Week 38: October 27 - Nov 2

Mason:

- As a follow up from our God/Satan conversation last week, and the fact that I always try to tell Mas not to say "Oh my God" but instead it's ok to say "Oh my Gosh"... Mason asked me this week, "is Satan Gosh?"

- Mas always gets to read two books at bedtime, often begs for more, and will stay up 'reading' more books by himself.  One night he said, "I just love books SOOO much!"

- His new saying is "Naw, maybe another time" Like if I tell him he needs to eat 2 bites of his dinner.  ha!

- Mason has coined the term "brotherfly kisses" for butterfly kisses with Jackson :).

- Kelsey, our babysitter texted me one day and said, "Mason just informed me that he can never have butter on his head because that's where his brain is and it would tickle it. Hahahaha!"  He's such a silly boy, but I love how much our sitter enjoys him too!

- Mason has either not been listening today, or just making bad choices. 

I told him I need him to look at me so I can make sure his ears are working. He said his ears are out of batteries. 

- One morning, instead of his usual sweet high pitched "good morning Jack Jack!", Mason crawled up on the crib and shouted "GAH!" I asked him what happened to his usual good morning, and he said he was out of them. ;)

Jackson:

- He has changed so much in the past week!  He is clapping his hands, lifting them up for "so big!", and he loves making loud noises and yelling any time he is anywhere that echoes.

- He is starting to nurse in little spurts, too busy looking around at what else is going on, and he is definitely not interested in nursing when food is around.

2 seat belts = 2 drivers!

Mason wouldn't leave Jackson's head alone in the car - so Jackson moved up here.  Then somehow Mason got out of the car as well also and ended up here... then he started picking on Jackson's head again...

So we ended up with this!

Jackson has always started flailing like this as soon as you take his clothes off ;)

A special nook for the month at the Children's Museum ~ AVIATION!

They asked Mason if he wanted to feed the turtles

Grandma Iris sent us a fun package that had this super cool pumpkin flashlight!
Mason is growling like a bear.

Left: Jackson had his first taste of cheesy chicken and wild rice... he was not a fan!
Right: Then he didn't trust me to feed him his purees either!  He was NOT happy with me.

Look who's learned to clap his hands!!

Mason got a Koala Club package from Lola, this one was all based on colors.  While I was cooking dinner he "painted whiskers" on his face".  But he also colored that apple all by himself... pretty impressive!

Jackson Pierce is getting SOOOOO big!

Left: Jackson LOVES his house, and I LOVE that I can get some cooking done these days!
Right: Jackson's first Halloween card.  Thanks Grandma Iris!

Baby play date!

Trick-or-Treat!
Halloween in Downtown Anacortes

My sweet little JACK-o-lantern and fire fighter!

I was able to whip up a Dalmation costume last minute to go with my fire fighter!

Mason LOVED trick-or-treating.  He did a great job of saying trick-or-treat, and thank you.  Then he kept saying, let's go get MORE candy!
Jackson knew something exciting was going on - he kept trying to reach in Mason's bucket and get the candy out!

Mason found an antique fire truck

We tried to get a picture of our group together: Mae, Ellie, Jackson and Mason

The Elk's lodge does a Fall festival at the end of the trick-or-treating strip.  Lots of fun carnival games for more candy!!

And free hot dogs :)

We had dinner at Mae's house that night, and Mason definitely needed to bounce out some of that sugar!  He got pretty innovative with his bouncing.

Funny Face Jack-o-Lantern :)

Pix from the week from our friend's cameras

Gymnastics

Music class

My friend Jason sent us these fire badge stickers.
His placement of these stickers - plus the facial expressions - cracks me up!!

Mason always asks me to get my flute out so he can play.
He can't actually blow into it yet, but he likes pushing the buttons while I blow.

Apparently this is Mason's airplane.
Note to self: don't let him keep this stool in his room!

"Bro-ther"

Riding and chomping on Rody

38 weeks!  He loves clapping his hands and clapping toys together.

Week 37: October 20-26

Mason

- So I had my first attempt at explaining God and Satan to Mason this week. I think I did a pretty good job other than referring to them as "people", but what else are you supposed to say? So anyway, Satan came about because I sang This Little Light of Mine. 

We talked about how we don't want Satan to blow out your "good" because he is the "bad". 

His response: but if Satan is a person, he has his own light. 

I about died!!!  This kid is a thinker.

- One morning we were out at breakfast and I asked him how was his "OJ".  Then we talked about how orange starts with an O and juice starts with a J.  For the next few minutes, he kept asking me what letter things start with (coffee/yogurt/water) and asking me "how was my c/y/w?"

Jackson
- I took him off of Miralax about a week ago.  It seems that he's starting to get a little stopped up (with more solid poopies) again.  He doesn't seem AS bothered by it, and we are still using prunes daily and I am switching to yogurt and probiotic supplementation for digestive help.  [spoiler alert - 2 more weeks in, he seems to be doing pretty well going regularly and not terribly bothered by the process, so we're moving in the right direction!]

- He is also continuing to enjoy trying whatever foods he can reach off of my plate, and doing REALLY well drinking water out of a  sippy cup and even my camelbak thermos.

Ever the celebrity, I called Mason's name wanting him to look up to take his picture to which he replied "no" without even lifting his head.

I brought Mason's scooter along and let him get out and do some exercise after I did my exercise

Mason's first attempts with his tracing book, pretty good work!

He gets to watch one show while I'm putting Jackson down for his nap - this is what I came downstairs to find.

Picture sent from babysitter Kelsey; Mason wanted to help Jackson sit :)

She seems to really enjoy them, it's been a great fit!

I leave my car with Kelsey so she has the car seats when I go to work on Fridays. They came to the library for some indoor play time, and came upstairs to say hi to me :). 

I asked Kelsey if she would take some pictures of Mason at the library that I could use on his weekly Calendar.

A bundled morning run for momma!

Sweet happy Jack Jack, LOVES food!

Jim's out of town, but I really needed some affordable fall work clothes.

In desperation, I took both boys with me to the outlets to hit a few stores.  

We actually did a pretty good job getting in and out and spending a bit of money ;)

Sweet-ness

He kept face planting into the table, seemingly trying to pull himself up

Hurray to the wonderful world of sucking baby food out of packets ;)

 Date night with my boys to ChuckECheese! 

 Mason and I decided Jackson was old enough to ride the hot chocolate cup :)

He seemed to really enjoy it! [bideo]

 We got a few picture souveneirs of all our fun 

Mason ate a little pizza with his sprinkle cheese

 And one more quick errand, where Mason told me, "Look mom, I'm controlling Jackson's hands".  (This was better than what he was doing previously - "Mom, I'm strangling Jackson's neck!")

A little bit bigger and sweeter with each week that goes by!