Get that corn out of my face!

This will be a quick update. Max's two top teeth are in. He continues to eat everything in sight. One night we had corn on the cob; he loved it. Here is a little video of him eating it. Watch how angry he gets when Jared attempt to help him. Jared is going to San Diego for a week for a trial skills seminar, so Max and I are going down to visit mom. I am looking forward to the cool weather.

Jared's dad and his wife, Cassandra, came to visit last weekend. It was nice to visit with them; it was their first time seeing Max. Max went crazy when he saw them and started walking a lot more. He can now averages about 5-10 steps at a time and can even turn around. He is growing up so fast. Here is a picture of 3 generations of Bartell males. (I'd say men but Max doesn't really qualify yet, and boys might be insulting to Jared and his father.)

Here is a picture of those top two chompers!

He cut his top tooth!

Yay! Max cut his upper left incisor...finally. This morning he has been very happy. Here are two videos. The one where he's talking I took yesterday. The other one was taken this morning. I love my little boy!

Monkey Max

Max and Dad Sleeping

Max wrestling his blanket

Just being cute....he's so dang good at it!

Peek-a-boo under the walker

Mimi and Shane came down on Thursday. It was so nice to have them here. My mom and I were able to get a lot of cleaning done. Max now has his room to himself. It was being used as storage also, but now that he is so mobile he needs the space. Although I am still using his closet for storage. On Saturday night the whole family went to "Sea no Evil" an art show here in Riverside. I was really excited because Matt Costa was playing. Brett came up that day also. The show was really cool, unfortunately Matt Costa did not play until 10:00 pm. That was a little too late for Max so we missed his performance. Oh well.


Gilda got here yesterday morning. Max has been having a lot of fun with her. Max is now able to stand on his own and can take a few wobbly steps before falling. Yesterday he fell against the leg of our dinning room chairs and scraped/bruised his nose a bit. He loves to play peek-a-boo and roll around wrestling his blankets. I just love him so much! Jared has been working a lot and we miss him. Max gets so excited when Jared comes home. As soon as the door opens and Max sees his dad it's a mad scramble to the door. Jared has to go to Needles tomorrow so it will be a long day of driving for him, hopefully the new car will make the drive less tortuous.

Max - 0, Chair - 1

Cuatro de Julio...

Max loves to look up hot babes with Uncle Brett!

We went to Devin and Jills for the 4th and 5th of July. It was very fun. Moorpark does their firework show on the 3rd so we didn't see any, but that's okay Max isn't a fan of loud noises. Cousin Olivia had a lemonade stand on the 4th and was selling lemonade at a whopping $0.25 for a small and $0.50 for a large. She made $21.00; lots of people just gave her money because she was cute. Max had fun with all of the cousins; we went swimming, played games and ate good food. I loved the s'mores. On Saturday Denise, Bekah and Tim came down. Jill, Mom and I went garage sale hopping before they got there. I got a baby gate for 5 bucks and Rummikub. We had fun with the cousins. It was sad to have to leave, but we had to teach our Valiant's on Sunday.

This week Max has been a little fussy, his top two teeth still haven't come in yet. But they're close you can see the white through his gums. His naps are getting more regular. I ended up doing a modified "cry it out" for him. Now when he is sleepy during the day if he hasn't eaten for a while I try to give him a bottle. If he refuses that then I just put him in his crib. He cries for about 3 minutes and then settles and goes to sleep. At night time C.I.O. is less effective. So once he has had a bottle, I will lay him down on my bed with me and he is usually out within 5 minutes. The funny thing is it has to be dark, quiet and no cuddling...Max is not a cuddler. Mom and Shane are coming tomorrow. We are happy to have company. Oh I almost forgot. We got a new car...a Yaris for Jared to drive since we are getting rid of my truck in a couple weeks. Jared really likes it and it gets great m.p.g. I was really bad at taking pictures over the weekend, but we did manage to get one of Max playing gameboy.