The Brown Brick Road

Capturing our adventures one photo at a time...

Monday, Monday

Every other day, every other day,
Every other day of the week is fine, yeah
But whenever Monday comes, but whenever Monday comes
You can find me cryin’ all of the time…

Oh Monday, you’re killing me today.  Our weekend was part great and part not great.

The great part?  We got lots of fun and necessary things done, including buying a new ipad and having a little photoshoot at the house!

The not great part?  It was in the triple digits all weekend and was just about too hot to do anything.  I think the heat brought the crazies out in all of us.  Case in point – Maxwell decided he didn’t want to sleep in his bed and he only wanted to sleep with me in the rocking chair.  Goodness gracious.  I have no idea where that came from as he’s always been the BEST sleeper and loves his bed.  Over the past week, he’s wanted to rock for a just few minutes before going to sleep and I had no problem with that.  I loved it actually.  It was great snuggle time and, after a few times singing Twinkle Twinkle Little Star (or Tinkle as Maxwell says), he would ask to get in his bed and go on to sleep.  Well, on Saturday night, he just decided that he wanted to rock and sing Tinkle all. night. long.  I’ll spare you all the details but we dealt with SCREAMING crying for up to 45 minutes straight and I was in there at 7:30, 8:30, 9:30 pm and then again from 4:30 to 7:00 am.  Maybe he’s just getting me all geared up for another newborn!?  Goodness gracious indeed!

I decided to implement a firm “no rocking” policy from here on out because, clearly, you give him an inch and he takes a mile.  Things went better on Sunday with only about 15 minutes of crying at nap time and only 30 minutes of crying at night time (of course, we’ve had zero crying for about a year so “better” is a relative term!)

Hopefully we’ll be back to normal sleep soon.  I guess I should just be grateful that he’s been as good of a sleeper as he has been up until this point.

He did end up taking a great nap on Sunday so we thought we’d celebrate and beat the heat with a little cool treat…

Yum!  And here’s some other iphone pics from the last few weeks…

Please note the bottom left picture with the pigtails I was able to give him before he got all his hair cut off!  hilarious!  My sweet buddy boy.

On another note, this ipad is really only 50% mine and 50% Maxwell’s.  I got it mainly to entertain him on trips, etc.  What are your favorite apps for the 2 year old set?  Would love some ideas!

Hope you all are more well-rested on this Monday than I am!

A moment of silence

Can we all observe a moment of silence on this lovely Friday for Maxwell’s shaggy curls.  He got a haircut on Tuesday and I mean a haircut!  I guess she felt like he needed a really clean cut for the summer!  It makes him look so much older and I’m just hoping those curls grow back fast!!

Maxwell didn’t seem bothered by the haircut at all.  He was just happy to get the sucker!

I on the other hand am a little bothered by it.  I just don’t like this growing up stuff.  Not one bit.

It is a nice cut though.  and he’s still my baby, no matter how old he looks.

Have a GREAT weekend everyone!  We’re going to spend it trying to stay cool.  High on Saturday of 104!!  Yikes!

Recent developments

Two recent developments.

1. I think Maxwell is about to hit a growth spurt because, as of this week, he’s been eating like a horse.  We had a string of a few weeks where he was being even pickier than usual with his food and just not eating much.  I really think it had a lot to do with the congestion and cold he was fighting.  But, he’s healthy now and eating great!  Good thing because I think he was starting to look a little too skinny..

Look at those ribs!  I need my chubbo back!

One of his favorite things is a sandwich made on the panini press with pesto, chicken, pepper jack and tomatoes!  No PB&J for my dude – he wants gourmet!  Of course, his other favorite thing are corn dogs so…yea, guess he’s no gourmet!

2. Maxwell is obsessed with Grover, aka BaBa, these days.  With the 99 degree temps we’ve had outside, we’ve done a lot of this…

and this…

and this…

all while watching this…

Don’t worry, there’s still been some late afternoon outside playtime though!  Gotta keep him out there still to try and get rid of that darn sock tan!  🙂

See you tomorrow!

Up close and personal

Maxwell loves the self-portrait feature on my iphone.  I love it too because sometimes I get up close and personal gems like these…

Ok, so maybe that bottom right picture is a little too personal!  🙂  hahaha!  I’m sure Maxwell will kill me for that someday…that and everything else on this blog.  Love you sweet boy!!

Father’s Day

I’m finally getting up all the Father’s Day pictures from two weekends ago.  As I mentioned, we had Robert’s family in town for lunch and had a great time. There was a BBQ feast with Golden Rule BBQ and lots of homemade sides – cole slaw, beans, corn salad (very similar to this but I cook my onions and tomatoes) – and these strawberry shortcake cookies for dessert.  Yum!

Maxwell obviously loved all the attention and both he and Nanner got to wear some of Lulu’s jewelry for a while!

The weather was beautiful and the cousins had a blast playing outside with some bubbles and sidewalk chalk and whatever other toys were around.  I think everyone enjoyed being outside that day thanks to the fans on our deck!  I’m just going to let the pictures do the rest of the talking…

and, finally, proof that I was there too!

A great way to celebrate Father’s Day!