I was in the living room folding laundry and heard the sound of a bowl and spoon clanging around in the kitchen. It took me a minute to realize that I didn't give Maddox a bowl and spoon to play with. This is what I found!
The stinker figured out how to open the fridge door!
Looking at me with no remorse. In fact, he went right back to doing what he was doing...
Which was stirring his leftover lunch and dipping it into my honey and then mixing the honey with the mashed carrots and then throwing some on the floor and trying to scoop it up in his spoon. My favorite is the blue racquetball he placed in the carrots. That was his original play toy, but obviously abandoned it at the prospect of the spoon! Isn't he a cutie? I am just glad he didn't go for the eggs!
Later that night he was still on one!
From top to bottom, there is a tennis ball, baseball, basketball, golf ball (he likes my pink one), football, racquetball, bowling ball, and then just a happy birthday cake.
Here is the little guy about ready to touch the flame on the candle, so I blew it out quickly. He picked out the basketball. I think he liked it because it was a bright color.
He was not quite sure what to do with it. For awhile he just sat there until I put a bite in his mouth. Then he stabbed it with a fork and played with it. Then he threw some over the side.
Then we opened presents. Here Maddox is eating a present. He got some books, a puppet
and this really cool wind up caterpillar that he and Matthew were scared of.
Maddox was fascinated by the Christmas tree lights. My mom is vigilantly watching to make sure he doesn't eat one.
The finished product. Jeff, Maddox, my mom, and I never made it out to get cut down a Christmas tree. On the way out to the woods Maddox threw up. He had a fever all that night and didn't sleep well. He was not a happy camper and Mom and Dad were really really tired. Life is the pits when your kids are sick...and I only have one! 
My dad. This is the only picture I have of him. I am terrible at taking pictures of anything important. My dad watched Maddox a lot. We have determined that Maddox got him huge noggin from my dad and my dad's Uncle Melvin. We also determined that Maddox is stubborn just like my dad (and me). My dad tried to get him to go to sleep one day. He spent 1 1/2 hours and said Maddox would be almost asleep and he could tell he was really tired but Maddox won over the sleep and stayed awake the whole time! By the end of our trip Maddox preferred my dad over me!
This is Jett, my sister's baby. Isn't he pretty? The first time I saw him this trip he was wearing a turquoise jumper. His eyes are just so pretty with the longest eye lashes. He loved this fire truck.
I still think he looks a little like Valissa, though, in the eyes.
I visited my mom at work and we found a huge box for Maddox to crawl through. Valissa decorated it with all the happy birthday wrapping paper around. He loved it!
But loved it even more when he saw Jeff try to crawl through it!
Or sit on him
Poor Jett would just lay there and take it. He wanted so much to be able to defend himself!
Even when we put him in the grass, he just sits there and doesn't move, but tries to NOT touch the grass as much as possible. You can see by him lifting his leg and holding his hands up that he doesn't like it. Silly boy!
We tried to put him back in, but you can see he clung on to Jeff for dear life. There was no way he was getting back in that scary swing! I love how his legs are stiff and straight. He would flail them outwards so we couldn't put him in. 
