First week of February 2017 - Maxwell loses his first tooth

Landen turned 6.  Emmalyn was excited to sing to him and be next to him.

Look at those cute cousins!

Maxwell's school had a science night with lots of fun experiments and hands on stuff.  The kids both loved it.  He's playing with magnets here.

This one was standing in a bubble

So much personality!

100 days of school!  Maxwell dressed up as an old (sloppy) man.

I'm feeling good about the weight I've lost and how I'm looking!  It's exciting to be able to wear clothes you've bought but never worn because it just didn't fit well.

Me and my girl

Love her

How she likes to go to sleep - on TOP of her stuffed animals

Learning some guitar with dad

We LOVE LOVE LOVE Kindermusik with Mrs. Carolyn

Enjoying the playground after Kindermusik

The kids in the hats we brought back from Jamaica

"trying" to get a good picture of them in the clothes we brought home

the best I got

Trying out the soccer outfit with the soccer ball

Silliness

Me with dreads - not a good look

Trying to teach Maxwell how to eat edamame out of the pod.  He likes it, it's just hard to get the hang of it!

A little ice cream treat

Guess who has learned to tie his shoes!  

Ready...set...

go!!! Playing football.

Our spread for the superbowl.  Just the Mejias and us, no big party.  Just lots of food.

Emmalyn playing at the mall with Brittany

Maxwell's first tooth was ready to come out!

...Before

He was excited when Peter was going to take it out with dental floss but then as Peter started trying to put the string on his tooth, he got nervous and scared.  It was tough for Peter to get the floss on his tooth which I think added to him being scared.  Once Peter got it on, he did a quick yank and the tooth was out but boy did we have to endured some panicked crying.

It's out!

Such a little tooth

After (you can't really tell it's gone!)

After

His tooth all ready for the tooth fairy.  He was talking about how he was going to sell it to her for $125.00 I told him that was too much.

She gave him $5.00!  (The first tooth is very special and worth more than the rest of the teeth to the tooth fairy.)

Those curls

Really loving her personality right now

She wanted to take a picture of me

Brittany and I took the kids swimming inside at the FAC.  It was fun to get in a pool!

Update on the Kids:

Maxwell loves soft things - blankets, pjs, shirts, sweat pants, jackets, stuffed animals, etc.  

Most of the time when I ask who he plays with at school during recess, he says himself..  That's how he likes it, I guess.

If he ever gets goosebumps when eating a food, he won't eat any more of it.

Emmalyn doesn't sleep peacefully like Maxwell does.  She cries out in her sleep a few times a night or whimpers.  It's sad but she's at least she's not waking up.

She is getting better at knowing her letters.  She still misses C, G (they are both E), N (calls it M), T (which is I), and W (which is U).

She's also finally catching onto her colors and will say most of them right but if you ask her what color something is, her default answer is "I don't know".  She knows black, brown, red, pink, purple, green, sometimes orange and blue but doesn't know white and yellow.

End of January 2017

Emmalyn caught trying to put on some lip gloss.  some of it made it to her lips.  :)

Snuggles with my kiddos

We went to see this play as part of our season tickets to the winspear opera house.  We totally had spaced that we had a play that night and so about 30 minutes before the show started Peter got a reminder on his phone and we dropped everything and left (it's 45 minutes away).  This play was INTENSE.  On one side, it probably would have been helpful to not miss the first part of the show because we might have understood better what was going on.  But on the other hand, I was grateful we missed some of it because it was totally enjoyable and like I said was a very intense play.

How I really felt about the show

Each day Maxwell comes home with a folder from school and if he has an behavioral issues, his teacher will sign his folder and write down what the issue was.  Well, kudos to him - - he went all the way until the second week in January before he got his folder signed.  That's a pretty good kid. (It ended up being the only time he got his folder signed all year.)

Karaoke fun after showers

I had my leadership team in for a meeting and one of them was sick so they all wore these masks as a joke.  

Maxwell being a chef and putting some granola and fruit on his yogurt.

Joe's brother came to town for a few days and the kids LOVED having him here.

Reading with daddy

Maxwell was chosen by his teacher to be a Star Student.  He was recognized in the school assembly called "Norris Now" and I was able to go and see him. The star students ares in specific award categories that are chosen based on the school's character traits that are learned about in Character Lab (the specials teachers run this and the students go every 8 days or so).  Maxwell's teacher said that she chose Maxwell for "Curiosity" because he often asks really interesting questions about things and is eager to learn more.  Maxwell was really excited when he saw both Peter and I in the audience.

Maxwell is the front row - second from the right.  

We went out for pizza to celebrate

Maxwell came home with his second report card.  They don't say much other than he is at the expected level for everything.  (They don't tell you if they are ABOVE that level.)

A funny thing about Maxwell - sometimes he will talk in a southern accent... could be just a couple words or could be a sentence.  Whenever he does it, Peter and I just look at each other and smile.  The kid lives in Texas, it's bound to happen a little bit!

Love that profile

Love the warm days we get in the winter where we can go to the park without jackets!

Maxwell and daddy going for a run

Maxwell making a poster to take to school to celebrate 100 days of Kindergarten.  He put 100 pieces of washi tape on the poster.

Playing Doctor