First, happy 2 months to my baby girl! I’ll get the 2 month photos up soon.
Second, we had some fun visitors this week! Lulu and Granddaddy stopped by earlier this week and we were so glad to see them!
Happy Friday!
Zoo!
I took all 3 kids on a little zoo adventure Tuesday morning! It was a pretty day and we had no plans so I stuck the baby in the sling, the boys in the double stroller and we saw some animals!
Maxwell obviously wanted to spend extra time at the tiger!
and Spencer was really intent on seeing the rhino!
and I liked seeing the flamingos!
We also stopped by the petting zoo area…
and I was totally surprised when Maxwell voluntarily reached in to pet the goat! shocker!
A fun way to spend the morning!
See you tomorrow!
Chores
We’ve started a little allowance system around here so Maxwell can earn some money…and start doing some chores! He gets a checkmark every day if he cleans up his toys and puts all of his dirty clothes in the laundry basket. So far, it’s worked great. Maxwell is the ultimate pleaser and he wants to get that check mark really bad so has never once complained about having to clean up! This all started a few weeks ago when the playroom upstairs was a disaster and we told Maxwell that we’d give him some money to put in his elephant bank if he’d clean it up. We honestly thought he wouldn’t do it. He and Spencer were up in the playroom for a while and then Maxwell called us up there saying they’d picked up all the toys. Robert and I went upstairs and were SHOCKED…
It was spotless. Every single toy was put away. Honestly, unbelievable. The best part? It’s stayed that way! He always cleans up after they play and Spencer helps too. (ps – I have no idea what happened to their clothes that night! ha!)
These pictures made me smile too – one afternoon after playing outside, I told them to clean up the toys so they put all the trucks away and then I looked out to see Spencer helping Maxwell carry the top to the sand table over.
I just thought it was the sweetest thing how they were working together to clean up.
Maxwell gets $4 every week if he gets a check every day (which of course he does). We’re saving up for something big from Target – likely a TMNT treat!
Weekend
Weekend roundup coming at ya….
Friday morning Robert got to go to school with Maxwell for “Doughnuts with Dad”…love his tie!
While Maxwell was at school I made a Target run with Samantha and Spencer and somehow Spencer walked out of there with a new truck…
I’m a sucker when it comes to him…especially when he does things like this that just make me laugh!
Friday afternoon, Robert took off for Atlanta leaving me alone with all 3 kids until Sunday. What do we do when Dad’s away? The mexaurant on Friday night of course! 5:15 early bird special!
We also made an early a.m. trip to Home Depot on Saturday to take our pots from this…
to this!
I also did a lot of cleaning out of these beds on the side of the house. It doesn’t look super yet but it’s so much better as I took out a ton of dead leaves…
now we just need to fill in with some new pine straw! It’s been interesting watching the different plants in our beds start to bloom – I really have no idea what all is planted in the yard so it’s a learning season!
On Sunday, we planned to go up to the church egg hunt…but it was really cold and pouring down rain and we just didn’t make it. But, this is what Samantha was going to wear…too pretty not to still share!
A busy and fun weekend…and now we’re VERY glad Dad is home!
Friday!
TGIF! Although, it’s going to be a crazy weekend so I think I’ll actually be even happier when it’s Sunday!
Unfortunately, this week we had to make a trip to the doctor…
For the record, Maxwell was 36.4 lbs and Spencer was 34! Maxwell had a cold last week with some congestion but was largely over it. However, he was complaining that his ear hurt so I took him in and he has a double ear infection! Spencer now has the same cold and is a snotty, wheezing mess.
All we can really do for Spencer is a steroid and the oh so fun breathing treatments. Poor guy. One funny thing – I was rocking Spencer in the middle of the night when he was coughing so so so bad. He actually finally coughed up some of the junk all over me (gross) and then, in his half asleep state, said “Goodness!” just like I always say whenever one of the boys is coughing a lot. He then said, “Giant mess.” and I had to agree – and laugh. Sweet boy.
Another cute Spencer story I don’t want to forget… Last week I was drying my hair while Samantha was asleep in her room and Spencer was playing with his trains downstairs. When I turned off my blow dryer, I heard Samantha crying so I went into her room only to see that Spencer had left his trains downstairs and had come up to her room to put the paci in her mouth when he heard her crying. He was kneeling beside her, sticking the paci in her mouth. I just about melted. Sweet boy indeed.
And a funny thing from Maxwell…on St. Patrick’s Day, we were playing outside and all of a sudden he said, “Look Momma! A clover and it has THREE sides! I think a Leprechaun must have come and planted it here last night!” Ha!
Also, Maxwell came home from school on Wednesday saying “Momma, I decided that I’m now going to marry Blair and let Max marry Lila. I was smiling at Blair all day today. Can she come over and play?” What????? Young love…
I guess I’ll give a little update on Samantha too. She had her first bottle this week when Susan kept her for a bit and drank it all down like a champ! Basically, she’s perfect.
She’s also definitely doing better in the sleeping department. She’s really only waking to eat one around 3am and is doing much better sleeping in her chair. Not perfect yet but we’re getting there. I guess I should start letting her sleep in her own room. All in good time…
Sorry, that post kind of went all over the place but those are some updates from around here! Hope you all have a great weekend!