A Weekend of Firsts

On Saturday morning Max had his first soccer game. It was beyond adorable to watch 4 and 5 year old's play a soccer game. It was focused on fun and teaching them to play in a team. There is no goalie and it's played three on three. There are four quarters and each kid plays two quarters. Max got to play a little more than two quarters because there was another kid on his team that did not want to play both his quarters so the coach rotated kids to fill his position in the last quarter. Max had a lot of fun at his game. He was super sweaty and told me that getting sweaty is what he doesn't like about playing soccer.










Also on Saturday Max had his first sleep over. Evan's mommy went into labor so we offered to watch Evan Saturday night while they went to the hospital. The boys played hard on Saturday night until bed time. Evan slept on the futon right outside of Max's room on the landing at the top of the stairs. I made the boys crepes for breakfast with fruit and sausage.


The boys played hard on Sunday morning until Evan's daddy came to pick him up. Max was super excited to have Evan sleep over and I would say Max's first sleep over was a success.

Weekend Update

On Friday night I went to Board & Brush with my ladies. This place is so fun to get out of the house, hang with the ladies, enjoy wine and create some fun pieces for the house.


While I was at Board & Brush, Andy took Max over to the local high school (a very short walk from our house) for the football game. According to Andy, Max had a blast. He was playing with his friend Evan. Andy gave me the below picture of the evening...the only picture he took. I wish he would have taken more, or at least one that is not blurry.


On Saturday, we took Max to see Paw Patrol Live. He was so excited for this. Max had a blast. I am not going to lie, as an adult, it was torture. Definitely not geared toward the above the age of five crowd. Not that I went there thinking otherwise. The most important thing is that Max had a blast. He was singing, smiling and waving his PP Pom Pom for the hour long show. He is still talking about it and says he wants to see it again.






Saturday night took us over to our friend's house for dinner. While we were there Max got to play with Evan. He just loves Evan. They had a blast together.


At one point they were working on their push-ups...too cute!




Then we did projects on Sunday. Thanks to Pinterest we started off making elephant toothpaste. We decided to do this in two different plastic containers to see which one would work the best...the bigger one or the smaller one. Max agreed that the smaller container (water bottle) was the best at making elephant toothpaste.










After the elephant toothpaste we got aggressive and decided to make our own homemade bouncey balls. Unfortunately this Pinterest activity did not work out so well. Our bouncey balls were more like bouncey blogs. Oh well, we had fun trying together.

Soccer

I am officially a soccer mom.


Max had his first soccer practice last night and it was so fun to watch. Max was so very excited for his first soccer practice. We got all the soccer gear ahead of time and he couldn't wait to go. We could see the excitement, but since he's so shy we wondered if he would actually participate...without us holding his hand. He did awesome! He was shy at first, but after a few minutes he was out on the field. The coach was awesome with his shyness.






It was still 106 degrees out at 5pm last night for practice, so it was only 30 minutes long. It was quite hot, but Max didn't let that bother him. He had red cheeks and was sweating like crazy (he told me at every water break...not like I couldn't see it).

Then there was Andy and I on the sidelines taking tons of photos and videos of Max's first sport's practice. I now look forward to practices on Wednesdays and games on Saturday mornings.

Camping 2017

We spent Labor Day weekend in the woods with our good friends. Max is now old enough (and less shy) to run around and play with the kids the entire time, so Andy and I got to actually spend some time with our friends. Max pretty much didn't want to have anything to do with us. He only wanted to play with his friends. He actually wanted us to let him out of the tent at 6am so he could see if his friends were up and ready to play. He said he didn't need us to go with him. What? This was a new Max and I was very happy for him to not cling to us all weekend...but there was a small part of me that was a tad bit sad. My baby is growing up.


Despite the fact we were dirty all weekend and had to use the forest as our toilet, I had a great time. I just really enjoyed seeing Max have fun playing with other kids and I enjoyed quality time with our friends in some cooler weather.


I took about 150 pictures this weekend and I will share with you some of the better ones.

The guys took the kids camping on Saturday and Sunday. They didn't catch anything, but they did tire out all of the kids by taking them on a 2.4 mile round trip hike to and from the lake.




Of course we brought a TV so the guys could watch football, but the kids also watched a little bit of Moana on Sunday after fishing for some quiet time. They were all exhausted, but nobody wanted a nap. That sounded like a recipe for disaster, so a little bit of quiet time was in order.


Of course there was plenty of projects.

Roasting marshmallows.


And just kids playing and using their imagination.




And that concludes camping for 2017. Until next year!