05 December 2013

Happy Fall Wrap Up

Here are several pictures of some adventures that I didn't get the chance to publish before fall changed into winter.

One of Max's favorite things is when the leaves fall, and Dad can make a huge pile for him to jump in.


Max's school had a pancake feed fundraiser with CrisCakes. Paul was the brave one who chose to catch some cakes.



Our farm, Pendleton Farms, hosted a Monarch Watch tagging. We all three tagged monarchs before they headed south to Mexico. Anxious to check and see if they made it!
Love how he studies things. Here, it is a chrysalis.



Max's favorite place: in the trailer behind Farmer John's tractor.
Going over the tags. 


Max also really loves cooking. Here, he helps me make some butternut squash ravioli from our farm-fresh squash.



One afternoon, Uncle Rob came for a visit. Max had a pancake and sausage. And then...

 ... he tried to force Rob, the vegetarian, to eat the sausage. NO, Rob, NO!


A couple pics I forgot from our October trip down to Wichita.
Max got a special gingerbread cookie from the waiter at Picadilly;
Grandma Cathy photobombed him.
Max and Dex stopped running for a second.
They hugged and I tried for a quick pic.

Cuddles with Grandma Cathy.
Back in Larryville...

Making lists. Many lists.
Important lists on the clipboard.
           
Tennis practice. 
I think that's it before the fun of the holiday season!

03 December 2013

The first gift of Christmas!

Grandpa B had his heart set on getting Max a round-the-tree Christmas train this year. And for Max, there is no other Christmas train than the Polar Express!

We got the tree (pics later), Grandpa and Grandma B got the train, and behold, "the first gift of Christmas!"

Video of Paul and I playing with it after we set it up while Max was asleep.





And video after Max took the controls from us. Ha!


Just the beginning of holiday pictures. Still have a few fall ones to catch up on, but Santa is on his way!

05 November 2013

Halloween 2013

Max really wanted to be a bat this Halloween. Not a batman. Just a real bat. Well, we had to do some piecing together because most real bat costumes are for toddlers, not five-year-olds. But we made it, and Max had fun at school and on Halloween!

Preview picture...

School parade - no teeth. Can't be scary at school!

Max's class in a Halloween singing presentation:
Paxton, Devyn, Faith, Max, Thomas, Gavin, A.J., Ben, and Jacob
Effort at picture. His teachers were minions,
which was pretty cool!

Max the Bat with Mrs. Huffman the Batgirl. 
And now, for a little Halloween night music:



For actual Halloween, we added some fangs to Max's mask so he could really scare people. And boy did he try!

Vampire Bat Max

Wandering the halls of pharm chem, scaring Grandpa's coworkers.


Scaring Aunt Nan! 

Trying to hang upside down like a real bat!
 After Grandpa B's work, we headed over to Dad's office at Endowment for some trick-or-treating.

Scaring Baby Jay!

Got this kid covered from all angles. Photo Courtesy of Endowment.
Boooooo! Courtesy of Endowment.

Boo!

Photo by Endowment.

Trick-or-treating with Duck Dynasty. 



 After Endowment, we went home for some pumpkin pizza, then hit a few houses in the neighborhood.

My cute little vampire bat! Photo by Endowment.


So here are Max's costumes for Halloween so far:
2009: Chewbacca
(Katie Trenkle's Photo)


2010: Indiana Jones
(Also Katie Trenkle's photo!)


2011: Frankenstein

2012: Race Car Driver, Thomas the Train


2013: Scary Bat


He can never say (at least not yet) that he had to dress up as something lame. Our kid rocks Halloween!

Happy Halloween!