I Have a One-Year Old!

Max with his very first birthday card from Great Grandma Dempewolf. He's so excited!

I know all moms talk about how fast their kids have grown up, but I still wasn't prepared for how fast Max's first year would go by. Goodness!

Max learned a lot in the last month:

He now walks everywhere. He's pretty fast, too!

He learned to drink from a straw.

He gives really great hugs.

He loves to play with balls and will "fetch" (I told Nic he has to call that game "Go get it" instead of fetch).

He learned a ton of new signs and even made up some of his own. He now knows:

Eat

Drink

Milk

Banana

Cracker

More

All Done

Ball

Book

Shoes
Hat

Dad

Grandpa (or Grandboy---my dad taught him this)

Baby

Dog

Car

Wash hands

Brush teeth

Brush hair

Phone

That's over 20 words! I just never thought he understood that much of what I said, and then all of the sudden he's signing everything.

For his birthday, he got to have cake for the very first time. He smashed it up pretty well, but he didn't really eat very much!

Then we took him to the San Diego Zoo. Max loves to look at animals, but kind of freaks out when they get too close. So, while most kids would love the petting zoo the most, Max loved everything else and found the petting zoo pretty intimidating.