Lately Masons favorites

Mason's vocabulary has boomed within the past couple of weeks. For example... 1. Owie, owie, owie. These are his favorite words to use when he's in any sort of discomfort which is fine and expected. But he also uses it if, perhaps, he can't get off the couch, he put the ball in the bathtub and can't get it out, or he wants something and it is just out of reach. It's slowly becoming like "The boy who cried wolf." I have to go running even though most of the time he's completely fine. 2. Lolololo. This is slang for tomato. But it's also the first word that comes out of his mouth when the fridge is opened whether he wants a tomato or not. Speaking of tomatoes he eats them like an apple and loves it. Just this morning he had oatmeal, banana, and a tomato for breakfast. Weirdo. 3. Chuck. This is pretty close to the word truck. Mason is obsessed with trucks of all kinds. If the door or window are open when the garbage trucks come by he and Lady are there watching them the whole time.

Mase, you probably shouldn't do that.

Usually when I do housework Mason just tends to do his own thing and play in his room or make a big mess elswhere in the house. Well, as I was doing the dishes I noticed that it was unusually quiet. All of a sudden I heard, "MOMAAA!" Thinking something was wrong or he was hurt I rushed to find him just to see that he had gotten his hand stuck in a toilet papper role. I don't like to laugh when he's in distress but it was so funny!

A few more things...

Our dog, Lady, looooves to wrestle and play. That's great because so does Bowen. Last week they were roughhousing in the living room when lady jumped up the same time Bowen was bending down. Her head smacked him right in the eye. Ouch! Now it looks like Bowen has pretty purple eyeshadow on.

Now this one is a little hard to see, but it completely made my day. I walked out of the house on Saturday to see this cute message.

I *heart* Shaelyn Have a great day!

What a great husband I have! I love him so much! He works so hard for our little family :) Thanks babe!

The past two weeks Bowen has been working the 2nd shift at the shipyard. He was going in at 11am and coming home about 10:30pm. Kind of weird hours, but it was really nice to be able spend our mornings together. I think Mason especially liked having his daddy home at that time because when he would wake up Bowen would go get him and they would cuddle on the couch. By the second week Mason was waking up asking for "daddy?" So cute! Now Bowen is back to his regular schedule, but Mase still came into our room today asking for him. I kind of felt a bad because I had to tell him daddy wasn't here, he was at work but he'll be home soon.

I love my boys so much!

Awesome!

I just have to say how proud I am of my bargain shopping! I just found all these kids books, a couple books for me, some christmas decorations, and a baseball mitt at the thrift store for $14. And the best part is, they were all 60% off. Yesssss! I brought them home and disenfected them before mase could get to them and now he's sitting in the middle of the floor reading them.

Fun in November

Here are just some random pictures from this month. Mason just loves to play outside and throw the ball to Lady. As soon as he does, though, he cries, "Mommy! Ball!" and wants me to get it back from her. Lately he's been obsessed with bugs. Everything is a bug whether it is or not. Also, Balloons. He can spot a balloon from a mile away and once he sees it, that's all he wants. If there's a full moon he thinks that's a big balloon in the sky. "Boooone, mom, booone!"He loves his Your baby can read dvd's. They're a little long for his attention span, but he's starting to say the words it's teaching. I usually pop one of the movies in if I need to mow the lawn or do the dishes without my little helper by my side. He's definitely turning into a full blown toddler. What were little messes before have turned into whole house messes. Just tonight he found the bag of cotton balls. Needless to say, it looks like it snowed in our house. He had fun showing us how pretty it was when he would throw a handful up and let them fall gently to the ground, so i let him do it. You don't realize it until your a mom how precious those little moments are. I have to write them down because I want to remember them forever. Speaking of toddler, his taste in food changes every day. He absolutely does not like vegetables except tomatoes and peas if they have a bit of salt on them. Carrots are out of the question. He does love fruit though. Also, any meat that he eats has to have either ketchup or bbq sauce for him to even try it. I did discover tonight that he likes quesodillas with taco meat, tomatoes, and cheese. Despite his efforts to malnutrition himself, he's still a healthy, happy little boy and that's all I can ask for. I love my little Mason so much!

Old Town San Diego

This week I made plans for our little family to go to Seaworld. Since Bowen is in the military we're able to get in free once a year. We hadn't used the pass yet so I wanted to go before it expired. We got all packed up and headed to the park. We parked the car and were about to walk through the gates when we decided to turn around and come back in December for the Christmas celebration. So, instead we headed up to Old Town. It'd been a whil since I'd been and Bowen had never been there so it was a perfect opportunity. We had wanted to go see the Mormon Batallion, but it was closed for renovations until next year. So we just stuck to the state park part of it. It just so happened that there was some sort of Irish festival going on. There was a band playing celtic music and even Irish dancers. It was just fun to sit and listen to the music. Well...I don't know how much sitting I did with Mason running around, but it was fun to chase him and get a couple of pictures. On our way back to the car we stopped on Coyote Cafe to get some homemade, fresh, hot tortillas. Add some melted butter and sugar and it's a treat! Mmmm...even Mason liked it and lately he doesn't like anything! Since we'd saved the money I had budgeted for Seaworld I offered to buy Wings for dinner for my Bowen. He graciously accepted! We made it home in time to watch the end of a couple of football games. Don't worry though, there was another one right after they finished :) Ha ha!

Julian and Halloween

On Halloween day we took our annual trip to Julian. Our good friends, Heidi and Gordon, came with us. It was nice to have their company! We were far enough in the mountains that the leaves on the trees were starting to change colors. It made me a little homesick to see them but I quickly got over that when I started getting car sick from winding around the curvy roads. I think by the time we got there I was a little green. But the fresh air did wonders! Julian is a little gold mining town that has a apple festival in the fall. When you go you have to get their delicious apple pie and cider, which we did! Since it was Halloween there were kids trick-or-treating at all of the stores and shops. So, Mason got in on the action too and came out with a handful of candy. We were there for only a couple of hours but it was just enough to walk around and see the sights. On our way back Heidi spotted some giant pine cones, so we had to stop and pick up a few. Bowen was a little too sleepy to drive, so I more than willingly offered to drive so I wouldn't get sick again. What a fun little trip!

In front of Mom's Pies. The best! We got an apple boysenberry and it was delicious!

Bowen was anxiously checking football scores throughout the day...

We were wiped out, but that evening we dressed Mason up and took him trick or treating to just a couple houses. One stop was a family in our ward, the Braziers. They give out regular size candy bars, so we HAD to go! LOL! It was fun to visit them for a little bit. Afterwards we went over to our former bishops house for some homemade chili. Every Halloween they make a HUGE pot of chili and invite anyone and everyone over. We stayed there a few hours until Mason was delirious and needed to get to bed. It was such a fun day!