Where Have We Been?

Gosh, I did such a good job keeping up with the blog

in March (10 posts is some kind of record for me) and then 

I sort of disappeared!  It was for good reason of course...

we had some house guests all the way from Arizona!

Mema and Pops were here to visit with Max

and also to close on their new home. They decided

to purchase a second, smaller home here in Columbus

to escape the Arizona heat in the summer, and because they 

have a lot of love for Ohio :) sidenote: it's snowing here...on April 9th, 

so what'd not to love? grrr...

They arrived late last Friday and then on Saturday we met up 

with some other family members...and Max's cousin - Pax!

Pax is a newly minted 6 month old and cute, cute, CUTE!

Can you see his little jeans?  Babies in denim kills me every time. 

Also, I think Papa Rob's hotness count goes up times

like a billion when I see him with a baby. 

He remarked later about how light Pax felt when holding

him...and I was like um...well, Pax is about 15 pounds 

versus Max's 35 so there's that. 

  

(Max desperately wanted to hold Pax and when we 

finally were able to make that happen....I did not 

get any pictures, but rest assured he had a huge, 

huge, smile. It was adorable). 

The rest our weekend consisted of me making it to the gym (I bought

a ten class pass!), meeting up with Auntie Stacy for a bit, 

puzzles and more puzzles, and grilling out on Sunday night!

All the while Mema and Pops shopped around for 

home furnishings and such. 

For consistency purposes, we sent Max to "school"

for a good majority of the week.  Also, Mema and Pops

had to close on their house, clean, and basically

set up the new place!

(At the library with gal pal Addie!)

 

In the evenings we all reconvened for dinner and 

fun!  Max is obsessed with these mini Thomas

trains....so he's all about hauling those out.

You can find them at Target and you buy 

them in three packs or in "mystery" bags. 

The mystery bag only has one in it and you

don't actually know which one you are 

purchasing. He and Pops invited a new

train toss game too and Mema added the "score"

motion with our hands at the end. 

He was more than happy

to show off his big boy bed and favorite stories too. 

 

 

On Wednesday, we took dinner over to the

new place....Max wanted "nuggies" and the 

rest of us ate at Panera. We celebrated picnic 

style because they were waiting on furniture

and such to be delivered. Max made himself

right at home....racing his cars all over the floor

and inquiring as to when the pool would be open. 

 

Other fun things that happened....this new

light that you can put in your tub.  It floats

around and makes it seem like you might

be having a rave in your bathroom

(especially when the light is on the 

"blink" setting...which happens to be Max's favorite). 

He also likes to "read" to us at night now...

which are of course stories he has 

memorized.  But, it's pretty cute. 

  

Finally, unrelated to all the cute Max pictures...but possibly

still fun, is SNAPCHAT! They have serioulsy upped 

their game with all the fun filters and stuff you can add

to your pictures. So, we should probably be friends 

on there. I'm sending out some real gems. :)

have a great weekend!

xoxo