We had a great weekend!  Beautiful weather with not much going on.  Perfect!  The only downside was a little inconvenience getting in and out of our driveway.  The gas company has been working all up and down our street replacing a 50 year old gas line.  They finally made it to the portion right in front of our house at the end of last week and while inconvenient for me, oh, what a treat for Maxwell!  We had all sorts of “lallow tucks” in front of our house for 3 days straight!  When I finished working on Friday, I looked outside and saw this…

Susan and Maxwell were having a ball watching all the action in their yellow hats with Maxwell’s yellow construction truck out there too!  They were checking everything out and Maxwell was so interested in everything…

The construction workers were so nice and kept waving to Maxwell.  Then, when they were about ready to call it quits for the day, one of them came over and asked if Maxwell would like to go sit in one of the trucks!!  oh boy!!  Susan volunteered to get in with him (thankfully!  this pregnant momma wasn’t going to climb up into that truck!).  I don’t know who was more excited…Maxwell or Susan!  🙂

Hi Momma!  Look at me!

Oh it was a big day…

A big day indeed!

More bounce house pictures from the weekend below but first, a school story.

Maxwell is in a small class this year with only 6 kids.  He does great when I drop him off – he runs right in and waves at me and says “Bye bye mama!” with a smile.  But, the past two times I dropped him off, two of the little boys in his class were NOT happy about being there.  I mean, SCREAMING crying.  When Maxwell saw them crying and all the chaos, he clung on to me and started to tear up.  Not good.  I’m going to try taking him a few minutes later because another teacher comes in at 9:10 and takes the criers out to a different room.  But, knowing that might not always happen I also had a little chat with him about what to do when other kids in his class are crying.  I told him that if they’re sad it doesn’t mean that he needs to cry too, but that he should give them a little hug and let them know it’s going to be ok.

Now, I have no idea if he actually understood what I told him BUT…  When I went to pick him up yesterday, the teacher said that earlier that morning one of the little boys really didn’t want to make his craft and was throwing a little fit.  She said that Maxwell went over to him and started showing him how to make it and then, when he was still upset, Maxwell knelt beside him and patted him on the back!!!!!  She said she was melting and, my goodness, I would have too!  My sweet, sweet boy.  I have such a great kid and I just can’t believe how much I love him!

That sweet, sweet boy deserved some bouncing fun this past weekend so we happily obliged!

Flying!

See you tomorrow!

First, let me just say that this past week and a half has been possibly the busiest, most stressful week and a half at work I’ve ever had in my 7 years with my firm.  I’m talking – up early to work, staying up late to work, working on the weekends.  Ugh.  For anyone that I owe phone calls to, I’m so sorry and promise to call soon.  Life has not been normal the past week.  In addition, Susan has been out of town on a much deserved vacation.  She’s back tomorrow – hooray!  We’ve all missed her!  A BIG thank you to LuLu who came up and kept Maxwell in the morning both last week on Thursday as well as yesterday.   Yesterday involved a trip to the zoo and I know Maxwell loved it judging by the 3+ hour nap he took in the afternoon!  Thank you Lulu!

On to other things – I made this my Facebook status the other day:

I never thought I would be so aware of where all the construction sites close to my house are so I can go look at “lallow tucks” several times a week. Life with boys!

It’s so true.  Whenever we’re driving or walking around, it’s always a good day for Maxwell if we can see some sort of yellow construction vehicle.  As a result, I’ve learned where in our neighborhood all the construction sites are so we can go say “hi” to the “lallow tucks”

Luckily, there seems to be a lot of construction going on around us right now so we get to see plenty of real, live “lallow tucks” and not just watch them on our Mighty Machine DVDs (which we still watch a LOT of anyway!)  🙂  Gotta love it!

 

Hey, at least he’s got good taste in shoes!  Picked my favorites right out of my closet!

He’s got good balance too – walking the runway!  🙂

If you can’t see the video, click here – red shoes

ps – sorry if you couldn’t see the site yesterday.  Apparently GoDaddy got hacked and almost all of their sites were down for several hours.  What kind of mean people do that?!