Happy Birthday Max!

Yesterday was Max's first birthday. What an amazing little boy he is. I am in awer of him every time I look at him. He is always smiling, exploring, laughing, trying to make me laugh, giving hugs, and just being the sweetest kid ever! (I do realize that every mother thinks the same thing about their child)!

We had an awesome day. Greg made it home...yeah! We had pancakes for breakfast (wholewheat with flax), then we spent the day playing, reading, practicing climbing the stairs, and napping. Then the party started! The grandparents and my sister (his only aunt/uncle that lives in calgary) came over. He was spoiled rotten with presents which he thoroughly enjoyed playing with all night. We had a wonderful meal...wonderful because it's always fun to sit around a big table with drinks and food, and then we watched Mr. Mutchkins eat his first birthday cupcake. I didn't know how it was going to go. He definitely has my sweet tooth and he likes when we give him tastes of icing and cake, and he feeds himself some things, but still...so we put him the highchair sans clothes, put a chocolate cupcake with green frosting on his table tray and watched him go to town, and I mean devour the cupcake like nothing I had ever seen before...it was so funny and so cute!!! Green frosting on his face and hands, and handfuls of cake going into his mouth...he couldn't go fast enough!!

All the sugar gave his some added energy to play, crawl and smile some more!! He had a nice bath and story before bed to relax him!

Best Day!

Snow Day

Winter is officially here! It snowed all day today, and the winds were gusting. Max and I didn't have any big plans but they were definitely limited by the weather!

So we ventured to Co-op the closest grocery store that I hardly ever frequent because according to the radio they are by far the most expensive. Because today was a day off of working out I needed some other distraction, so I decided it would be a good day to bake. I baked cookies and then immediately froze them! And then because I had no other good excuses to get out of it...I cleaned...I like excuses. And I should have more tomorrow...treadmill here I come!

It's suppose to stop snowing tomorrow but then get really cold. It reminds me of this time last year...we brought Max home from the hospital in -30 degrees and I was constantly telling Greg to slow down...he was so tiny and fragile.