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Holiday Snaps

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It's become a Thanksgiving tradition to take a picture of Max behind the turkey. This year, he was determined to prove his toddlerhood and refused to sit, preferring to tower, Godzilla-like, over the bird:

Last year, he only needed Mommy behind him to keep him in place:

And the year before still counts as infancy. Sweet, sweet, pliable infancy:

After the jump, more pictures - this time, catching up on Halloween.

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On the way to Nana's for Thanksgiving, wearing his Yankees hat. Which he requests by saying "I wanna N an a Y hat! Issa N an a Y for YANKEES! Issa baseball team."

Our little Halloween clown, who after weeks of excitement ("What are you going to be for Halloween buddy?" "A CWOWN!") had to be tricked into his suit by slipping it on with his pants after a diaper change. And he flat refused to wear his rainbow wig or pointy hat.

His candy bucket was another matter, and clearly made excellent headgear.

We "marched" in the Park Slope Halloween Parade (Best. Parade. Ever.) Here, Max is indulging his new fondness for random counting while Daddy wears the clown hat.

A number of children were dressed as Elmo, hardly suspecting the adoration this would earn them. He stalked this poor little girl for blocks ("Wanna ride on Daddy's shoulders! Wanna look fah ELMO!") and then practically prostrated himself before the Elmo-y goodness of her red furred majesty.

Totally rocked on sucrose, Max invented a new game when we got home, called simply "garbage." It consisted entirely of him climbing around on the garbage can corral while shouting "Garbage! Happy Halloween! Trick oh TREAT!" at random intervals. And refusing to come down.

For the next several days, any time we passed the garbage cans he'd begin shouting "Garbage? Wanna play GARBAGE!!"

Posted by rjt at November 28, 2005 12:40 PM