I am 5 and a half months old now, such a big boy!! Life is more fun each and every day! Mom and Dad let me bounce a lot and I laugh at funny things. I really like to play "peek-a-boo" too! Mom and Dad are feeding me big boy food these days which I am just barely getting used to. I like the rice cereal cuz it tastes like breast milk, but the carrots, squash, peas, pears, bananas and mangos are VERY flavorful. With all this extra energy, I have figured out how to roll both ways now, but I don't like to be on my tummy still so I mostly roll from back to front. I still love to stand up and look around. My favorite thing is to go outside and look around at all the trees and watch Shasta fetch her green ball.

Mom has recently given me a new nickname, "stinky". She says it a lot when she's changing my diaper... something about the solid food.

Mom is getting ready to go back to work in only 3 weeks. I will miss her, but it will be fun to play with Payton over at Amy's house while Mom is at work. Before she starts work though, we get to go down to San Diego to visit Claire. I get to fly on a real airplane for the first time! I am sooo excited.

We are planning lots of camping trips this Summer to Lake Pillsbury where we now own the rights to lease a permanent campsite. We have a trailer with bunk beds for me to sleep in and an outdoor kitchen with 2 sheds for storage. Dad is excited to buy a gas powered golf cart, a generator and a new BBQ! I think I might catch my first fish up there maybe next year. I have to exercise my opposable thumbs before I can real it in by myself.

Because I will be spending a lot of time at the lake, Mom and Dad are thinking about enrolling me in ISR - Infant Swim Rescue. I will learn how to turn over and float on my back in the event I accidentally fall into the lake. When I get a little older, I will learn how to swim a little face down, then turn over and breathe/float on my back until I catch my breath so I can swim some more. Hopefully I will learn to do that until I am rescued or I swim to shore. I think I will like swimming.

I really like seeing all of my Grandparents. Actually we had a birthday party for Grandpa Bray on Saturday. It was fun. I spent 3 days with Grandma and Grandpa Buschette last week too. I even got to see Auntie Norma, Bobby and Pat again too!

I got sick for the first time a couple of weeks ago. It was annoying to cough a lot but it didn't bother me too much. What really sucked was having both of my ears infected! It was so painful, I cried for Mom all night for 2 nights in a row. She slept with me up in the guest bed. I got to sleep on a big boy pillow which helped ease the pain a little. I had to take antibiotics that tasted kinda fruity. At first they made me gag a lot because I am not used to so much flavor. But, I started to like the berry flavor after a couple of days. I am all better now, thank goodness. Mom and Dad are happy too.

I will be hanging out with Grandma and Grandpa Bray quite a bit in the next few weeks so they can get used to watching me. They will have me every other Friday when Mom goes back to work. That will be super-fun!

I hope you enjoy these pics. Mom is still trying to download videos of me onto my blog. If you don't see them up here, check http://www.youtube.com/. Search "max bray" and you will see 6 videos of me!

Buster