Christmas morning 2012

Redline trip to the Christmas tree on Boston Common

Max and Daddy took the T from Davis Square to Park Street to see the Christmas lights on the Common.

Family pictures

Max's pre-school, Gentle Dragon, had a fundraiser where families could get portraits taken by a professional photographer.

Now, everybody make faces!

Playing in the leaves at Grandma's house in Chazy

Singing the Thomas song again

Max gets better at singing the Thomas song every day. Soon he'll be ready for Broadway.

Ipswich Fall Festival

The Ipswich Fall Festival, 9/15/12. Games, live music, barbecue, old time base ball and beer.

Max wins a prize for throwing plastic bottle caps into buckets at the carnival game at the festival

Max and Daddy watching the old ball game-- say cheese!

Knocking the ol' apple

Old Time Base Ball, 1861 style

Max and Sarah checking out the poultry

That's a jive turkey!

Great day for a ballgame

First day of pre-school

September 10, 2012, Max's first day of pre-school.

Excited and ready to go!

School doesn't even start for 15 minutes but Max is already painting

Future artist just like mommy!

A little red will go nicely...

Reading "Pajama Time"

New book for Max: "Pajama Time," by Sandra Boynton. Here he is reading it to himself.

"Mommy wear the helmet?" "No Max, Mommy has to go." "Mommy wear the helmet!" "Okay, okay."

Singing the Thomas song

Max has a book of Thomas the Tank Engine songs with a little toy microphone attached. He likes to sing the song "Thomas, He's the One"

Dancing with Sarah

Max visited Ernie and Kate and Sarah. They gave us a cookout and had some birthday presents for Max. But Max's favorite part was dancing to They Might Be Giants with Sarah.

Max wins the Bruce Havens Award

For the last 25 years or so, the Saturday Morning Softball group has been giving out a prize every week for the Most Entertaining Player of the day. Legend has it that it's named after Bruce Havens, someone who played back in the 1980s and apparently was more concerned with keeping his new sneakers clean than with catching the ball. Max won his first Havens Award on August 25th, even though he didn't play and only saw a couple plays in the game.

There might have been some bias in the awarding, as Ronnie makes the call, with advice from Kevin.

So this is the Havens award?

Thanks Uncle Ronnie!

The winner also gets to choose a baseball card to keep forever. Max chose Bruce Havens!

Cool prize!

The winners sign the Book of Havens so that their names will be recorded for posterity

bowling party

Max and the big kids bowling at Matt's birthday party. Max knocked down pins! With the ball!

Max turns 3!

Maxwell pARRRRRRRker Davis

It's always good to have help when blowing out candles on a Percy cake.

Cousins holding hands and checking out the PIRATE TREASURE MAP!

Uncle Martin driving the boat to the island where the treasure is hidden

long boat trip to get to that treasure!

Heather and Sarabeth on the boat

Almost there

On the island the treasure is found! Pirate bandanas and gold coins!

Max and Daddy sure have fun together at the pool!

Last day as a 2-year-old: Small Point beach, lying in a puddle playing with trains

Party at Sebasco

At cousin Bill Bannister-Parker's 50th birthday party at Sebasco, Max danced to the folk music band.

Dancing in the center of the circle

Max was the star of the show, dancing all night with family members.

It was so hot he had to take his shirt off. But that didn't stop Max from winning a toy lobster, the prize for being the Best Dancer at the party!

June and July 2012

Ready for the beach at Small Point

Cool in the car

Flying his first kite at the beach with Kalvin and Katherine

Reading in the rocking chair

Let's play ball!

Close up! July 2012

 

Happy birthday Grandma! Recorded June 19th 2012

Same shirts

Max and daddy in matching shirts, thanks to Kate and Ernie!

The fountain near the Aquarium

On Father's Day, Max played in the fountain near the Aquarium, went to watch the seals, and met Sarah and her family for french fries and ice cream. On the way back, we drove through a tunnel and over a big bridge. It was one of the best father's days Max has ever had!

 Running around the fountain:

Max's ancestor built the cricket on top of that Faneuil Hall building.

 It's so much fun to run laps around the fountain.

 Those other kids are getting soaked, don't they know how to run laps around the fountain?

 Seals! Swimming right by!