Father's Day 2015

Happy Father's Day, Peter!

Video - Maxwell answering some questions about his dad

Cutie pants

Working on his card for his dad

Caught trying to drink dad's water!

Looking at the pictures with dad

Seeing the Emmalyn canvas for the first time

Showing dad the socks he picked out for him

Peter's big Father's day present.  I did a canvas collage of the kids' photoshoots (Cheerio and then superhero).  They turned out so dang cute!

She's got lots of curls going on

Inside the card

Front of the card

Back of the card

Ready to "MOVE!"

Wahoo!  I've been looking forward to it for months!  I was so excited to see Julianne and Derek on their tour.

Video - The dancing was incredible!

Video - I loved this number

Julianne sang a few numbers and her voice was fantastic.  It gave me chills (and made me cry too because I'm so proud!)

The show was fantastic from start to finish.  It was even BETTER than last year!  I want to watch it again and again...  It was great dancing, singing, and motivational too.

After the show we went backstage and got to visit with both J and D.  It was great visiting with both of them.

We got to watch their Q&A session.  It was really fun to see how they interacted with their fans and also see how genuine they were in those moments.  Their fans may not realize it, but they got the REAL Jules and Derek in each response.

Close up and with a filter

I, of course, brought a bag of goodies.  Life on the road is rough!

A surprise chance to visit with Aunt Juju

We got a wonderful surprise - - - Aunt Juju had a day off before her performance across the border in OK, and she stayed in Dallas so that she could see us!  It was a really fun day.

We all went swimming in her hotel pool.  The boys had lots of opportunities to "show off" for Jules.  :)  Maxwell, especially, was excited to have her watch what he could do.  

We had lunch down by the pool.  (This hotel had the absolute best water down by the pool - - it wasn't spa water but had lime in it and something else.  I've thought of calling the hotel again to find out.  It was amazing.)

After lunch, Jules had a spa appointment and we all showered and then hung out in her hotel room while I *tried* to get my kids to nap.  Unfortunately, because too many things were off from their routine (sleeping in a room by themselves, with sound machines, etc.) neither slept.  UGH.  I worried that they would just be grumpy all evening.

Emmalyn LOVED Lexi and Harley.  They are such good, sweet dogs.  

When Jules came back, we took the dogs for a walk.

Today was the first time Julianne got to meet Emmalyn.  She was so cute with her.

I wish this pic wasn't so dark.  I love it!

The dogs were so sweet that even Maxwell liked them.  He asked to walk Harley!  (And proceeded to talk about both of them for days)

He really loves his Aunt 

Peter met up with us after he was done working and we walked to dinner (it ended up being pretty far...on busy streets...with sidewalks under construction - - not the best when you are walking with 5 kids) and had some good Mexican food and great conversation.  I so enjoy time with Julianne.  It was good to know that we'd get time with her the next day too.  (Maxwell was soooo upset that he wasn't going to be going to the show with us.)

KNOCKED OUT! Long day, time in the sun, no nap, long walk, staying up past his bedtime....yup, fell asleep in the car.

Emmalyn crashed, too.

3rd week of June, 2015

Gotta love the "cheese" face

Maxwell and dad playing badminton/baseball/tennis with the ball girl, Emmalyn

Helping daddy 

Playing with cousins.  Wish you could see Emmalyn's little cowgirl dress.  It's pretty cute.  :)

Look! Maxwell picked a strawberry!  That's two off the plant!

This is a very special cheerio.

Happy as a clam when surrounded by her favorite cheerios!

Enjoying her bottle

Sleeping sweetly tonight with his "special delivery bear"

Fun at Kindermusik

Soccer - - He's standing there for kickoff with his hand in his shirt.  Everyone else doesn't know this, but I know what he's doing.  He's self-soothing by touching his nipple.  When I see this, I know he's tired and ready to be done.

Ooh!  He's running.  Good to see he's got a little bit of gas left in the tank.

I was doing some weeding in the back and found a worm.  I got Maxwell to look at it and even got him to touch it.  

Snowcones!

Emmalyn is really aggressive to get what she wants.

I have been watching some teeth on her bottom right that are getting close to popping up and found that her big tooth next to her canine on bottom left popped through! Before her canine came in, too!  I couldn't believe I had missed that it was that close..

If you ask her what sound any animal makes, she will make a growling noise.

Maxwell and Emmalyn are engaging and talking to each other.  Maxwell makes her laugh, which I love.

It's fun to see Maxwell continue to grow and get more independent

Remember how Maxwell didn't call Peter "daddy"? Instead he always called him "Peter"?  Yeah...and people were super worried and uncomfortable with it?  Well, Peter is more "daddy" than "Peter" now.  It's a little sad to me.  :(

Maxwell is so great at staying in his bed and never getting out on his own (He calls for one of us when he wakes up and we go get him).  This week, he was in bed during a nap and he needed to go potty. So, he got out of bed, went potty, and went back and shut his door and got back in bed.  Nice although we couldn't believe he got out of bed on his own!  Not sure if this is a good thing or not.

I got a text from peter while I was gardening and Maxwell got my phone out of my pocket, read the text to me, and then called peter through Siri to answer his question.  Crazy that he can do all of that!

Maxwell and I were leaving and I was telling Maxwell that Daddy was going to take my car somewhere and he goes "No,  daddy's a crazy driver! He drives me crazy."  :)  funny!