8 months - Getting into Trouble

Here's Max as he is entering the world of trouble making.
Luckily, mom has had 7 months of learning to just breathe deep, relax and say, "oh, who cares" as practice. So all the opening-closing, opening-closing, opening-closing of doors, the opening of cabinets and pulling out of all the dish towels and the playing in the dirty laundry is simply priceless.

Max has also become quite interested in daddy's bike. It's only fitting: he's his father's son. He also loves riding on the back of my bike in his own chair and I often can turn around and find him with his head down watching the wheels turning or the shadow of the bike on the road. He's quite observant that way.

And the final shot is Max's first real serious bonk. We aren't actually sure what happened... He was playing with his duck (yes, the one he carries in his mouth everywhere) and then all of a sudden he was on his back, crying, with this big, goose egg on his head. We think he swung that duck around and knocked himself out. He didn't cry very long, though. And the knot disappeared as quickly as it had come. But daddy was very proud of his brave son, and grabbed the camera.