The Brown Brick Road

Capturing our adventures one photo at a time...

TGIF!

Ok, I feel like every Friday post lately has just been about “thank GOODNESS it’s Friday!”  Well, here’s another post just like that.  Now that I’ve been back to work for a full week my “thank GOODNESS it’s Friday” attitude is out in full force!

This week we got back into the groove of me working and the boys being with Susan.  Minus a few little bumps in the road it all went well.  A few highlights…

Spencer sat in the bumbo for the first time and loved it!

Maxwell wanted to get it on the action… (poor Spencer!)

and wasn’t so sure he wanted to give up the bumbo to his baby brother!

Spencer felt so cool in his bumbo he had to rock the shades…

Cool dude!

Too bad this cool dude has a big time bald spot on the back of his head!  ha!

Chilling in pj’s…

Enjoying the BEAUTIFUL spring preview weather on Wednesday…

Ole blue eyes was there too…

Happy baby!

Unfortunately someone was feeling a little pitiful Thursday and ended up like this for most of the morning.  Poor buddy.

We got hit with a little fever bug but I’m thinking it’s nothing that a marathon day of Cars and Toy Story can’t fix!

I hope you all have a great day and TGIF!!!

ps – despite what all these pics show, my boys do have more than 1 pair of pj’s!  the farm ones are just the current favorite!  🙂

Friday Favorite

Hi lovely readers!  It’s FRIDAY!  woohoo!  We’ve had an adventure of a week around here.  I’ve been potty training Maxwell.  I’ll spare the details but we’ve had ups, downs and lots of Teddy Grahams!  🙂  He’s doing great.  Let’s hope he does great at school next week too!

We’ve obviously been homebound this week so have been enjoying some fun toys – particularly these Bristle Blocks that the boys got for Christmas from Jenny, Ronnie, Katie and Anna.

They’re a blast from the past for me and Maxwell loves them.  We’ve built a train, several airplanes and even a swimming pool – at least that’s what Maxwell thought it looked like!

I love that they come in a big bucket for easy clean up and storage!  🙂

Thanks for the fun gift Jenny, Ronnie, Katie and Anna!  It’s a winner!

Hope you all have a great weekend.  We have fun little reward for our potty user – the circus!!  See you all Monday!

Zoolight Safari

Hi all! Hope you had a wonderful Christmas! Ours was an adventure as always. Sunday Maxwell came down with the croup and was up barking like a seal all night long. We had him at the doctor by 8am on Christmas Eve and got some a steroid prescription and it worked pretty quickly, thank goodness. He was feeling much better by that afternoon and slept pretty good that night. Good thing because he needed to be rested up for Santa’s visit!

Despite Maxwell’s nasty cold, we had a great Christmas day and, yes, Santa did deliver that fire truck and choo-choo track he asked for! He also brought Spencer the school bus that Maxwell had requested for him. That Santa is pretty good! Full details on Christmas day to come tomorrow.

For today, a little zoo action. On the 22nd, we went to Zoolight Safari. It was really neat and really, really cold! We bundled the boys up as best we could – Spencer in a fleece bunny suit and Maxwell in his Elmer Fudd hat…

Ready for some lights!

We met some friends there and Maxwell got to hang with his new buddy, Jack.

Notice those red mittens on Maxwell (or mit-mits as he says!) – those are now his favorite things and he’s been wearing them every day, even though it’s been 60 degrees out!

We rode the train…

and the carousel…

After that, we were freezing and decided we had had enough Zoo for one night so headed out to get some pizza. A fun holiday night!

See you all later!

Ho Ho Ho

Back in mid November, the boys and I visited Santa.  Maxwell was not fond of him at all!  We ended up using one of the pictures from this day on our Christmas card this year – check back tomorrow to see it if you haven’t already!

A few other photos from that day that didn’t make the card…

Hope you all have a wonderful Christmas Eve!  We’re off to bake some cookies (and by that I mean open a package of Oreos!) to leave out for Santa tonight.  Can’t wait to see if Maxwell gets the fire truck and choo-choo track he’s been asking for and if Spencer gets the school bus that Maxwell told Santa his baby brother needed!

Merry Christmas!

Candy House

Growing up, one of my favorite Christmas traditions was the candy house that my brother and I would decorate every year.  It’s sort of like a gingerbread house but it is a house made of wood that we would cover in icing and candy.  I always loved doing it!  Here’s me and my brother with our candy house circa 1986…

Oh yea!  We still have that original wooden candy house but it’s staying at GJ and Daddo’s.  But, over Thanksgiving, my mom surprised me and my brother with our own candy houses hand-made by my dad and Marc!  Best gift ever!!  I am SO excited to start the candy house tradition with my boys!!

On Friday, Maxwell, Spencer and I set out to decorate it.  We had plenty of icing and candy…

First we covered it in icing.  Maxwell was a big help…

A really big help…

Yep, such a big help.

See that side of the roof?  That’s about all the icing he actually got on the house!  🙂

Unfortunately, my other helper was feeling a little bah humbug during the decorating process…

I think he was just sad he wasn’t getting to “help” the way Maxwell was!

We then put all the candy on and, again, my assistant was really helpful…

How did I get so lucky to have such a good helper?!  🙂

In the end, we ended up with a fantastic looking candy house (that Maxwell actually really did help decorate)…

and two happy boys!

Can’t wait to continue this tradition every year!  Ho ho ho!