Easter

We had a really nice relaxing Easter. Bapa and Nana Sue spent the night Sat night and we went to our church for the Easter service. It was nice not to travel but we missed seeing loved ones!

Easter Eggs and Tractor Rides....

...Must be the Wrights! We went to the Wright's annual Easter Egg hunt last night and as usual it was great fun! Their place is perfect for the egg hunt and the kids all had a blast. We feel so blessed to have such an awesome group of friends!

Spring!

Spring has arrived in Virginia and we are enjoying the nicer weather and being outside! Max has a new spring haircut(welcome to bootcamp!) and a new bike! His big wheel didn't survive the speed trips down NanaSue's hill and Todd found an amazing bike at Goodwill so we gave him an early birthday present. He likes riding it but is a little unsure of the brakes and therefore a little nervous about speed and hills. There's a first time for everything!

After alot of stress about potty training, Max finally seems to have gotten it! He is doing really well and proud of himself! He is registered for preschool for the fall and that seems to have been a big motivator. Everyone kept telling us when he is ready he'll do it and he did! Thanks for all the prayers! Last week he got his first ear infection since the tubes came out. It was very painful for him and we hope just an isolated thing. Please pray that the infection is gone and any fluid. He goes for a recheck this week. I included the blurry picture of him "reading" to Clancy because he likes to get my Bible and "read" verses to whoever will listen. He also says he is finding verses to send to Caroline Hazel which is so sweet.

We joined the YMCA in late January and Max and I go there several mornings a week. I am in training to run a 10k race in Richmond on April 5 with 2 friends from church and Max goes to the kids gym program. He gets to run around, play games, ride bikes, and make new friends. I am running, biking, and swimming to get ready for the race. I even played water polo last week and scored a goal! At this point I still don't think I can run the whole race so we will walk some of it but I am having a great time training!

Lee is enjoying not having to go to class and with the nicer weather has been biking outside some. He and our friend Todd are trying out a new business adventure-T-shirt sales. They have designed some running shirts and will be selling them at the Health Expo associated with the race I am doing. There are 30,000 people signed up for the race and most have to go to the Expo to pick up race packets. This is something they have always wanted to do and they have some great shirts. We will keep everyone posted!

Happy Easter to everyone!

Beware a Silent Max!

We have had a fun and busy week here. Max and I have been at the Hazels while Dick went to Atlanta. Max has enjoyed watching the brick masons and painters and of course loves being with kids. He wants to do everything the big kids do(except apparently tell me when he has to go to the bathroom!) His favorite thing to do is carpool in the morning in the big van!
I relearned an important lesson this week-Beware the silent Max. Last night while I was cooking dinner he was quietly playing in the family room with Cate. I enjoyed the 20 minutes to myself only to discover what had been keeping him quiet! He was taking apart one of those things with a million nails that you can leave your handprint in!!! Little tiny nails and screws all over the place!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Then while he was in the bath I was packing up the room. I should have known not to trust the silence-He had "played" with his shampoo bottle and dumped it all out into the bathtub! And it was a brand new bottle!!!! Needless to say he was very clean! AH the joys of Max.
Speaking of the joys, last Thursday night Max asked Jesus into his heart. We were reading a devotional about how God has a special book with our names in it. Max wanted to know if his name was in the book. We talked with him about asking Jesus into his heart and he immediately bowed his sweet head and prayed by himself. It was a very precious moment for Lee and I. We found out later that cousin Adam had also asked Jesus into his heart that night while reading the same devotional. Thanks Pappap and Nana for the great book!
Yesterday was Valentine's Day and on the way to the grocery store we saw a man selling flowers on the side of the road. Max asked if they were having a party and I explained the flowers were for men to buy for the women they loved("Train up a child in the way he should go.....":). Max thought for a moment and said "I need to buy some for you Mommy" What sweetie! Makes up for the destruction of toys and shampoo bottles!

Disney

Truly a magical week at Disney!

Max and Cate

Max's new best friend is Cate. He follows her around like a shadow and just loves her. She is super sweet to him! She reads to him everynight before bed and hunts for possums with him. I am not sure what he is going to do without her when we leave tomorrow!

Hazel Week

It's every little boy's dream here at the Hazels this week. Max zoomed cars down the ramp and then the workers showed up to rip out and reconstruct a hallway into a ramp(destruction!) and a back hoe showed up outside to dig a big hole for an elevator(Big Trucks!) Today the concrete truck came to pour the foundation! All that on top of the fact the Raleigh, Lucy, MaryRose, John and Cate are perfectly happy to drop everything to play and wrestle! It's a vacation for me too because these amazing kids do all the dishes! We are having so much fun and just love being here. Although it is really not slowing him down too much, Max was diaognosed with transient synovitis which is basically an infection in his hip which is causing him to limp. No treatment but Motrin and rest(Ha!)