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July 10, 2012

Robert, Maxwell and I took a little vacation last week to visit my parents in Naples, FL.  It was a great escape – the beach, bike rides, ice cream and even a bouncy house!  Maxwell loooooved getting to spend time with GJ and Daddo.  Every morning when he would wake up, the first question out of his mouth was “Where Daddo?” and it would continue all day long!  He loved to know where Daddo was…I’m sure that had nothing to do with the M&Ms that Daddo would slip him every time he saw him!  🙂

The only damper on the trip was the bits of sickness that spoiled some fun.  Robert woke up with a sinus infection Saturday morning but he got a Zpack and was feeling better pretty quickly.  Sickness also caused us to not get to see Keath, Jen, Delaney and Nate.  boo!  They were supposed to drive over Saturday to spend the night but Delaney was running a fever so no go.  Don’t know when we’ll get to see them next and I hate that.

Other than that, we had a GREAT time!  I took my camera down there with me and got it out the first day to snap some pics in the pool but that was it.  The rest of the weekend was captured on my iphone and, I have to say, it was really kind of nice not dealing with the camera all week long!  But, that means I’ve got a LOT of iphone pics to get through.  I’ll try to cut them down to a reasonable amount but no promises.

Don’t you just love looking at other people’s vacation photos??!  🙂  On with the show…

Someone was dressed in his red, white and blue on the 4th ready to get to the airport!

I’ll do a full travel post later but we took a car seat for the plane this time and it was a fantastic decision.  That along with my new ipad full of Grover movies and Maxwell was one happy camper!

When we got there, GJ had an awesome surprise for my hat-loving boy…a full selection of hero hats!  Fireman, hard hat, police…everything a little boy could want!  They were so funny to play with all weekend.  Maxwell kept pulling the visor down on the police one so it covered his eyes and nose and then saying “Where’d I go?”  funny boy.

The next morning we strapped Maxwell in for his first bike ride to the beach.  He LOVED this bike seat.  He kept saying “weeeee” as we were riding and was talking about riding the bikes all week long.

Doesn’t get much better!

This trip to the beach was much more successful than our last (and just as cute as our first!) Maxwell immediately walked to the water and wanted to get into the big “pool.”  He was playing in the sand and just loving every second.  Hooray!

I think that’s enough boring vacation photos for today.  Don’t worry – more boring vacation photos to come tomorrow!!  See you then!

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Father’s Day

June 26, 2012

I’m finally getting up all the Father’s Day pictures from two weekends ago.  As I mentioned, we had Robert’s family in town for lunch and had a great time. There was a BBQ feast with Golden Rule BBQ and lots of homemade sides – cole slaw, beans, corn salad (very similar to this but I cook my onions and tomatoes) – and these strawberry shortcake cookies for dessert.  Yum!

Maxwell obviously loved all the attention and both he and Nanner got to wear some of Lulu’s jewelry for a while!

The weather was beautiful and the cousins had a blast playing outside with some bubbles and sidewalk chalk and whatever other toys were around.  I think everyone enjoyed being outside that day thanks to the fans on our deck!  I’m just going to let the pictures do the rest of the talking…

and, finally, proof that I was there too!

A great way to celebrate Father’s Day!

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Father’s Day

June 15, 2012

Wishing a VERY happy Father’s Day this weekend to four VERY special dads…

My grandfather, Granddaddy…


Maxwell at 12 months
We hope we get to see you soon, Granddaddy!

My dad, Daddo…


Maxwell at 12 months
We can’t wait to see you July 4th, Daddo!

Robert’s Dad, Granddad…


Maxwell at 11 months
We can’t wait to see you this weekend, Granddad!

And, of course, Maxwell’s dad, DaDa (as Maxwell says these days!)  🙂


Maxwell at 20 months
We love getting to see you every day!  🙂

Maxwell is so lucky to have all four of you!!  Happy Father’s Day to all the Dads out there, especially Keath, John, Birc and Ronnie!

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Happy Mother’s Day!

May 13, 2012

Sending out special wishes to all the moms out there, especially the ones in my life – Lou Lou, Jenny, Jen, Cara, Amy, Susu and, last but not least…

The one and only GJ!  Happy Mother’s Day, Momma!!

Hope you all know how loved you are today and every day!

favorite pictures from March and April 2011

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Weekend roundup

May 7, 2012

 

The top 12 observations from our beautiful and hot weekend.

1. Maxwell looks very pretty when all dolled up in LuLu’s jewelry!

We had a lunch visit from LuLu and Granddaddy on Friday and Maxwell had the best time playing “dress up!”  🙂

2. Maxwell learned it’s not easy to eat chips with a fork.

Good lesson learned.

3. We ventured out to another new playground on Friday afternoon and had a great time. Well, it was at his school so new to me but old to him.  Maybe that’s why he’s giving me the stare down here?

4. I learned that I really have to stop letting Maxwell play with my car keys.  He’s managed to start the car remotely a few times at home and, while we were at the playground, he not only pushed the panic button (which sets off the car alarm) 4 times but he managed to unlock the car and open the tailgate without my knowledge.  I couldn’t see the car from the playground so only noticed 20 minutes later our car had been sitting completely unlocked with the tailgate wide open!  Goodness gracious, he’s a mess!

But he’s a cute mess!  🙂

5.  On Saturday Maxwell took his first train ride.  I snapped a few pics with my phone before we got on the train, including one of him in this awesome engineer hat (don’t worry, it didn’t come home with us)…

and one of him playing with this train table (that might have to come home with us at some point!).

Lots more pictures of the actual train ride to come tomorrow.

6. Happy Cinco de Mayo!  We celebrated with an early feast of beans and rice.  Cheap Mexican restaurants are definitely the best places to go out to eat with a toddler.  And my toddler ate this whole plate by himself!  big boy!

7. This made me laugh…hard.

8. Maxwell got to wear his new Crocs all weekend.  Since he broke his leg, I’ve been trying to keep him in tennis shoes for the support until he stops limping.  He’s getting better and it’s getting hotter so I thought we’d try out the Crocs.  While he still prefers his tennis shoes (his red Elmo tennis shoes to be specific), I do think he liked his new summer shoes.  and hopefully this will help even out his pretty mean sock tan!

9. On Sunday, Maxwell “helped” Robert trim shrubs in the front yard.  Gotta teach ’em early!

10. Robert works so hard in the yard and it shows.  I think we’ve got the prettiest yard on the block!  A pat on the back for you, Robert!

11. It was really hot this weekend.  and it’s only May.  This pregnant lady is DREADING July.

12. Maxwell has been saying a new word for a while – “Nano” – and we couldn’t figure out what it meant.  The mystery has been solved.  As I’ve mentioned, Nanner the monkey has been dubbed “NeNe” and, apparently, Mr. Moo the cow has been dubbed “NaNo”.  Sounds like a good cow name to me!

That’s it for today!  See you tomorrow!

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