i love love love this picture.

isn't my grandpa so handsome? i hope max is as cute as my grandpa was when he gets older. for those of you who don't know, we named our little max after my grandpa max. he passed away a little over a year ago. i was very close to my grandpa, i always knew nobody loved me like my grandpa did. i remember telling my grandpa a few months before he died that i was going to name my first boy max. it took me the whole 9 months of my pregnancy to convince isaac max was THE only name i would accept. obviously, he didn't have a choice. it's so important to me that my little boy knows what a great man his great grandpa was. i was named after my great great grandma sophia, who came here from denmark to be a nanny for a widower with a lot of children. she ended up marrying him and having even more children. she was a beautiful, stylish woman with a wonderful heart. i never knew her but i always hear about how wonderful she was. i hope the name max will mean as much to my little boy, as the name sophia does to me.