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Happy Valentine’s Day from my little lovebug!
Don’t you love his L♥VE tee? I found it in St. Louis 2 weeks ago and thought it was perfect for Valentine’s.
Maxwell is going to have a great day full of Valentine cookies at school (this recipe – the BEST!) and sweet Valentine cards for all of his friends.
I just made the cards out of cardstock and let Maxwell color away on each of them. Cute and super easy!
I hope you all have a day full of L♥VE…
♥ Happy Valentine’s Day! ♥
Continuing on with the Christmas re-cap and the memories to remember….and forget!
Memory to remember #3: Getting to see both sides of our family for the holidays! hooray!
Memory to forget #3: Giving both of my parents the stomach bug. My parents drove through AL on their way to AR for Christmas day. On the drive back to Florida, both my dad and my mom were victims of the stomach virus. But, they had to endure it in a hotel room 100s of miles from home. Miserable. Sorry about that GJ and Daddo!
But, thankfully everyone survived and Robert and I were able to fly down to Naples on the 28th to celebrate with my side of the family, including Susu and Dodo who had hitched a ride with my parents from AR to FL (and mercifully escaped the stomach bug!)
We were all glad to be together but within the first hour of our arrival came…
Memory to forget #4: Susu fell down and fractured her collarbone. Ouch. After a visit to the ER, she had a sling and some pain pills and handled the rest of the week like a tro0per!
Still, we weren’t going to let a few setbacks ruin our Christmas spirit! That night, we ripped into fun gifts and had a great time with each other.
Memory to remember #4: Having so much of my family gathered around one room for Christmas for the second year in a row.
After a good night’s sleep by all (including Maxwell! yay!) we got up the next day to play, play, play with the cousins and fun new toys!
Of course, as shiny and bright as those new toys are, it’s often the oldies but goodies that get played with the most! This is the Fisher Price barn that my brother and I had when we were little…
and this is the yellow banana car that was mine that lived at Susu’s house for years and years…
funny, right? I think I always liked him because he had red hair. 🙂
Of course, as fun and nostalgic as old toys are, NOTHING can beat playing in the pantry with a spatula…
Seriously, this is the kid’s favorite room in the house by far.
Btw, can we take a moment to check out the baby Crocs that I got for Maxwell to wear down in FL?
Adorbs.
All in all it was a great Christmas, mostly because we got to hang with these three cuties…
Although, one last…
Memory to forget #5: Almost being late to the airport for our flight out of Tampa because we made a wrong turn and then got completely trapped in the traffic for the Outback Bowl! Luckily we made it with time to spare…only to find out our flight was over an hour delayed. Taking a nighttime flight with your overtired baby? Not something to remember! 🙂
But, let’s end this all on a positive note…
Memories to remember:
– GJ blowing bubbles outside and making Delaney and Maxwell very happy.
– Delaney calling Maxwell both Max-ka-well and Buddy.
– Maxwell falling asleep sitting straight up while riding in his little red car. Truly asleep at the wheel!
– Me opening the sippy cup on the plane only to have water shoot out of the straw like a hose onto the neck of the guy across the aisle (hilarious and probably something that poor man would like to forget!).
– Robert being the best there is by cooking and cleaning.
– Maxwell giving everyone kisses good night.
It was a merry Christmas indeed!
Hope you all have a great weekend full of memories to remember!
Let the holiday re-capping begin!
As I said yesterday, the holidays this year were definitely memorable…with some memories we’ll always want to remember and some others that I think we’d all like to forget!
Memory to remember #1: Getting to wake up in our own house Christmas morning!
Memory to forget #1: Robert and I woke up Christmas Eve morning with the stomach bug. ugh.
Robert was hit MUCH harder than I was with the stomach bug so I slugged through and took care of the baby all day while Robert stayed in bed. Luckily we were both feeling better by Christmas morning. While not 100% yet, we were able to get up and see that Santa had come down our chimney!
Whoa! Maxwell didn’t quite know what to think when he got up that morning. Well, what he first thought was, “I want my bottle of milk!” But, after his tummy was full, he was happy enough to check out what Santa brought him. It was no surprise to me what his favorite thing was…
Topped off with a brand new fireman’s hat, he was ready to go!
Other toys were hits as well, like his Megablocks…
and this Little People barn from GJ and Daddo.
We then packed up and drove down to Montgomery to spend the day with Robert’s family. What fun we had! Maxwell got into the spirit…
and loved all the attention.
We even got to see River the pony dog! While BIG, River is just about the sweetest, calmest pup in the world. Even I liked him (from a distance of course) and, if you know me, that’s saying a lot!
We had a great day and Maxwell loved “helping” to sort the gifts…
playing with new toys…
and giving Lou Lou a new “do” with a Barbie brush!
I think Katie and Anna had a great day as well!
Memory to remember #2: Anna and Maxwell acting like best buds all day. Kindred spirits these two!
Unfortunately, that fantastic day brought….
Memory to forget #2: Maxwell refusing to sleep and screaming crying all. night. long.
I don’t know what the issue was but Maxwell would not go to sleep in the crib. Robert and I finally took him into the (double size mattress) bed with us. Real comfy, let me tell ya. He would sleep for a bit and then just sit up and scream bloody murder until I calmed him down again. I think we all ended up head to toe in the bed and not much sleep was had for anyone. Considering Robert and I were still one day out from the stomach bug, that lack of sleep hurt. But, we survived. Ho Ho Ho!
Tomorrow the re-capping continues!
I thought I’d close out 2011 with a few more pictures of my little buddy in his oh so cute white hat…
See you all NEXT YEAR!! 2011 was better than I could have hoped but I think 2012 is going to be even better! I’ve got some fun changes in store…stay tuned!!
Merry Christmas to all…
and to all a good night.