The Brown Brick Road

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Tonsil update – Maxwell’s doing pretty good! We’ve been staying ahead of the game on the pain meds and he’s handling things well. There’s been plenty of ice cream, milkshakes, pudding, and jello – for all! Spencer and Samantha are surely enjoying Maxwell’s tonsillectomy! ha!

In other non-tonsil news, we had dinner with our neighbors on Sunday night and the kids had a blast…

dinner

I took this for dessert and it tasted as good as it looked!

dessert

We might have all come home from dinner and polished it off!  🙂

dessert

Maxwell had his first baseball practice with his team on Tuesday. I think it’s going to be a great season. He has two of his class buds on his team which makes it more fun!

baseball

baeball

baseball

Hoping for a restful weekend!

and they’re out!

Maxwell made it through surgery yesterday. His tonsils are gone and so are his adenoids. The doc said his tonsils were average size but his adenoids were giant and blocking 90% of his airway! Whoa! He had a little issue waking up from the anesthesia and couldn’t breathe well. He started having stridor and they had to give him two breathing treatments. They got it under control and finally got him back out to us. It was a long wait for me and Robert and we were glad to finally get him back, even if he was pretty miserable! We made it home and he’s been resting and drinking whatever he wants – including a milkshake!

Before all the action yesterday!

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kids

Then Susan took the two littles to school and it was a bit windy! ha!

windy

Robert and I took our brave patient up for surgery…

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We were all glad to finally make it back home that afternoon. Don’t worry, he’s got plenty of good nurses taking care of him!

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nurse

Hoping it’s a quick and easy recovery!

Tonsils

This silly goose is getting his tonsils and possibly adenoids out today.

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Please say a prayer for an uncomplicated procedure and an easy recovery!

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You can say a prayer for Nurse Momma’s patience too! 😉

Maxwell happenings

Maxwell is thriving in Kindergarten. He has a great class, loves his teacher, and truly enjoys school every day! A few things that have gone on at school lately…

They celebrated 100 days of school!

100 days

100 days

Another day parents got to go up and observe their morning meetings. I always love getting to see him in his element surrounded by his buddies!

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I also got to go up for the Jump Rope for the Heart performance which, I have to say, was way more entertaining than I was expecting!

jump rope

The school system also did an art contest about 6 weeks ago. It is system wide and then the winners of each school go on to compete at the District/Regional level. Kids from each grade could enter in various categories – visual arts, singing, video, etc. Maxwell was excited about it and worked on his Millennium Falcon adding some X Wing Fighters and Tie Fighters to make a complete scene. He did every single bit of this himself. I did not help with any of it. He put it on black posterboard to make it look even more awesome and I thought it turned out, well, incredible!

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Seriously, the amount of detail in that thing and the fact that he’s only 6?! Wow.

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He continually amazes me. Anyway, he was very excited about the contest and we were all pretty confident he would win something. Unfortunately, the winners were announced and Maxwell didn’t get anything, not even an honorable mention. I thing I was more bummed about it than Maxwell honestly, mainly because it just didn’t make sense to me. These were the winning pieces…

art

art

When I went to pick up Maxwell’s piece that afternoon, I saw the PTO mom who was heading up the contest and when she saw I was getting Maxwell’s art, she stopped me and said that she wanted me to know that the judge was blown away by the level of detail in Maxwell’s piece and really loved it. Unfortunately, it was 2 inches too big. !!!! Yes, total mom fail because I did not read the guidelines carefully enough and the piece of poster board was 2 inches too big. I was crushed. Crushed. I don’t remember feeling that sad or disappointed in myself in a long, long time. Maxwell took it all in stride (life lesson – be more like my 6 year old!). Still, I was just so bummed that I took away Maxwell’s right to get honored and recognized for his hard work and talent. Oh well, there’s always next year. I did decide that piece needed to be recognized though and took it to the framer. We got it back last week and Maxwell thinks it’s pretty cool…

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and it now it looks really cool hanging in his room!

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On another good note, a piece that Maxwell made in art class was selected to be displayed in the local library for the month of March! They picked one piece form each grade and Maxwell’s art will represent all of Kindergarten! Hooray! We even get to to go a reception later this month…

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I’m so proud of this kid. He’s smart, he’s kind, he’s creative, he’s responsible, he’s funny…he’s the best. The BEST.

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I love him so much.

Monday Monday

Happy Monday! What a beautiful weekend we had. We had no plans and sure enjoyed it! Crazy when this is what you’re wearing in February…

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february

Bare legs and short sleeves! The best! The only bad part about spring springing is the pollen and things blooming. It’s rough on Spence even after all these allergy shots. He’s dealing with an allergy induced cold (poor guy) so skipped school on Friday and he and Samantha took advantage of the nice weather and visited the animals at the zoo…

zoo

and then got to have a little treat!

ice cream

On Saturday morning we headed out to the ball park so Maxwell could have his first baseball practice! Maxwell had fun – but I think Robert enjoyed it most of all! The boys then took a trip to Dick’s to get fully outfitted for the season…

baseball

Batter up! We’re all ready for spring ball!

baseball

See you tomorrow!