My dad is so proud of me that he's put together these pages to show me
off to his friends.
What's new with me?! (9/14/00)
Maxisms (and some Mollyisms):
- Max's knock-knock joke: "Knock Knock. Who's there? Scoopy.
Scoopy who? Scoopy Do." (Like the cartoon dog.)
- Max told me that the time is "6-7-0". I expressed disbelief, so
he said, "Look at the clock!"
- I gave Max a bat cookie for Halloween. After taking a bite, he
said, "Oh no, I'm eating a mammal!" (Max is a vegetarian and I
eat meat, but no mammals).
- Max told me that one of his classmates is allergic to peanuts.
Then, he told me, "I have an allergy problem. Bird is to
feather as raccoon is to...". Me: "I think that's `analogy'
problem, not `an alergy' problem."
- Max, opening a Chanukah present: "Oh! It's Pocochontos!" (Where the
"ch" is pronounced like the "ch" in "Bach".
- Lisa put some Menthyl cream on her chest to help with congestion.
She walked past Max, who turned to me and said, "May I have a
tic tac?"
- Max's drawing and writing skills are improving. He drew a picture of
Piglet screaming (because he's a very nervous animal). He
then told me he drew the "uvula small because Piglet is so
small."
- I was driving with Max and Molly in the back seat. Molly started to
whine and Max sang to her sweetly to calm her down: "Little
Molly, please don't cry. Please don't cry. Please don't cry.
When you cry it hurts my ears. Hurts my ears. Hurts my
ears." Later, he explained that it was to the tune of the sad
song from Mulan.
- We were driving on a snow-covered road and Max said, "Molly thinks
you are playing with her." We eventually figured out that
every time I hit a bumpy patch, Max noticed that Molly hummed
(to make vibratto).
- "Was that a goodbye kiss?" Max: "No, it was a good time kiss."
- Me: "How about I work on the computer for ten more minutes, and then
we can play kickball?" Max: "Daddy, that's brilliant! Only
make the ten minutes very very quick."
- Max spelled "peacock" "PKOKE". I asked him why he put on the silent
"e" and he said, "Because P said its name." I guess the rule
he learned in school was that silent e is used when one of the
letters says its name (like "robe" where "o" sounds like
"oh"). How logical!
- Max, reading a sign: "Yalmuka." Lisa: "No, Max, it says YMCA."
- We live near Basking Ridge, NJ and Max keeps thinking it's
"Baskin Robins".
- Max was explaining his idea of vacation in which no one had to do
any chores at all. Lisa said, "What about food preparation?"
Max: " The only food preparation allowed is dessert."
- Max was being babysat by an attractive young woman named Renata
at a party.
When my dad asked him a question, he answered, "Boppy, I can't
talk to you
right now, Renata needs something from the bar."
- Lisa asked Max about the pizza he bought for lunch at school. He
said it was "tasty and tantalizing".
- Molly: "teega awwa" (Please turn on the computer so my toy Tigger
can play the Elmo program).
- Molly: "may-no hup" (Can I have my cup back so I can put some
tomato in it?)
- Molly: "feek teek doll doll" (I'm feeding by doll a fish stick.)
Vital Statistics
- Name: Max Isaac L.
- Born: July 29th, 1994 (5:03pm) by C-section
- Birth weight: 470g (1 lb, 1/2 oz).
- Proud parents: Lisa and Michael
- First web page: September 1st, 1994
- Weight at that time: 650g (1 lb, 7 oz)
- Discharge date: October 24th, 1994
- Days in hospital: 88
- Discharged: October 24th, 1994 (4:30pm) by car
- Original due date: October 25th, 1994
- Discharge weight: 1830g (4 lb, 1/2 oz)
Dad's diary
Photo Album (mainly 1994)
Weight chart
Other stuff
While I was in the nursery, my mom told me a story. My dad
illustrated it, and finally made a copy for the web. Here is Max's Special Beginning.
My dad kept track of my vocabulary (up to the
first 200 words) and is tracking my major milestones.
- Maintained by:
mll@cs.duke.edu
- Last updated: Fri Jan 17 11:25:58 EST 1997