Scenes From A Friday Morning

Crib, Max's room, 7:40am

Max: "Mommy?"

Me, from the bathroom: "What Max."

Max: "I took my jammers off."

Me: "Why did you do that?  That's a No-No."

Max: "I took my diaper off."

Me, running down the hall: "WHAT!"

Max, sitting in his bed: "You need to clean this up." *

Freezer, Kitchen, 8:15am

Max: "I want my ice cream."

Me, getting a frozen meal out for lunch: "You can't have ice cream for breakfast."

Max: "MY ICE CREAM!!!!!!!!!!"

Me: "You will get breakfast at school."

Max: "IIIIICCCCEEEE CCCCREEEEAAAAMMMMMMM."

Me: "Here.  Have a cookie."

Couch, Living Room, 8:30am

Me: "Let's put your jacket on."

Max: "NO!"

Me: "It's cold outside."

Max: "NOOOO!!!"

Me: "Come on, please?  Okay, now this arm.  Thank you."

Max: "No ziiiiippppp!!

Me:  "Whatever.  Let's go."

Carseat, Car, 8:32am

Me: "Sit in your seat."

Max: "I DON"T WANT TO WEAR A JACKET!!!!"

Me: "Fine.  Take it off and put your arms through the straps."

Max: "I DON'T WANT A BLANKET ON ME!!!"

Me: "Okay."

Carseat, Car, 8:33am

Max: "I'M COLD! I'M COOOOLLLLDDDDD!!!!! I'M CCCCCCOOOOOOOOLLLLLLLLLLDDDDD!!!

Me, now driving: "Use the blanket then."

Carseat, Car, 8:35am

Max: "I want something."

Me: "Here's your milk.  Here's your crackers & goldfish."

Carseat, Car, 8:45am

Max: "I want goldfish."

Me, looking back at the bag he's holding: "There's goldfish in the bag."

Max: "They're under the crackers."

Me, reaching back to shake the bag: "There."

Two year olds are AWESOME!!!

Good luck with Max at school today, Miss Coco.

* The diaper was just wet.  But I will need to wash his sheet and mattress pad when we get home.

Still here...

Thanks Unkie Zach for the picture!!

We're still around.  Just busy and tired.  More to come later.  Maybe.

Why I Haven't Blogged In Forever

There's this:

My office at work. Relatively clean if you can believe it.

And this:

My haircut needing boy. Erik says if he were a Bad News Bear his name would be Booker O'Malley.

And this:

My view each day.

And this:

He's on the go all the time. Keeps us busy.

I keep meaning to post but have just been too busy/tired/behind to work myself up to doing it. Work has been busy with an India accounting project. Conference calls aren't fun when trying to work around 12 hour time differences. Lots of early mornings or late nights.

Erik & I took turns being sick for a month or so. Max was sick in March. Three trips to the Dr in 5 weeks and lots of office & pharmacy co-pays later he's back to normal.

Now if we could just get him to stop stripping out of his clothes and taking his dirty diaper off in his crib we would be set.

Makes Me Tear Up

So this made Time magazine's top 10 list of viral videos for 2008 and apparently it was all over the morning talk shows. But I'd never seen it until Erik shared it with me. I think it's sweet.

I guess I need to go look at the rest of the list to see what else I missed out on during the last year.

Cousins

Max? Why don't you like getting your picture taken with your cousins?

April 2008

November 2008

July 2008
See? It's not so bad.

May I Recommend

I love the show 30 Rock and I love Sesame Street. This just brings the two together.

Watch 30 Rock if you don't already. It's one of the best shows out there. And Sesame Street is always good. There's a very interesting documentary out there about expanding the show worldwide. It's called The World According to Sesame Street. You can get it from Netflix. But that's a whole different May I Recommend.

We Voted!!

So Max and I went and voted this morning. This is the third election where we've gone and voted together. I kind of like this tradition and would like to keep it going as long as possible. I want him to know that voting is important. Even when you live in Utah.

Sorry Grandma. Max touched the screen for this one.