Maxwell Ryan Bettan

Born August 28, 1995

Hi, my name is Max and this website is all about me. I am now 2 1/2 years old.

My parents think I am pretty amazing. I have a very good memory and I learn stuff really fast. I've been doing my ABCs and counting since I was 18 months old. Now that I am 2 1/2, I know some really cool stuff!! I can do the alphabet backwards (Z,Y,X .. C,B,A) and I can count to one hundred. I can also count by 2s (2,4,6), 3s, 4s and 5s. But my best thing of all is spelling. I love playing with letters, reading books and spelling words. Here are some of the words I can spell:

Really Big Words:

Rocketship

Dinosaur
Big Words: friend
happy
pizza
apple
book
love
follow 		monster
angry
milk
open
moon
square
Regular Words: cat
hat
sat
fat
dad
sad
mad
bad
good
stop
dog
up
cup
down 		big
pig
in
out
eat
go
baby
red
blue
jump
hop
pop
And of course: Maxwell
Gabby

videoguy

I know all my colors and my shapes too. I know a square has four equal sides and 4 corners and that a circle is round. My favorite shape is a triangle. I know that a triangle has 3 sides, and that if all the sides are equal it is called an equilateral triangle. I also know that if only 2 sides are the same it is called an Isosolese triangle.

My grandma Amy is teaching me about the United States. So far I know the States in alphabetical order from Alabama to Maine. I also know my address and my phone number. My daddy thought that if I know reading, and geography, that he would teach me about science. I know all 9 planets in our solar system and all about different dinosaurs. My favorite planets are Neptune and Mars, and my favorite dinosaurs are the thunder lizard Brontosaurus and Triceritops ( but I also like Tyrannasaurus Rex, Brachiasaurus and Stegasaurus).

I still love books, and I don't eat them anymore. My favorite books are:

  1. Where The Wild Things Are
  2. Are You My Mother
  3. Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?
  4. Ten Terrible Dinosaurs
  5. Eating The Alphabet
  6. Oh The Places You'll Go
  7. Birthday Monsters
  8. Three Little Bears
  9. My, Oh My, Oh Dinosaurs
  10. Go Dog Go
My daddy has made a video clip of me spelling some of these words. You will need to have the ViVo Active player for your browser. In case you don't, here is where you can get it.
VivoActive Player

I still like to watch my Barney and Sesame Street videos. I also like to run around the house and sing all my favorite songs as loud as I can, so the whole neighborhood can appreciate it. I like being noisy and I like being messy. My favorite thing to do is to make a really big mess and a lot of noise at the same time. You can just imagine how much my mommy likes that!!

I like music to. I really like Rock & Roll and the Blues. I'm still into Jimi Hendrix, but my favorite song is "Honky Tonk Woman" by the Rolling Stones. I walk around the house singing "Gimme, Gimme, Gimme the honky tonk blues!!!". I still love Mustang Sally. You can see a video clip of me singing and dancing to it when I was just 18 months old. It is really cute. I guarantee you will love it.

Here are some of my favorite songs:

  • Honky Tonk Woman
  • Foxy Lady
  • Sweet Home Alabama
  • Suffragette City
  • Mustang Sally
  • Suite Jane
  • Piece O' my heart
  • Ain’t no sunshine when she’s gone
  • Dah Doo Doo Doo Da Dah Dah Dah
  • Led Zepplin Rock & Roll
  • Lola
  • Werewolves of London
  • Lido Shuffle
  • Anything by the Rolling Stones
I guess I have to mention my sister now. Her name is Gabby and she is 10 months old. She is starting to become a lot of fun. She crawls after me all the time. Its like having a puppy. In fact, she likes to sit under my chair in the morning and eat the Cheerios that fall of my spoon. It's a good thing for her I'm a very sloppy eater!!

Gabby likes to play with my toys, mess up my room and rip up my books. I don't like that too much, but I guess its OK since I took all of her toys out of her room and put them in mine! I think it will be really fun once Gabby can walk and run around. Then I can teach her really cool stuff like falling down the stairs, climbing up on mommies dressing table and playing with her make-up and my favorite trick, emptying an entire roll of toilet paper into the potty. Oops! Speaking of potty, I think it's time for me to go!

Well, there you have it, all about me. You can check out my picture gallery to see pictures of me since I was born. My video section includes video of me taking some of my first steps and a clip that many people think would be a surefire winner on that Home Video TV show.

My Cyber Baby book

My mommy and daddy realized that I am almost 2 1/2 years old, and my baby book is filled with blank pages. Daddy told mommy not to worry, that we could document my developement from all my different webpages. So here it is, the worlds first cyber baby book!!

  1. In the beginning August 28, 1995
  2. I'm eating solid food February '96
  3. Let's go Mets April '96
  4. It's my birthday August '96
  5. Now I can walk October '96
  6. Mustang Scoobie March '97
  7. I'm a big brother Sept '97

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