Maxwell the Artist

Max loves water in any form; baths, pools, sprinklers and rain. Sonja took this to a whole new level by breaking out the watercolors from Popi and Yzma's house (which probably have not seen the light of day for a good 10 years) . Max made three lovely and very wet picture which are now on our fridge for all the admire.

In other news Blueberry is doing well. Although Sarah would rather May 15th came quickly as the baby is getting bigger, lung and stomach space is getting smaller. We are still debating names and none are shining above the rest. There is still time to get all your ideas in if you have not spoken up already. We are waiting till Blueberry is born to see if it is a girl or a boy so names for both appreciated.

The Big Number Two

Max had a big day on Friday as he had two birthday parties. The first one started at noon. He had three friends (and their Mothers) over and basically it was like having a birthday party for cats. The closest thing to an activity was everyone getting a snack pack which had cheerios and cookies in it. (Sonja's idea and the kids loved it.)


They all had a great time and Max loved opening his presents. And all the little ones were very well behaved considering they all wanted to help open the presents too.


In the evening we had an open house with pizza and cake; tasty, tasty vanilla and chocolate marbled monkey covered cake.


Good times were had by all and Max again received many great presents including Curious George (the theme of the party) books, a giant calculator, two trucks, and wooden truck puzzles. Max stayed up later then usual because he was so cute sitting between Kim and Laura playing with an iphone.
It was a very good day to be two!

Its about time...

I know, I've been a slacker and neglected the blogging. As a result of my delay I've incurred the wrath of some of the faithful readers.

Well the holiday season has come and gone, whew, but a few key dates of the years are quickly approaching. Jan. 13th Max's 2nd birthday, Jan 22. Sarah's birthday.

For Sarah's b-day we are tag-teaming it with a close friend, Alex G whose b-day is Jan 10th. This should be loads of fun.

Max's b-day events will probably be a little more hectic, given the average age of his party will probably be about 20years lower then the average age at Sarah & Alex's. We are going to have a house swarming with little folks. A number of Max's buddies will be in attendance. Hopefully we will be able to chorale all the wee folks, if we're successful I'm sure the cat ranchers will be calling us for tips.

I know this post is a little on the brief side, I'll sort though some of the recent photos and try to post some pictures of Max with his new toys (hand-made from Yizma, and others have made out living room a little camp site) along with other interesting happening that go on in our little corner of Fircrest.

The Name Board

Some of you may remember back when Max was still a little bean, the name board. Well it's back. The name board is a bulletin board in our dinning room where we post the name ideas for blueberry. Since we are not going to know the sex of the little one until the big day, there is a side for boy & girl names. The board is open to your suggestions, just e-mail, text, or whatever to Sarah or me and we'll post them on the board.

Since this post is a tad short I'll just throw in some pictures of Max.

Its a lemon

Roughly 6 months to go until bean makes his/her debue. Actually Sarah has taken to calling it blueberry instead of bean. But this week marks the first week of the second trimester. Sarah swears she can feel it kick already, and according to some web-sites that is possible. To keep track of the progress, on my nifty little iphone (all the cool Tokola's have one) I have a program that keeps track of the gestational age, countdown, what trimester we're in, and it also gives about what it's weights and size are along with a fruit/veggie equivalent. Right now we're a lemon.

Sarah has been prepping Max, telling him he is going to be a big brother soon, the Kanicks also bought him a doll so he can get use to the idea of taking care of a little sibling. Max has been quite proficient at pointing out other babies. If he sees one he point and say "baby" in his own little max way. But I'm not so sure he has quite made the connection to his soon to be little brother/sister. Max is taking Sarah pregnancy in stride, at this point the blueberry belly offers excellent lower lumbar support for max's story time.

And they're off...

About a week ago our little town of Fircrest held its 3rd annual 5k "watch your speed" fun run. I know, a few of you would debate the terms "5k run" and "fun" being used in the same sentence together. A few others were also quick to point out lacking a certain Uncle John but he'll get heckled for that later. Well aside from the missing Lemming, a few of us did go out and despite the rainy weather completed the race. The participants were Nick Steier (32:39), Reid Benson (31:35), Jenny Bridges (27:03), Jean Bridges & Max Bridges (hey at least they finished), and Jeff Bridges (19:36). Sarah and Alex were there to cheer us on, and as a added bonus Alex makes a handy stretching post. Hey if you have a talent go with it I guess. Since the race was in Fircrest, we just waddled over the our house afterwards where Sarah and I made breakfast for everyone that came over.

Max not really feeling much fatigue after the race took advantage of the extra attention available at the house after the race. Right below we see Max wrangling Nick with a book. It took Max about .5secs to wear Nick down.

All in all, I think all of us had a good time. And hopefully we'll do it again sometime. Maybe a few more will step up to the start line and join us. Cough "uncle John" cough.

Halloween Jedi

The force is strong with this one. This Halloween we went with a Starwars Theme for our costumes. Max as you can see went as Yoda. Sarah made the hat, robe and feet. If you saw him from the back it was pretty convincing when you add in Max's little waddle walk he does. When he crawls it look very similar to Empire Strikes Back when Yoda was crawling in his little hut.

As you notice Yoda has honed his light saber skills to near perfection. He also has a walking stick he was fond of.

And what would Starwars be without the epic light saber duals. Here we have The dark lord of the Sith himself; Darth Popi. Standing against Darth Popi is Yoda and his padawan. Yoda stepped in just in time with his force powers to save the young Jedi.

Actually what Max is after is the Iphones we each have in our hands as we dual, we each downloaded the light saber web-app to add some sound effects to our battle.

Unfortunately we do not live in that galaxy that is far, far away. Our version of the force, does indeed flows though us, but.... you guessed it is Starbucks. Its where all the cool Jedi and Sith hang out.