WI Trip: Day 1

We went to Wisconsin for a four day weekend to take Max to his first Badger football game. Oh, and also to hang out with his grandparents. We flew out on Wednesday evening and landed in Chicago at midnight....which meant we didn't get to SP until 3am (WI time). Max slept the whole way there, but Andy and I were definitely tired when we arrived and all day on Thursday.

We spent the first day at Schuster's Farm enjoying all the activities. This is such a cool farm. There are so many activities to do and it was a gorgeous day out. I think it was around 72 degrees and sunny. It was perfect weather.












We picked out a 42 pound pumpkin to carve on Friday.




Following the farm, Max was still jacked up so grandma V and grandpa J took him to a park by their house. Andy and I stayed home because we were both struggling.




It was a long day for everybody, but Andy and I still managed to go out for a couple drinks with friends. It was not a late night though because we were both exhausted.

Sunday Funday

On Sunday we did the soda rocket project. Max was so excited for this one. It's where we put a role of Mentos in Diet Coke and regular Coke to see which one would shoot soda the highest. It was determined that Diet Coke was the winner. Max dropped the first role of Mentos into the Diet Coke, but the soda shoots up so fast that he was running away and missed seeing the soda shoot up so high. We decided for the next two rounds that Andy would do it while I took pictures and video.




Following the soda project we went to Mona's birthday party at the Polar Play in Scottsdale. This is a very unique venue that has a "freezer" to play in to simulate the polar ice. Inside they had "snowballs", a bar, shuffle board, bags and checkers. In the lobby they had a fireplace, giant Uno, giant Jenga and giant Connect 4.

Friday and Saturday Updates

Friday night we headed over to the local high school football game for some Friday night lights. Our friend is a teacher there so we hung out on the field with a group of people and the kids got to run around and play. This was the last home game of the season and it was something to do on a Friday night. Plus, Max had a blast playing with the other kids.




On Saturday morning Max had a soccer game. He is getting better at playing. He's faster on the field now and he actually attempts to steal the ball away from the other team. It's always a joy to watch him play. It's still pretty warm here so he gets sweaty and doesn't like that very much.




Max also got his haircut on Saturday and now Andy does it. We just really never liked a haircut that Max has gotten from a salon. Andy does a great job at it and Max loves that daddy cuts his hair.


Last weekend we blew up balloons using vinegar and baking soda. Well on Saturday we blew up balloons using Pop Rocks and soda. We used Sprite and Diet Coke to see which one did a better job. Well, considering there was a hole in the balloon for the Diet Coke we decided that Sprite did a better job of blowing up the balloon with Pop Rocks.

After the balloon project Max wanted to do another project so we assembled a monster truck together and max painted it on Sunday and Monday. Max's favorite part was putting the giant wheels on the truck.

Grandparents Visit

Grandpa T and Grandma S were just in town for almost two weeks. When they booked their trip Andy and I realized that was during Max's two week Fall break from school. That was a win for everyone. We now didn't have to find a backup plan during Fall break. Max could hang out with his grandparents.

Max would wait every morning for his ride. They would pick him up and they would play at their house. This really allowed Andy to get work done during the day.


He had a lot of fun with them. He also went out to lunch every day with them. It's his favorite thing to do with grandpa T and grandma S.










Besides eating out everyday they played a lot, went to the park and went shopping together. Max told me numerous times that grandpa would get lost in the stores and him and grandma had to go find grandpa. It was a nice Fall break for everyone.

Rainbows, Games, Monster Trucks, Friends & Projects

What a fun weekend we had. On Friday night grandpa T and grandma S came over to watch the Cubs game. During the game grandpa T was teaching Max about ROYGBIV and they colored in a rainbow together. This was super cute!


On Saturday, we went out to the Cardinals football stadium (an hour away) to see Monster Jam, but prior to that we went to Dave & Buster's for dinner and Max played games for two hours. This was his first time playing video games and he was having a blast. This kid was smiling and living the dream all night. He was exhausted after all of that game playing, but we had to push through and walk over to the stadium for Monster Jam.






This was not exactly what I thought it would be. I thought it would have been a bit more entertaining than it was, but Max had a blast. He had so much fund watching the monster trucks race and jump over the ramps and other vehicles. We didn't make it through the 2.5 hour show because Max was exhausted. We probably saw and hour and a half before Max said he was done and ready to go home.










Sunday morning we went to meet Evan's new baby sister. We also took baby Abby and Evan gifts. Max picked out Paw Patrol for Evan since he said Even doesn't have any Paw Patrol toys and he needs some. These two are quite characters together when they are playing.


A nice little hug goodbye.


On Sunday afternoon I took Max Halloween costume shopping. I normally have more fun making his costume, but he wanted to look at specific characters that I cannot make so I had my fun in taking him shopping and having him try on costumes. This was my favorite. He loved this, but realized he wouldn't like to wear it all night long considering it was a one piece body suit and he didn't love to be completely confined by that. He did laugh at himself in the mirror and thought it was hilarious...and so did I.


We headed home with our family costumes and we did a pumpkin project. With a few baby pumpkins, some water and nail polish we had some fun. This was a lot of fun, but very messy. I would recommend wearing rubber gloves. We did not and it made for a very messy project. Max did not like getting his hands that dirty. It took a lot of nail polish remover to get it all off...and it did not come completely off my hands. But, we had fun!

Weekend Update

Max had his second soccer game on Saturday morning. I was not very good at taking pictures this time because I was a little occupied watching a kid on the other team push kids on Max's team in the back so they would fall down. It was completely uncalled for and when that brat pushed Max in the back he didn't even have the ball. Max then fell on his face. It's not like that kid was targeting Max. He did it to two other kids on the team. He would just get this anger on his face and run up to a kid on Max's team and push them in the back. One time, a girl on Max's team scored and that kid was mad, so he ran up behind her and pushed her so hard that she face planted. It was completely uncalled for. Plus, nobody said anything to that kid...not even his parents. I was just shocked. I mean what kind of parents does this kid have? I saw them just sitting there watching him play so obviously they saw it too and didn't see anything wrong with his behavior. I can tell you that if Max behaved like that I would have said something to him right there. This league is supposed to be fun, friendly and teach the 4 and 5 year olds how to play sports. There is no room for nasty behavior. All that did was make Max not want to play, but I talked to him about it after the fact. He asked me why that kid was being so mean, so we had a nice talk about that on the way home.


The weather is getting much nicer here and it's time to plant the garden. Max was pretty excited to plant carrots and spinach. I dug the holes while he put the seeds in the ground and then he watered the garden.




Of course he needed to water his sand box too.


We did do a couple projects this weekend as well. We blew up a balloon with baking soda and vinegar. We did this a couple times and Max thought it was pretty cool.




We ended the weekend making a sun catcher. It was an octopus that Max couldn't wait to hang it up in the window so it could catch the sun.