Happy Easter and first words . . .

We were able to go to our ward Easter egg hunt on Saturday. We were lucky we arrived when we did because as soon as I walked in I heard "on your mark, get set . . .GO!" So I walk out on the grass with Max but realize there is no way I'm going to try and fight the bigger kids for eggs, and Max is just as happy holding the couple of empty eggs he already had in his basket, but a mom friend of mine had gathered together a pile for the babies so he did get a couple, how nice. Anyway, it was fun playing with the bin of empty eggs afterwards!
Buddies Violet and Sarah Kate, you can tell they all REALLY wanted their picture taken!


Max has also been pointing/talking/understanding what we say more and more in the past few weeks. It is so fun. Here is a list:

- He loves to point at different things in books. He will read a book to himself and just point to things and he makes up a sound to go along with what he's pointing with. He always whispers it though, so cute!
- His Grandma White gave him a big book with different scenes in it like Town, Farm, Park . . etc and all the things are labeled. Max LOVES it, he turns the pages and points everything out - especially the CARS! He says "Cah" He knows where all of them are on every page. If a page doesn't have a car on it, he'll turn it.
- He waves and will sometimes say "Ba Ba" for bye-bye. I've heard him wave and say "hiii" just once or twice so far.
- Whenever anything crashes or makes a loud noise he says "Whoa!" or he'll drag it out "Whoooooa" I'm counting this as his first official word, it's the first one he'd repeatedly say and I knew he knew what it meant.
- Although he's been saying dada and mama since around 6 months, he really knows it is our names now. When he hears keys at the door he points and says "dada". Or in the morning when we're downstairs and Jared turns the shower on he points to the stairs and says "dada". For the past two mornings I wake up to him in his crib saying "mamamamma". He also says it when he wants to be picked up, it just melts my heart.
- He's also saying "No" but it's more like "nanana" He says this when I'm feeding him something he doesn't want or when I offer him a drink and he doesn't want it.
- Now that he can point to what he wants he thinks he'll automatically get it! Sorry Max but I'm not giving you the salt shaker or a little box of nails just because you can point to it! It's great though when he wants a drink or a toy he can't reach.
- We can also ask him questions and he'll point the answers like "where's mommy?" or "where's daddy?" or "where are the cars?" (points out the window and says "cah").
- My all time favorite though is that in the past week or so we can ask him "Where's Jesus?" and he points to the picture of Jesus in his room, last Sunday he even pointed to it and said "Je!".
- We're working on being able to point to parts of my face like "Where's mommy's teeth, eyes, nose . . .etc."