What Max is thankful for

A Thanksgiving turkey bigger than him.

Great grandparents!

Getting to play the role of maître d’.

May I show you to your high chair?

An amazing home-cooked meal with family and friends.

Fingers full of mommy's delicious sweet potatoes, mashed potatoes and stuffing

But most of all, we're all thankful for mommy, who not only spent a week planning and preparing our Thanksgiving meal, but is just plain awesome.

All I want from for Thanksgiving is my two bottom teeth

Just in time for the biggest eating day of the year, Max has sprouted some teeth. There is one starting to show along the bottom and another is just about to break through.

As you may know, it's difficult to photograph new baby teeth in the wild. So we've chosen to depict Max's new pearly whites with two upside down white "v's," which also makes him look like one of those hip Twilight vampires.

Happy Thanksgiving, y'all.

9-month checkup

The doctor says Max looks fantastic, but his weight is actually down over the last 6 weeks. He's now below the charts on weight, 75th percentile in head size and in the 25th percentile in height.

The doctor is having us redouble our efforts to plump up our grape. Max will now get cream in his baby food and we have a whole list of recommended high-calorie meals for him.

Heck, we may even replace Max's formula with gravy on Thanksgiving. Kidding.

What a difference 9 months makes

It's almost Thanksgiving, so you know what time it is?!

Time to finally get around to posting some Halloween pics.

Elisa and our wonderful neighbor Loie, worked together to fashion a basset hound costume for Max. Here he is modeling the ears along with a couture sleeper.

Halloween morning we had the neighbor babies over for boo-runch.

Max's first (and only) trick or treat stop was at Grandma Patti & Grandpa Gary's house. We surprised them with his Halloween outfit. If you didn't know... they're kinda, sorta into basset hounds.

Max's favorite game involving a mom and a dad

Do not feed the birds... or the baby

"Max is like the birds at the park. Once you feed 'em, they never go away."

- Elisa Ridley

Day light savings is when?

Max is either really excited for Halloween or his clock is turned way back.

It's almost 1am, son. Go to bed. The candy and clocks will be there in the morning.

Pumpkin Patchin'

Mom and dad along with Grandma Patti and Grandpa Gary took Max to the South 47 Farm in Woodinville. We learned a few things from our trip:

A) Max likes pumpkins

B) Max likes the mud surrounding pumpkins

C) Max does not like chickens

Party animal!

Busy, busy weekend for our little man.

Let's review:

Friday night started off with a going away party. Max donned a bat costume. Not because the person that was leaving was into bats, but because...

Friday night's second stop was a pumpkin carving party. Our little bat fit in nice there.

After stepping out of his bat costume and into more Bruce Wayne-ish attire, Max was quite a hit with the ladies.

Saturday Max attended his first Husky football game with dad and Uncle Rob.

Pay no attention to that scoreboard, son.

After the game, one more party and the discovery that someone really, really likes balloons.

And on Sunday, we finally caught up on some of this.