Dairy Queen Incident

It was Thursday evening and shaping up to be a great day. In preparation for preschool beginning late August, Adrienne and I were hitting potty-training Max hard. The day went great- no accidents and Max had 3 stickers for the day on the potty chart, the most ever. I was feeling confident, so I put "big boy" pants on him for our dessert trip to Dairy Queen. As we sat outside on the concrete table and benches enjoying our ice cream, Max looked up at me and said, "Mom, clean that up!" I looked where he was looking and saw a yellow puddle running toward the edge of the bench and off the side splashing to the ground below. I had Adrienne throw away our trash as I wiped the bench off, then we got the heck out of there! Guess he's not quite there yet.

DEEP THOUGHTS by Adrienne

"Max, I wouldn't do that if I were you. You can play with it if you want to, but I think it's best if you don't."
(Looks like we're gonna have a part-time live-in babysitter sooner than we expected.)

So Grown Up

Here's Adrienne looking like such a mature little lady after her dance recital. She killed it, one of the best in her class!

The Lemonade Stand

Adrienne set up a rockin' lemonade stand with the neighbor girls, Molly and Macey. They beefed it up with signs and snacks. It was worth all the hard work and braving the heat when she brought home her $2.50 cut of the profits.

Deanna Rose Farmstead

 

With Grandma Jean in town, we spent a morning on the farm feeding goats, taking hay rack rides, riding horses, and just having fun.

Gymnastics - The Bean Bag Throw

Here is the bean bag exercise Max did in gym class. I think Mom needs to get him out and work on that arm.

Odin Visit

 

What a great "town". Where else can you jump on a trampoline, hold newborn chicks, a baby rabbit, and a kitten, eat dinner at the store, play some pool, golf, play with Play-Doh, get plastered from head to toe with fake tattoos, take a ride in the "Land Pride", wear cowboy boots with shorts, attend a baptism, and just hang with your awesome cousins all in the same weekend? Odin, that's where.

Max's 3rd Birthday Party

Make a Smilebox slideshow

Oh... Boy???

Adrienne can get quite creative when she's bored and doesn't know what she wants to do, but... I think she may have gone a little too far this time.

I'm just going to say it- he really does make a pretty girl... and look at that pose!

DEEP THOUGHTS by Max

"Kendall's speaking Spanish, Mom."

The Poop Bandit

Saturday, June 6... the day of Max's big 3rd birthday party. It just so happened to be the same day as our neighbor Dan's big 30th birthday party. It was early in the day and both houses were frantically preparing for their guests to arrive. Ashley (neighbor) and I saw each other in the back yard and took a little break from the tasks at hand to chat about the day ahead. The kids were playing in the yard and Lily was running free, taking her usual 30 minutes to decide where to relieve herself. Several minutes had passed as I got caught up in the conversation, then suddenly realized that Lily was out of sight. I took a quick glance in the yard, then immediately turned to the neighbor's back door. For reasons unknown to any of us, Max and Lily's secret goals in life are to get into the neighbor's house through the back door as many times as they can possibly get away with. Ashley and I then simultaneously realized that the door that had previously been shut but not latched was now open about the width of an 11 lb. shih-tzu. Just as this realization occurred, Lily came storming out of the back door and into the yard. I attempted to sternly scold her, but, as always, she ignored me like a teenage girl. All was forgotten... UNTIL later that day when the parties were in full swing. A guest at the neighbor's party discreetly pulled Dan aside and said, "Dan, did one of the kids crap in the corner?" (they concluded that it must have been one of the kids as they no longer own a pet (RIP Duke) and no one at the party had yet achieved the level of drunkenness that makes you think pooping in the corner of someone else's house is a good idea). A bewildered Dan told Ashley, who immediately realized that the culprit was not the innocent children attending the party, but was none other than Lily, the shih-tzu-next-door, a.k.a. "The Poop Bandit".
Luckily for Kevin and I, Dan and Ashley have a good sense of humor and are not totally turned off by some other dog's poo. Although we're completely mortified, we're happy everyone had a good laugh.