April and May Happenings

Greetings!  It looks like I didn't make it three months without abandoning my one blog entry a month new year's goal so here is April and May combined.

Over the past couple of months we have stayed very busy.  Mama turned 30 something on April 3rd and this will be the last year of her celebrating turning 30 something. I tell her how pretty she is and that I love her every day so I think that helps.

We colored Easter eggs for Easter and I got to hunt eggs a whole bunch.  We had an egg hunt at my school, another one at the Zoo, and Mama hid eggs around the house for me to find..so much fun!

This spring has been very nice, not too hot so we have been spending tons of time outdoors.  Mama bought me a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle kite and we have been flying it over the past week.  We went to the Buttercup Festival in Nolensville, have been to the Zoo, went and checked out the new baseball stadium, and played at the Maverick parks a lot.

Potty update - I am officially wearing underwear and have been using the potty with minimal accidents since the middle of April.  Mama is so proud of me and I am so proud of me, too.  No more pull ups, yay!

Here are a few photos from the past couple of months.  Also, when we visited Atlanta we took photos of all of the cousins, enjoy!

Me with the Easter Bunny, Miss Erin, at school.

My best friend, Harlow, and me after we hunted for eggs.

Zoo egg hunt, lots of people.

Here I an with my basket of eggs from the Zoo hunt.

I got to color 18 eggs at home!

Riding a pony at the Buttercup Festival.

A much needed haircut!

Showing off my new underoos and muscles!

Ollie boy, Mama wondered why her couch cushion was sinking in the middle.

Friday night pizza and popcorn party, picnic style.

Me and Mom being silly!

More silliness, me in my clothes hamper.

And even more silliness...me playing with my play mat from when I was a baby.

Me and Ollieboo.

Me and mom at the new Nashville Sounds stadium, very cool!

My friend, Sebastian, and me.

Cousin photos, March 2015.

 

Spring Has Sprung!

Greetings all.

What a fantastic month we have had.  We had another fun filled round of that white stuff and got to go out a play in it this time since the temperatures were a bit warmer than the previous ice storm. We went sledding, made snow angels, and built a snow girl.  Our upstairs neighbor had never seen a real live snow girl, so she enjoyed it very much.

We had visitors come all the way from Iowa, Aunt Stephanie and Cousins Amy and Grant.  We all traveled to Roswell to visit all of our other cousins, aunts, and uncles.  The weather was beautiful so we spent a ton of time outdoors jumping on the trampoline, playing t-ball, swinging and sliding in Aunt Shelley and Uncle Matt's backyard.   I had so much fun playing with all of my cousins and was sad to see them go.  We can't wait until we can all be together again.

I love to tell the story of the Three Little Pigs and the Big Bad Wolf and am using the potty on a pretty normal basis as of the past few weeks or so. I have become quite the chatterbox lately as well. Soon I will be wearing big boy underwear all the time.

Our snow girl

mama and me with our snow girl

Getting ready to sled down the hill

making a snow angel

 our snow angels

busy building with my blocks, it looks like I had some chocolate too

I got new rain boots for the season and I love them

Me and my bestie, Harlow, at our friend, Topher's birthday party

Playing on the slide at the party

Benihana with Cousin Grant, celebrating Cousin Finley's birthday

The birthday girl, she turned 7

Finely and Harper getting ready to eat

Cousin Teddy going down the slide

my turn, we had so much fun playing in the back yard at Uncle Shae and Aunt Lisette's house

Amy pretending Barbie is a phone

Playing outside

Baby Charlie smiles, he is getting so big

Happy St. Patty's Day

I wrapped myself up in the swing at Aunt Shelley and Uncle Matt's, ouch

Picture day - three pretty girls

Four handsome boys

Rub a dub, dub, three cousins in a tub, so fun

Trampoline Fun

puddle jumping

Happy spring!

Maverick James

My Birthday Month!

Greetings,

February was a big month for us.  Both of mama's boys turned a year older and we had a great time celebrating.  Oliver turned 8 on the 1st and I turned 3 on the 22nd.  My birthday party was at Pump It Up - an inflatable bounce house and I had lots of friends and family there to help celebrate.  I picked a Jake the Pirate birthday theme, so there were lots of Jake balloons and a Jake cake that was delicious.  I got lots of great gifts and enjoyed turning 3.  Grandpa Steve traveled down from Iowa and helped Mama out so much by keeping me entertained while she ran errands for the party and helped with setting everything up for the party as well.  He also helped put some of my gifts together so I could enjoy them.  Uncle Shae, Aunt Lisette, Teddy, Leo, and Baby Charlie traveled for the party and we got to swim at the hotel, it was so much fun!  I kept asking Mama if we could go back to their house to swim and ride in the elevator.

We also had the worst ice storm in years in the middle of the month.  The ice came down on a Sunday night through Monday morning and we were iced in for two days.  There is still ice on the ground in spots because it has been cold ever since.  Mama says she had never seen anything like it, even in her almost 30 years living in Iowa. We are so ready to see the spring daffodils and warmer days.  Makes moving to Florida a serious option at this point.

We hope you are all staying warm and let's all hope spring is here sooner rather than later!  Here are some photos from February.

Love and hugs,
Mav

Branches from this tree fell within inches of our car from all of the ice

Ice, ice baby

we got around 1/2 an inch total

Mama made this fun for me out of  a cardboard box and emtpy paper towel

 and toilet paper rolls, so fun and thank you, Pinterest

That is a piece of ice days after it fell

At the hotel, swimming with Uncle Shae

My Jake the Pirate cake

Me and Cannon in the King's chair at Pump It Up

Yay!  I am 3

Going down the slide

Stopping for a quick photo

I had so much fun

Action shot

Thinking about climbing the wall

Me, Teddy, and Harlow trying to climb

In order from left to right  - Cousins Leo and Teddy, Topher, 

Cannon, Sebastian, me, Sayla, and Harlow

We missed you, Finley, Harper, Penny, and Benton

In the King's chair while everybody sang happy birthday to me

Me, Cannon, and Cousin Teddy 

I thought Oliver would like to wear my cape, I think he likes it

Happy 8th birthday to my best friend!