Max truly is marvelous. I know every mother thinks so, and that's as it should be. I just feel compelled to say so and to make an entry to capture all the marvelous and monumental milestones Max keeps mastering. At fourteen and a half months he's finally crawling! Ah, ha ha ha. No, really, he is finally crawling but he walked at ten months so it's pretty humorous that he's finally started to crawl. It's quite a clunky and slow maneuver, making it all the more hilarious to watch. He's also really into rolling all over the floor and lying on his tummy. That's a feat since all those tummy time sessions when he was an infant were a complete bust. What's actually getting really fun is all the communicating he's doing.

Here is a list of the words Max signs: cat; bird; baby; milk; more; bunny; aunt; fish (a sign hubby made up); coffee; frog; flower; all done; music (his own sign where he raises his arm up and shakes it like he's riding a bull)

He says: agua (first word); mama; dada; up (pronounced as “bup”); cat (sounds like dat); toothbrush toothpaste (the paste part is a slight variation in sound from toothbrush with a lot of pointing at the toddler paste tube which I'm pretty sure is loaded with sugar and that Max is now addicted to); hot (which he says in threes cause he copies my exaggeration— as in it's really hot hot hot! so don't touch); apple; banana; noodle; mas (Spanish for “more”); ball; cracker & cookie are interchangeable (sounds like a crazy version of cookidico); crocodile; papa; bicycle (sounds like oglico. Now that may not seem like bicycle to you, but if you knew just how adamant he was about it you'd believe); cheese; lights are “dough dough”; shoes; Alma (his nanny’s name); nose; and of course the whooper of all repetitive words “NO, NO, NO!” almost always said with his fore finger out wagging at whatever he’s not supposed to be doing. He probably says more Spanish words than we are aware of but his father and I will never know ‘cause neither of us took Spanish even though we grew up in California. Doh!

When he sees a picture or live animal he makes the sounds for: cow "moo"; dog "woof, woof"; cat "meow" (sounds like chairman Mao); owl "whoo, whoo"; bird "tweet, tweet"; horse "nay, nay"; sheep "bahhh"; , car "vroom"; duck “quack quack” (sounds like back back); rooster “cockidoodledo”;

And just over the last two days he’s trying to say our cats names, Madeline and Miro as well as the sound a ball makes “boing”. All these attempts are so adorable and keep us endlessly entertained.