April 2023

Two years old versus 10 years old!

Happy Easter!

The Easter Bunny found Max in Hiawassee!

 Max's class went on a field trip that included a visit to the Capitol Building in downtown Atlanta!

Uncle Richard and Aunt Becky moved to western South Carolina just a couple hours from our house, so when Grandpa and Amma came down for a visit we all reunited at their house. Lots of fun!

Crocheting with Amma!

Max and his friend Vihaan (and Benji!) ran the Boulder Dash 5K again this year!

March 2023 Blog Post

Celebrating Laura's birthday with our friends!

Max and Denise riding around - ha!

Singing happy birthday!

Max worked hard on his Science Fair project! He was investigating if it's possible to drop an unprotected egg and have it not break. The answer? If you drop an egg on grass or turf it will not break! Pretty cool. We took some photos for his poster board since the experiment could not be demonstrated in class.

The egg still did not break even when thrown on the grass from a second story window!

The egg did not break on turf even when he threw it as high as he could in the air!

Science Fair day!

Celebrating Walter and Saskia's birthdays!

The Montessori Academy at Sharon Springs Science Olympiad team!

There were a LOT of schools and students competing in Science Olympiad! Max's team is just left of center in the light gray shirts.

Celebrating Lisa's birthday!

Max and Dad built this gauntlet as part of a "suit of armor" Max and his friends are building out of cardboard. :-)

Baseball season is underway! Max got to try catcher, but prefers other positions. He sure did look cool in all the gear, though!

Photo by Max!

Mom and I went to a performance of Don Quixote by Atlanta Ballet for my birthday!

Max wanted to "burn stuff" so Ben and Max watched some fire safety videos and "burned stuff" out in the driveway!

 

February 2023 Photos

 Special Valentine's Day breakfast!

Max built a Lego Spiderman and pretended it shot him in the eye with a web!

Sharing group projects about the periodic table!

International Day at school! Max's group was assigned to research Egypt. They built this "pyramid" and had fantastic research, music, and food!

Helping set-up the tent that became the base of the pyramid!

The group's first attempt was to build a pyramid out of cardboard boxes... it was unsuccessful. :-)

Assisting with the class business and helping to deliver pizza and fruit to the lower building!

Celebrating all the December and January birthday's in Hixson! (Very sunny, hence all the squinty faces!)

Grammie, Erich, and Heather blowing out their birthday candles!

Grandpa came to Atlanta for a business trip and had an opportunity to meet up with Ben and Max for dinner one evening! Unfortunately I (Laura) was away on a business trip to New Orleans that week so I missed the fun, but heard it was a fun guys night out!

Presenting a global warming demonstration he built in Minecraft! (Here's the video if you'd like to watch! https://youtu.be/x5KuT7pDk0E) 

Max's class went on a field trip to a water treatment plant, and Max got to help with one of the demonstrations! 

Preparing for the Science Olympiad competition with Luke!

January 2023 Photos

Lego time!

Max and his best friend from summer camp, Michael, both LOVE all things Greek mythology and Percy Jackson (a book series). Michael's mom is quite crafty and made the boys matching sweatshirts that go with the book series!

Completed a really hard puzzle!

Birthday party with school friends, Connor and Hudson!