The Brown Brick Road

Birthday celebrations begin

August 24, 2015

Happy Monday! We had a SUPER weekend around here. I guess when you’re turning 5, the birthday celebrations last well over a week! Well, at least they do for Maxwell. We had his birthday party on Saturday and I’ll tell you all about that tomorrow but, first up, his special Tiger party with Mrs. Susan! Mrs. Susan knows how to celebrate – tiger shirts, tiger cupcakes, tiger games, and AWESOME presents!

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No, it wasn’t Spencer’s birthday too but, when you’re 2.5 you don’t really understand why your brother gets presents and you don’t! So, Spencey just got his birthday present from Mrs. Susan a few months early! 🙂 and he was VERY happy about it!

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We then sang Happy Birthday to Maxwell and let him blow out his special “5” candle! Spence was just a little jealous about that…

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so he got to blow one out too!

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Please also note the little lion on his cupcake. Since Maxwell likes tigers best, Spencer has decided he likes lions best!

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The party continued with a fun game of “pin the tail on the tiger!”

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It was the perfect kick-off to the birthday celebrations and we can’t thank Susan enough for the fantastic party and the super duper trucks!!

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We love Mrs. Susan!

Sweet baby

August 21, 2015

Isn’t she the sweetest?

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By the way, did you know baby spit-up really doesn’t come out of blue velvet without leaving a major spot? Nope, sure doesn’t. Learned that one the hard way! Good thing she’s cute and good thing cushions can be flipped… 🙂

Happy Friday!

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August 20, 2015

It’s been a long time since I cleaned off the iPhone. Enjoy!

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Make it a great day!

Spenceman

August 19, 2015

First, happy birthday to Aunt Jen today! We hope it’s a great birthday!!

Second, my Timehop app pulled up the picture I took the day after Spencer “busted open his whole mouf“. I realized Spencer was wearing the same shirt exactly one year later and I couldn’t help comparing…

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Still so thankful he didn’t do any major damage to his teeth with that fall!

This kid is a hoot. He loves to give kisses and hugs. He loves to beat up on his brother and poke him in the eye. He loves to sing the song from the library to his sister “Where is Samantha? Where is Samantha? There she is! There she is! Glad to see you. Glad to see you. Peekaboo. I see you!” He loves to eat the breading off of his corn dog. He loves his bee-bee juice. He loves the iPad. He loves to be a lion. He loves his fire truck shirts. He loves to sing the blessing at dinner and his ‘aaaah-men’ at the end always sounds like “ooooh man!” He loves to be tickled. More tickle?!

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I look at him every day and wonder where he came from. Man, I love him.

My baby boy is growing up. Sniff sniff.

We all scream!

August 18, 2015

As I mentioned yesterday, we took the kids to get ice cream on Saturday. Maxwell went for Superman with whipped cream on top…

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Spencer wanted plain “banilla”…

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But then he started complaining because he wanted to be able to lick it and, well, you can’t lick it if it’s in a bowl. Yea, we all felt like this about that…

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Crazy Spencey. So, because I’m a sucker and wanted to avoid a melt down, we just ordered him another scoop of “banilla” on a cone this time. Happy camper.

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