The Brown Brick Road

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First Day of School!

A break in the birthday posts to tell you about two things.

1. Happy Birthday Susan!!!

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We tried to get a cute picture for you but…well, you know how that goes!  🙂  We love you SO much and are wishing you a fantastic year ahead full of everything good!!!

2. Monday was the first day of school for both boys!  Spencer is in the nursery with a new teacher, Miss Haley, and Maxwell is in the 2 year old class with Ms. Betsy.

Posing on the steps before heading out!

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Oh, I could just eat these sweet boys up!

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Maxwell all ready with his bag!

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When I dropped Maxwell off at his room, he immediately found – what else? – a firetruck!

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He was loving all the new toys in his classroom and didn’t mind me leaving him one bit!

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My big boy!

Spencer wasn’t so happy about me leaving him…

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But I think that was mostly due to the fact that this was when he was supposed to be asleep for his morning nap!  Not to worry though, he got happy pretty quickly and had a great day.  When I walked back by the room after the parent meeting, I peeked in and saw this…

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See him back there just checking things out in that swing?  Here…let me zoom in for you!

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Oh, I love that baby.

Maxwell loved his first day.  He got to play on the playground THREE times for goodness sake! It doesn’t get much better than that to him!  Spencer’s day was good but he was a worn out little guy when I went to get him.  We were barely out of the parking lot and he looked like this…

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Aside from a bottle mix-up (they fed him someone else’s bottle of milk/formula?!! I was NOT happy) it all went great.  Here’s to a good year ahead!

School days

Happy Monday!  Our weekend was simply exhausting.  Mentally and physically exhausting.  But, we survived and lived to tell the tale which I will tell tomorrow.

Today?  school! Maxwell had his last day of regular school last week…and his first day of summer school today!  😉  He loves it so, why not?!

On the last week of school, they hosted a “Street Party” with all sorts of carnival games for the older kids and bounce houses and face painting for the younger kids.  Everyone also got to go to a performance by children’s singer Roger Day.  Parents were invited to come and so I of course spent all morning up there and loved getting to see Maxwell play with his buddies.

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holding hands

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maxwell and mama

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It was so interesting to see these boys together.  They are only 2.5 but already play pretty rough!  wrestling in the bounce house for sure!

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Maxwell looks so big in this next picture.  James and William are just about his same height but I think they were just crouching down a bit..

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I hadn’t packed Maxwell a lunch because I planned to leave a little early with him and take him out to lunch.  Luckily the teachers had some spare graham crackers he could eat during lunch time so he didn’t feel too left out.  I don’t think it would have mattered though – he still ate several bites of Will-wam’s lunch which I’m told is the norm for him!  ha!

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The next day was his actual last day of school.  Hard to believe he looked like this at the beginning of the school year…

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My baby has officially turned into a big boy.  I’m so grateful he had Ms. Jen as his teacher this year along with Ms. Jackie and Ms. Tonya.  I think he and Ms. Jackie had a special little relationship…he really liked her.

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They had the sweetest group of kids in their class.

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front row – Mary Hamner, William, Lila

back row – Ms. Jen, Law, James, Maxwell, Ms. Jackie

So thankful for a great year in the Older Toddlers class!  Can’t wait for next year!!

School Days

There’s been a little “scandal” up at Maxwell’s school!  Well, scandal is perhaps a slight exaggeration but Maxwell’s teacher, Ms.  Juli, is no longer his teacher!  She turned in her resignation as of last week and so now Ms. Jen (who is also fantastic!) is his regular teacher.  Hmmmm…wonder what in the world happened because it didn’t seem like it was her choice???  I need to see what gossip I can dig up!

In other school related news, they took Maxwell’s school pictures early this year.  As a reminder, here was Maxwell last year in his school photo:

2011 School Photo

And here’s his picture this year – 2012

Ummm…definitely not the cutest picture of him!  I totally should have dressed him in a color other than white and we clearly should have gotten him in for a haircut before the photo!  Oh well, it’s not like I’m going to order any of them.  I think this kid is photographed enough at home!

Let’s end this post on a cuter picture of my little dude, shall we?

Still not the best hair day but much better!  🙂

See you tomorrow!

First Day of School!

Monday was Maxwell’s first day of school and it went great!  His new teacher, Ms. Juli, couldn’t be sweeter and I think he’s going to love his new class. As a reminder, click here to see some pictures of his first day of school last year.  He’s grown a lot!  Here he is ready for his first day this year…

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Sweet boy!

Luckily we didn’t get any of this when I dropped him off…

He wasn’t quite so sure about going into a new room at first, but then he spotted the awesome train table and he couldn’t get out of my arms fast enough. I don’t even think he noticed I left!  When I went to pick him up, he was the last one there!  Oh no!  Bad momma!  I was still 5 minutes early but I guess everyone else just got there even earlier.  whoops!

If you’re curious, we decided to go on and hold Maxwell back now instead of later.  Being an August 30 birthday, he could have moved on up into the two year old class this year as the cut off is September 1st (meaning you have to turn two by September 1).  However, Robert and I knew we didn’t want him to go into kindergarten in a few years as the very youngest so, instead of having to keep him in pre-school when he’s 5, we decided to go on and hold him back now so he’ll go through all of pre-school with the group of kids that he will go to kindergarten with.  It was a tough decision as he’ll always be the very oldest in his class but I think it was the right one for us.

Here’s to a great year of school!

See you tomorrow on Maxwell’s BIRTHDAY!

Last day of school and a little news

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!