Turning 3 Years Old!

Mr. Max had a whopping FOUR parties to celebrate his big day. Please forgive me for not actually putting these photos in order... you'll get the idea. :-)

Celebrating with the Lilly's! Uncle John and cousin Valerie celebrated birthday's, too!

Two birthday boys getting ready to blow out candles!

Blowing out a candle on his birthday applesauce cup (by request) on his actual birthday!

Party at school with his friends! Buddies Saxton and Edward were celebrating their third birthdays, too!

Three year old silly time

A birthday hug from his best girl, Zoey

A birthday trip to the playground after the class party with Mommy and Daddy!

Out for birthday pizza dinner then home for balloons and birthday gifts from Minnesota and New Hampshire.

Dinosaur and train themed birthday party at home! Thomas the Train cupcake wrappers, and mini dinosaurs on top of each cupcake.

Dining room all decorated! (Unfortunately it ended up being too bright and hot in the dining room by dinner time, so we ended up moving the party to the kitchen).

Celebrating his birthday with the Teal/Heinlein crew in Tennessee!

Catching up...

Whoops! Sorry I got so behind on sharing photos of our little guy! I just realized it's been almost a month since I have shared anything on the family blog. Here is a photo dump of parts of August and September!

It's a Max sandwich!

Crazy hair day at school... "Max, show me your rock and roll face!"

Cool dude after his haircut.

Dreams do come true.... meeting Clifford at the library. Now Max looks for and asks about Clifford every week when we visit the library!

Riding bikes with Dad in the driveway before bed.

A bunch of Max's friends from his class during the summer (many of the kids pictured have moved up to another class). The little blonde boy leaning against the white cabinet is Max's best friend, Dylan.

Wearing Daddy's little plaid shoes from when Daddy was a little boy!

Love and snuggles from Daddy and Aunt Lisa!

Driving the tractor.

Waving to the farmers during the tractor parade!

Cousin snuggle time!

Max the bagpiper (and Lucy the photo bomber). 

Max was whining that he wasn't tired and didn't need a nap, so I told him he had to at least stay in his room and read or play quietly. When I checked on him about ten minutes later this is what I found:

Max said, "I'm going to write a L" and then he drew this!! (Hard to see because it's yellow crayon, but he basically drew a L!)

Mommy's little monkey

Somebody is pretty excited about the $6 dragon costume Mommy found him for Halloween!

Giving R2D2 a little love at the grocery store...

Max's Birthday Interview: Age 3

1. What is your favorite food? Applesauce

2. What is your favorite song? If you're happy and you know it

3. What is your favorite color? Red

4. What is your favorite animal? Tigers

5. What is your favorite toy? Books and cars

6. What is your favorite book? Curious George

7. What do you like to do with Daddy? Play cars

8. What do you like to do with Mommy? Go to the library

9. What do you like to play inside? Cars and legos

10. What do you like to play outside? Soccer and football

11. Where is your favorite place to visit? The grocery store

12. What do you want to be when you grow up? A construction guy

Life Lately

Max's first time fishing!

Watching a parade in Hiawassee while Mommy was in Boston!

Refueling during a tough bike ride.

Max pretended he was a farmer and he filled the bucket on the back of his tricycle with dried grass clippings (a.k.a. hay on the farm).

Hanging out with Mommy!

All snuggled up in a towel after swimming!

Car and boat wash on the back porch. It was a bubble bonanza!

First day of school picture from his classroom!