celebrating "gotcha" day...

for max's "gotcha" day, the anniversary of the finalization of the adoption, we had planned on going to lunch with daddy.
well, max decided he wanted to "take a little night-night" at 10.
he usually doesn't nap til 11:30-12ish at home.
so instead we made plans to meet at paradise island after school for ice cream.

max was excited to have his own bowl of ice cream!

notice all of the sprinkles are gone. after the first bite, he was taking them out of his mouth one by one, so daddy happily scooped them out.

saturday morning we took our first trip to monkey joes.
it's a place with lots of inflatables...slides, bounce houses, and things like that.
max was pretty unsure for about the first 30 minutes or so.

we tried this small castle.
he enjoyed watching these two little girls go down the slide.

next, we tried out a bounce house and he was warming up to it, until some kids who were too big to be in there anyway scared him.

then he found this car table and played with it for a bit.

finally we found a slide that he enjoyed.
we went down that about 5 times then he was pretty much ready to go.
it was a fun family adventure.

we are sure next time, when it isn't so new, he'll have more fun.

it was so great to spend some time together as a family in celebration of such a very special day. january 28th, 2010...the day we "officially" welcomed maxwell joseph hicks into our family!