Last Day of School

The end of Max's first year of school has officially come to a close. We signed up to bring a treat. I kept telling Jeff that I wanted to do something different from the regular cookies or rice krispy treats. So Jeff mentioned root beer floats and I thought it would be great to also give a cool cup to take home. Good idea but a little sticky. Now Max has started summer school and it's a entire new ball game.

An end of the year frozen yogurt treat at Menchies!

Graduation

Over Memorial Day weekend we all packed up and headed to my sister's house in Texas. As usual it is great to spend time together and we had plenty of time to relax. This was also the first time for Hayden to make an appearance at a big family event. As you would expect with most 3 year olds Max only made it through part of the ceremony but luckily my nephew's last name is a G so there wasn't much waiting for him to walk.

All the grand kids and Kristina makes a fun new addition too.

Touch A Truck

Several weeks ago I got off work early and Jeff and I took Max to a local event,Touch a Truck. This is it's fourth year and our first to attend, but I guarantee it will not be our last! Every kind of truck you could imagine was there and ready to be explored. Max was in heaven and never wanted to leave. He was even content to just sit on one of the school buses as a passenger. I never knew there were so many different trucks, wreckers, buses, police cars, trash trucks and more! We will definitely be back next year!

Movie Date

Keeping with my crappy cell phone pictures and the fact that Max hasn't been the best picture taker I give you this post. Especially you Jennifer, chilly willy! Periodically I get the urge to try the movie theatre experience with Max again. We have switched to going to the cheap theatre until he gets better at it and can stay for the entire movie. Each time we stay a little longer so  before to much longer who knows we may actually see how the movie ends. I noticed as long as he has some popcorn he will sit quietly watching the movie. But the second he hits the bottom it's go time. Here is Max giving me a big "cheese" smile. His new thing when taking pictures is to say cheese, smile and close is eyes. The bottom pictures is a little gross with all of the popcorn in his mouth but it cracks me up!

Lemon Verbena

While in Texas for the wedding the family went to Steak & Shake for lunch one day and my sister in law and niece got some cute shots. ***off topic*** I wish I could get an iPhone but they are not offered through my phone carrier. They take way better pictures than my phone does. Originally I was only going to post one picture but I loved them both to much to pick.

Also a few weeks ago on my days off I brought Max up to my work for a lunch. He was a hit, but he loved the microphone we have and luckily he didn't key up on the radio.

My little dispatcher!

Congratulations All Around

April and May are turning out to be pretty busy months for the Browns. On April 16th my brother and sister in law welcomed their first baby into the world.

Hayden Logan Richardson is a beautiful healthy baby girl.

And I just cant help but add one more picture because she is absolutely adorable!

After the excitement of a new baby there was a wedding on the 28th. My nephew Eric got married to a very sweet girl named Krysitna. Which of course meant a road trip to Texas. It all went by way to fast but it was a really beautiful wedding.

And it's not ending here folks. May brings plenty of excitement too! Of course the school year is coming to a close and over Memorial Day weekend my nephew Coleton is graduating from High School. So like I said right now is an exciting time with plenty of things to do. I cant believe the school year is almost over and that Maxwell has been in Pre-K for a full year already. On Thursday we went to Max's school for an IEP meeting to discuss goals for next year and his current progress. Unfortunately he is not progressing as well as we had hoped at the beginning of the year. But there has been progress and that is something. The therapists and his teacher recommend that he goes to summer school because they are concerned that the summer break would cause him to regress to much. It's a double edge sword but to tell you the truth I completely agree with them. So even though the school year is almost over school isn't. Max will go to school Tuesday through Thursday which is nice so we can still take a family vacation.We are getting ourselves geared up for summer and all the good things that come with it!

Hoppy Easter!

This year was the first time that Max seemed to really get into the holiday. Christmas was full of excitement and trepidation, but Easter was another story. When Max woke up first thing he did was run into the living room and make a b-line to an Easter egg that the Easter Bunny hid. And he remembered all about the the jelly beans we planted and sure enough the Easter Bunny worked his magic and lollipops did grow overnight!!! We continue to get more people out of training at work which means I got to stay home and see Max get up Easter morning. It was nice to go in late because this was the first year I got to have Easter morning at home since Max was born.Since this was my first actual Easter morning with my kiddo I had great intentions of doing it up right. I was going to make monkey bread but the boys settled for Dunkin Donuts instead, and a little candy too.

One egg down and 9 to go...

Max is an official jelly bean taste tester.

 
The goodies the Easter Bunny left!!!

Twas the night before Easter...

As you may remember I absolutely love holidays and Easter is no different. Tonight after dinner and a bath the family dyed eggs and we started a new family tradition. I found a really cute idea of planting jelly beans in a pot then in the morning after the Easter Bunny works his magic lollipops grow. So here we are off to bed and ready for morning.

I also found this great idea of putting an egg inside of a whisk to dunk eggs. It worked wonders!!!

Zoo Trip

Look at me! I'm making good time cause this post is actually about something that happened a week ago!!! Last Monday we got together with Nicholas and Silas. Max loved the Snake house and of course the playground. It was a beautiful day and I'm glad we got out of the house. This was also our first time using a wagon and I LOVED it! Also on a different note I finished a crochet doll that I have been making for my soon to be appearing niece Hayden. I'm hoping to get a picture up here soon but who knows with how I roll...

Maxwell's favorite toy!

 

Max has very expensive taste. First let us not forget the 2 laptops that he broke in less than a month, but he is obsessed with playing in the car. Luckily he hasn't broken anything there (knock on wood.) I think he would be fine sitting in the car every day and night!