Max at 21 months

Max is growing so much these days! He is talking a lot and mimiking what we say. He has quite the personality and loves to make you laugh or be the center of attention. He can also be very dramatic and throw his toys on the ground, or drop his milk or his binkie when he wants to protest something. He has the cutest wave I've ever seen and he'll say "hi" to anyone, including our fish Simon. He is a great nap taker and sleeper for the most part and is still in his crib. Although he can practically do the splits getting his foot on the top bar of the crib. I just know one day he'll figure out he can climb out of there! For now, he's happy in it. He really likes to clip and unclip his carseat, highchair, stroller straps...anything that clips (shopping cart at Wal-mart). He doesn't like to be confined, though and is pretty dang strong. And when we get home from the store, and I unclip him, he is entertained for hours (if I let him) in the car, just playing and pushing buttons and jumping from the front seat to the back seat. He throws a fit when we take him out of the car and into the house. He is clever, too. He'll dump out the shoes in the shoe basket and drag the basket over to the counter where he'll tip it over and use it as a stepping stool to climb to whatever intrests him (which happened to be Simon the other day...poor fish wondered what the heck happened with a fat little hand swishing around his water). Here are some cute things Max says:

• If you ask him a question, he'll bob his head up and down and say "yah".
• He'll pull my hand and drag me to the door and say, "Outside".
• Dy-soar...Rrrraaaaarrrr (Dinosaur)
• Marshenows (marshmellows)
• Eye-keem (ice cream)
• Posykus (popsicles)
• He'll put his hand on his diaper and say "Poopy, change you".
• Him and Lukas play the game where they get territorial and say "mine" to whatever they are holding.
• Froggit (frog)
• He loves Buzz Lightyear and when he sees him he'll say "And Beyond"
• He makes the cutest lips and "ssssvvvshhhh" sound when he's pretending to fly a plane or shoot a gun or make Buzz fly.
• When we say prayers, he'll keep his eyes open, but bow his head and say, "heh father...day...daddy" (Heavenly Father, Thank you for this day, thank you for daddy).
• He has the cutest lisp when he says his "s"s. Everytime I want to squeeze him and kiss him and I usually do!
• He has a tendancy to just hit kids in the face, so we always tell him "soft", so he'll rub his hand on his face up and down and say "soft".
• He'll say camping, cookie, bah-time (bathtime), yogurt, samich (sandwich)