The Brown Brick Road

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Friday Favorite

The spirit of the holidays makes me thankful for so many things in my life.  Most importantly, the people in my life.  As such, today’s Friday Favorite is a person, not a thing.  She’s such an important person she should have her own category as Most Favorite Ever.  In fact, she’s more than a favorite, she’s like family.  I’m talking about Susan.  She is kind, generous, loving and I simply could not ask for a better person to care for my baby.  She continually goes above and beyond…way beyond.  She loves Maxwell the way I love him.  I feel so lucky that she came into our lives.

Susan – I can only hope you know how much you mean to all of us, especially Maxwell!

Besides being an all around great person, Susan is also very crafty.  Wait until you see the bows she made for my decorations!  And look at this super cute apron she and Maxwell made for me…

She even helped Maxwell sign his initials at the bottom.  So cute, so crafty and so thoughtful!  I will cherish it!

On Wednesday, Susan took Maxwell to see Santa.  She said he was a little unsure of him and just wasn’t quite ready to sit on his lap by himself.  So, she just hopped in the picture with him!  LOVE IT!!

I love the adventures these two have together.  Thank you Susan for all that you do!!

Trucks trucks trucks

If you’ve been reading this bloggy blog a while, you know that Maxwell loves trucks.  So, when a giant Alagasco truck parked itself in front of our house last weekend, Maxwell could hardly contain his curiosity and excitement!

After naptime (hence the awesome hair-do!), we went outside to check it all out.  Maxwell wasn’t quite so sure what to make of it all at first and took his time seeing what he could see..

And what he saw was a big truck very close to our driveway!

He got a little closer to really check it out and was just as happy as he could be!

Funny how something that was so annoying to me turned into something really fun when I saw it through his eyes.  Ah, perspective!

Reading

Maxwell is really into his books these days.  He’s always getting different books and bringing them to us to read to him.  He loves to point to things on pages and he especially loves books that have some sort of “touch and feel” aspect to them.  Perfect example?  This little snowman book that Robert read to him the other night…

His favorite part is the snowman’s squishy nose at the end…

For some reason, he really likes to lick it…

Yea, I don’t get it either.

Yay for books!!

A very special birthday!

Today is the birthday of someone very special.

Someone that we all love very much.

Someone who is as kind as he is smart (and he’s really smart!).

Someone who has shown me how to be the very best parent one can hope to be.

Someone who always keeps a positive outlook.

Someone who many people say I am just like.

Someone who I hope I can be much more like.

Someone that we hope has an especially good day filled with whatever chocolate treat he wants!

That someone is…DADDO!!!  Happy Birthday Daddo!!

Hey Maxwell, why are you looking so sad?

Because today is Daddo’s birthday and I don’t get to give him a hug.

Oh Maxwell, I’ve got good news for you!  You get to see him this weekend!

What? I get to see him this weekend? Me? see Daddo?

You sure do, buddy!  And you get to see Santa too…and maybe even Mickey Mouse!

Oh my, Momma! That sounds like so much FUN!

I don’t even know who these Santa and Mickey people are but I’m so excited to see Daddo I can hardly stand it!

I know, buddy!  I feel the exact same way!  

Daddo – we all can’t wait to see you this weekend and give you a big hug around the  neck!

ps – like Maxwell’s shirt?  I made it!  pat on my back thankyouverymuch!  🙂

Weekend Re-Cap

Here’s what we did this weekend as captured by my iphone…

On Friday we watched the giant Alagasco truck outside of our house…

For a little boy who loves trucks, it was pretty awesome!  For a driving mom whose driveway was blocked, not so awesome.

A little later, Maxwell fell climbed into his toy box…

After getting turned right side up, he was happy as could be in there!

That night, we had the Alagasco truck move so we could get out of the driveway and go to Home Depot to get a Christmas Tree!  Maxwell surveyed the trees…

and quickly found one that he thought was juuuust the right size!

But then Robert gave him another vantage point…

and he found one that really was just right!

Proof that I was there too…

When we got home, we went and surveyed the damage that the Alagasco crew was doing to our street.  What we found was this giant hole in the ground right next to our driveway…

Lovely.

Robert then worked hard to get the tree on the stand and up in the house…

I then worked hard to get it all decorated…

Isn’t she a beaut?  A crooked beaut, yes.  That’s what you get for buying your tree at Home Depot.  But, considering we paid $60 less for our tree this year than we did last year, I’ll take a little crookedness!

Saturday was GORGEOUS so we headed to the park to play…

and enjoyed the temps in the high 60’s!

That night we went over to some friend’s house for a Christmas Light Display Extravanganza!  After hanging out for a bit…

we then walked down the street to their neighbor’s house that puts on the biggest Christmas light display I’ve ever seen.  Well, the 2nd biggest.  I’m from Arkansas and lived through the Jennings Osborne red light years.  This was still impressive though.  They do a whole Christmas movie montage before flipping the switch.  We didn’t see much of the montage though because Maxwell got a little cranky-pants and we had to go next door and push him around a driveway on some girl’s pink tricycle that we found.

The movie montage ends with Clark Griswold getting ready to light up his house in Christmas Vacation.  Right before he plugs it in, the movie goes off and this guy flips his switch…and the whole place GLOWS!  It was pretty cool…these pics don’t even remotely do it justice.

Maxwell was clearly enthralled…

While he’s not showing it in that picture, he really did have fun.  Mostly just running around trying to get lost in the crowd but, hey, he thought it was a blast!

On Sunday Maxwell got to go to church in his awesome new nubuck Jumping Jack shoes!

The cuteness is too much. And, yes, I know his pants are a little high water there.  The better to see his shoes, right?!

Believe it or not, I even took more pictures this weekend with my real camera.  Those to come this week!  Hope you all had as great a weekend as we did!