The Brown Brick Road

Capturing our adventures one photo at a time...

Hospital Day 2

I woke up on my second day in the hospital so happy to find out that Samantha was indeed real and was indeed a girl!  🙂  and let’s get serious, it’s not like I just woke up that morning – I was up all night sleeping in about hour long stretches. I didn’t care though. I might have been tired but I had a baby girl and nothing was going to take me off that high!

samantha

The boys came up that day and brought Samantha a little treat – a tiger stuffed animal rattle picked out by Maxwell especially for her!  Perfect!

rattle

Samantha also had a treat for her brothers – these cool Boogie Board writing tablets.

boogie boards

The boys were so excited to check out their baby sister and, this time, even Spencey wanted to get up there and see her…and touch her!

baby

sam and brothers

checking her out

spencey

spencey

Everyone took turns holding her…

holding

and kissing on her.

kissing

Soon the boys settled into their iPads and Robert held the baby and I just had to laugh and smile at this image…

full house

We’ve got a full house now!

That night I also gave Samantha her first manicure!  🙂 Her nails were really long when she was born so I took some baby emery boards to her little nails so she wouldn’t scratch her face…

nails

and look at her scaly skin! eek! That’s what a full term 40 week baby’s hands look like!

It was a great day 2 with this sweet baby girl!

samantha

Tomorrow? Home! See you then.

brusha brusha brusha

Monday we made a trip to the dentist!  While this was not Spencer’s first trip (thanks to him previously “busting open his whole mouf“), it was his first regular cleaning.   He’s almost the exact same age as Maxwell was on his first dentist visit. Both boys did GREAT. The dentist even complimented them on being such sweet boys.  Yay!

Maxwell had to get some x-rays…

dentist

and then showed Spencer just what to do in the chair…

dentist

dentist

and they both acted super sweet for the hygienist.

dentist

dentist

We got great reports from the dentist…

dentist

dentist

and were happy to get treats when done!

dentist

Happy for good dentist reports!

Back to school a little late

Happy Tuesday! On the boys’ first day of school, I mentioned I had also taken some pics of them on the front porch with my big camera.  Well, just now getting around to sharing them…

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first day

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Stinkers. I sure do love them and am so happy they’re loving school so far!

Two Wheelin’

On Sunday Maxwell decided he wanted to give his new bike a little test ride.  So, we took him out in the alley behind the house and went for a quick little spin.  He was pretty trepidatious at first but warmed up and did great….on what was a VERY short trip!  🙂  But, it was a great first start and I see many afternoons of bike riding in his future!

bike

bike

bike

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bike ride

bike ride

bike ride

bike ride

bike ride

bike ride

bike ride

One loop down and back and that was enough for day one!

bike ride

“Phew. My head is sweaty, Momma.”

bike ride

Go Speed Racer!

First Day!

Both boys had a GREAT first day of school!  I took some pics on the front porch with my big camera that I’ll get up later but here’s the day with the iPhone…

Attempted photos inside…

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Attempted photos outside…

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And the one that seemed to be the best (despite Maxwell’s kinda funny face) and was shared on IG and FB…

first day

We dropped Spencer off first in the Older Toddlers class with Ms. Alice.  He was so excited to be in his new room with so many new toys. Maxwell was even excited about Spencer’s new room because they had a TOY KITCHEN (which is the #1 item on his Christmas list this year btw). Happily, Spencer got distracted by some toys and Maxwell and I were able to slip out without him noticing or crying. Yay!

I walked Maxwell over to his new room, the 3 year old class with Ms. Kathy, and he just marched right in like a big boy! Lila was already there and he immediately took a seat next to her and could not have been happier.

lila

He was surrounded by girls which he’s going to have to get used to this year!  🙂

school

I stood out in the hall for a few minutes waiting on a friend to go to the Parent Meeting and Maxwell saw me and just gave me the cutest little thumbs up.  Sweet boy.

Later that day, the school sent me this pic of Spencer playing away in his class. He clearly liked the TOY KITCHEN too – check out the pot holder on one hand and pot stirring with the other! ha!

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Btw, that’s not his lunch in front of him but if he wanted to eat some of those apples and carrots that would be fine with me.  🙂

Later that day when I went and picked them up (my FAVORITE part of the week), both came running up to me with big smiles on their faces. A GREAT day was had by both boys.

first day

Here’s to a FANTASTIC start to what I’m sure will be a FANTASTIC year!