Pay attention to the man behind the curtain

It skips a generation

Play Garden - emphasis on the play

For my next trick

Back in mid-February, within an hour after I proposed to Elisa, Max started to feel the spotlight move away from him and on to his newly engaged parents. So, he decided to pull out a new trick and bring the attention back where it belonged. To heck with that shiny new bauble on mommy's finger, Max took three unaided steps between me and my mom and he was once again our little star.

For his next stunt, he waited a couple months, but now has decided that walking from here to there is much, much better than crawling. A delightful clip of him showing off this newfound skill can be found below.

Tot Tub Time Machine

Easter Egg Hunting 101

Search for eggs.

Place eggs in cleverly-themed basket.

Eat contents of egg, which in this case I think was a Goldfish cracker.

Pose for photo with mom, dad, best friend and best friend's parents.

More Easter spirit

Happy Easter!

Who knew the Easter Bunny likes Cheerios, too?!

Knock-kneed nap

Max adds a little bling

In a nod to Max's heritage, we got his ear pierced. It's a Scottish tradition that I frankly hadn't heard of, but I'm a team player, so I went along with it.

The good news is he didn't cry much when we got it done and he hasn't had any complications other than getting one of his toys got stuck in it today. We're sure he'll get used to it soon.

What do you think?