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Boosterthon

September 19, 2017

On Friday of last week Maxwell had the glow run to end a week of Boosterthon! They collected money, earned some great ~~junk~~ prizes, and had fun getting ready for the run! Maxwell had lots of cheerleaders this year…our evacuees are still here so GJ got to go and Lou Lou happened to be in town so she joined as well! It was cool to see him running lap after lap…but also hard to spot him in the dark gym! His white socks helped!

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grandmothers

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Liddle’s Leaders!

glow run

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A big thank you to all of Maxwell’s sponsors – GJ, Daddo, Susu, Keath and Jen, Lou Lou, Granddaddy, and Susan!

Irma aftermath

September 12, 2017

Irma was still making herself known around here yesterday. Birmingham was under a Tropical Storm watch so they cancelled school for Monday. We spent the day in the best way possible…

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Yep, those positions were assumed by 8am! Around lunchtime we did put on our hurricane gear…

irma

and ventured out for some food, including some gooey brownies! ha!

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But then we were back home to assume our positions for the remainder of the day…

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Now, it was a bit ridiculous that school was cancelled since it was barely even raining all day with virtually zero wind. They changed the forecast from a Tropical Storm watch to just a wind advisory by mid-day. However, the school system still decided to go with a delayed start today. Better safe than sorry I guess! Bye bye Irma…for good this time!

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Samantha’s first day!

September 8, 2017

Samantha finally got her turn to start school last Tuesday! She was ALL smiles that morning…a serious CHEEEEEESE face!

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I told her to maybe not scrunch her face up quite so much, which she thought was crazy…

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but I did end up with this cute smile!

first day

She’s going Tuesday and Thursday this year with Mrs. Betsy in 2K – one of my favorite teachers that both boys also had. She was such a big girl going into class and, while there was a lot to check out…

she did just fine with no tears at all! Hooray! She quickly found some toys…

and some friends…

and made herself comfy! 🙂

The school year is off to a great start!

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Spencer’s first day!

September 7, 2017

Spencer and Samantha finally went back to school last week! Spencer’s first day was Monday and he was excited!

spencer first day

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He’s going Monday through Thursday this year in 4K with Mrs. Beard. After a goodbye hug from Samantha (who was sad to see him go!)…

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we were off to school where he walked right into his classroom and quickly found his seat and got to work on his self portrait!

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Pretty good, I’d say!

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It was a good first week with a few rough spots. He got sent to time-out a few times for wrestling and rough-housing on the carpet with his friends. I can’t imagine where he would have learned that behavior?! It’s not like he and Maxwell ever wrestle and “fight” with each other at home?! (is my sarcasm coming through?!). We had lots of talks this past weekend about what is appropriate behavior at school and things seem to be much better now. Hopefully it will be smooth sailing from here on out – full of smiley faces and no more visits to the “stop chair”!

This boy is so smart, so sweet, so funny, and I love him so much.

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Here’s to a great year of 4K for Spencey!!

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The rest of the birthday

September 6, 2017

Maxwell’s never ending birthday finally wrapped up on Wednesday of last week with his real, actual birthday day! He got to celebrate on Tuesday afternoon with Susan who is always so generous on birthdays…

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and again on Wednesday morning with the traditional cinnamon roll breakfast of birthday champions…

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and again that afternoon at school when he took football cookies.

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His class does a “birthday blessing” where each student makes a card for the birthday kid and they go around in a circle and either read their card or say something nice about him. I got to go up there for it and it was pretty sweet to watch. 🙂

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I then got to have lunch in the cafeteria with my favorite 7 year old!

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That night we all went to dinner at Mexico Lindo with GJ and Daddo in tow. We then went home for icebox cake – Maxwell’s choice!!

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Pretty much all of Maxwell’s gifts were AL football related, including some cool football player pjs that I got for him and Spence. I realized that morning that I had not gotten anything for Samantha and I knew she needed a present to open too so I sent GJ to Target to find some and, just our luck, these “beautiful” Frozen pjs were on the clearance rack with one size 3T remaining! They sure are ugly…and she sure does love them! ha!

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The next day Maxwell went to school with just about all of his AL gear on his body. Love this kid.

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A BIG happy 7th to Maxwell!!

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