The Brown Brick Road

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Weekend

Weekend roundup coming at ya….

Friday morning Robert got to go to school with Maxwell for “Doughnuts with Dad”…love his tie!

doughnuts w dad

While Maxwell was at school I made a Target run with Samantha and Spencer and somehow Spencer walked out of there with a new truck…

target

I’m a sucker when it comes to him…especially when he does things like this that just make me laugh!

spencey

Friday afternoon, Robert took off for Atlanta leaving me alone with all 3 kids until Sunday. What do we do when Dad’s away? The mexaurant on Friday night of course! 5:15 early bird special!

mexaurant

cheese dip

We also made an early a.m. trip to Home Depot on Saturday to take our pots from this…

pots

to this!

pots

I also did a lot of cleaning out of these beds on the side of the house. It doesn’t look super yet but it’s so much better as I took out a ton of dead leaves…

ferns

now we just need to fill in with some new pine straw! It’s been interesting watching the different plants in our beds start to bloom – I really have no idea what all is planted in the yard so it’s a learning season!

On Sunday, we planned to go up to the church egg hunt…but it was really cold and pouring down rain and we just didn’t make it. But, this is what Samantha was going to wear…too pretty not to still share!

pretty

A busy and fun weekend…and now we’re VERY glad Dad is home!

Friday!

TGIF! Although, it’s going to be a crazy weekend so I think I’ll actually be even happier when it’s Sunday!

Unfortunately, this week we had to make a trip to the doctor…

doctor

For the record, Maxwell was 36.4 lbs and Spencer was 34! Maxwell had a cold last week with some congestion but was largely over it. However, he was complaining that his ear hurt so I took him in and he has a double ear infection! Spencer now has the same cold and is a snotty, wheezing mess.

doctor

All we can really do for Spencer is a steroid and the oh so fun breathing treatments. Poor guy. One funny thing – I was rocking Spencer in the middle of the night when he was coughing so so so bad. He actually finally coughed up some of the junk all over me (gross) and then, in his half asleep state, said “Goodness!” just like I always say whenever one of the boys is coughing a lot. He then said, “Giant mess.” and I had to agree – and laugh. Sweet boy.

Another cute Spencer story I don’t want to forget…  Last week I was drying my hair while Samantha was asleep in her room and Spencer was playing with his trains downstairs. When I turned off my blow dryer, I heard Samantha crying so I went into her room only to see that Spencer had left his trains downstairs and had come up to her room to put the paci in her mouth when he heard her crying. He was kneeling beside her, sticking the paci in her mouth. I just about melted. Sweet boy indeed.

And a funny thing from Maxwell…on St. Patrick’s Day, we were playing outside and all of a sudden he said, “Look Momma! A clover and it has THREE sides! I think a Leprechaun must have come and planted it here last night!”  Ha!

clover

Also, Maxwell came home from school on Wednesday saying “Momma, I decided that I’m now going to marry Blair and let Max marry Lila. I was smiling at Blair all day today. Can she come over and play?” What????? Young love…

I guess I’ll give a little update on Samantha too. She had her first bottle this week when Susan kept her for a bit and drank it all down like a champ! Basically, she’s perfect.

samantha

She’s also definitely doing better in the sleeping department. She’s really only waking to eat one around 3am and is doing much better sleeping in her chair. Not perfect yet but we’re getting there. I guess I should start letting her sleep in her own room. All in good time…

samantha

Sorry, that post kind of went all over the place but those are some updates from around here! Hope you all have a great weekend!

Outside!

Outside! Outside! Outside, everybody outside!

Sorry, that’s part of a Bubble Guppies song that is on a loop in my head these days! But, we have had some beautiful, sunshiny, warm weather and have been able to play Outside! Outside! a lot!

We’ve been to the tot lot…

outside

outside

to the school playground…

outside

on a walk on the Jemison Trail…

outside

and back to the tot lot!

outside

Outside, outside! Outside, everybody, outside! Line up, everybody, line up, line up, line up, line gup, gup, gup, gup, guppies! Everybody, get out, get, get, get out, get up, get everybody go…

Visitors!

I know I’ve mentioned by college roomie, Kristin, before. She has two boys the exact same age as Maxwell and Spencer. She lives in Atlanta but her in-laws are in Birmingham so I get to see her every now and then. Here’s the last time they were here – can’t believe how little the boys look! – and here’s another visit when our babies were about one – and here’s one more time when the babies first got to meet!

She stopped by on Friday of last week for a while and we let all the boys play while she got to meet Samantha…

kristin

The boys were a hoot together. Maxwell and Lucas are 10 days apart and Spencer and Hayes are 17 days apart….

boys kristin

cuties all of them!

Then on Saturday afternoon, we had quick visit from my aunt, Jeanette. We’re so glad she was able to stop on her way to see Laura so she could meet Miss Samantha!

jeanette

We love visitors!

St. Paddy’s

Happy St. Patrick’s Day!

green

We’re wearing our green just like last year and the year before and the year before that…

green

Well, I know Samantha doesn’t have on green in the picture but she is wearing green today, I promise! Don’t worry, I won’t let my baby girl get pinched!

The best part about St. Patrick’s Day this year? It’s warm enough for shorts!

green

Spring is in the air! Sláinte!