Happy first birthday, Maddax!!

Birthday morning surprises! He saw the truck and stopped, pointed, and said 'vroom vroom!' He was so excited! I think mama and daddy were almost more excited than the birthday boy though!

Must be the truck of his dreams ;)

It took awhile to get to the other presents!

This kid sure loves books!!

A devoted daddy, pushing him through the yard in the dark :)

Playing with the crazy elephant after nap!

Out shopping with mommy and Na for birthday party supplies!

And to finish the day- dinner at Texas Roadhouse. It's mommy and daddy's favorite- and apparently Ax's favorite too! He ate all the toppings off both our salads, half a roll, and most of his mashed potatoes and mac & cheese. A birthday can make a kid hungry!!

Shoulder ride!

It's a wonder this mama has any hair left!!

Shopping

Shopping with Na and Tutu! Maddax thought he we pretty cool sitting on tutu's lap ;) We tried to mix in a little fun at the end, but he wasn't too impressed with the moving animal... Kinda just looked at mama like she was crazy! 

Early birthday present

Maddax loves his new picnic table! Was quite the helper putting it together :) he's too busy to sit down at it, but mommy found out pretty quickly that he can climb all the way on top and just hang on to the umbrella!

Thanks for the early birthday present, Na and Papa Tom!!

First Halloween!

All dressed up for Boo at the Zoo!

Family of sharks!! Ax kept the hood on for a whole 5 seconds so we could take a picture!!

Monkeys!

Checking out the lions... He wasn't scared at all!

Can you see his skeleton jammies underneath his shark?! Mommy and daddy were prepared, we had a backup costume! 

This little shark loves his cousin Payton! She was an adorable little Indian. Poor Elli was home sick, but Ax got plenty of candy trick-or-treating to send home to her! 

Trick or treat! What a great day :) 

Carving pumpkins!

We all started out nice and clean!

Maddax called the pumpkins 'ball-balls', like everything else he sees that is round!

Time to get messy!

Pumpkin guts aren't as tasty as they look...

Good helper! 

We had a ton of help from Theo too!

A messy success!! Mama forgot to take 'after' pics of the pumpkins... But they were really cute!