I am not sure if I have mentioned it before, but my mom is AMAZING. In addition to saving my life DAILY, she took the boys to the zoo on an inservice day when they were out of school. I love her for renewing her zoo grandparent pass every year.
Max told me all about the gorillas.
Also, that is Max in the pic. I am not sure if you recognized him, since he is not in his ninja turtle pajamas.
School pic!
I KNEW it was picture day*, but intentionally let him pick out his own outfit. I want to remember who he IS, not who I tried to make him for picture day. The battle of the clothes is not one that I am choosing to fight.
I spy a giant spider.
They wore costumes to run errands one day.
*See earlier comments about the clothes' battle.
A little tent living in the backyard occupied most of one weekend.
Do not be deceived-Max very quickly after this picture was taken dumped that entire bowl of popcorn everywhere.
Since Max's 2nd favorite person/reptile to be is a firefighter, we hit up a fire festival for lots of fire truck driving.
Super Secret Dessert Picnic.
And, I got to chaperone Anderson's field trip to the pumpkin patch! It was really fun to observe him at school and see who he is around his friends. If you're wondering, what that looks like....the same as always. Seeing him around other high energy 5 year olds confirmed what I already knew-he is a special breed of high energy. Also, he spent the entire time we were in the pumpkin patch actually trying to find the parts of the life cycle of the pumpkin, which is his desperate attempt to find Science in Kindergarten.
This is his AMAZING teacher, Mrs. Trent. Also, his friend, Noah, was the other kid in our "group" and they were both so excited.
In a super fun twist, Clare & Charlie were there, too! Look at this baby on his first field trip at 3 weeks old. It was actually a perfect day for a field trip and he was so precious in that carrier. Granted, I wasn't carrying him, but Clare did a pretty awesome job keeping up with him and a few 5 year olds!
I am so glad that I was able to be a part of the day! I did have to answer my phone a few times and had about 900 texts & emails from work, but I was ok with that because I actually think that work and life can co-exist. I sometimes leave work to do stuff for my personal life or bring my kids with me to games, so I am ok with the merging. Plus, it is not going to change, so embracing it is the only option.
For homework he had to write about the day and I was so proud of him for sounding out "pumpkins" by himself.
Also, sometimes he is not super happy, so this is a nice documentation.
Fall festival at Max's school!
HOW AWESOME IS THIS KID??
Also, shout out to awesome GG for the costume.
I love, love his school for doing this every year.
I took this guy to a football game where he got to high five the players, play football on the track & basically watch* the entire game from the end zone.
*There was not any actual watching. He literally ran & played football for 4 straight hours.
Next: fall festival at Anderson's school!
We are not used to attending festivals that cost money, but this was a fund raiser, so I was ok with it. Plus, my kids really just wanted to play on the playground, so it ended up being pretty cheap.
One thing we did spend tickets on was the booth where you estimated the size of pumpkins. He spent a lot of time trying to make accurate guesses.
A not so festive festivity was that time we had 3 flat tires in a 48 hour period. Shout out to my husband for being so perfect and so calm in all situations.
Another day, another bounce house.
Same kid, same NT pajamas.
YMCA Fall Festival!
Ninja Turtle Fireman.
One of Anderson's friends invited him to the circus, and....he fell asleep!
"Max wakes everyone up at 5am-I am so sorry!" is the text I sent to the mom.
SO many festivities-I love fall!
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