Happy Birthday Mason!

Ok. I’m finally getting around to posting about Mason’s birthday…almost a month later.

Well, he did it. He made it to 4! We started the day with the annual singing of Happy Birthday while bringing him his balloons:

Look at the cheesy grin!

This year there were big demands for a “real” model train. Rob and I were a little slow on the up-take on getting around to getting him one..but we did get him the next best thing: goetrax :) And he and the Morgster LOVE it. The night before we set up the geo trax and all the wooden trax we’ve been collecting and built a train town.

I love that dad got all the credit for his birthday and the “sweet” train ;)

After a lot of train playing we opened a couple more presents:

About lunch time we hopped on a train and headed down to Farmington Station for some Panda Express and then a Birthday Ice Cream treat at Johnny Rockets. They sang to him and really made it a big deal! It was so much fun! Nana Strong was also able to meet us there which really made Mason happy :)

That afternoon when we got home we had a few close friends over for cake and ice cream. I love Mason’s face in this picture; he was SO EXCITED to have all his friends there!

We ended the day playing again with his new trains, and a very, very happy boy!

A few extra things:

1) Grandma Day made him the coolest Circus/Madagascar quilt he is contantly hiding in, but I’ll have to post a picture of it later.

2) At this time in his life Mason loves 3 things (which are not people): the Circus, trains, and My Little Ponies-hahaha!

3) He loves bread…like LOVES it. He will just eat buns, bread, anything plain if he can get his hands on it.

4) He is in the 40th percentile for height and about 13th for weight…so he’s a little small, but we always knew that.

5) He loves to snuggle mom and dad…especially during his bedtime stories daddy tells him which he also loves.

6) He loves animals

7) He is always asking when “baby Spencer” is going to come live with us. All of his friends either have new babies or will shortly and so he thinks that means he should have a new baby too. Sorry Mason.

8) He loves hiking

9) He is always asking for a bounce house.

10) He also always tell me that Apple Jack (one of the My Little Ponies) or Chip and Dale, or Mr Spiffy (from Backyardigans) is coming to our house so I need to clean it. I think he doesn’t understand that these characters are not real…kind of makes me sad sometimes when he asks why they aren’t at our house yet.

11) He is extremely independent…as far as doing things for himself. If we get him dressed because he has taken too long he undresses himself puts his jammies or whatever back on, and then takes them off again and dresses himself again. Strange child ;)

12) And here are the big things: when I took him to his well-child appt the doctor informed me he needed to be put on a nebulizer because he was not breathing well. She also noticed a couple little things he was doing and asked me about his behavior. She suggested a few places to go to get him tested for Aspbergers/ADD/etc. We took him and he has been temporarily diagnosed with Anxiety. It is very likely he will outgrow this though, and it has not been put on his health records. We’re doing things to help him. Also, just this morning I was in the dr’s again with him because his breathing was acting up again. I was informed he had allergies and Obstructive Airway…something…aka Little Kid Asthma. These too he may outgrow…we can only hope. Needless to say he is on a few meds in hopes he can get to breathing well soon. I joked with Rob that we had the 3 As: anxious, asthmatic, allergy-ridden, small for his age, child…just the kind that gets picked on in school- but that’s ok. We love him so much and we’ll put him in karate so he can learn to defend himself if it is ever actually needed. He is so loving and tender though that I believe others will just love him back. And, then again, he may just outgrow everything in the next couple of years.

Ok. I now only have one post left and I’ll be caught up with April.

Every Day April

Below is just a little of the “every day” things we did in April.

1) Agitated the local wildlife:

2) Played with friends:

3) Went on little nature hikes:

4) “Messed” around in the house and yard:

5) Dentist visits, and doctor visits which resulted in breathing treatments:

6) And no month is complete without playing on some trains:

It was also Mason’s birthday this month, and we had a fun trip down to Fillmore, but those will be covered in separate posts.

A Tuesday to Remember!

The first Tuesday of the month was an AWESOME one! Full of animals and family and friends. Our friends the Halls were kind enough to let us tag along on a trip to their Aunt’s house to see baby calves and ride a horse. Mason loved it! Morgan did too…from a distance. (Note the face of total and complete fear on Mason in the 2nd group of pictures…hahahahaha!)

After a fun morning we took a drive down to Thanksgiving Point and met the fam. We had dinner and saw more animals. It was fun just to be with them. Except for the part afterwards where Savannah posted disgusting pictures of me all over the internet…that’s ok…I have one of her.. I will just bide my time (plus I’m going to put them on here anyway because those are the only pictures I have).

And last of all, that night I went to dinner with my dear, long-time friend Kelli. I didn’t take a picture, but here is another one of she and our friend Clarence and his family. We all went out a week or so later. Fun!

Holy cow. When I went to find the pictures for this day I realized it was clear back in MARCH!!! Not the beginning of April!!! How far behind am I?! And there are so many pictures in April! And Mason’s Birthday! AAGGHHHHH! HIGH LEVELS OF STRESS!!! SO BEHIND!!!

Easter 2013 (It’s About Time!)

Yes. Yes I am a month behind on my blog. I’m sorry! I was recently put in charge of my ward’s blog and for some reason that’s all the blogging I feel like doing most times. Plus…by the time I go through all of my pictures I could use on this blog I’ve wasted an hour and then I have to be going to bed or doing something else. So.

This year we went down to Fillmore for Easter and it was awesome!

First, the annual Easter Egg Hunt at the Fillmore City Park right across the street from where I grew up, and a little bit of what we do around the house:

Next, no trip to Fillmore is complete with out some hang time with our special friends Kara and Audrey. My boys would live in their house and never leave their sides if I would let them ;). Also, the Easter Bunny came during the only 15 minutes it was raining that day. Duh.

This next group of pictures are just random ones I really love from the weekend. Such as Morgan looking at a bright blue egg and not picking it up. Only looking. Not touching. And Mason dancing up and down with excitement from the bubbles; and last of all our family pretending we are farmers by pulling a harrow with a four-wheeler in the pasture (it was a lot of fun!).

Last of all we got to spend a lot of time with family we really love, but don’t talk about much here on the blog; Great Grandma Day and Uncle Preston. We love them forever! These pictures were taken at her house/backyard.

Thank you to all of our wonderful family and friends down in Fillmore that made Easter such a fun and special time!

And-I will be posting more this week

Just so I never forget what he said…

Sorry. I totally plan on posting pictures from Easter etc, but I need to hurry and post something Mason said this morning…just so I never forget. And this is ONLY a journal moment for me, so please don’t feel like you need to read it.

He’s said a lot of things, actually, that I wish I would have hurried and just posted; like the time he asked a friend of ours, “Can I borrow that cute little pink baby?”. Or the time he told me he would wipe my tears…and then proceeded to do so with his towel. But anyway, back to today’s little conversation.

I was explaining to Mason that a big storm was coming and we needed to go outside and pick up the toys. He informed me he did not like storms. I told him I didn’t either. A few moments later he said as calmly as anything,

    “I will just tell Jesus to keep the storm. I will tell him to keep the storm. Jesus can just hold the storm".

I don’t know if he’s heard the story of Jesus calming the sea, or if he just knows that Jesus can do all things, and His mission here was to calm our own storms, and hold them for us when we no longer can or when we have repented.

Maybe something from Conference this weekend, or Primary or scriptures has floated in to his little heart and decided to stay there. I hope it always does. I love my boys, and I love Him.