Capturing our adventures one photo at a time...
Happy Monday! It was a BEAUTIFUL weekend around here. We had some rain Friday night that blew in some very welcome cooler temps! We did our best to enjoy it!
Breakfast swinging on the porch…
Lunch al fresco…
and afternoon climbing trees!
A beautiful weekend for sure!
See you tomorrow!
As I mentioned around Maxwell’s birthday, he’s become a Lego maniac! All he wanted for his birthday was Legos, Legos, Legos! I think they’re fantastic for him – they allow him to be super focused on something and teach him how to follow instructions too.
The biggest thing he wanted for his birthday was the Lego City Fire Station. It’s for 6 to 12 year olds but Maxwell, one week before he turned 5, put the whole thing together by himself in 2 days! I was SUPER impressed! We rarely help him at all – only if he has a question here or there or needs help putting a sticker on straight! 🙂
As soon as he builds something, he takes it up to his room to put on top of his chest so Spencey can’t reach it! 🙂 He’s building quite a Lego city up there!
While he definitely likes to build the sets as they are supposed to be built, he does have a few sets that he’s actually taken apart to use the pieces to build his own thing. That actually kind of surprised me! I thought he’d want to leave them all together the way they are “supposed” to be. I’m so proud of all the creative things he’s built. He sure has fun with it all! He’ll even help Spencey with his Duplos now and then…
But, to Maxwell, Duplos are “baby Legos!” ha! He only wants the real deal big boy ones for himself!
Now if I could just find a way to store all these Legos!!
Happy weekend!
Aren’t they the cutest?
Samantha looked especially cute last week wearing the first dress my mom ever smocked for me. Awwww.
Her brothers definitely thought she looked adorable. ha!
Another thing I think is cute? When these crazy boys stick their heads out of the sunroof while we’re in carpool line. Safe? nah. Fun? yeah!
And the cutest of all? This…
I do love my cute babies.
It’s already Tuesday! Hooray! We stuck around here for the long weekend and it was really nice not to have any plans. Even though we got some rain and still have major muggy weather, we did enjoy the outside…
On Saturday we ventured out to the mall because the boys had a gift certificate to Build A Bear that they got from Keath, Jen, Nate and Delaney for their birthdays. They were pretty excited to make a friend for the first time! Maxwell went with a tiger (obviously) and Spencey picked a dinosaur.
It was pretty fun and they sure were proud to walk out with their new friends in their houses! 🙂 Maxwell’s tiger also has a fireman outfit and Spencer’s has a police man outfit.
We then had lunch at the food court (so 1990’s of us) and then I got suckered into taking them on the carousel. Spencer was really excited to ride the elephant but someone else beat us to it so he spent almost his whole carousel ride whining “I want da eyaphant!” Being 2 is hard.
I think the excitement of the mall was just about too much for Samantha to handle because she suuuuure was fussy that afternoon! She got to get an early bath…chubby in the tubby! 🙂
And then also got an early bedtime. The boys soon followed and then Robert and I stayed up too late watching the Alabama game! Roll Tide!
On Sunday evening we went to dinner in Uptown to try something different. Unfortunately, the food wasn’t good…but the company sure was!
On Monday, Maxwell and Robert headed to the field to get some soccer practice in. Games start next weekend and Maxwell needed to break in his new fancy tiger-colored cleats!
I spent my Labor Day laboring away in the kitchen! I made tons of muffins to stock the freezer for school lunches and a few crock-pot meals from this site. It will be nice to have easy meals ready to throw in the crock pot….we’ll see if I can keep this up.
So, that was our nice, no plans, pretty boring, long weekend. I sure did enjoy it!
Happy Labor Day from me and my 3 babies!
Don’t worry, Robert got to be in plenty of other pictures! 🙂
Enjoy the day off!