Boo!

10 months, and who’s counting?
We checked in with Max's pediatrician this week after supplementing his diet with formula.  He has gained a little over one pound and is just above 10th percentile.   Busy growing and busy exploring.  Lately, he's been pulling himself up to standing and then climbs on just about everything.  I think Max may be ready to help Opa teach his balance workshops during our visit to Seattle in December because he is about ready to start standing on his own.  His once slow and steady crawl is now a blur across the floor.  We recently enrolled him in a Play n’ Learn class at Gymboree, which he loves.  You never would have guessed that he was the new guy in the class the way he tackled each activity and wanted to play with each of his classmates.   He definitely takes after David in that way!

The Canadian business people seem to love David’s training.  Business is going great here and we are anticipating hitting Calgary, Vancouver and a few other cities in different provinces in the coming years. Visitors are encouraged and welcome, as always.   Here is a picture of David at a recent seminar he taught.  The furniture company made the poster he's holding in order to advertise his workshop for their salespeople.  I think this may be his first advertisement!  It's a little big for the fridge so we hung it in Max's room.  ;)

The Fall colors are really popping and the leaves are now starting to fall with all the recent rain. Makes me want to snuggle up with a book and a pumpkin spice latte.  With the landfall of Hurricane Sandy over the weekend, it is starting get a little chilly here...mid 30s to 40's during the day and dipping down into the low 30’s at night. We are thinking about letting Max wear his Halloween costume for pajamas because it will certainly keep him toasty warm at night.  Speaking of Halloween, here are a few pictures from Halloween night:

on the move

Max, the Bear

Handing out candy

Max did really well for his first year of trick or treating.  Here’s the first house:

And the best-dressed house:

As you know, we went to Niagara Falls a few weekends ago and are trying to take in as many other sights as we can. Toronto has a lot of great restaurants so we have been eating well.  That, coupled with all the candy we, (cough), I mean Max scored, I think we’d better get our butts to the gym, especially considering we will be sporting our bathing suits in Hawaii in less than one month!  Now that’s scary!