Life with the Lilly's

Tuesday, April 16, 2019

March 2019

Best buddies!

Celebrating Laura's birthday with friends!

Steve happened to snap a photo right as Ben and I were laughing. We all thought it turned out so funny because it looks sort of cheesy and fake... but that's real "throw your head back" laughter! :-)

Lisa came over to hang out with Max on a day off from school (Ben and I had work), and this is what he looked like waiting for her to arrive. :-)

We went to see a high school performance of "James and the Giant Peach" and Max asked for us to take his photo with the school mascot!

Laser tag at Monty's birthday party!

Baseball season is upon us! Max is on the Dodgers again this season. Another coach, but there are a few kids on his team whom he has played with before. Unfortunately we've had an incredibly rainy start to the season and many games and practices have been cancelled. Fingers are crossed that we have sunny Monday's (practice day) and sunny Saturday's (game day) from here on out!

Max is #9

Batter up!

Some of Max's recent artwork from school! A pair of cardinals and a self-portrait (he drew himself as a scientist). The kids have a wonderful art teacher.

A few more party pictures!

Laser tag!

We watched the movie "Happy Feet" which includes a tap dancing penguin. Max loved the tap dancing, so I showed him a few videos of famous tap dancers. Ever since he'll randomly breakout in a tap routine! Here's a little video of a "performance" he did right after coming down for breakfast one morning. :-)

Monday, March 18, 2019

February 2019

February was a short but fun month!

Max and the other kindergarteners went on a field trip to the Georgia Aquarium! Funny story -- I had meetings for work near Atlanta that day, and as I was driving back toward home I passed their school bus on the highway! The windows on the bus are tinted (and we were all driving highway speeds) so we couldn't see each other, but it was still fun. (And it made me feel really good that the bus driver was going a nice, reasonable speed and staying the course in one lane. Haha)

How fun that a penguin jumped in the water while the kids were in the tube!

We had the Krueger's and Winiarski's over to celebrate Walter's birthday. Max and Saskia had finished their lunch and went to play. All of a sudden they ran in the dining room with masks and light sabers! It was so funny.

Of course, little Natalia wanted in on the action, too. We only have two light sabers so she is improvising with a hair light saber. :-)

Celebrated Saskia's 6th birthday at a gymnastics party! I didn't get many good pictures inside the party, but we snapped one in the parking lot before we left. (The party was on Super Bowl Sunday - the day before her actual birthday - and Max just happened to put on a New England Patriots shirt when he got up that day! He has no idea what the Super Bowl is, so it was a pretty funny coincidence.)

First time bowling! The bowling alley near us has 99 cent games and shoe rentals on Sunday mornings until noon. We went to church and then headed over to bowl! Max enjoyed it.

Celebrating Yajur's birthday! The thing the kids are sitting in spins around really fast and they loved it.

I'm not totally sure what Max is pretending to do / be in this photo, but it's a good one!

Valentine's Day exchange at school! Each student was assigned a classmate to make a Valentine for (instead of everyone giving Valentine's to the whole class). Max and his best friend Riaan got paired up! It's hard to make out their hats, but there are little antenna's on the sides so the kids are "love bugs." :-)

We have had an insane amount of rain this winter so when the sun came out long enough to somewhat dry out the playground, we headed outdoors!

Reading snuggles after dinner!

Friday, February 1, 2019

January 2019

It seems we didn't take many photos in January! I guess we were photo-ed out after the holidays. :-)

Max had a few days home with us (while we were working) before school started back, and he said, "I might be an artist one day, so I should probably practice sketching." :-) (If you're wondering, he drew a mailbox and an electrical box.)

Max received a solar robot kit for Christmas that he built with Ben and it worked!

Tooth #4 bit the dust!

"Hey, Mom! Take a picture of me looking crazy!"

Grandpa had to come to Atlanta for a work conference and had the opportunity to visit for a day! He and Max built a pirate ship and we visited the library.

Max has been "in to" gymnastics for a while (mostly doing cartwheels with his friends on the playground) so we signed him up for an all-boys gymnastics class (there are four kids, including Max). We're only a couple weeks in, but so far he is really enjoying it! I think there's been a bit of a surprise that you don't get to start doing flips immediately. ;-)

(I was filming through dirty plexi glass in an upstairs waiting room - complete with people eating noisy snacks and moms chatting! - so please excuse the not so great footage. Max is wearing red shorts and a black shirt if that helps you spot him in the videos.)

Thursday, January 10, 2019

Christmas 2018 and the Rest of December

Here's the rest of December and our Christmas! Celebrating Christmas with an enthusiastic, hard core Santa believer is quite possibly one of the most joyous ways to spend the season. Thank you to everyone who helped make our 2018 Christmas a fun one!

Christmas Eve shenanigans...