The Brown Brick Road

Capturing our adventures one photo at a time...

Toot Toot!

Good news around here – the Augmentin seems to be working and Maxwell is slowly getting back to himself and out of his pitiful ear infection funk.  Hooray!

Today I’ve got some pictures of my little buddy in his choo-choo train shirt that I made for him…

train applique shirt

As I think I’ve mentioned before, Susan taught Maxwell to hold his little arm up and say “Toot Toot!” whenever he sees the train painting on his wall.

train applique shirt

Well, when I showed him that he had a train on his shirt too, he was “Toot Toot!”-ing all day.  Ridiculously cute.

train applique shirt

I promise that applique tutorial is coming soon.  Things are just busy busy busy around here these days!

train applique shirt

But, for now, see you tomorrow and “Toot Toot!”

Huntsville

On Sunday we went up to Huntsville to visit some of Robert’s family.  Robert’s cousin, Mary Ellen, was in town from Virginia with her husband and little boy, Andrew.  We hadn’t seen Andrew since he was itty bitty and, oh my, these boys grow too fast!

Drew and Andrew…

Love his curly do!

Andrew is only 3 months younger than Maxwell and it was so fun to see them check each other out!

huntsville visit

Even though Maxwell is a little bit older, he was only a hair taller than Andrew.  I think they both loved having someone their own size around!

huntsville visit

These two little rascals were getting into things all day together!  Look at those curly headed little boys…

Of course, Andrew wasn’t the only exciting thing for Maxwell that day.  He also had fun getting to check out Sweet Pea the dog…

and getting his first slam dunk (thanks to a little help from LuLu)!

The one place that Maxwell’s age gave him an advantage was on the stairs.  Andrew thought he had the lead but Maxwell snuck up behind him and beat him to the top!

Cute, sweet cousins!

It was a beautiful day so we also got to spend some time playing outside. I love Maxwell’s face in this one…

Ha!  He means business with that noodle!!  Don’t worry, they were playing happily one second later…

We ended the day with an attempt at a group cousin shot.  If you remember the pictures from last time, you know we haven’t had much success with this in the past.  Unfortunately, this time was no different.

Eh.  Maxwell and Anna are clearly more interested in Sweet Pea than smiling for the camera!  But, it’s the best we got so it’ll have to do!

One last picture…Robert snapped this one with his phone and it’s so sweet I have to share…

Thanks for a great day Betty and Don!

 

Oh my darling, Clementine

I love clementine season.  So sweet and easy to peel.  Maxwell got his hands on one last week and I think he liked it as much as me!

clementines

clementines

Of course, if I peel one and put segments on his plate to eat, he won’t touch them.  Strange.

clementines

It’s all in the presentation I guess!

In other news, have I mentioned we’re sick around here?  We are.  Maxwell has a lovely cough, runny nose and double ear infection.  Boo.  We were on Amoxicillin for 3 days and he wasn’t getting better so now we’ve switched to Augmentin.  I just want my little buddy to feel better!

Chatterbox

Happy Monday all!  A little something different for you to start your week…some talking pics!

As I mentioned last week, Maxwell has finally decided to start saying Mama.  It makes this Mama very happy!

If you can’t see the video, click here to watch it on Flickr.

However, I still hear this a lot more than I hear Mama!

too funny. too, too funny.

If you can’t see the video, click here to watch it on Flickr.

ps – yay me for finally figuring out how to embed videos into the blog!  woohoo!

pps – I’m not going to start posting a lot of videos because I always think they’re kind of annoying to watch on other people’s blogs but, these were too funny to me not to share.

ppps – have a great week!

 

Friday Favorite

It’s been too long since I’ve done a Friday Favorite around here!  This one is very special to Maxwell…a true favorite.

Wheels on the Bus by Paul Zelinsky

I bought this book before Maxwell was born and had no idea how much he would love it.  And love it he does!  No matter all the other books around, this is the one that he pulls out over and over again. He loves to pull and push and make things move.  The windows go up and down, the doors go open and shut, the driver says move on back, the babies go wah wah wah and the wipers go swish swish swish….at least they used to!  Maxwell has almost loved this book to death…evidence below of where the wipers used to be!

wheels on the bus

I think we might have to get a new copy to have around!

wheels on the bus

The book was also great to teach me the words to all the verses of the song…a song we sing a lot around here!  🙂  If you’re looking for a fun book for your kid or a great baby gift, can’t recommend this book enough!

Have a great weekend everyone!