Showing posts with label love notes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label love notes. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 9, 2017

3rd week of August 2017 - Maxwell Turns 5

We are almost at the end of summer.  The days until school are rushing by and I'm not ready yet!

Playing at our little neighborhood park.  She's big enough to climb up to the tall slides.

Maxwell's preferred method of swinging.

Adorable heart part to match her heart dress, courtesy of Aunt Britt.

The kids hung out with me at work.  I love having them there, but get no work done when they are!


She quickly found my bag and determined it was a perfect purse.


Playing with the calculator

Maxwell hiding the rocks in my zen garden from himself.

This should be an ad.  Who wouldn't want to buy NOWMints with a cute face like that staring at them?


Well, my green pepper finally was "picked".  It just wasn't going to go any further than this.  Sad.  I did eat a bite but there wasn't much to it.  I'm still going strong on my cucumbers (with help from me to mate the male and the female flowers).

Little drummer girl

A note from Maxwell

The kids LOVE to play with this play house and all the contents.

Maxwell had meet the teacher night so we all went to the school to see his classroom and meet his teacher - Mrs. Garza.

The names of all the students were on the board.  Clearly Maxwell isn't the majority demographic in this classroom.

For Maxwell's birthday, I did a little decorating.

Last sleeping picture of my 4 year old

We all went to McDonalds for lunch on Maxwell's birthday.  It seems to be his number choice always - thanks to that silly toy in the happy meal.

Getting chocolate milk was a must.

They were out of toys! (How does that happen?!) To make it up to him, he got an ice cream cone instead.

He's acting older already - - he climbed all the way to the top (he's on the top right side) of the playground.  That's not common for him.  

We had his well-child check up with his pediatrician.

Past 40 lbs!

Emmalyn came along for the doctor's appointment.  She loves going to all doctor's appointments.

Working on balancing on one foot

Page 1 of his questionnaire.  You use the same questionaire for ages 4-6 and you are supposed to keep going until you get a certain amount of "no's".  He got through both pages with all yes's.

Second page.  

Maxwell's 5 year old stats:
Weight - 41.6 lbs 57th %
Height - 40.25 in 7th %
BP 99/50
Heart rate 89

Very little change from last year.


After the doctor we went to Little Caesars to pick up pizza (maxwell's choice) for dinner.  It was POURING rain and we all got wet!!

Poor girls was soaked

Enjoying his pizza on his "you are special" plate.

The rain sure made her curls stand out though - - I'm still in shock over them!

BOING!  Those curls!!!

The cousins waiting on the cake.






Woo!  Way to go Maxwell!

Licking the candle

Sweet curly hair framing that sweet face.



The baby is slowing fading out of this face.  :( 

After cake, we opened some presents.

Kids update:
Emmalyn loves having Grandma Donna around.  Max calls her Donna.  
When doing kisses at bedtime, Emmalyn gets off bed and runs away saying "I'll be right back!"
So many questions from her..."why" "why" "why"

Friday, December 9, 2016

Second week of April 2016

Big, exciting news...  We got a new tree for the backyard!!!  It's in a different spot than the old, dead one and hopefully will provide a little privacy from our backdoor neighbor's massive balcony.

I did a little challenge at work with my team across the country.  I challenged them to go geocaching with their family and so of course I had to do it too.  We've never done it and it was a fun challenge!

Maxwell look at the GPS on the phone

We found it buried in the branches of a pine tree

We left behind a treat for the next person to come looking for this cache.

Family pic

It was a nice, windy day so we flew kites at the park with Brittany's family.



It ended up getting REALLY windy where the kids had to really fight the wind.

Emmalyn and I flew her first kite.

Look at that hair go in the wind!

No running needed in order to get the kites up, just someone to hold it up in the air and let it go - - it was that windy!

Spring brings not only wind but rain too!  Another day we had fun outside splashing in the puddles after the rain.
Mr. Chris came over to splash a little too.



The kids had a blast jumping.  :)  I think jumping in puddles is really a lot of fun, too.

Maxwell had his second visit to his eye doctor.  He did a great job - - the doctor commented on how great he was to work with.  

His eyes had changed a little but not enough to get new glasses. We got another prescription but the doctor said to use it only if Max's glasses broke and we needed to get new ones, otherwise the old ones were fine.

Because of his doctor's visit, Maxwell went late to school.  We stopped and got Subway for lunch and ate it together at his table.

We had a fun morning together!


I stayed a little and watched Maxwell engage with the other kids in the class.

The kids are great at walking down the halls, keeping quiet and their hands to themselves.  I love his preschool!

This girl loves her spaghetti.

Video - On her 2nd birthday eve, enjoyed hearing this cutie speak and watch her do a great job eating.  Love her little voice!

Maxwell wrote this series of notes in the car one day.  I thought it was so sweet!