Gift from Aunt Denise & Uncle Paul

Congratulations Big Brother Max

Max's First Haircut Certificate from "Lollipops"

1st Haircut Card from Aunt Denise & Uncle Paul

1st Haircut Card from Aunt Denise & Uncle Paul. Aunt Denise made this card especially for Max.

Happy Children's Book Day!

Aunt Denise & Uncle Paul celebrate Children's Book Day by sending "Mike Mulligan and his Steam Shovel" to Max and "Oh, Baby, the Places You'll Go! A Book to Be Read in Utero" to Emily.

To: Emily

To: Max

E-mail to Max from Cousin Faith on How to Be a Big Brother

Hey Max and Sarah and Wallace!

Congratulations Max on being a big brother!!! I want to give you some advice, being an older sibling is tough! You are the older one so your little brother or sister looks up to you. You have to teach them things your Mommy and Daddy can't. Your little, well, lets just call it the "little it." The "little it" is going to want to play with you and perhaps copy you on a couple things but thats ok. Now being an older sibling has tons of benefits, example: no handy downs!! You will always have new clothes. So that is a good thing. Plus, since you were an only child for a year? Ya a little more so about 1%percent of your life, you can learn how to share (which will get you a lot of friends in preschool and kindygarten.) So you got to live the two kinds of life. Since you are way wiser than the other sibling, you can boss them around. (Even though I don't recommend it.) Because its not like I ever bossed my brother around. Another thing, even though yo ur Mommy and Daddy are great people to play with, you will get to have a new friend who is a little closer to your age and the "little it" will be there 24 hours a day/ 7 days a week! So you will never be lonely! (but if you do call Phillip ya I have been with him 24 DAYS A WEEK AND 7 BILLION HOURS A DAY!) hahaha no but I really, really love my brother. Even though last night he and his friends sprayed AXE all over the HOUSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! uhhh! Anyways, Max you need to be a good example for the little it. Ok? promise??????? ok so ya uhh what else did I miss??? Oh one more thing, you need to convince your Mom and Dad that Karcyn Jayce Colyer is the best name in the world! Ok so if its a boy MAKE THEM NAME HIM THAT! hahaha anyways the name Emily is the best name ever! I have 2 really good friends named that. So ya name the "the little it" that ok?? ok

Umm that is about it,
Love you Max, Sarah, Wallace, and the "little it"

Love the Best Big Sister in the world!

Faith

Note from Great Aunt Midge (GAM)

Dear Sarah and Max,

Thanks so much for making the effort to come to Colorado for our get together. It was so much fun! We were thrilled to meet Max! He is quite the entertainer. So beautiful! We will talk about him and smile!

Thanks for the neat cutting board. It looks so nice in the kitchen. Spruces it up! Also for the lovely lunch + delicious ice cream! What have I forgotten?

Most of all thanks for traveling so far with your dear little boy so we could meet, love, laugh with him, hold him, squeeze and kiss him.

Love ya! Great Aunt Margie

Happy 1st 4th of July

Aunt Weezer & Uncle Paul wish Max a Happy 1st 4th of July by sending him a card (see below) and a children's book entitled, "The Story of America's Birthday".

Note from Grandma Jane

Here is the note to Maxwell from Grandma Jane since it's somewhat difficult to read:

Mother's Day 2006

Dear Maxwell,

You are so special, and have brought so much joy to your family.

I am excited to visit you this week in your California home! It will be nice to see your Mom & Dad too!

We will have fun playing and getting to see where you hang out.

To celebrate your first birthday you'll be coming to my house in Pa. We'll have a grand party. Grandpa Dave & I will make sure of this ~.

I love you so much ~
See you soon ~
Grandma

Tatti Jacqueline

From: Jacqueline Spadea
Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2006 12:07 PM
To: max@ecolyer.com
Subject: Bonjour

Max, you are so adorable and such a good baby. You are your Mummy's

Happy Easter From The Krasnoff's

Max got this nice email from his Aunt, Uncle and Cousins.

From: Claudia and Mark Krasnoff
Sent: Saturday, April 15, 2006 6:54 PM
To: Max Colyer
Subject: Happy Easter

Happy Easter Baby Max!!

We hope the Easter Bunny brings you lots of goodies.

Love, Nicholas, Alex, and Charlie

They also sent this nice Easter Frog Basket for Max (Sarah was a little disappointed there was no Easter chocolate in it, but I reminded her that it was for Max and he can't have chocolate yet).

Happy East From Grandpa Dale

Max just received this email from Grandpa Dale.

From: Dale Colyer
Sent: Saturday, April 15, 2006 4:05 PM
To: Max

Max, Happy first Easter. You looked very cute in your last photo, but not too cute to share. The cuter, the better (its too cute to NOT share).

Grandpa Dale

A picture for Max from Cousin Brynn

Max received this nice picture from Cousin Brynn. She even helped address the envelope!

The envelope (notice the stamp of Cousin Brynn & Cousin Kedryn)

Brynn's picture to Max

Easter card from Aunt Denise & Uncle Paul

Easter Card From Papa Dave and Grandma Jane

Alex to Max

[We received the following email, dictated by Max's cousin Alex to their Oma.]

I was twelve days at baby Max house alex

baby max I love you

alex

I was at Quito pepito's cage a couple of days ago but I was actually there one hundred days ago

I love you Quito pepito and i am alex

Note from Miss Pat

Pat McEvoy, a friend and neighbor of my parents, from Carlisle sent Max this note yesterday along with a cute Harley-Davidson bib. :-) Pat rides around Carlisle on a blue motor scooter and a red moped. She is trying to get Max to be one of her motor scooter peeps!

... and the bib

International Children's Book Day

Aunt Denise & Uncle Paul send Max a couple books ("Barnyard Dance!" by Sandra Boynton and "Tuesday" by David Wiesner) to celebrate International Children's Book Day which is apparently every April 2nd. This is the first that we've heard of this holiday. Leave it to Denise to know these details.

Denise and Paul's Valentines Card

Marianna on Rolling Over

From: Marianna Glick
Sent: Sunday, January 22, 2006 11:53 AM
To: max@ecolyer.com
Subject: rollover

Hi Max...congratulations on learning how to roll over. It is just the beginning of many, many steps you will take in the future. Now you can get to the remote before mom and dad do. Barney and Sesame Street, yeah! And your hands, about your hands. They look like the hands of a deep sea fisherman to me...although, as much as you love to stick your tongue out, you may one day become a doctor who, on a daily basis, gets to say to your patients: "Stick out your tongue." I love you Max. Great Aunt Marianna. P.S. Today is your cousin Tony's 36th birthday. In a few more years the two of you can play golf together, or go skiing. Tony just spent four days playing golf in Myrtle Beach. I am just finishing up a 10 day vacation. There is nothing in the world, and you can relate to this, like doing what you want, when you want. No schedules, no clocks...sleep when you want...wake up when you want...eat what and when you want. Bye for now Max.