Traveling Man

Had to share this - I thought this was the funnest idea....

You know what time it is....6 Month Max!!

Max is freaking awesome. We have about a week of him sleeping through the night (which means he wakes up once but goes back to sleep within 10 minutes), he is eating oatmeal, squash, carrots and today bananas. He loves to stand up and now puts himself on all fours. I think he is deliberating the benefits of crawling. Like his mother, he needs to think it all through first. As my blog title says, I really feel like I'm just stumbling through this whole mother-hood thing, but Max makes it easy on me. I"m grateful for all those out there that shares their knowledge and experiences with me. Maybe I make it sound great because I don't write about how fussy or curious (Erick says impertinent) that Max is. He can be all of that. But I think talking about how awesome people are helps us remember just that. I think that is my mother soap box. Kids are hard. Thats a given. Lets hear what makes them great. Random random thought.

This is Max somehow slipping between the beds (this has never happened when I'm home)

Don't think the Fat Cats staff thought this was as cute as I did...

5 Month Max

Max is going strong and 5 months already. I really love just chillin with him. He is getting some attitude now though. He has figured out how to throw himself feet first out of his bouncy seat...we have found him face down on the ground pretty regular now. He has turned over...once. He just doesn't seem too interested. But he also stands up really well and actually takes steps while holding our fingers. Sleeping is still an issue - 5 months is starting to catch up to me. So I think we will make that more of a conscious effort now to get him to sleep more than 3 1/2 hours a stretch....starting feeding him some rice cereal about 2 weeks ago and he loves eating it. Just can't figure out if its helping keep him full at night...oh well. its really cute to feed him. My favorite things right now are bath time and getting to watch him wake up.

Wanting to put everything in his mouth....

Obviously anything will do...

Arizona

Here are some pics from our trip to Arizona over Memorial Day weekend....I think Marble Canyon was my favorite...

Marble Canyon

Super Cachi

Over the edge....

So I think I got a pretty cool engagement. Over the Memorial Day weekend, we went to Mesa Arizona to visit some family of Erick's. On the way back, we stopped at the Grand Canyon which was cool anyways. So Erick kind of went off by himself (details unnecessary) so I went looking for him at one of the view points. We ended up on the rim of the Grand Canyon and he took the ring out and got down on one knee. It was very sweet and we are planning on getting married on the weekend of the most important holiday. And I am of course talking about Columbus Day. It will be in Washington and we are very excited. Mostly for the cake. I love wedding cake.

White. Sun. Diamonds. Bad combo

Pac Northwest - Oh how i love thee

What a great great weekend in the Pac NW. Kyle got married in Portland on Friday the 13th so we headed out Wednesday night about 10:30pm....Erick drove all night and we hit the junction to Richland about 630am...but we decided we just wanted to reach our destination, so we blew thejunction and headed to portland. but we did take our time and stop at a park by the river, Multnomah Falls and anywhere else we felt like. It totally renewed my belief that Western WA/OR is where i want to end up some day. I love it love it. It was so fun to see family and dress up (thanks to my wardrobe technician Kendra) I was spring green ready to go. Then we headed to Richland friday evening, stopping at Bonneville Dam on the way with Jared and his family. I loved shoing off the Pacific Northwest to Erick and his mom and they loved it. A little massive rain storm, reception and pizza in the park/living room and the weekend was complete. Really hope we get home soon. Nothing like it.

Erick and his mom at the Portland Temple

Introducing Max to the Columbia River

Photographers should never ask the Hodgson's for 'crazy' poses. We don't do crazy.

4 Month Max

So this blog isn't so exciting but I wantd to be consistent and keep tabs on Max Max. So this is a few pictures we took recenty. Max is sill drooling like crazy, but no teeth yet. He hasn't really shown any interest in rolling over and any general movement besides almost launching himself out of his bouncy seat with extreme leg thrusts. He likes to stand up and he thinks sitting up is the bees knees. ALthough the weight of his large cranium often makes him fall over head first. He really is a happy kid.I hope we don't do anything to mess that up :)