School days

Happy Monday!  Our weekend was simply exhausting.  Mentally and physically exhausting.  But, we survived and lived to tell the tale which I will tell tomorrow.

Today?  school! Maxwell had his last day of regular school last week…and his first day of summer school today!  ;)  He loves it so, why not?!

On the last week of school, they hosted a “Street Party” with all sorts of carnival games for the older kids and bounce houses and face painting for the younger kids.  Everyone also got to go to a performance by children’s singer Roger Day.  Parents were invited to come and so I of course spent all morning up there and loved getting to see Maxwell play with his buddies.

school

holding hands

will-wam

maxwell and mama

mbb

It was so interesting to see these boys together.  They are only 2.5 but already play pretty rough!  wrestling in the bounce house for sure!

wrestling

Maxwell looks so big in this next picture.  James and William are just about his same height but I think they were just crouching down a bit..

lined up

I hadn’t packed Maxwell a lunch because I planned to leave a little early with him and take him out to lunch.  Luckily the teachers had some spare graham crackers he could eat during lunch time so he didn’t feel too left out.  I don’t think it would have mattered though – he still ate several bites of Will-wam’s lunch which I’m told is the norm for him!  ha!

lunch

The next day was his actual last day of school.  Hard to believe he looked like this at the beginning of the school year

first day of school

My baby has officially turned into a big boy.  I’m so grateful he had Ms. Jen as his teacher this year along with Ms. Jackie and Ms. Tonya.  I think he and Ms. Jackie had a special little relationship…he really liked her.

teachers

They had the sweetest group of kids in their class.

school

front row – Mary Hamner, William, Lila

back row – Ms. Jen, Law, James, Maxwell, Ms. Jackie

So thankful for a great year in the Older Toddlers class!  Can’t wait for next year!!

GJ and Daddo

We got spoiled having them in town for so long.  I think we all wish they could just live around the corner…

gj

Until they get sick of sunny Florida (yea, right!) I guess little visits will have to do.

Have a wonderful weekend!

oh, hey!

Oh, hey Dad!

spencey and dad

I’m just laying here playing with my foot and being cute!

My big brother is also trying to teach me how to wave bye bye!

bye bye

I’m slowly starting to catch on!  Bye-bye!

Spencer’s baptism

We had Spencer baptized on Sunday and it was such a special day.  All of our family came into town and helped us celebrate our sweet, baby boy!  I didn’t pick up my real camera the entire weekend and came away from the day Sunday with a bunch of “just ok” iphone pictures. I can’t believe I didn’t even get one decent one of Spencer in his outfit!  Not to worry, I had a photographer come after the church service to take a ton of pics of Spencer and the whole family.  Can’t wait to get them in a few weeks!

Here are the shots I did get…

Maxwell ready to go in his knee socks and saddle shoes.  There are only so many chances a momma has to dress her little boy in outfits like this and I took full advantage!  and, yes, there was a little bribery involved in convincing him to wear the socks!  :)

saddle shoes

Also, when did he get so tall and skinny?  This little boy does not have one ounce of baby fat left.  He’s just all legs, knees and elbows now!

Marching into the church and ready to go!

church

Who did we see when we walked up?  LuLu! Maxwell was one happy little boy!

lulu and gj

We then went into the parlor room to get Spencer ready and wait for the service to start.  Here’s a blurry pic of our little family…

family

and a grainy pic of me and Maxwell…

momma and mbb

and a not so good picture of Spencer with his adorable, chunky legs in some knee socks of his own!!

spencer baptism

The legs of his bubble needed to be pulled up and his knee socks were a little bunchy there but, don’t worry, that all got fixed before the service!  This is the same outfit that Maxwell wore for his baptism.  You can see all of those pics here and here!

Spencer did great during the service.  When Reverend Sharps was holding him Spencer just kept looking up at his face and reaching out to touch his chin.  So precious!  Maxwell was a little …how shall I say it?… energetic during the service!  But, overall he acted just fine and was a cute little 2.5 year old boy.

Here are two videos if you really care to see…

Right after the service, the photographer took a bunch of pics of the boys, me and Robert right outside the church.  She then came back to the house and took lots of shots of our whole family together.  I’m so excited to have those!  After the pictures were done, it was time to eat and play!  A big thanks to GJ and Susu for helping with the food.

A few pictures of everyone enjoying the day!

ronnie and spencer

katie and mbb

sisters in law

stephie and robert

stephie and robert

cousins

By the time the afternoon was over, we were all happy, full and exhausted!  A big thanks to everyone for making the trip to celebrate sweet Spencey!!

Family!

For Spencer’s baptism on Sunday, we had all sorts of family trickle in all weekend long! It was SO fun to get everyone together and let all the cousins play, play, play! First in was GJ and Daddo. They got here on Wednesday and Maxwell could not have been more excited to see them! My mom went with me to pick him up from school and when he saw her he just said, “heeeeey GJ” and then ran up to give her a big hug. It was pretty much the cutest thing ever. Maxwell then couldn’t wait to get GJ home so he could “jump on her.” Yep, jump on her. I have no idea where he has gotten this but every time I talk about GJ, Maxwell talks about how he wants to jump on her. So, as soon as he got her to the house, he made her lay down on the couch and he jumped on her! Poor GJ! She’s a good sport!!

GJ jump

Daddo got some good time in loving on sweet Spencer that afternoon…

daddo and spencer

My mom played nanny for the boys on Thursday as Susan was out of town and I took a lunch break to go to Zoe’s with them. They were pretty good lunch dates…

GJ and MBB

GJ then drove to Arkansas to pick up Susu and bring her to Birmingham. We were all so happy she made the trip!

susu and spencer

and here is Susu declaring that Spencer’s hair does indeed have a red tint to it. He seems pleased with that idea!  We’ll see!

spencer and susu

Keath, Jen, Delaney and Nate got into town on Friday night and we had a full day of fun on Saturday!

mbb and delaney

GJ and Keath took Maxwell, Delaney and Nate over to the tot lot and ran into this on the way…

pink firetruck

Oh boy! I don’t think there could have been anything more perfect for this crew considering Maxwell’s love of firetrucks and Delaney’s love of all things pink!!

pink firetruck

The three amigos then had lunch together…and all had to sit on the same side of the table, of course!

lunch

All that playing at the tot lot makes you thirsty!

juice

Spencer was being well tended to by Keath!

keath and spencer

After naps, everyone came back over to the house to celebrate a very special birthday!

delaney balloon

Delaney turns 4 TODAY! Happy Birthday Delaney! We celebrated with a little fire truck riding…

fire truck

and cake!

cake

What comes after cake? Presents of course! Maxwell was a big (and largely unwanted) help to Delaney in opening her presents! This pictures makes me laugh…

tiara sneak

Delaney had just put on the pink tiara that came with her new Ballerina Barbie and Maxwell snatched it off her head before she could even say “princess!” ha!

Maxwell then checked out her new Barbie dolls…

barbies

“Wait a minute, these aren’t trucks!”

But, he ultimately decided they might be fun to play with for a little bit…until Delaney rightfully took them back! :)

barbie

Maxwell wasn’t too upset though because he got a special present from Susu and GJ even though it wasn’t his birthday (GJ’s good like that!). He got a T-ball set and he, Nate and Delaney had the most fun playing with it after dinner. Batter up!

batter up

It was such a fun day! These cuties got lots of love from GJ…

delaney, gj, maxwell

and even gave each other a little love! “We like each other!”

mbb and delaney

Funny little kids.

mbb and delaney

A BIG thank you to Keath and Jen for making the long trip! We loved having you here and Maxwell hasn’t stopped talked about “NateNLaney!” :)