Jaxon!

Max got to spend the whole day with his buddy Jaxon Saturday. As usual, he was all smiles and seemed to love having the company. He even smothered Jaxon with a couple of spontaneous hugs a few times, much to Jaxon’s surprise and maybe a bit to soon. The very first photo I tried to take I asked them to smile. Force of habit, since Max is really difficult to photograph lately. What do you think they did? Did you guess smile? Because I wouldn’t call them smiles.

Both of them, without looking at the other, scrunched up their face real tight and goofy looking in a grimace. It was pretty funny, even though I would have preferred a picture of them really smiling.

The boys played with Max’s train set a while until Max’s mommy got home from work. Then we loaded up the car and headed to a carnival at St Elizabeth Ann Seton. They rode one outside ride together (Jaxon is smiling, you just can't see because of the steering wheel) but Jaxon opted out of the pony ride.

Inside they each got to test their arms by tossing ping pong balls and bean bags. We finally saw Jaxon’s happy dance, and he really got a kick out of the ping pong ball toss. They both thought the lollipop tree was pretty cool.

The weather was pretty gloomy, so next we went to one of Max’s favorite weekend destinations, the Library Center. Here they explored the children’s area. Max was a little possessive of the train table with the other kids, but he made sure Jaxon had a train to play with when he came over. It was really sweet. Jaxon LOVED the cube with all the stuff on it. You know, wooden beads on metal tracks, knobs in slots- stuff like that. And they really really liked drinking out of the water fountain!

Before we knew it, it was time to head to Max’s grandma’s house. Jaxon liked grandma’s beef stew- a LOT. He also liked Max’s cousins a whole bunch. In fact, I think Whitney made his day. Max showed him all of Grandma’s toys and before we knew it, Jaxon’s moms came to pick him up. The day went really fast!