The Scrapper Loves His Dad

Because he came up with the idea of a giant bowl of puffs to go along with some lap time.

Madd Max Celebrates 4 Year Olds

With some bounce house sliding.

At the party of Emma, who is clasping her hands in anticipation of cheese pizza.

Proud mama Val took some time with Max.

While his sister messed around in the ball pit.

Before she decided to offer up rides around the space.

Then it was over to celebrate Lilly.

Through food and drink.

And animated convo.

Ending the evening with a celebratory Feldie tongue grab.

Slappy Gets Wings

A birthday package arrived for Maddie from the Janisz family. Handmade by Great Aunt Renee, was a pair of butterfly wings with detachable butterfly spots. Maddie spent the afternoon, putting the wings on, taking them off, putting the spots on, taking them off, and saying "Fly!! Fly!!"

Madd Max Has Chili With DoZee

At Chili John's.

Followed by a jamoca shake.

And to work off the calories, some "1,2,3!!" with Dad and DoZee, formally known as Dzedo (Maddie's choice).

Madd Max Goes Under The Sea

"What's this dude doing?"

"Who cares? He's hilarious!"

Because it was a rainy morning, the fam headed to the Under the Sea Indoor Playground, where Max got rides from Dzedo.

Maddie got in on some driving action too.

Madd Max Celebrates Easter

It is a Kender tradition to have a scavenger hunt, beginning with the first clue attached to the Easter basket. With Uncle Wills at college and therefore no hunt in Leonia, Dzedo began the tradition for Maddie in picture form (first clue, the potty).

First, both kids got to dig into their baskets. Favorite for Max - the Easter grass. Favorite for Maddie - chocolate eggs; she took each one, unwrapped it, took a bite, and moved onto the next.

Then it was scavenger time which became very confusing. With the first clue being the potty, Maddie thought each additional place was supposed to be sat on like a potty, which can be hard when it's a bookcase.

The final clue lead to the penguin humidifier in her room, and a Big Bird and Ernie figurine set.
Then it was over to ELF's for her Easter Egg Hunt - this time the egg to kid ratio was much better.Even the teeny kids had eggs on a blanket, filled with puffs for munching.

Somehow, our girl still found a way to have issue with it.

Things got better, decorating eggs with Dzedo.

Elizabeth also had her grandfather in tow, who shared Dzedo's interest in the spinning, shiny things along the back wall.

And finally, the source of Maddie's pain was revealed when she demonstrated that eggs are meant to be carried under your shirt, not in a basket.

Madd Max Gets An Early Easter Present

The City of Burbank has an Easter Egg Hunt annually. Last year we showed up too late, but not this year. Parents and kids lined the edge of the baseball field and held back crying kids until the start was called. (Ok- not that many crying kids, but ours was one of the few.) As the grass settled, Maddie was the not so proud owner of... one plastic blue egg, which held... one individually wrapped mint lifesaver.

Max found the fascinating thing called sand much more exciting then any stoopid, old hunt for wrapped lifesavers.

Maddie found the game of hang-and-fall with Dad better then the hunt as well.

The best part of the day though, was when Dzedo arrived for his visit.

What an awesome Easter present.