Firsts – Page 24

Happenings

June 5, 2015

What’s been going on around here the past week or so? Lots!

Poor Samantha is learning the realities of having 2 older brothers and that it means having to wear things like boy pjs…

pjs

and a boy sleep sack. At least she’s surrounded by pink lovies! 🙂

sleep sack

Thanks to the space in our new driveway, the boys have been loving getting out the fire truck! It’s even reignited Maxwell’s love of all things firemen and he’s been wearing his firetruck t-shirts all week! Hooray!

fire truck

Last weekend we went over to Jessica and Watson’s house for a little bbq with friends. It was great – good food, a sprinkler for the kids, and popsicles for all!

brothers

babies

bbq

sprinkler

spirnkler

jack

popsicles

bbq

The boys have been thoroughly enjoying the nice weather and playing outside. As I mentioned last week, we got Maxwell a new orange scooter. It was a 2 wheel one and, while he was doing pretty good with it, it was a little difficult for him to ride so I got him another one with 3 wheels and he’s been zipping all around on that thing! Well, Spencer decided he needed a scooter too and kept trying to take Maxwell’s so I went over to Wal-Mart and got him one of his own – a RadioFlyer “My First Scooter”…

scooter

He was happy with that for about 5 minutes then just wanted Maxwell’s scooter again. Lesson learned – I should have just gotten them the same thing from the beginning. So, after asking Spencer over and over that he was sure he wanted “geen” and not orange like Maxwell, I ordered him his own big boy scooter.

scooter

He could not be happier! It came on Wednesday afternoon and they immediately took off on those things…

scooter

and were back at it by 8:00 Friday morning!

scooter

I have to say, it was the right decision. These scooters are great and after just one day of practice, Spencer is zipping around on that thing with no problems. Maxwell is a speed demon on his! The scooters are these – Micro Mini. Highly recommend!

Finally, Robert had to travel for work this week which meant dinner at the Mexaurant for me and the kids…

mexaurant

and nightly pj pics to send to Dad!

pjs

and, yes, I bought that baby girl some girl pjs! 🙂

girl pjs

Have a great weekend!

Rolling almost over

June 4, 2015

Every time I put Samantha down on her back, she ends up like this…

rolling over

She’s almost rolling over but that bottom arm just gets stuck and she can’t get over the hump!

rolling over

I give her a little push though and she rolls over on to her belly and then she’s just as happy as can be!

rolling over

Happy, sweet baby girl!

rolling over

NOLA

May 29, 2015

Two weekends ago, Robert, Samantha and I traveled down to New Orleans for the wedding of Robert’s friend, Lem. It took a lot of coordination to get us out of town but I’m so glad we made the trip. The boys got to go have a fun weekend in Montgomery with Lulu, Granddaddy, Jenny, Ronnie and, of course, Katie and Anna! It was their first time to stay away from home without us and they did great. On Friday, Robert and I dropped Maxwell off at school and then hit the road to Nola. Spencer stayed with Susan who then picked Maxwell up from school. Lulu and Ronnie then drove up to get the boys and take them to Montgomery for the weekend. See, lots of coordinating going on! 🙂

When we got to Nola, we had the very best babysitter in the world waiting there to keep Samantha in the hotel all weekend…

GJ’s the best.

Robert and I had fun at the party on Friday night…

nola

and then had more fun exploring Nola and being tourists on Saturday morning! Beignets = yum.

nola

Also, babies in hats = adorable.

nola

I hadn’t been to Nola in years and, while it’s a fun city, it’s pretty dirty and just not really my scene. It was also crazy humid all weekend. Apparently, it was also exhausting…

nola

Completely exhausting..

nola

Still, we loved getting to see good friends and explore the city a bit.

nola

Meanwhile, back in Montgomery… the boys weren’t missing us one bit! They were having too much fun eating at Moe’s, camping out in sleeping bags, and going to the zoo!

moes

sleeping bags

zoo

nola

A HUGE thank you to all the Mgm Browns for making the boys’ weekend SO fun!!

In Nola, Robert and I got all dolled up to go the wedding on Saturday night…

nola

where we had a great time and loved getting to celebrate Lem and Evie!

nola

lem and robert

lem and evie

We even made it to the after party where some people danced on top of a pool table!

nola

But, I don’t know much about that. 😉 Sunday morning came way too early and we hit the road. Robert and I were both wishing we could have been doing this on the drive…

snooze

But, we made it to Montgomery and were so happy to get the boys and all be back together again!

mgm

It was a super fun weekend that would not have been possible without the help of our awesome families! Thank you again!

Weekend recap

May 26, 2015

We had a great long weekend around here. We had no plans but we did have some visitors! And everyone got to love on Baby Mantha!

visitors

Things are just more fun when GJ and crew are around!

Especially when she takes you places like this!

toys

We walked out of Toys R Us with a few treasures for all, including this archery set for Maxwell.

archery

He had it mastered by the end of the day!

bullseye

We also got a new trike for Spencer…

trike

and a scooter for Maxwell!

scooter

We got a 2 wheel scooter as opposed to a 3 wheel one and, while it’s challenging for him, I think it will be good for him and I have no doubt he’ll be zipping around the neighborhood by the end of the summer!

We got Samantha a swing for outside that we need to get hung. But, we also pulled this out of the attic for her to play in!

jumperoo