i'm going to rock city...{MAX}

Max and his new neighborhood friends have a new hang out called "rock city".  "Rock city" is an open lot next to our house where the kids like to play in the dirt with sticks.  Max heads out to play most afternoons after doing his homework. 



today i kant play with my frend...{MAX}

Max is working hard a having better hand writing and spelling.  In this writing you can see him trying to sound out many words that he does not quite know how to spell.  We always have such a fun time reading his work...and think what a treasure this will be when he graduates from high school. 

Here is what Max's writing says...
Today I can't play with my friend Kaden because it is raining and I have dance.  I will have fun.  I will learn a new dance.  I might get a icee. 

these are the bestest treats...{MAX}

Today Max and I did a little decorating for Halloween.  Max always thinks that this is such fun because we have advent style calendar for Halloween.  Today Max filled the calendar with different treats.  Once it is October, each day Max comes home from school he will get to eat the treat from each numbered pocket. 

We also had quite a few treats left over for dad.  I bet that this treat basket won't last till the end of October like Max's treat calendar.  Maybe it should be dad's treat ration calendar?!?!

 

By the by...Max thinks that Rolos are the "bestest" treats!

(halloween decoration)

 

the cat birds will get ya...{JEANNIE GARLAND}

A few months ago my good friend Jeannie Garland and her family came to visit for a weekend.  One day while we were sitting out side enjoying the sunshine, Jeannie informed us that we had "cat birds".  I of course teased her endlessly about the name "cat birds".  Was this an official scientific term I wondered.  Jeannie was having no teasing about the "cat birds"!  She let me know that "the cat birds will get ya", and if we weren't careful they would go after GeeBee too.

I am not sure if Brad has watched Alfred Hitchcock's Birds too many times, because he as started to talk about the "cat birds" being out too.  I usually just laugh at him, but today I discovered this in the mums right next to our front door......

are you freaked out mama...{BRAD}

Yes, yes I am freaked out! Need I say more?

Brad assures me that this is just boys being boys.  But after a week of crashes, bike ramps, jumpin' off rocks, and running around the neighborhood with friends, my boy is looking a little beaten and battered!

it's a pop-a-wheelie...{MAX}

In the last month Max has really fallen in love with his bike that nana and papa Kutz gave him for his 5th birthday.  Although he had already knew how to ride his bike, it is as if he has just discovered it for the for time.  Every day after school, Max will come home and ride his bike for a as long as Brad and I will let him.
So of course Brad got the brilliant idea to teach Max some tricks he could do on his bike.  And what is the best trick you can do on a bike?  Pop-a-wheelies of course!  Brad explained in his engineer like way how Max would need to crouch down on his seat and then explode with power when he came to the curb.  What Brad failed to do was explain that one should not come strait on to a curb (like a T) and try to jump up the curb.  (we are lucky that Max had his helmet on when he flew over the handle bars of his bike)

After all the teaching intricacies, Max did master his pop-a-wheelie.  Now it is one of his favorite moves on his bike!

can i sign up for hip hop classes...{MAX}

How many of you are shocked that the quote didn't come from me?  That is right, our little Max asked to enroll in dance classes at a studio.

Max will be dancing at MGM Dance Studio in Shrewsberry P.A. on Tuesday nights.  He is taking an all boys hip hop class with Miss Katie.  So far there are 5 boys in the class, with the youngest being 6 years old and the oldest 9 years old. 

Max will even get to participate in an end of year studio recital.  (He is very excited to dance in front of people.)  So...if you are looking some something exciting to do in early June, head on out to P.A. and watch Max Factor bust a move!

go pack go...{JEANNI}

Tonight is a special night here at the Kutz house...the start of the NFL season! 

Tonight's season opener will feature the Super Bowl Champions the Green Bay Packers against the Saints.  And although Max will not be awake to see the outcome of the game, he will get to stay up a bit past bed time to see a few plays of the game.

we went junkin'...{BRAD}

Over the holiday weekend our family went to a flea market near Ephrata P.A.  The whole family always has a ton of fun searching for “treasures”.  (our house is currently filled with such treasures as an old ladder, fruit scale, pots,  and a Brunswick phonograph)

Our newest treasure…a railroad switch lantern.  Brad plans on repainting some of the colored plates and rewiring the light.  Max also picked up an old lock and key set.