, he just started early last week. he is also working on waving hello and goodbye. oh, and loves, loves, loves to hold onto your fingers and walk:)

God parents & a huge cookie

aunt jessie and uncle ben
i'm not much of a baker so for our guest i bought a huge cookie cake for his birthday,
nick picked up a small piece of chocolate cake for max to eat:)

wordless wednesday

the two grandmas

grandma elrick (my mom) on max's left and grandma pingel (nicks mom) on max's right.

max wasn't up for taking more pictures....

until grandma pingel whispered something pretty funny:)....

but then he went right back to not wanting his picture taken:(

balloon fun:)

for max's birthday party i blew up 149 balloons for decoration:) i would have had a total of 150 but one had a hole in it. it was a lot, i repeat a lot of work. it took from 7:30 till 2 in the morning to blow and hang them all up. i wish i took picture before the party of them all but of course i forgot, so i did take after pictures. oh and the best part for lilly and max was when we took them down.

i attached a ton of photos,

enjoy:)

so cute, his little feet up in the air.

max and his buddys :)

every month we have a get together with other children in our family network. our last one was on saturday so we had brownies for max's birthday, two other families joined us:) it was a really nice time:) i always look forward to seeing them. i attempted a group picture with all of the kids.... and this was the best on that i got:)

starting from the left, devin (logan's older brother), aaron, max, lilly, logan, and aubrey (logan's little sister)
max getting aaron:)

lilly, logan and aubrey playing:)

the three boys:)