The Brown Brick Road

Capturing our adventures one photo at a time...

weekend

Well, our weekend was half good and half…snotty.  Spencer is sick.  Poor, poor baby is so sick.  I’ve never seen so much snot come out of one baby’s head.  His face is raw, his throat has to hurt and he’s even had some fever.  Luckily we already had an appointment with the doctor scheduled for today for his 15 month checkup.  I won’t be surprised if we don’t walk out with an antibiotic for an ear infection.  So, Spencey looked like this the whole weekend…

snot

Oh, wait…you didn’t come here to get grossed out?  Sorry, moving on.

In non-sick weekend news, Maxwell continued to do great sleeping in his BIG boy bed and even earned a new fireman ax for doing so!

fireman ax

We officially completed the transition to the BIG boy bed by taking down his crib!

crib

crib

That gave us room to move his train table into his room and he’s loving it…and keeping his door closed at all times to keep baby brother out!  🙂

crib

crib

On Sunday, I stayed home with sick Spencer but Robert and Maxwell drove up to Huntsville to see all the cousins, including Andrew who was in town from VA!

andrew

So fun!

Finally, despite being a sick mess, Spencer really started to WALK this weekend!!  He’s been going up and down the hall, across the room, all over the house!  yay buddy!  He’s gaining more and more confidence very day and I bet he’s going to be running soon!

boys

See you tomorrow!

6 years!

Six years and going strong…

6 years

I think that deserves a pat on the back!

Happy Anniversary, Robert.  I love you and our little family more today than ever.

5 years here.  4 years here.  3 years here.

You can read more about our wedding here and here.

Catching up

I have pictures from the last 2 weeks waiting to be posted so I’m just going to lump them all into one catch-up post…

The day we got back from Florida there was a massive cold front that moved through.  They even delayed school which meant Maxwell just got to take the day off! (when they delay opening until 10:30 and you only stay in 1:00 it doesn’t make much sense to go!) But, not to worry, there was plenty of work to be done around the house…

hard at work

and he loved getting all bundled up to venture outside!

cold

When we got back I also learned I had the flu. Lovely. It wasn’t too bad though and I think that was maybe because I had gotten a flu shot and perhaps it lessened the severity?  Don’t know but I’m just grateful no one else around me got it!

After a few freezing days, we were back to beautiful weather on Saturday with low 60’s and sunshine!  Perfect day for Jack’s birthday party!  The boys got to bounce, eat doughnuts, play with buddies and have a great time.  Maxwell even got his face painted!  I think Spencey had the most fun of all crawling all over the wet asphalt and mud ruining his pants, chowing down on some doughnuts and spilling chocolate milk all over himself!

jack bday

Happy birthday Jack!

jack party

We’ve all had fun these past two weeks playing with new Christmas presents…

trucks

and watching plenty of movies when it was cold outside. and, who am I kidding, also when it wasn’t that cold outside. Really need to cut down that screen time!

tv

Then to top off the week, yesterday was construction day at our house!  Susan and the boys had a fun construction filled day that included a trip to Home Depot and building a construction zone at the house!

construction

construction

Love their adventures.

Looking forward to a long weekend ahead.  Hope you all have Monday off like we do!

more BIG stuff

First the BIG boy bed and now my BIG boy got a BIG boy haircut!

Before…

before hair

and after!

after hair

It was pretty darn shaggy before and, even though it does make him look older, I’m loving his cleaned up do!  I’m thinking maybe he can hear better too without all that hair hanging over his ears!  🙂

The blog has been pretty Maxwell focused this week and I don’t want you to think I’m ignoring Spencey.  He’s still here and doing awesome things like this…

toes

Yep.  Not walking yet but he can suck on his toes!  Talent!

See you tomorrow!

Putting out fires

It’s only Wednesday but work has been crazy this week.  It’s been the type of week where you get that terrible phone call or email and then off you go, putting out fires.  I was ready for Friday by Monday afternoon!!

Luckily I’ve got this cute little guy helping me put out fires.

fire

fire

fire

fire

Can’t wait until I can say “Fire’s Out!” about my work emergencies just like he does about his emergencies!