The Brown Brick Road

Capturing our adventures one photo at a time...

Diaper and boots

First, happy birthday to Maxwell’s great-great aunt Dodo today! Hope you have a great day!

After bathtime last week, Maxwell spotted his boots and REALLY wanted to put them on. After the boots were on, he didn’t care much about clothes so he got to play around like this for a while…

Come on…like you wouldn’t do this if you could! 🙂

One last picture for today…extreme closeup!

And one last item of interest for today…Maxwell learned another new word! Mailman! He said it when we walked to the mailbox and also when he saw a mail truck in his truck book. Smarty pants indeed! Guess all those episodes of Sesame Street are paying off! After all, a mailman is a person in our neighborhood!

Another quick visit

Happy Leap day! See you again in 4 years 2/29!

Maxwell’s Aunt Messy was in town on Saturday and stopped by for a quick visit. Maxwell was much too busy to actually sit in her lap but they still managed to have some fun together…

Peekaboo!!

We love visitors!

In other news, Maxwell got bit at school yesterday! ouch! The teacher said one of the other kids bit him on the finger (and i could still see the bite marks that afternoon!) The teachers loved on him a little and he was fine. It does make me a little nervous for next year though because he’s going to be the very youngest kid in the 2 year old class. I mean, the youngest possible you could be -you have to turn 2 by September 1 and he turns 2 on August 30. Hope my baby can hold his own against the big kids next year!

Smarty Pants

Maxwell might be a genius.  Not only does he know his animals, he also knows his body parts.  He can point out his eyes, nose, mouth, ears and belly button.  He also has a new word – bubble.  He and Susan were playing with bubbles last week and he’s been talking about them ever since!  Belly button, bubbles…next stop?  Harvard for sure.  🙂

Some pics of my smarty pants and me on a little walk last week…

He was in his stroller but REALLY wanted to walk like a big boy so, we did.  For quite a long way too!  His little legs got a workout.  He also gathered quite a collection of sticks as big as him!

My little buddy is the best.

A quick visit

Last week we had a quick visit from some of our very favorite people – GJ and Daddo!  They stopped by for dinner on their way to Arkansas and we sure were glad to see them!

Maxwell loved all the attention…not surprisingly!

GJ clearly thought this was a very exciting Elmo book!  🙂

Maxwell and Daddo had a little chat…

as Daddo explained that C is for Cookie!

Maxwell then got out the SeeNSay and had GJ play the Old McDonald song about 50 times…and every time it played Maxwell would giggle and squeal and dance around!  You can see how much that tickled GJ!

GJ couldn’t resist Maxwell’s charms and simply had to scoop him up and smother him in kisses!  I love these pictures…

These two are big buds!

Maxwell then got a little bzzzz bzzzz bzzzz bee bite on his belly from Daddo!

Too cute!

It was a great night (thanks for cooking the steaks, Robert!) and makes me REALLY wish we all lived closer together.

Come back soon GJ and Daddo!  We miss you already!

Shorter do

The day after Maxwell’s haircut, I took him outside for a little photo shoot to try and get some shots of his new shorter do. Unfortunately, he was not exactly a willing model. No smiles, no looking at the camera…oh well, you can’t win em all!

They may not be the best pictures, but they do show off his clean cut in the back!

and I love that he’s still got his wings curls!

Of course Maxwell went and sat in his car like he always does when we go outside…

And then he wanted to climb into the rocking chair. With how dark the background is in these two photos, doesn’t it look like twins sitting on two chairs side by side? Oh man, the thought of 2 Maxwells at once is almost too much!!

He’s a stinker…but he’s my stinker and I sure do love him!

Happy weekend all!