Mason's 1st OREO

Mason just couldn't get enough of that oreo. "NOTE: The shirt he is wearing in this photo Daniel wore for his 16 month photos and it was big on him."

My sister Cameron, known to Mason as Aunt Mimi has gotten quite a few of Mason's "first". The first kiss, the first giggle and a couple of others that I would have to look at his baby book to remember. I have informed her that she is not allowed to hold my child anymore. At least I got to give him his first OREO.

New Camera

New Camera Top

New Camera Back

New Camera Front

Old Camera Back

Old Camera Front

Sorry the photos are a little blurry but I really don't feel good and these will just have to do.

My old camera is a HP315 2.1 mp.My new camera is a Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ3 7.2 mp. I love my new camera it will even take an hours worth of video. Maybe when I am feeling better I will play around that feature. I just don't have the energy right now.

Update

Well we made it down to mom's on Thursday night. We came home Monday SICK. I mean really sick. Both of us had really high temps. Yesterday is a blur. I do remember crawling to the bathroom because I was too dizzy to stay on my feet. Today we went to the doctor and it has been confirmed we have the flu. Wonderful. I feel like crap and bottles need washed. The normal. Well I don't feel like washing bottles so I bought new ones and put them on to boil. Much easier. Now all I have to do is remember to take them off the stove in about 10 minutes.
It never fails you have to go to walmart and your sick. Somehow by some miraculous force you get the newest stupid person working in the pharmacy. She looked smart but wasn't. Asked me a hundred questions and then told me that she couldn't find my prescriptions that were sitting on the counter in front of her. I also had to get some Mucinex D which is sold behind the counter now and she told me they were out as I was looking at it behind her. I don't do well with stupid people especially when sick so I grabbed my bag of prescriptions and cut in the line next to me. You can bet no one said a word to me about it. So the new lady helping me out showed the other one how and what to do. When she handed me the sudafed slip to sign, I coughed on it and handed it back to her. I am really hoping she gets sick. Other than that I have been good today. Really I don't have enough energy to be bad.

Brrr!!!!

Windchill today is -30 or so. In other words really, really, really cold. I feel bad for the poor little puppy having to go outside.



Looking back over my blog I notice it has been a week since I posted a picture of Mason so here is one from today.

The little kid woke us up at 5. Actually before 5. Somehow he got his arm out of his sleeve and couldn't roll over. Now we are off schedule and he is cranky and I'm cranky, not good.

Sick Again

Austin is sick again. Or should I say still. I think it is new anyways. He never says anything to me until he is ready to pass out.
He stayed home from work today and we all know how much I love to have him home all day. It is horrible. I love him but when he tells me he doesn't feel good I have this urge to pack my bags and go to Mom's for a couple of days. I know I am horrible and will never win the "Good Wife" award. Good thing I'm not trying!

Yeah!!

I got my car back today. Yesterday my friend, Jess, and I, with all the kids, went to town and dropped my car off to have the windshield fixed. I am so happy to have it back with no cracked windshield. Now I can drive farther than Town. Naturally because of this I am going to Mom and Dad's for the weekend. I am so excited. I haven't seen them since Christmas. I don't think I've ever gone that long before.
Anyways I leave on Thursday and get home on Monday. I told Cameron that I was going to get there Friday night. I lied to her because I want to spend some time with mom and dad alone. That way mom doesn't have to fight to hold her own grandson. Well, that and that way Cameron's boys won't fight to stay the night with Aunt Lola. Love them to death but don't want to sleep with them. They hog the bed and always seem to have "accidents" in bed. I don't like to wake up wet smelling of pee. Maybe it’s just me. Friday Mason and I are going to go spend the day with Austin's grandparents. They like to see all the new stuff Mason is doing. Friday afternoon I have to pick Isaac up from the babysitters for his birthday. I will have to make it look like I am just getting down there from my house though. They, Cameron and her boys, get mad if they don't see me the night we get there.
Saturday we are going through the storage room at Mom's. Cameron was in it a couple of days ago and ran across some 18-24 month clothes for Mason. This makes me very happy because the 12-month clothing he is wearing now is almost too little. I also have to pick up some clothes from Marianne's. When I picked up clothes from her before Mason was born she gave me all of her stuff up to the 18-month mark. Little Hunter was still wearing his 18-month stuff at 24 months of age. If Mason keeps growing like he is we will be handing clothes down to Hunter instead of him giving stuff to Mason.

Could They Have Been More Wrong!!

They were so wrong on the weather. We didn't even get enough to cover my car. The wind is blowing really hard though so the windchill will be around -20 F tonight. I know it might not be that in the city but out here in the country with nothing but 2 barb wire fences between me and Canada the wind has nothing in its way to slow it down.

He Wants Another One!!

Austin has even agreed that we need to have one more child. I'm not so sure. I think he is seeing that Mason isn't that much more work for him so the next one shouldn't be either. He is so wrong. I can't wait until Mason is about 2 and I can send him with Austin everytime he leaves besides work. He can follow him around outside and ask him a hundred questions. Maybe we should get started on the next one before that happens. He might change his mind. I wouldn't mind a little girl but I wouldn't be totally disappointed with another boy. One thing is for sure a little boy would be a whole lot cheaper.

Happy Valentines Day?

Austin and I don't celebrate Valentines Day. I don't know why, we just don't. I don't think the candy is that great and the flowers are too expensive. I buy my own flowers whenever I want. We tell each other we love each other all the time so I guess we refuse to let a holiday dictate to us when we should give gifts showing it. I know he will love me just as much tomorrow as he did yesterday and for me there is nothing better than that piece of knowledge.

Last Sunday

I went shopping with a couple of girl friends. It was fun. I think we hit every major mall in the Des Moines area and ate out twice. We hadn't planned on eating out twice but we noticed that it was pretty late by the time we got done shopping and we knew that our husbands would have already eaten so we decided we didn't want to have pb&j. We had HuHot instead. It was almost 9:30 before I got home. It was so nice to be away from home for the whole day without having to worry about baby. I knew Mason would be okay. I was worried about Austin though, believe it or not Mason can be a bit high strung sometimes. He gets that from Austin because I am the most easy going person there is so it would only serve him right.

I am oh so observant

Well yesterday the propane guy was here and I didn't even know it. He even got stuck in the yard. There are foot prints leading up to the door so I am assuming he used the door bell that doesn't work. I still can't believe that Hyde didn't throw a total fit. He even barks when the mail man comes. How in the world did he miss the propane guy? Worse yet the window in the office looks out right at the propane tanks. From the marks in the yard it looks like he had quite the time getting out. He backed right into a snow drift.

Talking about snow. We are to get another 3-6 inches tonight into tomorrow. I am more than tired of snow. I haven't been down to mom and dad's since christmas. I was to get my windshield fixed tomorrow so that I could down this weekend but I heard the weather and knew better so I had to call and reschedule my appt for Monday. I have since decided that I am going down next weekend no matter what. I have been cooped up in this house too long.

Poor Mason

Recently I went to myheritage.com and did the look-alike meter and it came up with that Mason looks as much like me as he does Austin. I would like to think that he got all the good things about both of us but I doubt it. I am really hoping that he ends up being tall like his dad but with my personality. Afterall I want grandkids and if he has Austin's personality that isn't too likely.

Days

I have been working on Mason's baby book today. Where did all the days go!! I want them back. He is getting to big to fast. He has started to crawl and is into everything. Don't get me wrong he has toys everywhere and yet he would rather play with a plastic baby hanger and dig in the plants. Everytime I turn around he is into something different.

Mason's favorite "toy hanger"

Chewing on his other favorite "toy"

Today he spit up in Austin's work shoes. I tried to clean it up. Key word TRIED. Hopefully he doesn't want to wear them for a couple of days. Give them a chance to dry out. Needless to say I'm not going to tell him about them and am just going to let him find them. If he didn't want Mason to spit up in them he should have put them where they go by the back door.

I don't know what we are going to do when he starts walking. We don't have enough baby gates. I can't contain him to just one room. I haven't found a baby gate big enough to go into our big doorway between the living and dining rooms. I can't find any that go small enough to fit into some of the other doorways. I might have to have Austin rig something up.

I got Mason out of the p-n-p from nap time and noticed that his arm was missing. All I had was an empty sleeve.

He just looks naughty

Very Naughty

(you can see where I put Austin's shoes after "cleaning" them up.)

Teething

Mason has been a pill the last couple of days. His top two teeth are about to come through. I can see and feel them but they aren't through yet. I can't wait. He has been so grumpy, clingy, whinny. Today is the first day he has napped in I don't know how many. He is usually so happy but these two teeth are kicking his butt. And mine!

Super Bowl Sunday

Well here we are it is Sunday morning. Super Bowl Sunday. Should be a good game. I haven't decided if I will watch it or not. I am sure I will catch bits and pieces.



Friday I had to go and get the car registrations renewed and Mason and I took a tumble on the ice. Mason didn't even touch the ground until after I was down. Evidently self preservation doesn't work if you are holding your child. My knees took most of the impact. Both are bruised and funky colors. After I had stopped falling I sat Mason on the ground. I figured he would start crying but no he started playing with the snow and giggling.



Saturday I went with my mother and sister-in-law to a pampered chef party. After the party I met Austin at his parents house for supper. Lucky for us Raquel stayed around for supper. Yeah lucky us. The only time she was pleasent was while we were at the party. O'well.

Austin cut some wood over at his parents house. Evidently all the wood we have here is too wet to burn. Whatever, I guess I don't really care. At least he didn't have me out there "helping".

Slovakia

My husband is going out of the country for work sometime in April. I can't wait. A week alone? No getting up early to make him lunch. No having to make him an eatable supper. No nagging about laundry or dishes. Just the dog, the baby and me. I keep teasing him that we need to take separate vacations. He looked at me like I was crazy. All I did was suggest that he could take a long weekend and go to his grandparents just him and Mason. I don't know what I would do without Mason. Well other than take a really hot really long shower. That would only take 15 minutes anyway. Normal shower time 7 minutes, if lucky. I'm blabbering. Anyways... What would I do with no one to take care of?

I need to remember to have him bring back some alchohol from there so I can try it. He tells me about it but that is truly only half the experience. I don't drink, maybe once every 5 years and I have decided that I need to try it so that I will know what he is talking about.

He tells me that I will have to drive him to the airport and pick him up. What?! Why? They have a shuttle at work. Someone that actually gets paid to take people to the airport and pick them up, crazy I know. That job would suck. So why do I have to do it. Not only is the airport over an hour away but I also have to wrangle Mason into being good. That and by the time Austin gets in and off the plane he doesn't want to go out to eat. He wants me to pick his butt up, be in a good mood, and come home and make him supper because he is cranky and tired of eating out. Let me just say NOT MY FAULT.

At least for this trip he has me on call alert. Did I forget to mention that is how I found out about this trip? The stupid airline did a test call to make sure I would get the messages if his flight was delayed or cancelled. I then called him and found out. He is so lucky I love him.

I think this time I will go down to Mom and Dads. It has been awhile since I have gotten to spend a week down there. That and someone will cook for me and take care of Mason. I really wish they lived closer. It would be nice for those nights when I don't want to cook to be able to call mom and tell her we are coming over for supper. My little sister has it so good.

Well...

It's FRIDAY. How?! Where did Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday go? I don't remember them. Okay, well, maybe I do.
Tuesday, Austin came home early from work because of the weather. Blowing wind and snow are sometimes dangerous to drive in. We had the supper from crapville. I had decided that we were going to have fried chicken. Everything was going good until the chicken got done thawing. I took it out of its packaging and it smelled. I decided that I didn't want to risk it and threw it away. I then debated and decided that we would have hamburgers. No go, no hamburger. (I have no clue where it disappeared to) I took a quick stock of the freezer and decided on pork chops. Very disappointing when I had been looking forward to fried chicken.
Wednesday the wind blew and blew. Highlight of the day was sausage gravy for supper. Quick, easy and good.
Thursday I spent the day with Jess. Went grocery shopping and then to town for marbles for a craft project. I know really exciting stuff. Austin made supper. Meatloaf. It was really good mainly because I didn't have to cook. I did have to clean up the mess though. Tell me why do guys have to dirty every bowl to make supper. Especially a supper that should only use one bowl, one fork, and one measuring spoon. I will never understand this.
So now here it is Friday and it is just a blur as to how I got here. My agenda for today is to go to town and get the registrations for our vehicles renewed. Then because my husband is weird about some things I have to run his in to him at work because they expired yesterday. Even though in the state of Iowa you have 30 days after they expire. Gotta love him.

Weather

Today it is to get to 51 degress. Wonderful!! I love weather like this. The only bad thing is that it is going to be muddy. At least until it freezes tonight. Our high for tomorrow is only 28. I love nothing more than a frozen mud puddle. O'well. It is days like today that give me cabin fever. I have a hundred things I want to do outside.

On a happy note Austin still has not been able to get rid of my pet squirrel, Earl.

Isn't he just cute.

It is warm enough out today that the snow has melted around the tree.

Hopefully one of these days soon I will be able to see green grass and a bean field out these windows. Washing dishes is really boring when your looking at never ending white.

Our Weekend

Is it a rule that the longer the week the shorter the weekend. I am really beginning to wonder.
My weekend went so fast. Saturday Austin's sister, Raquel, came out to visit and spent a couple of hours playing with Mason. That evening we went to Sterling and Julie's for supper and games. Six adults and six kids. It was loud to say the least. We always have fun there. We have more fun after all the kids fall asleep because then we aren't chasing them but fun anyways. We got home about midnight. Sunday we didn't do anything. Nothing it was wonderful. I love those kind of days. I would have liked to sleep in but Hyde was having none of that. He was up at 7:30 and woke Mason up so I let Austin sleep in. After all it is him that gets up every morning and goes to work. I did a couple loads of laundry and called it good for the day. Very productive.

F-R-I-D-A-Y!!

Finally its Friday. This week took so long!! Now I can do my happy happy dance.