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First Day of School!

August 28, 2013

A break in the birthday posts to tell you about two things.

1. Happy Birthday Susan!!!

susan bday

We tried to get a cute picture for you but…well, you know how that goes!  🙂  We love you SO much and are wishing you a fantastic year ahead full of everything good!!!

2. Monday was the first day of school for both boys!  Spencer is in the nursery with a new teacher, Miss Haley, and Maxwell is in the 2 year old class with Ms. Betsy.

Posing on the steps before heading out!

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Oh, I could just eat these sweet boys up!

first day of school

first day of school

Maxwell all ready with his bag!

first day of school

When I dropped Maxwell off at his room, he immediately found – what else? – a firetruck!

first day of school

He was loving all the new toys in his classroom and didn’t mind me leaving him one bit!

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My big boy!

Spencer wasn’t so happy about me leaving him…

first day of school

But I think that was mostly due to the fact that this was when he was supposed to be asleep for his morning nap!  Not to worry though, he got happy pretty quickly and had a great day.  When I walked back by the room after the parent meeting, I peeked in and saw this…

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See him back there just checking things out in that swing?  Here…let me zoom in for you!

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Oh, I love that baby.

Maxwell loved his first day.  He got to play on the playground THREE times for goodness sake! It doesn’t get much better than that to him!  Spencer’s day was good but he was a worn out little guy when I went to get him.  We were barely out of the parking lot and he looked like this…

first day of school

Aside from a bottle mix-up (they fed him someone else’s bottle of milk/formula?!! I was NOT happy) it all went great.  Here’s to a good year ahead!

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Weekend recap

August 19, 2013

First, Happy Birthday Jen! Hope it’s a GREAT one!

Second, hope you all had a good weekend. Ours was nice with fantastic temps in the 70s on Saturday! We had tons of rain on Sunday which is no fun but I’ll take that over the heat. Our weekend went a little something like this…

Spencer looked cute…

spencer

and then got to wear shoes for the first time! I used to put shoes on Maxwell all the time when he was a baby but I’ve literally never put them on Spencer’s feet until Friday. But, I think I want him to wear shoes to school so he needs to get used to them!

spencer shoes

He wasn’t quite sure about them at first but then got used to them. I think his little fat legs look so cute in them! 🙂

Speaking of shoes, Maxwell got some new shoes for school! Zappos delivered 3 new pair on Friday…

shoes

Maxwell loved them all and kept running circles in the house saying “these make me fast!”

shoes

Unfortunately, his new shoes didn’t keep him from falling Saturday morning while helping Dad in the yard. He bit it on the concrete and we had to patch up a scraped leg and elbow with some band-aids. It wasn’t all that bad though but he was a *bit* dramatic about it! Skinned elbow = traumatic I guess! By that afternoon he had fortunately made a full recovery and we took a field trip to Bass Pro. Robert needed to get something and it’s always a fun place for Maxwell to explore…

bas pro

That night we grabbed some pizza and Spencer got to sit in this retro high chair…funny.

high chair

Sunday morning things were looking good and we headed to church…

spencer church

And then, when leaving church, Maxwell once again bit it on the concrete and ended up with knees that looked like this…

skinned knees

Ouch! Can’t blame his new shoes on this though because he had on some old ones. Poor, poor buddy! And, once again, he was quite dramatic about the whole thing…

skinned knees

He’s now all bandaged up and will hopefully stay scrape free for the next week! Goodness gracious.

Hope you all had a good and injury-free weekend!

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Bend it

August 12, 2013

We had a great weekend and, on Saturday, got Maxwell all signed up to play Sunday Soccer! It’s the Birmingham United Soccer Association and they have an “Under 4” division where they practice and then play on 5 different Sundays in the fall. 30 minutes of practice, 30 minutes of a little 4 on 4 game. I can’t wait to go watch…pretty sure it’s going to be hilarious!

You have to get a ball, some shinguards, dark colored shorts and cleats (optional). We stopped by Mountain Brook Sports after signing him up and got a size 3 soccer ball – gotta start practicing at home! We asked Maxwell if he wanted to play soccer and he didn’t even know what it was! ha! Nothing a few youtube videos and a little play in the backyard can’t fix!

soccer

Robert even signed up to be a coach. I think that will make it even more fun for Maxwell!

soccer

This one will be out there with his big brother soon enough…

spencey sunshine

He’s already pretty fast just on hands and knees!

sunshine

(love that sunshine!)

I’ll be very interested to see how Maxwell does. He definitely has natural athletic ability…we’ll just have to wait and see how he acts in an organized game with other kids. Either way, we’re going to make it fun!

soccer

Goal!!

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Super duper!

August 9, 2013

A few things of interest around here this week…

Spencer is getting a top tooth!  One of his front teeth is breaking through and he’s handled it like a champ.  I was totally surprised considering Maxwell didn’t get any teeth at all until 1 and Spencer is going to have bottom and top teeth by 10 months!

Spencer looooves watermelon.  He’s been eating it up all by himself at dinner the past few nights.  Wishing big brother would follow his lead!

We’re ready for the weekend and think it’s gonna be SUPER!

superman

super man

Up, up, and away!

superman

It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s Superboy!

superboy

and Superbaby too!

Superbaby

Wishing you all a SUPER weekend from Super Susan, Superboy and Superbaby…

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and from Supermom too!  😉

super mom

See you next week!

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Standing

August 8, 2013

Spencer is getting really good at pulling all the way up to standing now.  The past 3 mornings when I’ve gone into his room he’s been standing up in his crib!  Go Spencey!

Here he is testing that balance by the couch last week…

standing

Cute chunky monkey on his tip toes…

standing

Of course he’s always being entertained…

standing

by Big Brother.

maxwell

Big Brother’s not chunky, but he definitely acts like a monkey sometimes!

monkey maxwell

ha!

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