Month 14, Day 30: AGAIN?!

Mom was in a picture-taking mood today. Probably because her little man and big man are going to California this weekend and treating Mom to the very first time she will have been apart from Max for more than 12 hours in exactly 15 months. What will Mom do?? Probably clean. And sleep.

Here is Max, just after waking up. After worrying about the possibility of a concussion from his run-in with the table at daycare, Mom was relieved to see Max alert and as cute as ever.

After breakfast, Max played a bit with the felt board that Mom made for him over the weekend.

Worried (as usual) about the sharp corners on the dining room table, Mom spent a good amount of time duct-taping old receiving blankets to the edges. Max tried to "help" (as usual) by pulling off the blankets. So she turned on the TV as a 10-minute babysitter while she finished the job and before long, Max had parked himself on a package of toilet paper. Who needs a La-Z-Boy when you've got Charmin?

Mom and Max started packing for his big trip. Of course, Max's idea of helping was climbing and standing on the suitcase and throwing packed clothes out of it.

I really don't know who he was posing for here. Very JCPenney.

Mom just isn't fast enough sometimes. Here is Max with spaghetti-sauced hair.

Okay, Mom needs to hear from other moms of toddlers, particularly boys. The question is, "Are we bad parents, or is Max more accident-prone than other toddlers, or is this normal?" Just 24 hours after his daycare mishap, Max took a 3-level tumble off the couch (from the seat with no cushion onto the seat cushion laying on the floor onto the floor itself) and rammed his ear on the leg of a rocking chair nearby (see bruise below). Mom just hopes that these repeated falls don't make him "special" later on. Oh, Max.