Mason progressive

After posting about Mason turning 5, i thought it would be fun to go back and find a picture from around each of his past birthdays..boy is he growing up...

July 14, 2004 born at 7:14am weighing 7lbs 6oz, and 20 3/4 " long

July 14, 2005 1 year old

July 2005 2 years old.. sporting a look he really really liked back then, but his daddy is thankful he has outgrown this stage

July 2007 3 years old

July 2008 4 years old

july 2009 5 years old!!!!

Been awhile

Guess I've been slacking in the blogging world. My dad had surgery last Thurs and everything went smoothly and now he's on the mend. They believe it was contained and hadn't spread to the nodes, so that was exactly what we wanted to hear!

It's still wet here in Iowa, but might be a light at the end of the tunnel. However, those downstream from us aren't fairing too well. Sounds like the Mississippi river will be flooding sometime in the next few weeks down stream. Not to mention that Des Moines, Cedar Falls/Waterloo, and Iowa City are all flooding and closing major highways and interstates. We have had a wet basement, but just thankful the whole house isn't flooded or floating away (that house in WI.. AMAZING.. i can only imagine what those homeowners were feeling every time someone replayed that footage) Don't get me wrong, our wet basement is annoying to say the least. ESPECIALLY since our neighbors to the south are the only other ones with water in their basements. Seems to me there is something wrong with the city sewer lines. We will be talking with the city in the next couple weeks to find out what is going on. We can't leave the house for extended periods of time, in fear that it will flood.

Enough complaining from me. Mason and Mallory are doing great. Mason has had to be inside due to all the rain, so that's been hard on my VERY ACTIVE little boy. BUT he has gotten out a few hours here and there to play some baseball. That is his new favorite thing to do, but only with Daddy. For some reason he thinks 'Mommy can't play baseball'. Guess it gets me out of playing baseball with him from sun up to sun down. He also likes to 'mow' the yard. This day he was out pushing around his little mower and acting like daddy. I thought he was mowing, but he quickly pointed out that he was "spreading fertilizer out the back right here". If only he was really spreading fertilizer AND mowing the lawn!!! Kids sure do say the darnedest things don't they

I finally changed my ring tones in my phone to something more fun then the generic Verizon ring. In doing so, I changed the tone for my mom to be Go Cubs Go. She is a Cubs FANATIC!!! I don't think she has missed watching a game since 1980. (OK, i might be exaggerating a little, but not much) I love baseball/softball, but watching a baseball game every night for 200 days a year, is a little much for me. But not for mom, if she isn't watching it live, she is taping it. Course she had to subscribe to the Comcast channel since that is where most of their games are televised!! But, this could be the year!!! *S* Back to my ring tone... so when mom calls me now (which has only been about three times since i changed the tone) , i get to hear that lovely song. I do like it, but its getting a little annoying now. Only because Mason thinks he has to sing it 100 times in the same breath. Once he gets started on it, he won't stop singing the chorus. Course if i had a cool camera, I'd video tape him and show ya... BUT hopefully I'll have my new camera in a couple weeks, and can get that posted for you all to see. So stay tuned for Mason LIVE.. should be a treat!!! Needless to say, I might just have to change my ringtone back to the generic just to save my ears from hearing Mason sing that song.

Mallory's hair is almost long enough.. but not quite. Still had to give this a try. She never even squealed with all that pulling of the hair. Maybe I'll be lucky enough to have a little girl who likes me fixing her hair.

We are headed to my parents for the holiday weekend. Mason always has fun 'working' around the farm. And it's to be a dry weekend, so that makes it even better!!!

Wordless Wednesday

Ok, had to caption this one... this is how I found Mason at 2am this morning!! Looks like we have another 'sleep walker' on our hands, as he doesn't remember any of it!! Was too funny!!!!

Fun Day Out

What a day we had, or should i say what a day MASON had!!! Today we went to Ankeny to The Playground (a place that has a bunch of inflatables/slides/basketball hoops). Lets just say Mason was in BOY HEAVEN there. The photos basically tell it all (Thanks Leslie for letting me 'borrow' some of your photos to share here :) )

Ryan and Mason (same age)

Take note of Mason's shirt... Couldn't have been more fitting for him today!!!!

Ryan and Mason playing airhockey, while Aiden looks on

Can you see the sweat on his face?!?!?

Notice, he is NOT sitting on a chair!!!!

The Boys
Aiden, Ryan and Mason (Aiden is a little younger, but only a few months) If they were all dressed the same and out playing, you wouldn't be able to tell who was who, especially from behind.

THREE PEAS IN A POD

All us Moms and our kiddos (notice the three amigos in the front)

Just thought I'd also point this out. In that last photo. the little girl on the far left (Aubrey.. she's a doll) just turned 1.. and well Mallory, she just turned 5 months. Lets just say I've got a big little girl on my hands!!! *S*

We had a great day today. Ran a few errands after playing for a little over 2 hours this morning and got home around 7pm. Long busy day, but so much fun. Mason should be sleeping well tonight. I wonder if we did that everyday, if he would actually start to settle down a little and actually 'rest' a little more!! HAHA wishful thinking I know

Just another dreary day

So April showers BETTER bring some May flowers. I feel like it has rained enough this month that everything should be in bloom by May 1st! Guess we need some sun to make that happen though.



Mallory went back to the Dr today for a 5 month check up. I know, you normally don't have a check up at the 5th month, that is unless you are Mallory and you have a big brain!! She had to go in to have her head measured. Dr Jill wanted to make sure that it was leveling off with the curve and not continuing to grow at a faster rate of speed. And I can say PRAISE THE LORD as her head only grew a cm in the past month, and not 2 cm, which would have put her on the upward slide instead of leveling off. Ok, easier to look at the graph then it is to explain it. What I'm basically saying is there is no need to worry that there might be fluid there, and that she is just gonna have a big head, um I mean big brain!!! The Dr seemed happy with the results and said there was nothing to worry about (we had a CT scan back in January and that was clear, so we knew there was no tumor growth, but the fluid is a little harder to detect on those scans) So we will go back in a month for her 6th month checkup which will be the whole gamete of shots and such. Not looking forward to that as she is usually crabby for a couple days afterwards even with the tylenol.


Thought I'd leave you with a picture of Mason at his finest over Thanksgiving 2007.