Yes, I am a little late in this one. Sorry about that! This past month has flown by especially with all the festivities of Christmas, New Years, traveling, and more traveling. We celebrated our own little Christmas at home early and then had a great time with Matt's side of the family in Michigan for the actual day. The day after Christmas we took off on our planes, trains, and automobiles adventure to Mexico (drive to Chicago, miss the train, drive to Princeton, IL, barely catch the train, take the train to Denver, and fly with the rest of the Bosch's to Puerto Vallarta, Mexico). We had a wonderful stay in Mexico for 5 days and really enjoyed the warm, sunny weather. Then we had to do all that traveling in reverse plus a drive back to Cleveland. Thank goodness Max is a great traveler! So, we are settling back into regular life and longing for 80 degree balmy days in Puerto Vallarta.
Besides all that, Max has made some big leaps and bounds this month. The biggest is CRAWLING, followed closely by pulling himself up on things (he's got the bruises on his forehead to prove it)! This has definitely made life more exciting around the Bosch household. We've had some new experiences (i.e. digging dog food out of your child's mouth), and Max is definitely enjoying his new found freedom (especially going after the dogs). Everyday he seems to figure out somewhere new he can go or something new to pull up on. Max went swimming in a pool for the first time in Mexico and really enjoyed it! Grandpa Bob also taught him to wave bye in Mexico (Max hasn't been too great at this lately, so we need Grandpa Bob to come back and give him another lesson). Max will give high-fives and clap as well. He's still pretty vocal and expressive. While we were in Mexico Max figured out pretty quickly that he could get a good echo in the hallways since they had tile floors. So, anytime we were out there he would just go "ah, ah" over and over. We thought it was pretty cute because it would start the minute we walked out of our room or elevator. He does have more hair, enough to usually keep it laying flat now. Max is also in love with Cheerios and any type of food that we can give him, but he still has NO teeth. We'll just have to wait and see on that one.
Enjoy the pictures and videos. Since we had a lot of pictures this first set is from Max this month.
This next set is from Christmas in Michigan and our trip to Mexico. Max got to spend some time with some of his second cousins: Evie, Jessa, and Bear.
Here are some videos from this month. This first one is of Max and his second cousin Evie on Christmas Eve. Evie is about 1 1/2 months older than Max.
And here's what some of you are waiting for. Here's Max crawling on the first night he really put it all together and realized what he was doing.
Here he is about a week later and realizing where the dogs like to hang out.
Taking in a historical moment.
