The Brown Brick Road

Capturing our adventures one photo at a time...

Choo Choo!

It’s been pretty chilly here this week so Susan has had to think up some fun indoor activities for Maxwell.  Yesterday’s adventure was riding the train at the mall!  Fun stuff!

Here they are…all ready to go!

Sitting in their train car…

I love how he’s holding on.  Susan said he had the best time and bounced up and down on her knee the entire ride.

So fun!!  They then popped into a photobooth for these hilarious pics…

Cracks me up!  I love that Maxwell gets to have such awesome adventures with Ms. Susan!!

Goldfish

We had playgroup at our house last week.  It was a beautiful day outside and everyone was enjoying playing in the yard…until the sprinklers came on!  oops!  Luckily I was able to get them turned off pretty quickly and we didn’t get too wet.  All of the water did make it nice for the goldfish though…that’s goldfish of the Pepperidge Farm variety!  ha ha ha!  You didn’t know I was so funny, did you?  🙂

Put out a bowl of goldfish in the middle of 8 kids under the age of 3 and those little things go FAST and get EVERYWHERE!!  Many of them ended up right by Maxwell and, even though he doesn’t have teeth yet, I think he enjoyed getting his first taste of the cheesy little fish…

I don’t think he ever actually ate one…just licked them and crushed them in his hands!  He had fun with them though!

Some other cute pics from the afternoon…

A fun (and slightly wet!) play day!

Cars, almost crawling and a birthday girl

Happy Monday!  Hope you all had a nice weekend.  We had a great one with temps in the 60’s and 70’s!  It was a little chilly but a welcome change from the 90’s we had all last week.  We didn’t have much on the schedule and took full advantage of the low-key weekend to just hang out as a little family of 3.  On Saturday we went out and did a little car window shopping!  Fun!!  I’m going to outgrow my little car within the next two years so we’re just trying to get an idea of what we might want.  We started out at Lexus to check out their SUV’s and, while very nice, the RX is too small for what I want and the GX just seems too big.  There was a Jeep dealership right next door and we headed over there to check out the newly redesigned Grand Jeep Cherokees and, let me tell you, those things are nice!  I had a Grand Cherokee as my first car and always really liked it.  Then my mom got a new one as a rental car recently and mentioned how great the redesign is and she was right!  It’s the perfect size with all the features you could want.  It’s definitely the winner so far!  Not sure when we’ll actually move from shopping to buying but it’s fun to think about!

The rest of the weekend was spent playing with our favorite 8.5 month old.  We’re really trying to get Maxwell to crawl.  He’s SO close.  He gets up on his hands and knees and rocks back and forth….

It’s really cute…

While he’ll get up on those knees sometimes, he still definitely prefers to scoot around on his stomach with his little legs kicking behind him…

It’s very Superman-ish….

and then I got this face which just made me laugh..

🙂  He’s super close…if he’ll just get those knees moving he’ll be on the go!

Know what else happened this weekend?  Maxwell’s super cute cousin, Delaney, turned two!!  Happy Birthday Delaney!!!  Here she is this weekend all dolled up in her princess gear…

Fun stuff!  Delaney’s little brother also got christened on Sunday.  A big weekend all around!  Hope you all had a great weekend!

Friday Favorite

Most days when Robert gets home from work he goes straight for the pantry for a granola bar – just a little something to hold him over until dinner.  Robert always eats the granola bar and hands the wrapper over to Maxwell.  The wrapper always turns into great entertainment in what can be a touchy time of day.  So, today’s Friday Favorite are the silver, shiny Quaker Chewy granola bar wrappers.  Yea, yea…I know this is a silly Friday Favorite, but it’s just something I want to remember.  This little wrapper will literally entertain him for half an hour…

Chocolate chunk is the preferred flavor…

and, of course, it always ends up in his mouth!

Who needs fancy toys when you’ve got shiny wrappers!

On another note, have you realized today is Friday the 13th?!  Let’s all hope for no bad luck today!   Here’s an interesting tidbit from Wikipedia:

According to the Stress Management Center and Phobia Institute in Asheville, North Carolina, an estimated 17 to 21 million people in the United States are affected by a fear of this day. Some people are so paralyzed by fear that they avoid their normal routines in doing business, taking flights or even getting out of bed. “It’s been estimated that $800 or $900 million is lost in business on this day”.

Who would have thought people really get worked up over it?  If you want to learn more about the origins of Friday the 13th, here you go – Friday the 13th

I hope you all have a day full of GOOD luck and a wonderful weekend!

Clap clap clap!

We sing and clap pattycake to Maxwell all the time. We also cheer and clap after he does just about anything.  It shouldn’t come as a surprise that, as of yesterday, Maxwell has mastered the art of clapping on his own thanks to a little lesson from Susan. Maxwell loves to clap his little hands together!

Yes, this would be much better in a video but here’s some still photos…just scroll really fast!  🙂

He’ll be singing Pattycake to himself in no time!

I actually have a super cute video of him clapping but, after 45 minutes trying to figure out how to embed my flickr video into this post, I still can’t figure it out.  If you know how to do this, tell me!