Hurkamp and Buzzy's with Kerri

Here is Maddux with Kerri at Hurkamp Park before the rain came.
Maddux really enjoyed playing with Lily. Here they are examining the light post.
And here they are digging in the mulch.
And here they are running under the signs. So much entertainment at Hurkamp!
Shortly after I took this picture the rains came so we headed to Buzzy's Play place in the mall for some dry play time. Clay and Brennan Boyer joined us there with Lisa and we all had a great time! I love watching them all play together!

Maddux is on his first date, haha! He's driving Lily!

Playing with Kerri through the tree tunnel!
Looking out the window!
Getting out of the boat.

If you're happy and you know it.....

Maddux absolutely loves his singing mirror. It's the only toy I've bought that he really really really loves and plays with multiple times during the day. He loves to see himself in the mirror and he loves to clap to the music. The other night after dinner he really got into it and I got these pictures.

The many things you can do in the rain

This was Matt's grandfather's organ that Maddux loves to play.

The other day it rained almost all day and if you know Maddux he loves to have his outside time. Well, we moved the car out of the garage and let him play out there. Boy did he get into a lot of fun things! Let's just say the garage is not baby proof! He had a great time and Gam and Pop totally wore him out.

First outing with Kerri back on this side of the U.S.

We are so happy to have Kerri back in town! Maddux quickly took to Kerri and loves playing with her and her animals. In fact all of Maddux's buddies love Kerri too! We are looking forward to playing and doing more with her! Below you can see Kerri introducing Maddux to "Red Bird" or Cricket. Cricket is a Chattering Loray who will hopefully start talking! He is so pretty!
He did touch Cricket!
Hi Cricket!
At Loriella Park playing with Kerri.
Swinging with Mommy!

Maddux screams for Ice Cream!

Maddux LOVES ice cream. He takes after his daddy! We took him to Brusters where he happily enjoyed an entire baby cone, ice cream and cone! Of course he decided he needed to have everyone else's ice cream too! Here he is walking around asking questions with his hands! He was probably picking up trash and throwing it away so he was probably asking "where is the trash?"
Here he is picking up the trash.
These mats here are on here because for some reason Maddux decided to spit on them and only them. He would walk over and spit on them and then walk away, I have no clue why he was doing this on these particular mats.
Here is Gam helping Maddux eat his baby cone.
Yummy!

At the river, a very random trip....

We took Maddux down to the river and he really loved it. We put him in the backpack and hiked down about a half mile to the river from River Bluffs. Along the way he serenaded us with his beautiful singing voice. We we got down to the river we noticed some canoes coming down the river and low and behold someone started calling out our name. It was Darren Hickman! Talk about random. He was followed by some of the Massaponax teachers. Everyone was saying Hi to Matt and laughing about how random it was that it happened! You can see Maddux enjoyed the little rapids. The river was very low by the way.



You can see Darren in his brain helmet here!

At the pool with Lily

We have been lucky to frequent different pools this summer. Here we are with Beth and Lily. We have enjoyed playing at the pool with Lily a few times this summer. Maddux has gotten a lot better about walking in the baby pool. He loved playing with this paintbrush that Beth brought.
The filter was also very fun to play with. You can see Maddux looking on as Lily opens the filter to probably get Dora out, her doll.
Maddux liked playing with the pink bucket although I'm sure Matt would have rather it been blue or green, haha!
I think Maddux was reading to Lily.

Daddy needs a new office, haha!

So Matt is moving into an office for work. For many reasons, including the one below. This is what Maddux likes to do when Daddy is in his office. He loves him so much he wants to be with him! I sure am glad Maddux loves his Daddy! We'll miss you in and out during the day Daddy but I'm sure you will get much more work done!

Trip to the Zoo!

Last Saturday we braved the National Zoo. The drive in and out was a little interesting but all in all a good time was had by all. We went with the Boyers and the Yagers and enjoyed spending time with them! Here is a tiger relaxing. Maddux thought that they would come to him like Summer if he called them by clucking and slapping his side. Good thing they didn't!
Here is an elephant. Maddux enjoyed them too! Matt stood there and made elephant noises, haha!
Trying out those walking shoes! There were too many people and too many hills to let him down too much.
Checking out the elephants again!

Maddux and Brennan hanging out after lunch.
Taking a nap, what a good boy!
I think this is a hedgehog or something, I can't remember.
Looking at the monkeys!

Maddux's new tricks!

Maddux has recently started to flex like a bodybuilder. Not quite sure where he picked that up. It was either from Matt playing around or from Pop and the strong sticks outside that they play with while going to check on the flags at our neighbor's house. Anyways, it's quite funny!

Maddux has also recently acquired an old cell phone of mine. However I do not recommend this to anyone else. It had a little battery life left and one evening while we were at small group and Matt's parents were babysitting he called 911. I did not realize that you could do this from an old cell phone that had no sim card, but apparently you can! All I can say is I'm glad Cindy intercepted the call because if not the fire trucks and police and rescue squad would have made a trip to see our house. How they can track a disconnected cell phone is a mystery to me. Anyways, you can also check out his new tennis shoes in this video. I finally got him a pair and he does quite well in them. He was running around so much outside I thought it was time to get him a pair!

What have I been up to??

We have had a great few weeks. Maddux is really running around and a lot steadier on his feet and he sure is having fun exploring and helping mommy out! Here is a pic of Maddux in his pool with a few water balloons. He really likes those water balloons! Thanks Gam and Pop!!
I was unloading the groceries one afternoon and Maddux decided he was going to help me get them into the house. Except he did everything with them except for take them in the house, haha! Here he is smelling the flowers with his grocery bag. I guess he got sidetracked.
I think he just realized that his snacks were in the bag he was carrying around.
You can see in the background where he dropped the first bag.
We went over to Lizzie, Brian, and Jack Barnes' house and had dinner. The boys really enjoyed playing together. Jack just followed Maddux around everywhere and was very interested. Maddux was really good about sharing with Jack!