The Brown Brick Road

Capturing our adventures one photo at a time...

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First – guess who CRAWLED yesterday!!!  Maxwell is on the move!  Granted, it was more of an army crawl with his belly on the ground but he got his knees up under him and made his way across the floor!  exciting!!!  Can’t wait to see how quickly he starts moving now!

Now that he’s crawling, I’m sure he’s going to wear himself out every day even more than before.  Good thing there’s nothing sweeter than a sleeping baby….

especially mine.  Sigh.

Hope you all have a restful holiday weekend! We’re going to be practicing our crawling!

Goldfish

We had playgroup at our house last week.  It was a beautiful day outside and everyone was enjoying playing in the yard…until the sprinklers came on!  oops!  Luckily I was able to get them turned off pretty quickly and we didn’t get too wet.  All of the water did make it nice for the goldfish though…that’s goldfish of the Pepperidge Farm variety!  ha ha ha!  You didn’t know I was so funny, did you?  🙂

Put out a bowl of goldfish in the middle of 8 kids under the age of 3 and those little things go FAST and get EVERYWHERE!!  Many of them ended up right by Maxwell and, even though he doesn’t have teeth yet, I think he enjoyed getting his first taste of the cheesy little fish…

I don’t think he ever actually ate one…just licked them and crushed them in his hands!  He had fun with them though!

Some other cute pics from the afternoon…

A fun (and slightly wet!) play day!

Clap clap clap!

We sing and clap pattycake to Maxwell all the time. We also cheer and clap after he does just about anything.  It shouldn’t come as a surprise that, as of yesterday, Maxwell has mastered the art of clapping on his own thanks to a little lesson from Susan. Maxwell loves to clap his little hands together!

Yes, this would be much better in a video but here’s some still photos…just scroll really fast!  🙂

He’ll be singing Pattycake to himself in no time!

I actually have a super cute video of him clapping but, after 45 minutes trying to figure out how to embed my flickr video into this post, I still can’t figure it out.  If you know how to do this, tell me!

Sippy Cup

After trying for about 2 weeks now, Maxwell has finally figured out how to get the juice out of the sippy cup!  hooray!  He still needs a little help to tilt the cup up but he’s getting there!

Of course he also likes to chew on all parts of the cup…

and the dish towel!

Fun in the kitchen!

More Easter

We woke in Montgomery on Easter and had a great time getting to visit all morning.  We then got dressed up in our Easter finest!  Maxwell loved his little sailor outfit and kept saying “Ahoy!” all day.  🙂

After that picture, I put my big camera up and didn’t get it out the remainder of the day. I just needed a little camera break.  I clearly can’t cut myself off 100%  though because I continued to snap away with my point & shoot and phone camera!

All dressed up and ready to go!

Posing with LuLu and Granddad…

Ready for lunch at the club…

Look who sat in a high chair the entire time and didn’t fuss one bit!

He really was SO good all weekend long.  Such a little happy guy!

At lunch we gave him his first cracker to suck on…

He wasn’t exactly a fan!  Maybe he’s a sweet and not a salty?  His favorite thing about the cracker was being able to crush it in his hands!

Katie and Anna were also all dolled up in their Easter frocks…

After lunch we headed back to Robert’s parents house to hang out.  Here’s some pics from my phone to round out the afternoon.

I love these chubby legs…

Here you can really see how blonde and wavy his hair is getting…

We headed back to Birmingham late Sunday afternoon and Maxwell was just worn out from all the fun…

I hope you had a wonderful first Easter sweet boy!  You were so good all weekend and charmed everyone with your cute dimples.  We can’t wait to see you hunt some eggs next year!!