Trader Max

"Let me chop the mark off her head"

"This is my favorite thing!" Max said about the play kitchen at Trader Joes

Summer shopping

TGIF

Kira came to cuddle with Max after quite a tantrum 

Daniel the Tiger in the bed and on the tube 

Max walked/ran almost the whole way home from school and he was beat (for a few minutes)!  And thirsty!

Sadie and her baby double 

Gold shoe crew 

Candy man

Relaxing with Max, Kira, and Willy Wonka in between massive jumping on the bed sessions. 

Speaking of Willy Wonka, Max brought mommy all her favorite candies, but unfortunately for her, he said, "No you can't eat candy with that [bandage] on your hand."

Stop asking for the candy I got you, mom!!

Kira kept mommy company in the waiting room 

Farmers Market Wednesday

Kira had her first "dessert" today- an ice pop from the farmers market.  She loved the strawberry banana pop, which was basically a frozen version of her breakfast on a stick.  Except much colder.  And messier.  

Almost three years ago, Max also had his first ice pop from the same farmers market stand, at the same age as Kira is now.

Enough with the pictures mom, put the pop in my mouth!  And ps- where is my bib?

Max is obsessed with these random clusters of colored pipes on the metro plaza.  Surely they are some sort of artist decoration, and not a playground, or minimum security toddler jail.  Max was excited to finally find a cluster with space for him to wedge his body in.

Helping to make dinner with our fresh zucchini 

Max enjoyed the veggies of his labor.

David has been grilling a lot lately and Max's new nightly question is, "Mommy, why do you barbecue inside and daddy barbecues outside?"

Finally agreed to put on clean clothes

Max wanted to play with his water table in the 60 degree, 6:30am morning.  He was [insanly] upset last night, and after refusing a bath, he would only sleep in his clothes.  He must have had a salt shaker for dinner, because he woke up screaming for, "MIIIIIIIIILK!!!!"  at 10pm and midnight.  It was still dark when he woke up at 5:20am, but he was in a good mood, so we all survived.  He almost insisted on not changing for school, but somehow mommy managed to pick the perfect outfit to coax him out of his day old shirt, shorts, and...underwear.

5 more minutes

Max wanted to go for a walk before bath time.  We agreed to 5 minutes for the walk and tacked on a bonus 15 minutes for a meltdown after the walk. 

Speaking of walking, Kira and mommy walked around Town Center today. 

Kira is trying really hard to scoot her little body.

Look-a-like

Could a boy and girl that are three years apart look more a like?

Happy Monday! Nature walk to school

Kira is pooped after our walk home from Max's school.  She has been waking up around 5:00am lately, which is even before Max, however, she will happily play in her crib until someone comes to fetch her.  Usually she is in there until Max wakes up around 6:00am, but she is exhausted a few hours later.  It seems like this may be some sort of sleep regression, but in true Kira fashion,

she is making it as easy on her parents as possible.

Max is home!

[car seat] bases loaded 

A baseball playing cow?!  Max had fun playing with older kids at Chick fil A.  While the kids were not talking about SOLs, they played cops and robbers with Max.

Sun-date

Avery came over to play today and her and Max had so much fun!  They made play dough, played baseball, went to the playground, and did about 100 other things in a span of two hours.  Not only did they have a blast, but they were so well behaved.  It was a great way to end a great weekend.

First taste of yogurt!  Kira loved it- shocker!

There was only one 'A' in this whole bag of cookies.  We figured out how to share it.

"I want to do art.  With paint!"

Flower power 

Max loves to paint Pawley's whiskers, usually on his own face.

More mum mums please!

Pancake breakfast

Breakfast club

Making pancakes is a special part of almost every morning, so both mommy and Max were eager to give Kira a taste of the action.  She had a few bites this morning and she really liked it. 

Max modeled and narrated detailed instructions about how to eat the pancake.  "See you put the pancake in here (the cup holder on her tray) and than you eat it."

Max kept rolling the ball to Kira but she could not catch it.  "She's not listening!" he tattled.

Max often complains about his "uniform" being to big...

So he just wore his own shirt today.  Maybe next week we will at least find a red one.

Just taking his remote control car for a walk down the street, down the slide, and through the tunnel 

Max has a new pet.  'Daddy' the caterpillar now lives on our deck in a plastic container filled with leaves. Godspeed, Daddy [ the human one and the insect one].