Dessert, anyone?

Lunch bags

Brent goes all out when it comes to making Max's daily lunch bags special! I am not talking just about the actual food INSIDE the bag but the exterior look of the actual brown bag itself. Every day, Brent draws some cool picture of a monkey or maybe the rocketship from the Little Einstein TV show or even Lightning McQueen from Max's favorite movie "Cars"! He gets really into it and colors them with colored pencils! One morning Max asks; "Daddy, what did you make today"? It was a hectic morning and Brent had not yet drawn anything. Maybe he thought that he could skip it once and just write Max's name on the bag and maybe add a happy face? Not a chance. When he saw how disappointed Max became when he saw the blank bag, Brent immediately drew him a Zebra! Funny though...this morning, Brent was done with the bag and he was anxious to show it to Max who screams (with joy) "a walrus"!! Brent had not drawn a walrus but a puppy! We laughed so hard!

Max caught pink eye last week. No fun. We went to the doctor, received a prescription for eye drops and Max was home from school for a day. The eye drops were NOT a hit with Max. It took both Brent and me to hold Max down to force in a drop into each eye, twice a day. He was crying and squirming and it was awful. We felt so bad for him! We tried to tell him that the medicine was necessary so that his eyes would get all better. Nothing made the experience any better. However, the 7th and last day for drops came. We told Max that it was time for eye medicine. He seemed okay with it, wanted to bring me the drops and said "it will make my eyes all better". He laid down in my lap and told daddy to go ahead with the drops. What happened? Our child surprises us every day!

Good Boy Chart

When Max woke up from his rather long (and much needed) nap yesterday, he said we needed to go for a ride in the car. He said we needed to go get new "light-mcqueen" race cars. I realized that for the prior two weekends, we have gone to Target so Max can pick out a small prize. This is all the result of his "good boy chart"! We stole the idea from our neighbors Khan and Mari who have a good boy chart for their son Kai. Eeach day that Kai is good, he gets a stamp or a sticker for his good boy chart. After having 7 good days, the 8th day results in a small prize. We started this a few weeks ago. The first week was a struggle. Max had melt downs and still wanted a sticker at the end of the day. Since then, he has had really good days! He knows and looks forward to choosing his sticker at the end of the day. Of course, he looks even more forward to the trip to Target to choose his prize. We are not talking about big gifts here - just $10 worth. Well, Max knew yesterday that he was on the day that had a "P" for prize listed and therefore he wanted to go to Target for his prize. Smart little guy! So, what is a mom to do? Head to Target, of course. Max choose a set of race cars from the "Cars" movie. "Lightning McQueen" (his favorite) was one of them.

What a milestone!

On Saturday evening, Max (completely on his own) went into the bathroom, moved his stool over to the sink, climbed up, got out his toothbrush and toothpaste and brushed his teeth. Amazing.

Max and Play-Doh

Visit by GiGi, PopPop and Nana

We had such a nice visit with GiGi, PopPop and Nana from Dallas towards the end of March. We took them to the board walk, enjoyed a picnic on the beach, dinner at Tyrolean Inn in Ben Lomond and ran through the sprinklers with Pop Pop in the back yard. Here are some pictures from our time together. The cool turtle shirt and shorts outfit pictured below is from Nana - thank you!