Better Late Than Never…

 

April

 

In April we took a little mini vacation to the Atlantis in the Bahamas!  The kids had a blast and so did we.  The resort was HUGE HUGE HUGE, the water was amazing, and the weather was perfect.  We had a great time sliding down the many slides…I think that was Madelyn’s favorite :)  We floated down the lazy river, and built sand castles on the beach.  Mason’s favorite was playing in the sand! We did swim with the dolphins and Madelyn was fearless!  She loved every minute…Mason…was ok watching not participating!  I don’t think he liked it that dolphin blew snot on us ;)  Over all our trip was a fun getaway to the beach….the place we love most!

EASTER

 

• Lots of Easter Egg Hunts
• Grandparents to help us find them
• BLESSED!

T-Ball-PIRATES

This season Mason played for the Pirates!  Lets just say…by the last game he decided he liked t-ball.  With 5 games left Mason fractured his wrist! (he was running to his game with a friend, kicked a bucket and fell on his wrist)  Thank goodness it was just a fracture and only had to wear a splint.  Mason really likes soccer….you are always moving!  Batting was his fav part :)

My Princess Party!

Our baby is 2….and she shows it in true “terrible 2” fashion!  Our DRAMA MAMMA! We had a Princess party at Inflatable Zone….she couldn’t not stop talking about “my princess party”  She wanted to carry around her princess plates and napkins until it was time to P-A-R-T-Y!!! (which was several weeks away!)  We invited her friends, planned for pizza, princess cake, jumping a a grand ole’ time!  I think she KNEW it was all about her MORE than MASON did at her age!  Maybe just a girl thing ;)  The day came and she was more than ready to party…for a little bit at least.  We arrived, her friends came and the bouncing began…for a bit until she spotted those darn princess plates and napkins which she played with for the majority of her party!  Oh well, it’s her day and she was content doing what she wanted to do!  Her friends had a blast jumping around!  It was so fun watching the littles bounce and slide down the big slides!  I think Mason was just as excited about her party as she was!!! He was such a great big brother helping her celebrate her day! 

 

Mason was right there in the mix and wanted to open ALL her gifts…good thing Madelyn didn’t mind :)  She loved all her toys and played all day with them…and so did Mason :) After her party….SEVERAL of us came down with a HORRIBLE stomach flu that lasted for almost a week!  It was awful.  With everyone plus grandparents sick at ONE house…NO FUN!  Cold and Flu season ADIOS!!!!!!!!

ALL THINGS MADELYN:

• DRAMA Queen
• Sucks her thumb
• Can take her brother down
• Has to pick out her own diaper…she used to HAVE to have one with Cookie Monster on it….but now she likes the one with Bert and Ernie on it!
• DagO and DogA are her fav’s!  She loves watching Dora and Diego and has to carry around a Diego bag stuffed with all her fav toys in it: Dora doll, Minnie figurine, Ariel dive sticks, the list grows daily!
• Daddy calls her B, Mason calls her B too and Sister
• She went through a phase where she loved watching Tom and Jerry
• I call her a bag lady…she loves to pile all her toys into her grocery cart and stroll around the game room seeing how much she can fit into her cart.
• She LOVES her babies. She loves to feed them, rock them and sing Jesus Loves Me to them!
• She will STICKER you to death!  She loves them and loves WEARING them on her BELLY. OR getting band-aids and giving herself fake boo boos!
• He favorite princesses are Ariel, Snow White and Cinderella. Ariel is by far her most favorite!
• She likes school doesn’t cry when I drop her off unlike her big bro did!
• Loves you to read her books, then she reads them back to you.
• She can count…not too far, but repeats when Mason counts
• She knows her colors: red, blue, green, orange, pink, yellow, green
• Loves to watch videos of herself and Mason.
• For the longest time would call the grandparents the opposite names….Called DD-Nanny and Nanny-DD and same with grandpa’s
• Loves Apple Juice and eats about ANYTHING :)
• Loves to pile toys in her bed and sleep with them…sometimes I think this wakes her up too early in the am…I try to limit, but she DEMANDS all her fav toys!
• Loves to wear her fav 3 pj’s: Minnie, Ariel, and Tinkerbell

She is such a mess, but a wonderful mess we love dearly!  I am gearing her up for her BIG GIRL ROOM!  I have purchased her bedding and am just needing to order her furniture!! I can’t believe we will be crib free here at our house…FOREVER…or until grandkids :)

2011

Minus a few hours!  Just at dark (6:00ish) we celebrated the New Year with a fireworks show for the kids.  I knew Mason would love them, but was unsure how Madelyn would react!  Well…turns out she loved them more than Mason!  She threw the biggest fit when we ran out! They enjoyed watching the “mini” fireworks’ show in our backyard!  Our friends, Audrey, Brian, Ella and Evan joined us!  The kids had a BLAST!

Time for the BLACK CATS!!!!

The End!  

Merry Christmas, DD and Daddio!

This Christmas we loaded up the car and headed to Abilene to spend Christmas with DD and Daddio!  The kids did fairly well during the drive! They played with some of their new toys, snacked, watched new movies, and slept!  AND….when they awoke we were at DD and Daddio’s house!  Of course they were NONSTOP!  They were ready to play!  We had a wonderful Christmas there and are so thankful for our families to share these precious times with!  Thanks for everything!

Opening gifts Christmas morning!  The kids got a ton of fun toys to add to their collection!  They had so much fun playing with them!

 

Mason and Madelyn loved putting on a show for us!  We gave them a mic and they sang and danced for a good hour!  It was tooo funny! 

They were sad to pack up and leave and head home!  We had a wonderful Christmas and Santa was good to Mommy and Daddy too! 

Santa Baby!

Mason at 4 and Madelyn almost 2= BEST CHRISTMAS EVER!  Mason understands, anticipates, excites, LOVES everything about Christmas!  He loves to tell us the story of Jesus’ birth, loves to sing Christmas songs, loves the thought of Santa coming down the chimney to HIS house! I remember all the excitement and magic this time of year brought me when I was young, and I love to “relive” this special time through my kids!  It is truly the best! 

Elfie!  Made an appearance a little after Thanksgiving ready to “hide and watch” to make sure Mason and Madelyn were being good!  Madelyn…could have cared less!  Mason…loved playing hide and seek with Elfie every morning.  He did question his ability to fly back to the North Pole…and wondered why he was like his “stuffed animals” and not “real” looking!  YIKES!  Seriously his questions were making me question how much longer Santa would really be REAL!

Twas’ the night before Christmas…Well really December 23rd (we were traveling to Abilene for Christmas so Santa stopped at our pad a few days early)  We sat out cookies, milk and of course our list making sure Santa really knew what we wanted….since Elfie could have forgotten to tell him!

Our stockings were hung….And FILLED to the BRIM with fun $1.00 isle items and an umbrella and flash light and movies!   

 

Santa came and he DELIVERED!  Mason’s fav gift was his POLICE car and Madelyn loves her Dora Backpack and Elmo doctor kit!  They both love playing in the kitchen! 

Mason woke first and could NOT stand it!  He was ready to JUMP out of the bed and run downstairs to see if Santa came! 

He was so so so SPEECHLESS!  He ran downstairs and did not know what to do!  He ran straight for the police car and pretty much stayed in it for a while!  At this time Madelyn was awake and ready to come see her stash! 

 

They played for a good while.  Marcus and I got ready loaded up the car and we were off to Abilene to DD and Daddio’s house!  I thought it would be hard for the kids to leave their new toys behind only a few hours after they got them, but they grabbed a few of their fav toys and that kept them somewhat happy in the 5hr car ride :)