The Brown Brick Road

Capturing our adventures one photo at a time...

Orange is his favorite color

When I got back to my hotel in NY Sunday night, I had a text from Robert that said:

This is what happens when you ask your 2.5 year old to keep busy while you put the other to bed.  Orange all over legs, arms, you name it!

orange marker

Oh my goodness.  I haven’t laughed that hard in a long time!  Thankfully it was washable marker.  Thankfully he only drew on himself and not the furniture.  Thankfully I was in NY and could just laugh and know that Robert had it handled!  🙂

By Monday night, I think everyone was ready for Momma to be home.

home

Happy to be back where I belong!

Outside fun

I had a wonderful trip to NY and got home late last night.  Back to normal today!

Just some more pics from our time outside…which is where we spend just about every day now that the weather is so nice!  Thank goodness for  a good backyard! Maxwell finds all sorts of places to build “construction sites” where he loads rocks, dumps dirt and digs sand.  He’s also taken an interest in digging into my herb garden lately.  Grrrr.  We’re down one basil plant and had a talk about not touching momma’s plants!

This little boy is ALL boy!

backyard

And below are just a few more pictures from another week of my Light + Life class focused on composition and playing around with lines in a photo.  I’ve really enjoyed the class and hate to see it end soon!

lines

lines

lines

See you tomorrow!

So professional

First, happy birthday to Aunt Messy today! Hope it’s a great one!

Today I’m acting like a real professional and am in the city so nice they named it twice! NYC! I had to take a quick trip to the city for work (poor me, right?!) so I flew up yesterday morning and got to spend the day doing around the city all by myself. What a treat! I’ll be back home late tonight but I’m going to enjoying my little 48 hour taste of Manhattan while Robert and Susan hold down the fort in Alabama!

Speaking of work, I had to take a picture of myself (awkward) for something at work so had set up my camera last weekend on the tripod for Robert to snap some shots. Of course, when Maxwell saw the setup, he had to hop into the pictures with me! I love these…and the one I ended up using for work even had him in it – cropped out of course! 🙂

me and mbb

me and mbb

me and mbb

me and mbb

Do we look professional or what?!

Bye for now from New York! 🙂

Hopscotch

Susan is introducing Maxwell to the classic games of the playground like hopscotch!  They drew a hopscotch grid on the bricks with chalk and Maxwell thought it was just about the funniest thing in the world to see me and Susan hopping up and down that thing.  Can’t blame him – it was pretty funny!  🙂  Maxwell loved to hop on it too – even if he didn’t get his feet exactly in the right squares!

hopscotch

He is a good hopper though!

hopscotch

Wonder what game will be next?  Four square?

Have a great weekend!!

Thomas the Train

Three weekends ago, we took the boys out to The Heart of Dixie Railway to ride Thomas the Train!  It was supposed to be a nice, spring morning but the weather decided to be disagreeable and we were met with cold rain the whole time we were out there.  Definitely not fun.  I think Maxwell was still excited to see and ride Thomas…even if he kept saying he didn’t want to ride the train!  Luckily we had two umbrellas with us and raincoats.  I hadn’t stuck in a coat for Spencer as it wasn’t supposed to be that cold so he got to wear Maxwell’s extra jacket.  That 2T jacket fit him just fine for a few hours!  🙂

thomas the train

thomas the train

thomas the train

thomas

thomas the train

Overall it was a fun day.  Not sure we’ll do it again, but fun to do once!  😉

We did get our official picture taken in front of Thomas.  My scanner isn’t working right now so here’s a great picture of the picture!  ha!

thomas the train

Choo-choo!