here's the birthday boy.... he actually enjoyed a birthday weekend of sorts being his birthday and party were a couple of days apart. he didn't believe it was his birthday until he saw cake and presents. on his actual birthday, he was quite offended when given birthday wishes and kisses and would say, " it's not my birthday YET!" i think it is safe to say he had a good time at his party though, we had pool action, bouncy jumper (which nana even played in), pinata smashing... with max being 3, he is quite the character, he has started to become a bit of a parrot so we have to REALLY watch what we say, one of his favorite phrases these days is "your killing me" which happens to be something i tell him all the time. he is non stop action from morning until night, i think he could exhaust an army. well here a couple of shots from the day, mostly courtesy of my brother-in-law jeff and ted. (thank you guys for grabbing my camera for me)
bek, kerry and katie ( hope you like the picture katie!)
auntie nana and auntie poler,(as max calls them) with mark and his newest addition-his goatee
ted in front of the camera, for a change
dad playing washer toss with ken, mom and paula
this is sammy, neil and jenn's littlest one, such a cutie!!!!
we were as tall as ted for all of a minute...
and of course, paula and i found some time to be us..... having a GOOD laugh!
fozy bear showed up as a surprise guest on moving day. we didn't realize he thought he was on a float the whole ride.
max and his auntie bri and his uncle bub...
here is the first slip-n-slide experience. he did not quite get it the first time around. he is getting better at it
a day at the pool. after a few minutes the little maniac was attempting to jump in by himself.
max and his nana
max has recently discovered how great his auntie "poler" is. they got to spend some quality time together on one of her visits. he has not stopped asking about her since.
and here is the latest installment of the adventures of mad max.....
max has also recently been busy making new friends. this little cutie tootie is logan or as max refers to him "wogan". logan is the little boy of an old friend, jen who has relocated to the west coast and happened to be visiting auntie patty and uncle keeney. needless to say these 2 did just fine together. max is still asking for him!!
and this is max on one of the visits to ri hospital to visit his great mem. this face kind of sums up all of our feelings about her entire stay. AUGHHHH!!!! i am happy to say she is currently at a rehab and doing much better.
this is sammy, meg and katie (mark's cousins kids)
and then there is "fingers aguiar" ( his auntie mis gave him that name) he hasn't come a cross a cake, i should say frosting, he has not liked yet!!
this is the laundry room, very conveniently located off the kitchen, again notice the original gorgeous striped wallpaper....
and finally we have the lovely bathroom. its amazing what some chocolate brown paint can do!?!
we even put max to work.... actually every time we turn around he has a roller in his hand and looking for something paint.
this blue room is max's playroom:
spending most of our free time at the house, trying to fix 'er up abit and make it feel like "our home". we are getting there, a couple of rooms have gotten a little bit of a face lift w/some fresh paint and a couple of rooms have been altered with some heavy hitting machinery, (bubba, dad, mark and mark being the machinery). walls have been knocked down and re-built as well as a ceiling or 2. we are hoping to get in ASAP, we will see, until then here is a look at some of the progress.