The Brown Brick Road

Capturing our adventures one photo at a time...

Pretty baby

I mean…she’s a pretty baby. I’m totally biased but I still think I’m right, right?!  🙂

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Not sure she was totally feeling our little photoshoot but she just looked so cute in her matching outfit and hat that I had to, even if she felt about this excited about it…

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I then explained that, as my daughter, she was going to have her picture taken a LOT.  I can only imagine what she was thinking and I could see the terror building in her eyes…

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This Momma person is crazy with this camera thing…

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Ummm…what exactly do you mean by a LOT?…

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You’re probably going to take my picture every single day? Are you kidding me?! 

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Oh goodness, I guess I better get used to this posing business…

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It’s gonna be a looong life with this crazy Momma!

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Oh yes, Samantha. Get used to the camera and say cheese!  🙂 My pretty baby!

Brotherly love

Maxwell and Spencer are best buds and could not be more different. Maxwell is my little rule-follower, always wanting to please. Spencer is my little limit-pusher, stubborn to the max. Now, a lot of it is age…but plenty of it is just who they are. I love that they are so different yet still love each other to pieces. It also cracks me up how they treat their sister. They are both BEYOND sweet to her.

Maxwell just always wants to hold her and tell her how pretty she is and call her sweetheart…

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Spencer wants to poke on her. “bee bee’s mouf.” Poke. “bee bee’s eyes.” Poke. “bee bee’s nose.” Poke. It’s really cute…and only slightly dangerous when he tries to poke her eyes!

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Spencer also called her “bee bee Sam” the other day and it was basically the cutest thing ever…video below or click here.

Then I was putting him down for a nap last week and he kept yelling “ah-maaaan-ta” over and over and I couldn’t figure out what he was saying until I finally realized he was saying Samantha because he wanted to go give her a kiss goodbye!!  He’s since also referred to her as Bee Bee Manta.  Sweetness.

Other big news around here for Spencer’s talking – when we were in Naples, Spencer finally said “Maxwell” for the first time! He always calls Maxwell “Zsa Zsa” or “Zsa Zsee”…I have no idea where it came from but that’s ALL he’s ever called his brother. Well, in Naples, I was calling for Maxwell and Spencer repeated it after me and we all just fell out laughing! Maxwell was soooo excited too!  ha! Now, he’s not calling him Maxwell all the time yet…but it’s a start! Here’s a video if you can see it – if not, click here.

Love all the brotherly love in this house!

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See you tomorrow!

Monday!

Happy Monday! We’ve got a 90% chance of rain every day from now until Saturday. Boo hiss boo hiss. Good thing we had a BEAUTIFUL weekend to hold us over.

We stuck around here and had ice cream with friends…

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Samantha bundled up in the cold…

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and wore even more pink!

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We went to Costco…

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actually made it out to dinner (early bird 5:15 special!)…

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and the boys went to church.

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A good, sunshiny weekend all around. Now rain rain go away!

Lately

Around here lately…

We’ve had visitors…

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Aunt Messy!

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Nate and Johannes!

We’ve gone to birthday parties…

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That’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Maxwell with his classmate, Princess Hannah.

We’ve taken mirror selfies…

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As you can see in the background, baby girl’s room is still a work in progress!

We’ve gotten boo-boos at school…

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ouch!

We’ve had a 70 degree afternoon…

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Followed by a day of freezing rain and cancelled school! Can winter please be over now??

Overall, we’ve been doing great…

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Hope you have been too! Have a wonderful weekend!

1 month old!

They’re back! Monthly photos all over again! Samantha at one month old…

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Maxwell at one month and Spencer at one month to compare…

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So far, she looks much more like Maxwell than Spencer to me. She’s got these big ole eyes that she’s always got WIDE open checking things out around her.

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Ha! those eyes! She gets that look on her face a lot like she just can’t believe these crazy people around her are actually her family. 🙂

She really is a sweet little baby and, as I keep saying, came out ready to be the 3rd kid! She’s been pretty flexible and takes great naps in her car seat which is good because we are on the go with big brothers!

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She’s starting to stretch her feedings out to every 4 hours. She usually eats 6 times during a 24 hour period. I’m working on getting her on a schedule where she will eat around 10pm and then only get up once in the night around 3:30am. She’s doing pretty good with that but still keeps trying to wake up around 6am which is a little early to get things going! I’d rather her sleep until 7am so I can stretch that morning nap out until 11am or so. She’s still sleeping in our room but has been spending most of the night in her Rock N Play chair instead of just in the bed on me.

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Her brothers LOVE her. I mean, LOVE her. Maxwell can’t get enough of her and really wants to her to be awake all the time so he can love on her. Spencer is crazy about the “bee-bee” and loves to poke all over her face. He thinks it’s the funniest thing to poke her in the cheek!  She sure is lucky to have such good brothers.

I got this cute bunny for our monthly photos but she needs a name! Any ideas? Maxwell had Big Al and Spencer had Bear Bryant so we’ve kind of got an AL theme going. Any bunny name ideas?  Although Miss Samantha was skeptical of the bunny at first…

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I think she’s is going to end up liking her bunny friend!  🙂

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Overall, life is grand. The first month has just been awesome and I’m still just so shocked and thrilled and everything else that she’s a GIRL. A dream come true for real.

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Happy 1 month sweet baby girl!

All other monthly photos here.