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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!

Random Reports

April 24, 2012

We’ve had some things going on around here that I haven’t had a chance to talk about so thought I’d just throw it all into one random post. Here we go…

Report 1: We had a little visit from GJ and Daddo last week and Maxwell was in heaven. Daddo came bearing M&Ms so he was an instant hit. Maxwell still says “Daddo!” whenever I give him an M&M.

Maxwell giving Daddo good night kisses…

He was stuck like glue to “GG” for 2 days.

These two were like peas in a pod…

He tried to work his magic on her too. First, he kept asking “GG” to do everything with him in his precious little voice. Second, when we were putting him to bed, he didn’t want to go so he laid his little head down on GJ’s shoulder and snuggled into her! If it wasn’t for me I think my mom might have stood there and held him all night! Third, the next morning she took him to school with me and he did NOT want her to put him down. He was finally bribed with a cracker to get down but then immediately reached his chubby little hands back out for GJ to scoop him up. It took everything my mom had to walk out the door and leave him there like that. Talk about pulling at my mom’s heartstrings all weekend! Needless to say, this is how Maxwell reacted when he got home from school and realized GJ and Daddo had gone back to FL…

Just kidding…sorta. GJ and Daddo, whenever you guys are ready to move to AL, I’ve got a little boy who’ll be very excited!

Report 2: The house across the street from us got demolished and it was basically the best day of Maxwell’s life. We had an excavator in action directly across the street from us for 2 days and I heard Maxwell say “truck!” more than 1352 times. He’s going to be plenty entertained watching the new house go up over the next several months.

Having a little picnic with Susan watching the action…

At the window checking out the excavator tearing down the house…

No more house!

We’ll see what goes up in it’s place!

Report 3: Maxwell is becoming a Master Gardener. Not really, but he did “help” me plant a few things last weekend.

I’m trying tomato plants for the first time in my big pots. Anyone had luck with them before? I got two varieties – one is a cherry tomato and one is more medium sized like a roma tomato. I’m keeping very low expectations but am excited to see what happens. Of course, I might have already messed up before they even had a chance because I realized AFTER I put them in the pots that I got soil that is only to be used with vegetables being grown in the ground, not in pots. Oh well. If nothing else it will be a lesson for next year!

See you all tomorrow!

Here Comes Peter Cottontail

April 10, 2012

Like last year, we drove down to Montgomery on the Saturday before Easter to go to the annual Inscoe egg hunt. It’s a fun time for all and a great opportunity for Robert to see lots of high school friends. Thankfully Maxwell mastered his boot-leg walking on Friday before we left so we didn’t have to carry him all day. Once we got there (with only a 20 minute nap in the car) he didn’t stop for one second. He was practically running all over the yard. I have to say it – he looked pretty darn cute limping around in his seersucker and black boot! As my mom keeps saying, “bless his little heart!”

While he was roaming around a majority of the time, he did stop for a minute to take in the scene from this good vantage point…

**please also notice that Maxwell has a cookie in his hand in every single picture! sweet tooth!

Maxwell was glad to see all of his family like Lulu…

and Aunt Jenny. He was so excited to see Jenny that he ran right up to her and gave her a high 5!

Jenny totally got into the occasion and rocked an Easter bonnet…with all the frills upon it!

Maxwell was gearing up for the hunt by carrying his “bag” around with him all afternoon…

And when it came time for the hunt, Maxwell instinctively knew exactly what to do! He got out there and starting putting those candy eggs in his Easter basket just like he had done it 100 times. And he did it all with a cookie in one hand to boot! This boy’s got skills…

After collecting his eggs, he had to sit down and check out his loot…

I think he was pleased with his haul and promptly dumped all of his eggs out onto the ground only to pick them all back up again! I know his hair looks red in those pics but it’s really just the light.

The rest of the afternoon went great. We played with cute cousins…

Explored all areas of the yard…

and had a slightly traumatic run-in with a bunny!

The best part of the day was that Robert got to catch up with some old friends…

and we got to spend a little quality time together as a family!

Maxwell was clearly thrilled.

Tomorrow I’ve got pics from Easter day. Until then, here’s a little “bah” from LuLu and Maxwell…

See you tomorrow!

Another quick visit

February 29, 2012

Happy Leap day! See you again in 4 years 2/29!

Maxwell’s Aunt Messy was in town on Saturday and stopped by for a quick visit. Maxwell was much too busy to actually sit in her lap but they still managed to have some fun together…

Peekaboo!!

We love visitors!

In other news, Maxwell got bit at school yesterday! ouch! The teacher said one of the other kids bit him on the finger (and i could still see the bite marks that afternoon!) The teachers loved on him a little and he was fine. It does make me a little nervous for next year though because he’s going to be the very youngest kid in the 2 year old class. I mean, the youngest possible you could be -you have to turn 2 by September 1 and he turns 2 on August 30. Hope my baby can hold his own against the big kids next year!

A quick visit

February 27, 2012

Last week we had a quick visit from some of our very favorite people – GJ and Daddo! They stopped by for dinner on their way to Arkansas and we sure were glad to see them!

Maxwell loved all the attention…not surprisingly!

GJ clearly thought this was a very exciting Elmo book! 🙂

Maxwell and Daddo had a little chat…

as Daddo explained that C is for Cookie!

Maxwell then got out the SeeNSay and had GJ play the Old McDonald song about 50 times…and every time it played Maxwell would giggle and squeal and dance around! You can see how much that tickled GJ!