Weekend Update

We kicked off the weekend Friday night with dinner at Zipp's.We accepted a table out on the patio to enjoy dinner alfresco (Max's favorite) since they were super busy, but it was a bad choice. I didn't take into consideration the smokers...gross! I do not enjoy eating my meal while inhaling second hand smoke. Besides that, Max had a great time. He loves to eat out at restaurants. We went through a phase with him where it was a nightmare to eat out. Right now, we are in an eat out phase. He gets mad if we pick up food to go. Max loves to eat out and while he is well behaved in this phase we are enjoying it too.

Saturday morning we checked out a new hair place because Max was way over due for a haircut. This place was referred to me by a friend at work and let me say, this place was great! Max loved it. I mean what little boy wouldn't love sitting in a fire truck blaring the siren the whole 20 minutes it took to get his hair cut? He also got a balloon on a stick and a lion tattoo on his hand for being such a good boy. This place is called Sharkey's and it's in Gilbert. They hit the nail on the head with this hair cutting joint. Max is already talking about his next visit and how he is going to sit in the cop car next time.

Following the haircut we went to Evan's first birthday party where there was a bounce house. Max had so much fun bouncing around and even more fun when his friends arrived to play with him. There is just something heart warming watching your kids play with your friends kids.

We didn't have enough play time at the birthday party so following a nap, the Campbell's came over for dinner so the kids could play together. They played relatively well together and Max is still learning to share his own toys. I must say though, once I fed him he played much better with Briggs and Stella. It was kind of a mommy fail. Max did not get a snack after his nap so he was kind of hangry. Yup, my little boy gets hangry when he gets hungry. Next play date I will remember to make sure Max has a full tummy.  Nonetheless, the kids had a good time while the parents got to catch up and enjoy some wine.

Saturday was so busy that we just spent Sunday hanging around the house. It was a nice weekend with friends.

Mommy and Max Day

I had Tuesday off this week since it's the day after tax day. Again, I made this day all about Max and I, and I think I will turn this into an annual thing. 

Max was so excited about this day that he came running into my room at 6am to wake me up so we can head to the Children's Museum.

After Max's afternoon nap we played in the sprinkler grandma S and grandpa T gave him. He had a blast with it, but so did Izzy. 

Birthday Weekend

It was Andy's birthday on Sunday so we kicked off the weekend with a trip to the zoo. Max wanted to see the snakes, giraffes, tigers and the prairie doggies.

On Saturday night, Andy went to the Cubs vs. Diamondbacks game while I stayed home to do projects with Max to help celebrate Andy's birthday on Sunday. I never get to do anything like this because Andy is ALWAYS home. I am not exaggerating on this. Andy has done nice things with Max for me in the past and surprised me, but I have never had the opportunity to do that because the man is ALWAYS home. I took this opportunity to have fun with Max while we got ready for birthday celebrations.

We went to the grocery store to get ingredients we needed to make daddy a cake and to make homemade Belgian waffles in the morning. While at the store Max wanted to get daddy a balloon and of course it had to be a "wire cuck" balloon...or one would call it a fire truck balloon. When we left the grocery store Max was already super excited to give daddy his balloon for his birthday. He also picked out an Ana and Elsa small balloon for daddy too.

We got home and Max made daddy a card. He was very serious about this card for daddy.

We moved onto making a cake. Now, this cake is a recipe I received from an old friend back in my days of being a Teller. Yup, that's right, I was a bank Teller many moons ago. Anyway, I made this cake for the first birthday I got to celebrate with Andy...about twelve years ago. That would be the last time I made this cake, but I thought it would be a good one because it includes M&Ms (Max's favorite) and it's pretty quick and easy to make...until you involve a two year old.

Max had the most fun smashing the M&Ms with a hammer.

He was so proud of his cakes and couldn't wait until the morning to show daddy.

After Max went to bed I got to making the dough for the Belgian waffles. I have never made these from scratch before, but I know Andy loves Belgian waffles so I decided to give it a try. I found an awesome recipe on Pinterest that I followed and it was great that I could make the dough the night before. I also made Belgian waffles for the first birthday I spent with Andy twelve years ago. However, those waffles were straight from the box, so does it really count? I don't know, but I have definitely upped my kitchen skills from twelve years ago.

In the morning Max was so excited to give daddy his balloon and eat mamma's Belgian waffles. By the way, these waffles turned out fantastic! They are so good that I plan to make them more often. 

Opening presents.

Blowing the candles out of the cake for daddy.

A big Happy Birthday to a wonderful husband and amazing father. I had a lot of fun getting Max excited for daddy's birthday and I know Andy enjoyed seeing the excitement on Max's face yesterday morning.

Happy Easter

Easter morning was so much fun. Max woke to find his Easter basket in the living room. I kept his basket on the small side and did not go crazy on toys because this kid has way too many toys. He did receive a couple Paw Patrol items and Hot Wheels in his basket, but overall it was light and Max loved his basket.

Following Max and Tayler checking out their goodies that the Easter bunny brought them, we went outside for the Easter egg hunt.

Max had a great time finding all the plastic eggs that the Easter bunny left filled with quarters so he could feed his piggy. Honestly, this was almost an Easter bunny fail. At 11:30 the night before I was heading to bed when Tayler asked me if the eggs were filled and hidden in the backyard already. I replied with "Sh$t". I rounded up the Easter eggs and filled them with quarters and a couple dollar bills and went out into the backyard at midnight to "hide" the eggs. Phew! That was close.

Max had fun with one of his toys, the capsules you put in warm water and watch them "grow" into animal sponges. Thankfully, he thought this was pretty neat because Andy and I thought this was stupid. We both thought it was cool when we were young, but now, as adults, it's really dumb. Good thing it was not made for us though.

We had a ham dinner with our friends, Mike and AJ. Following dinner we spent some time playing cars outside on the ramp I concocted for Max.

We had a great Easter this year and holidays are so much more fun with a little one around. We hope you all enjoyed your Easter as much as we did.