Christmas, Presents and Big news

Swim class ended:
In November Max’s swim class ended. He certainly mastered the skills required of him at this level and the teacher even said that he could skip the next level if he wanted to. Max has not forgotten what he learned as every time he is in the bathtub, he blows bubbles and floats on his back for a while. The floating on the back thing has come in really useful since it makes washing his hair really easy.

Birthday Parties:
Max got a double dose of birthday parties over one weekend when he celebrated Addy 1st and Ethan’s 3rd. Addy’s party was at her house. Max decided that Addy’s new pink car was the perfect toy and hogged it for most of the time. When he wasn’t playing with the car, he did his favorite activity at the Ozelies; cleaning. Their place doesn’t really need it but Max likes using the swifter on their wood floors. Ethan’s was at the Painted Penguin where he picked out a truck and painted it himself (a little help from Mom and Dad was needed). Max got to see his cousin Nick for the second straight day and they two played like old friends. Max was a very good boy, he sat and ate by himself and even resisted the urge to touch the cake when it was sat right in front of him.

Here is Max and Daddy at Ethans party sitting right next to cousin Nick

This is Max's truck in all it's glory

Here is a little video of Max painting his truck and cousin Nick painting his "N"

Baby news:
If you haven’t heard already, we are expecting a little friend for Max in May and we just found out that it will be a little boy. Max has been calling it his baby sister for a little while now so we will have to break that one. We are very excited for the new addition and the timing is perfect yet again. We have decided to enclose the loft and make it a third bedroom instead of the two boys sharing Max’s room and thanks to Todd’s friend Eric, we have it all mapped out.

Here is a 3D photo of our newest little guy

Christmas:

Max’s 3rd Christmas was his biggest one yet. To say this young man is spoiled is an understatement. Things will change next year, as he will have to share the score. Just listing some of the bigger items, Max acquired a Leap Frog Tag with some books, a pop up tent, mini piano, portable DVD player, contributions towards college, and a Mobi Go. He is a very slow present opener and wants to play with each one as he opens them. The pile of presents, which looked to be do-able, ended up being a marathon session. Max definitely remembered his gifts as he asked where each of them were as he was going to bed.

Here is max with Santa, we saw him at Charlestown Mall

Santa brought Max just what he asked for since he was a good boy

Grandma gave Nick and Max pianos, which one is Elton John and which one is Billy Joel?

Cooper or Pooper:
We were talking about baby names and asked Max which name he wanted for the baby, he chose Cookie Monster. Now since that name is already taken, Todd looked for some other names that started with Coo and found Cooper. Todd asked "What about Cooper?" and Max said "Pooper?" then began laughing so hard his face started turning red. He kept saying pooper, pooper and let out a hearty 30 second laugh every time which made Mommy and Daddy laugh too. It was a good time in the Polzin house and we will definitely not be using that name. If a 2 ½ year old can break a kids name down like that, this kid wouldn’t stand a chance.

Expanding Vocabulary:
Over the last couple months, Max has become much more of a talker. He says words and sentences all the time of things we didn’t even know he knew. Sponge is a word that is commonly used during this period of time, I think that’s pretty fair. So far he has not picked up any bad words so fingers crossed on that. Sometimes he talks and talks for several minutes without stopping. Mom will have to teach him about comma’s and periods. He likes to ask questions a lot now. His go to is why. He will use this one in repetitive fashion until you run out of a way to explain or he is satisfied with your answer, usually the former.

To end with, here is a little video Mommy shot with her phone during a recent visit to Indiana. It is of Brody showing Max his favorite dance. It has a sad/funny ending.