Another Friday and another list of things of interest…

1. Spencer has his 2 month doctor check-up today.  I’ll post an update with his stats later today.

2. If you’re a regular reader, you know Maxwell has a love of all things firefighter, especially firefighter hats!  He loves them so much, he’ll even wear two!

He’s going to make sure his brother loves them too!  🙂

3. Maxwell has been wearing Christmas shirts pretty much every day the past two weeks.  Gotta get good use out of them before the season is over!

3. I was drinking coffee the other day (actually a chai latte and I never really drink straight coffee so not sure where Maxwell learned the word?) but Maxwell informed me that he has coffee at school in his “coffee cup”!  I asked him if his teacher drinks coffee and he said, “no, me!”  hmmmm…..

4. Both boys had on their Christmas pj’s yesterday morning so here’s a little preview of Christmas morning!

adorable.

5. I went to a cookie exchange party this week and made these Soft, Chewy Ginger cookies and they were really good!  My favorites that someone else brought were these Cornmeal Lime cookies.  (her recipe was a little different but this Giada recipe is close).  Sounds strange but so good!  like a margarita in a cookie!

That’s all for today!  As long as the rain holds off we have a fun weekend planned – a trip to Zoolight Safari!  See you later!

Continuing with our weekend recap, on Saturday evening, after all of our family visitors were gone, we went over to the house of some friends to see Santa again!  I dressed the boys in matching shirts and tried to get a picture of them before we left…

Yea, that didn’t go so well.

At the party “Santa Wayne” was super jolly but Maxwell still really didn’t want anything to do with him.  We took our time and just watched Santa for a while before we got near him and that seemed to help a bit.  Maxwell did finally agree to go close to him as long as I held him and he did tell Santa that he wanted both a fire truck AND a train track this time!  Glad we got that done!

Santa even had a gift for both Maxwell and Spencer.  so nice!  Spencer got a piggy bank and Maxwell got a John Deere camera.

He was running around like the paparazzi all night snapping everyone’s picture!

He was also running around stealing cookies all night!  Everyone was laughing because whenever they saw him he had a new cookie in his hand.  I think he ate parts of 5 different Christmas cookies during the party. ha! He was on a sugar high!

There were also two little dogs at the party and, honestly, Maxwell was more scared of them than he was of Santa.  That surprised me.  He didn’t want those little puppies anywhere near him!  Guess he’s more like me than I thought!

A fun night!

1. Shatterproof ornaments are a great invention.

2. After several 70 degree days in December, a cold front finally moved in and it feels much more like Christmas.  Cold weather also means we had to bust out the super cute sweater and cap that Susu knitted for my boys…

Adorable!

3. Obviously, Spencer is a very good eater!  🙂

4. Maxwell is finally saying his name.  After almost 28 months of being called “Maxwell” every day, he finally decided to answer the question, “What is your name?” by actually saying “Maxwell!”  He’s SO proud of himself when he says it too.  Couldn’t be cuter if he tried.

5. It’s the weekend and I’m glad.  As if we haven’t already terrified Maxwell enough, we’re going to visit jolly old St. Nick one more time on Saturday!  Maxwell’s gotta tell him he wants a train track…wish us luck!

See you Monday!