Fun Summer

We are really enjoying our summer. Here are some things we have done the past couple of weeks.

Swimming at Mimi and Pop's House

We tried arm floaties for the first time. With his floaties and his swimsuit with built-in floation, he can "swim" without us holding him. He isn't really moving his arms and legs to get around the pool yet, but that's coming soon! We are surprised by how well he's doing in the pool this year.

Here's an example of Maddox speaking in his foreign language. He's trying to tell Pop to go underwater. If you listen closely, you can hear "Pop" in there a few times!

We took Maddox to his first Bay Bears game last Thursday night. I don't think he actually watched any of the game, but he had a blast playing with the $6 souvenir baseball we had to buy him!

He also had fun playing on the playset they had set up. We're hoping to get him one for his birthday.

He wasn't even scared of the crazy looking"Bay Bear"!

We love being outside on warm summer evenings! Maddox had his first golf lesson last week!

Check out my new tricycle! (Yes, I'm spoiled!)

I'm helping daddy around the house!

We're finally getting around to hanging pictures in our new house!

Today we went to the Eastern Shore Center to play in the fountains!I think that about sums up the past two weeks of adventures! We love our little man so much and are just amazed at the new things he says and does every day. We don't want to forget a thing!

Vacation Time!

We had a great time in Gulf Shores last week. We stayed 5 nights at The Lighthouse Condos. They have 2 really great pools there. This is Maddox playing in the "zero entry" pool. It's sloped so you can walk right in, and it gradually gets deeper. It's great for kids, and Maddox had a blast!


He was very well behaved the whole time we were there. Every time he woke up in the morning, or from his nap he would look out the window and say "Itch"!!! That's what he calls the beach! As you can see, he loves playing in the sand:


We went to Waterville one afternoon and he loved the kiddie area. He was a little scared of a larger-than-life plastic pirate, but he soon got over it and started climbing up and sliding down all by himself! Mama and Dada had fun too. Britt rode the "Flowrider", which is like a continuous ocean wave on a soft platform that you can surf on or rode a boogie board on.

Here are Maddox and Britt at our favorite restaurant "Steamers". We ate there twice! They have royal red shrimp, which taste like lobster! They also cook a mean grilled cheese sandwich that Maddox likes.


Maddox's favorite part of the meal is at the end when they bring us finger bowls to clean our hands!


Maddox can now say his name, which comes out like "Mamox", and he tries to hold up 2 fingers when we ask how old he is. Maybe by August he'll have it down! I feel like he is a little slow in his speech, but it's almost like he tries to talk so fast and say so much that it all gets blurred together. It does seem like he learns several new words every day, but I don' t think a stranger could understand him at all!

A potty and a tooth!

Maddox pee-peed on the potty for the first time today! Yea!

I was not expecting him to decide to use the potty today, so I wasn't prepared with a good reward for him. I ran and found some old mailing labels and gave him a "sticker". We tried the potty thing again tonight after his bath. This is how he entertained himself while trying to go!

He wasn't as successful this time, but at least he sat there and tried!


I also discovered today that Maddox has a new tooth! His 2nd year molar on the bottom left has broken the surface. No wonder he's been fussy lately! I thought it was just the "terrible twos" starting. It's been 9 months since he got a new tooth, so I knew it would be soon. I imagine the other 3 molars will pop through any day now. Our baby is growing up fast......