Max the Rocker

We have posted before about Max's love of music. He likes to play it, to sing, to listen to it, and to dance to it. He is pretty picky about the music we listen to in the car, preferring "loud music" or "cool music" which often means heavy metal much to my great dismay (but to Josh's joy). However, he also has days when he wants to listen to jazz, classical, classic rock, etc. He just really likes music. He also loves to dance and has always proudly displayed "my new move" to us when trying out new dance moves. We honestly have no idea where he gets most of it, but he is pretty creative.

A couple of weeks ago, he was dancing and Josh caught him on videotape. It was too funny not to share.

Chef Max

Max has been cooking with me for a long time. When he was sick, we did a lot of cooking together just to pass the time. Recently, he has taken to cooking random things that he makes up. I have been encouraging him to follow recipes or at least try what he makes as we are a bit tired of eating salt and maple syrup pasta soup. He has been better about it. When he turned 5 a couple of weeks ago, we told him he was going to have a few chores to do every day (he helps out aruond the house, but we were going to make it more formal) and suggested setting the table. He told us he wanted to be the cook instead. Oh boy. We are still working on this one, but today, he decided to make Lauren a "funny side down egg" and actually did a pretty good job at it. Too bad Lauren wasn't hungry at the time, but it was a nice thought.