The Brown Family

Saturday, September 3, 2016

6 months (now almost 7)

Calvin Cornelius Brown is 20 pounds, 27 3/4 inches and has a big head. All in the 90 percentile. He loves everything but fruit. He is scooting on his belly like a champ, and his favorite toy are cords and anything he shouldn't have.

12-18m clothes

King's Dominion

We finally made it to Kings Dominion it was a lot of fun. Holly took us and we spent all day there. Emily is becoming quite the daredevil she is enjoying roller coasters, and loves water slides. My favorite thing is when we went down one together she was laughing as hard as she can. It made me laugh. Max is getting more and more used to rides. My favorite is when he told Holly that he wasn't going to cry this time on the pumpkin coaster. I think it is funny how different they can be Emily loves the rides and Max likes the train and driving the cars. Max, Emily, Holly and I went on the log ride and got splashed it was a lot of fun. Calvin did not go on any rides and cried for part of it. The crazy part of the trip was how many crazies were there, and yelling at people. One man was yelling at some teenagers who then hid from him. Another person got mad on one of the rides too (people are funny) I am so grateful for Holly and all she has done for our family and we are sad that she is not going to be moving in with us, I miss having an other girl in the house.

getting ready

Max thinking about crying

Hi!

I hate this ride, it makes me car sick, but Max likes it

This is fun for all ages

This is how Calvin felt

weee

Library Fun Fests, and Star Wars Night

So first things first the other Friday we went to Star Wars night where they played a Star Wars movie, but we didn't stay for that. Instead we played had fun and then went home to our own beds. Max and Emily had a blast I have also never seen someone with so much talent when it comes to face painting it was amazing. Max and Emily had a blast, Calvin wanted to be asleep. I won a cookbook and Max got to take a picture with his favorite star wars character Chewbaca. I think it is funny how much he is growing up. As a treat cause the kids were awesome we let them pick an ice cream to buy Emily got a Bratz doll and Max got a minion. My kids are total stereotypes sometimes.

That next morning we woke up and went to my old school and painted some fun games on their black top, then went to the Funfest at our old library. They had all sorts of stuff to do. It was fun to watch them have preferences as to what they did. Max did not like the parachute at all, but loved throwing things at the pokemon characters and building with blocks. Emily loved the parachute and Freddy the Frog. Both of them loved the police officers, and making a bubble painting where they blow colored bubbles and it create circles on their paper when it popped it was totally cool. Calvin slept, At the end we had some popsicles and headed home.

Saturday, August 6, 2016

Day 6 Beach and trip home

The beach was a blast, Calvin was not a fan, but the rest of the kids loved it. They loved having the waves hit them. They wrote their names in the sand. Max was so sad when it got erased, we dug giant holes. So Jason and I took turns hanging out with Calvin. We were also able to see some dolphins and Jason found a weird thing he didn't know what to call it. However, the most eventful part of the evening was the drive back. It started to rain as we left, but I didn't think it was that much. There was traffic by the tunnel so we went a different way. The other way was just as crazy. It started with us turning around in a not so turning around spot, and then headed back. We drove through a flood in downtown Norfolk. The guy in front of us opened the door to look at it. The firetruck and police were on the way to redirect traffic after we made it through. We went through another flooded area, but we made it home.

the beautiful beach

Emily had to wear her beach shirt like Leah's

Max wore his beach shirt, he told me he wanted to match Joshua

The boys, this was right before a wave came and got Calvin and he started crying.

Max loved the waves

Day 5

Friday I wanted to relax, so I let Jason keep the car and we walked up and found a bagel store. These people were super nice and gave my lovelies cookies. The annoying thing about it was Max had to go potty. So when I went to take him to the bathroom. He pulled down his pants in the middle of the bathroom and starts peeing. I mean everywhere, meanwhile he is telling me over and over again that potty was too tall and that he can't stop it. So I am holding Calvin and cleaning up pee, and Max seemed super perplexed as to why the toilet was so high. After bagels we spent the rest of the afternoon doing puzzles and swimming.

He was so happy the whole time

mmmm good

the puzzles were too much for him.

Day 4

After dropping Jason off, we drove back to Fredericksburg. Emily had Kindergarten round up, and Aunt Sandra was moving to Texas and we wanted to say good bye. However the trip down was awful. I hit traffic our van does not idle well and so well it died. About a quarter of a mile away from there I could drive normal. So I put on my flashers and tried to make my way to the shoulder and then to the exit. I called Jason's Dad crying. he started to come to my rescue, but before he could I was going. I was praying so much during that, Max and Emily were super patient (Calvin was crying) we missed Kindergarten round up, but I was so grateful because we were moving. I got back on I 95 and drove the rest of the way. While we got home I checked to make sure nothing was leaking and that everything was okay. I called Emily's school and asked if we could go to the later one they let us and off we went. After that we ate lunch and then went swimming. After swimming we said good bye to Aunt Sandra I know that Max already misses her especially when he swims. He still talk about her and Tom all the time. After that we picked Jason up and headed to dinner and the hotel.

She is such a big girl!

Day 3

We were originally going to go to watch the butterflies, but I was too cheap. So we went to three lakes recreation park. This was cool because there were snakes as well as a fresh water aquarium. We drove out played on the park part of it, then walked the hiking trail. I am pretty sure we saw a heron. Then we came back had a snack saw some turtles then went into where the animals were. It was pretty cool, Max's favorite part was the freshwater aquarium. It was pretty cool to see a legless lizard too. Then we went home had a nap, then went and played at the pool.