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Secret’s out!

July 30, 2014

Maxwell is many things…

1. A talented artist (he creates almost entirely in orange marker):

firetruck

Please note the hose and axes on the fire truck. And that’s the fire off to the right.

2. A brave fireman…

fireman

3. A handsome church date…

church

4. A total blabbermouth!

As I mentioned, we told Maxwell about the new baby this past weekend. He’s really come around to the idea and is pretty darn excited now, especially when he finally grasped the idea that the baby is ALREADY IN MY TUMMY.  What?! Anyway, he went to school on Monday and I guess decided he just had to spread the news. When I went to pick the boys up from school that day, Spencer’s teacher was the first to say, “So, Maxwell tells us he’s going to have a baby sister!”  ha! When I told her it was true (well, sister OR brother), the teachers all laughed and said they would need to apologize to him because they hadn’t believed him!  Then, the next day, Max’s mom texted me and said, “Max just told me that Maxwell announced to the class that he is getting another baby!” Ha!  When you’ve got good news, you’ve got to share I guess!  And, no, we don’t know that it’s a sister…but Maxwell has now decided that he wants a sister because “we already have a baby bruver.”  Makes sense to me!  🙂

I sure do love that little blabbermouth!

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Weekend

July 29, 2014

The one thing guaranteed to make a weekend better?  GJ!

gj

gj

Come back soon GJ!

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Monday

July 28, 2014

Happy Monday! Thanks for all the sweet comments on Friday. We’re pretty excited – and a little overwhelmed! – at the thought of a 3rd.  There’s lots of things you don’t think about in becoming a family of 5, like the need for a new car, how you put 3 kids to bed at the same time, how you make 3 kids fit into 2 bedrooms, and, as Granddaddy pointed out, how much harder it’s going to be to get a table at a restaurant from here on out!  🙂  All things I think we can manage just fine.  Well, the room thing might cause a bit of an issue…Maxwell doesn’t yet know that he’ll eventually be sharing a room with Spencer and I see no need to tell him until absolutely necessary!  I know they’ll end up loving it.

One thing I’m sure of, it’s going to be next to impossible to get all THREE smiling at the camera for a picture. It took me 2 days to get the pictures I put up on Friday of the boys in their “BIG Brother” tshirts.  Enjoy some outtakes…

boys

boys

boys

Spencer was the most difficult model. Trying to get him to sit where you want him to sit and actually smile is just not going to happen at this age.

boys

boys

boys

All the outtakes weren’t totally terrible…but that doesn’t mean they were exactly right either.

boys

boys

They are such sweet boys.

boys

boys

Of course, I also know that they’ll get to an age where they will happily smile for a picture…with a bribe of course!  🙂  When they all reach that age, I’ll end up with gems like these…

smiling mbb

smiling mbb

Also, we told Maxwell this weekend about the new baby. His immediate reaction?  “Noooo, I don’t want a new baby!!” followed by a few (fake) tears.  He came around pretty quickly though and decided a new baby could be alright as long as it’s another “bruver” and not a sister!  ha!  He also thinks we should name it Jelly! And, no, we’re not going to find out what it is…I think!  Surprise!

See you tomorrow!

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The more the merrier

July 25, 2014

You know how you envision your life a certain way? Well, I always envisioned my life with 2 kids. Just 2.

big brother

Guess this is one of the few times I’ll admit I was wrong.  🙂

big brother

big brother

We’ll be a family of FIVE in late January! Bring on the chaos…it’s gonna be fun!

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The cutest

July 24, 2014

A couple of really cute things around here lately…

1. When we got back from the lake with all the cousins, Maxwell said he wanted to “color his fingernails”. Clearly the girl cousins had been having fun painting their nails and he wanted to do it too! I volunteered to go get some blue or even orange polish for him but he said “or we could just use girl colors?!”  Pink, sparkles it was!

polish

He even asked for a heart on his thumbs and big toenails!  🙂

nails

2 weeks later and those sparkles are still on!

2. Last night Maxwell hit his head on the counter and was pretty upset. I got him mostly calmed down and he went and sat next to Spencer and tried to give him a little hug but, as usual, Spencer knocked him away and even accidentally hit him in the face with a train track.  I told Spencer, “We don’t hit brother. He was just trying to love on you and you need to be nice”.  I said it really more for Maxwell’s benefit obviously.  Well, Maxwell then left the room and when he came back, Spencer just stood up and walked over to him, wrapped his arms around his waist, laid his head on his chest and gave him the biggest, sweetest hug.  Maxwell and I honestly just stared at each other speechless.  I guess Spencer totally understood what happened and knew he needed to love on his big brother!!!  Awwww.

hugging

Of course, the hugging then turned into a game that really turned into wrestling!  🙂

3. This…

Best sound ever.

Make it a great day!

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