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July 28, 2014

Happy Monday! Thanks for all the sweet comments on Friday. We’re pretty excited – and a little overwhelmed! – at the thought of a 3rd.  There’s lots of things you don’t think about in becoming a family of 5, like the need for a new car, how you put 3 kids to bed at the same time, how you make 3 kids fit into 2 bedrooms, and, as Granddaddy pointed out, how much harder it’s going to be to get a table at a restaurant from here on out!  🙂  All things I think we can manage just fine.  Well, the room thing might cause a bit of an issue…Maxwell doesn’t yet know that he’ll eventually be sharing a room with Spencer and I see no need to tell him until absolutely necessary!  I know they’ll end up loving it.

One thing I’m sure of, it’s going to be next to impossible to get all THREE smiling at the camera for a picture. It took me 2 days to get the pictures I put up on Friday of the boys in their “BIG Brother” tshirts.  Enjoy some outtakes…

boys

boys

boys

Spencer was the most difficult model. Trying to get him to sit where you want him to sit and actually smile is just not going to happen at this age.

boys

boys

boys

All the outtakes weren’t totally terrible…but that doesn’t mean they were exactly right either.

boys

boys

They are such sweet boys.

boys

boys

Of course, I also know that they’ll get to an age where they will happily smile for a picture…with a bribe of course!  🙂  When they all reach that age, I’ll end up with gems like these…

smiling mbb

smiling mbb

Also, we told Maxwell this weekend about the new baby. His immediate reaction?  “Noooo, I don’t want a new baby!!” followed by a few (fake) tears.  He came around pretty quickly though and decided a new baby could be alright as long as it’s another “bruver” and not a sister!  ha!  He also thinks we should name it Jelly! And, no, we’re not going to find out what it is…I think!  Surprise!

See you tomorrow!

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The more the merrier

July 25, 2014

You know how you envision your life a certain way? Well, I always envisioned my life with 2 kids. Just 2.

big brother

Guess this is one of the few times I’ll admit I was wrong.  🙂

big brother

big brother

We’ll be a family of FIVE in late January! Bring on the chaos…it’s gonna be fun!

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The cutest

July 24, 2014

A couple of really cute things around here lately…

1. When we got back from the lake with all the cousins, Maxwell said he wanted to “color his fingernails”. Clearly the girl cousins had been having fun painting their nails and he wanted to do it too! I volunteered to go get some blue or even orange polish for him but he said “or we could just use girl colors?!”  Pink, sparkles it was!

polish

He even asked for a heart on his thumbs and big toenails!  🙂

nails

2 weeks later and those sparkles are still on!

2. Last night Maxwell hit his head on the counter and was pretty upset. I got him mostly calmed down and he went and sat next to Spencer and tried to give him a little hug but, as usual, Spencer knocked him away and even accidentally hit him in the face with a train track.  I told Spencer, “We don’t hit brother. He was just trying to love on you and you need to be nice”.  I said it really more for Maxwell’s benefit obviously.  Well, Maxwell then left the room and when he came back, Spencer just stood up and walked over to him, wrapped his arms around his waist, laid his head on his chest and gave him the biggest, sweetest hug.  Maxwell and I honestly just stared at each other speechless.  I guess Spencer totally understood what happened and knew he needed to love on his big brother!!!  Awwww.

hugging

Of course, the hugging then turned into a game that really turned into wrestling!  🙂

3. This…

Best sound ever.

Make it a great day!

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School Pals

July 23, 2014

Last week, some of the moms from Maxwell’s grade organized a little popsicle get-together so all the friends could see each other over the summer.  They had a blast running around and letting their popsicles melt all over themselves!

Maxwell with his good buddies Max and James…

popsicles

and, oh happy day! Lila was there…

lila

I think it was pretty much the best day of the summer so far for Maxwell!

lila

Really hope they’re in the same class next year! Fingers crossed!

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Weekend

July 22, 2014

As I mentioned yesterday, we had a very low-key weekend. And since I have nothing else to talk about today, I’m going to tell you about it.  Excited? Yea, I thought so.

We stayed in our pajamas until about 10:00 on Saturday morning…

saturday

Well, the boys and I did. Robert went out to the dealership at 8:00 to get a new tire because his had a nail in it! No fun!

We then went over to my parent’s apartment to finally bring back most of the stuff that we had stored over there when we were going to put our house on the market.  The boys had a blast helping us sort through the boxes…

apartment

We also took about 15 trash bags of stuff to Jimmy Hale to donate. Feels so good to purge! We then all went to lunch at Moe’s to make Maxwell happy. When we got there, Robert and the boys got a table while I got in line to order. When it was my turn, the burrito making guy said, “You’re Spencer and Maxwell’s mom, right? Is Spencer feeling better? He was sick, right?”  HAHAHA! We love Moe’s!

That afternoon, the boys had fun playing with all of the toys that they’d been missing for a few weeks.

toys

toys

toys

Maxwell decided he wanted to dress up like a garbage man. After telling me to just order him a costume off of Amazon, we decided we could actually make one with his construction vest and gloves.  The backward hat was his idea!

garbage man

Looks pretty authentic to me!

garbage man

Mostly we just enjoyed hanging at home and having the old smiley Spencey back!

weekend

On Sunday, I dressed the boys in these new Gap tshirts that I got on sale for $4!  score!

stripes

Maxwell turned his garbage man vest back into a construction vest…

vest

and then we got creative and made an airport for his airplanes…

airport

Robert and I might have had a little more fun than we should have making that! I got glimpses of future science projects…Robert and I working in the kitchen while Maxwell sat in the den watching tv!  ha!

On Sunday night we made pizza and I only mention it because it had pesto I made using basil from our garden, homemade crust, tomatoes from our garden topped with more of our basil.  The only thing we didn’t make was the cheese!

pizza

Go us!  And that was our exciting weekend.

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