I know...it's been forever since I've blogged and I"m getting further behind. We've been busy watching the summer Olympics and that's been taking up the evenings.
Maxwell came home from Brittany's and asked to workout so we put on a video and he did an awesome job.
He wanted to lay out his clothes for school in the morning. He calls this making his "Maxwell". He even puts underwear inside the pants.
My sweet little girl - she's been tucking her hands into the neck of her pajamas when she goes to sleep lately....very similar to what Maxwell would do.
I threw my team a Mardi Gras party - gotta have a little fun every now and then.
Maxwell had a party and parade at school too
The kids all dressed up in their mardi gras beads and masks
celebrating Hayden's birthday
Emmalyn really loves her uncle jo jo
messy face
Her hair is getting longer - look at that cute little flip
Each night she needs to sleep with her turtle and her puppy
We are having a progressive dinner with some friends in the neighborhood for Valentine's Day. I want to make sure my party of it (soup/salad) turns out great so I practiced my recipes before hand. This Thai chicken salad is delicious!!
Lovin her boots
Max filling out his Valentines for his class. He wrote "To: A Friend" and From: Maxwell" on every one.
Silly girl
Maxwell and his finished Valentines. It's an arrow with a pencil making up the stick part of it. I thought they were pretty cute. This is the first time we've made our own Valentines and it wasn't bad. (Of course, I purposely picked a simple one.)
Tickles from dad -- Maxwell loves 'em
Maxwell's Friendship Party at school
The kids at his school weren't allowed to bring candy valentines so he came home with lots of non-candy treats. Including temporary tattoos - I don't normally like to let him have them but I made an exception and he was thrilled. (I know this is a battle I will win less and less as he gets older. Sigh)
We decided to go get pizza for dinner and one our way, Max was thinking we were going to Little Caesars and says, "I want daddy to say to them, um...'my son wants a pepperoni pizza' and he can say after that, 'because my son loves pepperoni pizza and cheese pizza'." It was super cute the way he referred to himself.
We ended up going to get pizza at a new place - it was more Neapolitan style pizza. It was yummy but the kids didn't like it much.
Waiting to get some pizza for dinner
Love these kiddos
Maxwell wanted to work on his math this morning.
Here's what he wrote for himself. He can do two digit addition until he has to carry over. If you you look at the last problem you can see his methodology. It makes sense unless you understand math principles. :)
Emmalyn looked so adorable at Kindermusik, that I had to get some pictures...
You know me, never need a reason to justify putting her in a fancy dress. :)
Max at Kindermusik. He loves Ms. Carolyn and always wants to sit next to her.
It was a pretty day for a walk!
Update on the kids...
Maxwell always used to self-sooth by touching his nipples and I don't see him do that anymore (glad to know he grew out of it) - - however, his sister does it, just with mine. (yeah...can be awkward when she reaches down my shirt if she's nervous in public - I have to quickly stop her).
Emmalyn is always asking where her brother is. She eats very little for dinner, wants to watch "frosty the snowman" all the time or watch frozen on her iPad. She can sing the Jeopardy theme song because we watch it every night when we get home from work,
Maxwell is struggling with losing. He gets mad if we race to his room and he loses. And he has started saying he doesn't like going to gym during school because he only has fun if they are doing an obstacle course, but if it's a game he doesn't want to play.. In fact, he cried in gym last week because didn't want to play game where he could be out. We are trying to help him understand that losing doesn't have to be a bad thing, that every loses sometimes and to focus on if he had fun or not but he's having a hard time understanding that.
