Category: Max

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Maddy comes home

Maddy arrived home today. She was away from home for nine months. Pictures tell the story better than words.

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Max and Barb waiting for her just outside of the secure area at SeaTac airport.

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The first hug. It was a long one.

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Max gets the second hug.

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Barb said she had never seen this sort of thing before.

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Max and Maddy posed for me in the baggage claim area.

Maddy was an almost non-stop chatter box. She told us stories, described foods, how she can make juice out of any fruit, and explained how different things are here.

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One of the first things she wanted was a McDonald’s hamburger and French fries. She got a cheeseburger. Max got a Big Mac.

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BYSO concert

Barb is in Houston this weekend so I fixed Max dinner and took him to the concert tonight. I was first to buy my ticket and the first person with a ticket go into the theater. I got what I thought was a great seat but with Max in the last row he was frequently blocked because I was a bit low to see over some of the other people. I still got some pictures and sent one to Barb just before the concert started.WP_20131103_001

Dinner is served. Roast beef, cornbread, sliced apples, and potatoes.WP_20131103_002

Max is just about to walk out the door to go to the concert.

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My concert ticket.

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Max is in the rear on the left.

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Warming up.

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Fred was there. I didn’t see him until after the concert.

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Halloween

The first Trick or Treaters showed up at 4:50. The last about 7:40. There were 15 total.

Barb and Max put out decorations and put orange bulbs in the outside lights:

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Max had to be persuaded to let me take his picture with his ice machine but he finally relented:

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Eventually Max got a little bored with his machine and put the dry ice in some soapy water:

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It was a pretty quiet Halloween but quite pleasant.

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Halloween prep

Max and Barb have been doing a fair amount of preparation for Halloween. There were the meringue ghost cookies which are delicious sugar bombs and various lights and decorations being put up around the house.

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But what impressed me (and I think Barb) the most was the fog machine Max built:

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I haven’t seen it action yet and Max won’t let me take a picture of him with it until it is but it looks to me like it should work just fine.

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Plumes for band members

Tonight Barb and I went to the first half of an Interlake football game where Max was in the marching band at half-time. We volunteered to pass out plumes to the band members just prior to them marching onto the field.

The weather was good this time. Last time it there was a light drizzle and they decided to do without the plumes. It was surprisingly intense as several dozen band members descended on us and we handed the plumes out so fast that we didn’t really get a chance to even look up at the band members. It was head down, looking into the box, grab a plume, shove it up towards the crowd, both hands working independently.

Something surprised both Barb and I. Nearly everyone said, “Thank you!” Because there were so many and the transfers were going so fast one “Thank you!” blurred into the next and even if we tried we could not have replied, “You’re welcome!” as rapidly as the thank yours were coming in. I think I got out about one “You’re welcome!” for every five incoming “Thank you!”.

Retrieving and boxing up the plumes at the end of half-time was similar. Very intense with lots of “thank you”’s.