Capturing our adventures one photo at a time...
Just a little note to say Happy Father’s Day to the best Dad in the world! I know Maxwell might be on a “momma momma momma” kick right now, but I also know how excited he gets when you walk in the door every night. and how hard he belly laughs and screams “daaa-da!” when you tickle him. and just how much he loves you. almost as much as I love you.
Happy Father’s Day Robert!
Hard to believe how quickly we’ve gone from this…
to this!
Here’s to more fun ahead!
We love you!!
Wishing a VERY happy Father’s Day this weekend to four VERY special dads…
My grandfather, Granddaddy…
Maxwell at 12 months
We hope we get to see you soon, Granddaddy!
My dad, Daddo…
Maxwell at 12 months
We can’t wait to see you July 4th, Daddo!
Robert’s Dad, Granddad…
Maxwell at 11 months
We can’t wait to see you this weekend, Granddad!
And, of course, Maxwell’s dad, DaDa (as Maxwell says these days!) 🙂
Maxwell at 20 months
We love getting to see you every day! 🙂
Maxwell is so lucky to have all four of you!! Happy Father’s Day to all the Dads out there, especially Keath, John, Birc and Ronnie!
Maxwell on his first day of school on September 8, 2011…
and on his last day of school May 10, 2012…
What a difference a few months makes! And I promise those overalls didn’t look so big in person.
Although Robert did tell me that morning that he thought he looked like a circus clown because they were so wide. Oh well, I thought he looked cute.
Also, we got a little news yesterday. Maxwell’s going to have a BROTHER! Yep, looks like we’re going to have a house full of boys! I’m still wrapping my head around it honestly but know these two little guys will be the best of buds and that will be awesome. 🙂 Have a great weekend!
First, thank you so much for all your sweet comments, emails, calls and texts yesterday. We really are super excited and so glad that the secret is out! We need to come up with a nickname for #2 now. Maxwell was always BBB for Baby Boy Brown. So far we’ve been calling #2 “Teddy” because the first ultrasound really looked like a Teddy Graham! 🙂 Of course, my friend Lyndsay has been calling #2 “Maxine” because she’s convinced it’s a girl. We’ll see what sticks!
On Sunday Robert, Maxwell and I went out to Barber Motorsports to see some Indy cars race. We had never been out there before and it was fun to see what it’s all about. It’s a really neat venue and pretty impressive that Birmingham has something like this…at least in my opinion.
Maxwell wore his official Formula 1 shirt that LuLu and Granddad brought him from Monaco…
This seemed like the right occasion to wear it!
The main race was Sunday afternoon but, with Maxwell’s schedule, the morning worked much better for us. That worked out just fine though because we still got to see some cars taking practice laps and it wasn’t quite as crowded.
Parts of it were like going to a really small state fair (rednecks included). They even had the ferris wheel from Michael Jackson’s Neverland Ranch…odd, right?
We first checked out the Fan Zone and took this awesome family photo…
We couldn’t even sit down in the car because it was so dirty. The ground was really muddy from the rain the night before and everyone had been stepping in the seat all day. Maxwell’s pouty face cracks me up.
We then ran into Mario Andretti…
I told him I was a big “fan”.
We then walked by the “Lady in the Lake”….I don’t really know what to say about this.
After that we took the tram up to the Paddock which was really cool. You got to see all the trailers and where the cars got worked on as well as where they would come in for pit stops.
If we go back I want to pay for Club Level access at the Paddock so we can go up high and see the whole track!
By the time we left the paddock, we were worn out. It was HOT and almost lunch time so we went to take a quick tour through the Barber Vintage Motorsports Museum before heading home. The museum has tons of vintage cars and motorcycles and is worth checking out if you’re into that sort of thing…
We even found a Maxwell size car!
Maxwell’s favorite part of the museum? The glass elevator…
Maxwell’s other favorite part of the entire day? Riding on the school bus from the parking lot to the track!
It was a fun day and something we’ll have to remember for the years ahead!
What a great and jam-packed weekend we had! What did we do? Let’s let my iphone walk you through…
Saturday morning Robert went to work a Habitat for Humanity build so Maxwell and I hung out at home in our St. Patty’s Day green…
We then went to Target where he tried on some more silly hats…
After Target we stopped by the park. Maxwell went across the shaky bridge all by himself…
Climbed up the ramp all by himself…
Swung on the newly restored tire swing…
Swung on the swings (of course)…
and played in the play house!
Phew! All the playing made him hungry so we went home where Maxwell fed himself some yogurt…
Lovely. side note – yes, those are mini corn dogs on his tray. Actually they’re Morningstar Farms Veggie Corn Dogs and they’re really good. Maxwell loves them.
Maxwell then went down for a nap and I got out in the yard and pulled weeds, weeds and more weeds in the beds. I was pulling LOTS of clover but never found any four-leafers! Guess the luck of the Irish wasn’t on my side this St. Patrick’s Day!
When Maxwell woke up from his nap we had some special visitors…
Lulu and Granddaddy! Maxwell loved all the attention as usual.
Maxwell took a liking to Lulu’s shiny jewelry and before he could say “earring” he was all decked out!
That evening, Robert, Maxwell and I went to dinner at a new Mexican place in downtown Birmingham. El Barrio. If you haven’t been yet – go. It was SO good. The only problem was that they only had 1 high chair in the whole restaurant (what?!) so we had to make do with a booster seat. I was pretty nervous about Maxwell sitting in a booster seat for an entire meal but he did GREAT! He sat at the head of the table and we all enjoyed every second of our dinner! Maxwell clearly knew he was too cool for school in that booster seat!
After dinner, Robert and Maxwell proved once again that they’re the spitting image of each other! 🙂
The hand in the pocket just kills me.
The next day involved plenty more yard work. Maxwell loved getting to play outside with us.
He was a big help “mowing” the lawn.
It was a hot March day too – check out those rosy cheeks!
Maxwell’s favorite part was watching Dad play with all of his power toys! (not sure that Robert would agree that he was “playing”!)
Bubbles were a close second though!
After our work outside was done, Maxwell did a little cleaning inside…again, so helpful.
Phew! that was long! Hope you had a great weekend too!