"Look Mom.."

"I have a cantaloupe for a head!"

So the hubs suggested tonight that there might be a village somewhere missing our youngest child. Ha!

Based on recent, shall we call them "max-ccidents," I think the hubs might be right.
 God love him, Lord help us!

P.S. I call this little snapshot Moosey's Gary Busey look :)


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Playing Catch Up

Long time, no post!
Here's what we have been up to in the last few weeks....

Chris and Max did a little show and share at preschool...Chris brought in a truck for Max and all his little classmates to explore. Then he gave Moosey a ride home after school. I am not sure what Max liked better...having Daddy at school with a truck or the door to door transport in a big rig?! Ha!

Our good friends came out from Cincy for a weekend of Hawkeye football ...They were just in time to witness the downward spiral of the 2010 Iowa football season :(
We still managed to have, absolutely, the best time despite it all!

We traveled home to Cincy for Thanksgiving. While we were there we got to celebrate our nephew's second birthday with a little glow golf, bowling and monkey cakes (of course!)

In mid-December Max and Sawyer performed their holiday program with their little friends from preschool. They both did a great job! These two make quite the Hummer duo!

And...

In the past few days our house has been filled with holiday activities. Max and Xavier both worked on little goodies to give their classmates at their holiday parties. Max made bath soaps filled with fun Christmas toys. Xavier went with candy canes for his buddies and diligently labeled each one with a gift tag. Even Chris got in on the action, and hand wrote over a 150 Christmas cards to various people in the trucking world. I got to serve hot chocolate to X's school while his principal read them, The Polar Express. Fun, I know! So of course, I wore my most appropriate elf outfit and tried not to feel like a dork. Ha!

Which brings us to this morning....the first day of winter break!

And what's for breakfast?

Christmas Sprinkle Pancakes, of course!

King of All Wild Things

Must have been a wild rumpus of a night in Max's room.

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Trick-Or-Treating

Halloween School Parties

Max and Sawyer's Preschool Fall Party

 Xavier's First Grade Fall Party

Weekend TV Appearance

So these little ditties just showed up in my inbox....

Apparently, we (myself and the some of the usual suspects from the Hummer crew,) made it on the small screen this weekend. Ha!

 Nice expressions right?! Ha! This cracks me up!!!

Were you watching? If you were, you would know that Michigan State received a thumping... 37-6.

 Undefeated? Ha!...Well not anymore, Spartans.

...And since it was Halloween weekend, Herky showed up in his Captain America costume....I think we have Stanzi, Mr. Americanzi to thank for that!

Ha! Now that is good stuff! Way to go Hawkeyes! 

Tagged

Someone tagged Moosey's carpet with gang symbols in black crayon last night....Hmm, the suspect list for this crime is very short... And oddly enough, so are the actual suspects :)

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DHTC, First Days

Here's a little something fun...

Chris' First Day, June 2005     

X's first day, October 2010

Who knew five years could fly by so quickly?!



Home Office

Saturday morning in the Hummer Household....

This one awoke early, set himself up with his own home office and went straight to work.

 An old soul I tell you...He can't even wait to be 40!

I do have to give him props for making sure to get an office with a window! I also like that he has accessorized his desk with a little truck trinket!

Little Hummer Trucker

Our Little Mr. Big Stuff has been begging his daddy to take him to work for the last few months. There has been a little "work" outfit and laptop bag laid out on the floor of our little boy's room for weeks and weeks and weeks now. Ha!

So yesterday was the big day! Xavier finally got to have his first official work day at the DHTC. Of course, X made a quick change in his wardrobe plans when he learned he would be taking a truck trip to Wisconsin with his Papa. He was so excited! He was telling people that he is the luckiest boy in the world!

Xavier submitted a uniform request for new work boots around 10:45 p.m. two evenings prior to the big day...Yes, way past his bed time, but he was too excited and did not want to show up ill-equipped to do his job. Little does this kid know... he was born equipped to do this job, it's in his genetic make up.

Hi ho hi ho....it's off to work they go!
Bright and early, with a coffee cup filled with chocolate milk :) 

The customary morning goodbyes...Xavier was thrilled to be on the other side of these goodbyes for the day.

 

Rolling Out and Truckin'

Working on the log book. On Duty Not Driving

Six-Year-Old Navigation System

Made it to Wisconsin! Xavier said he had to go to the bathroom on the trip, but he waited to ask Papa until he.. "Saw lots of buildings, you know like a city," because he didn't want to be wasting time. They had a long way to go and a short time to get there. Ha! See what I mean about being genetically programed for this stuff. A chip off the old block, right?!

Sleeper Berth

Coffee break, well and ice cream too, of course :)  Off Duty

Back at the office working with Daddy.

Loads covered, calling it a night...time to go home!

First day on the job and they have my baby working half days (12 hours)! Somehow, I think he would have loved to stay longer. Daddy reports he had to ask X several times to shut down for the night. Ha!

What a super day in the life of our Little Hummer Trucker...a big THANKS to the Daddy and the Papa for making it so great!