The Brown Brick Road

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Spencer’s first day!

Spencer and Samantha finally went back to school last week! Spencer’s first day was Monday and he was excited!

spencer first day

spencer

He’s going Monday through Thursday this year in 4K with Mrs. Beard. After a goodbye hug from Samantha (who was sad to see him go!)…

spencer

we were off to school where he walked right into his classroom and quickly found his seat and got to work on his self portrait!

spencer

spencer

spencer

spencer

Pretty good, I’d say!

spencer

It was a good first week with a few rough spots. He got sent to time-out a few times for wrestling and rough-housing on the carpet with his friends. I can’t imagine where he would have learned that behavior?! It’s not like he and Maxwell ever wrestle and “fight” with each other at home?! (is my sarcasm coming through?!). We had lots of talks this past weekend about what is appropriate behavior at school and things seem to be much better now. Hopefully it will be smooth sailing from here on out – full of smiley faces and no more visits to the “stop chair”!

4k

This boy is so smart, so sweet, so funny, and I love him so much.

spencer

Here’s to a great year of 4K for Spencey!!

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The rest of the birthday

Maxwell’s never ending birthday finally wrapped up on Wednesday of last week with his real, actual birthday day! He got to celebrate on Tuesday afternoon with Susan who is always so generous on birthdays…

ssan bday

and again on Wednesday morning with the traditional cinnamon roll breakfast of birthday champions…

7 breakfast

and again that afternoon at school when he took football cookies.

football cookies

His class does a “birthday blessing” where each student makes a card for the birthday kid and they go around in a circle and either read their card or say something nice about him. I got to go up there for it and it was pretty sweet to watch. 🙂

class

I then got to have lunch in the cafeteria with my favorite 7 year old!

bday lunch

That night we all went to dinner at Mexico Lindo with GJ and Daddo in tow. We then went home for icebox cake – Maxwell’s choice!!

cake

Pretty much all of Maxwell’s gifts were AL football related, including some cool football player pjs that I got for him and Spence. I realized that morning that I had not gotten anything for Samantha and I knew she needed a present to open too so I sent GJ to Target to find some and, just our luck, these “beautiful” Frozen pjs were on the clearance rack with one size 3T remaining! They sure are ugly…and she sure does love them! ha!

pjs

The next day Maxwell went to school with just about all of his AL gear on his body. Love this kid.

gear

A BIG happy 7th to Maxwell!!

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First day of first!

Yesterday was Maxwell’s FIRST day of FIRST grade! I think it’s going to be a great year. We went up on Monday to meet his new teacher, Mrs. Liddle.

meet greet

meet greet

She seems really sweet and Maxwell is excited he got her. He even took his 100 Books list to show her! She was pretty impressed. 🙂

mrs liddle

Unfortunately, her husband had a heart attack last weekend (!) so she’s going to miss the first week of school. He should be fine though and she’ll be back next week if all goes to plan. The class has a great sub this week and it will all be fine. After all, we’re used to starting and ending the school year with a different teacher!

On the first day, Maxwell was all neon and ready to go!

neon

first day first grade

He had goodbye hugs for Spencer and Samantha…

hug

hug

and then off he went!

first grade

first grade

first grade

When he came home that afternoon he was all smiles with this in his backpack…

jitters
I’d say that’s a sign of a good day! I’m so proud of this kid and can’t wait for him to learn all kinds of fun things this year! Go Maxwell!

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Field Day

In the last week of school Maxwell had field day…and he had a blast! Each class is given a different color to wear and all the kindergarten classes compete against each other in a variety of field games. Maxwell’s class was red and he went head to toe RED! His friend, Gabriel, came over before school so I could even spray their hair red!

field day

field day

It was a HOT day on that field but that didn’t seem to bother the kids. They jumped in potato sacks, threw footballs, shot slingshots, raced through an obstacle course, and tossed a giant fish!

field day

Then there was the big 4 way tug-o-war!

field day

field day

field day

field day

And when you’re that hot and sweaty, there’s not much better than a giant popsicle to cool off!

field day

field day

field day

What a sweet bunch of kindergarteners!

field day

Thankful for a fun year with Mrs. McCandless!

field day

Go Red team!

Maxwell’s last day

Finally, after PJ day…

soccer

Water day…

water day

and field day…

field day

It was finally Maxwell’s last day of school on Tuesday!

last day of kindergarten

First day and last day…

kindergarten

and the official class picture!

class pic

Top row: Mrs. McCandless, Gabriel, Stella Rose, Frank, Eloise, James, Robert, Maxwell

Middle row: Molly, Evans, Caldwell, Lila, Searcy, Bo

Bottom row: Graham, Katya, Law, Butler, Scarlett

Funny, on the first day of kindergarten, Spencer was so sad to have Maxwell go…

kindergarten

and on the last day Baby didn’t want him to go!  🙂 (yes, that’s a swimsuit. on a rainy day. at 7:35am. don’t ask)

kindergarten last day

We all love Maxwell and never want him to leave! He had a fantastic year in kindergarten – made great friends, learned tons, and had lots and lots of fun! A great school year indeed!!