car wash

"ooh! wanna wash mama's car with me?"

" i'm considering hiring out my services... any takers?"

"daddy says to make circles while i scrub"

"wait daddy! we need more bubbles!"

let him eat cake!

mason helped daddy polish off the leftovers from mommy's birthday cake. yummy!

bubbles!

i love bubbles.

can you tell?!

i chase them and pop them and beg for more.

and then i look at mommy like she's crazy for taking my picture!

survivor

every once in a while, a plant survives my black thumb
(usually because brad shields it from me!)

bathtime

who's gonna scrub me?

making mommy proud...

i always make a mess...
but at least i'm learning how to clean it up!

whatcha doin'?

it's been a while and we do have new pictures to post; they just haven't been downloaded yet. in the meantime, mason wants to know what's been keeping you busy these days? do tell!

who says white men can't jump?!

"i'm so proud of myself!"

"here i go!"

stick the landing

"yay me!"
extra points for the graham cracker!

20 months!

hi! i'm mason. it took my mommy 20 months to get a picture of me with a full, toothy grin looking directly at the camera! aren't i cute? i hijacked the computer from mommy (i'm pretty sneaky), and i realized that she is over a week late on my 20 month update. it's time to take things into my own hands... highlights from the past month include:

• learning lots of new words! a few of my new favorites are book, bubbles, whoa!, light, water, daddy (instead of dada), bed, and bus. daddy says i'm picking up a new word every day.
• jumping. i've been trying to jump for several months, but i'm really good at it now. both feet off the ground at the same time, catching air!
• rocking myself in the glider. i really don't like mommy to rock me. when she does, i just point to my bed and say "bed!"
• sleeping with all of my stuffed animal friends. i insist on having my frog pillow, my three monkeys, and my bear every night. mommy says there's hardly any room for me!
• playing jokes. i love to joke with mommy and daddy when i'm putting together my puzzles. i put a piece in the wrong spot and wait for their reaction. then i say "noooo" and shake my head and laugh, laugh, laugh. i do this in all the wrong spots before i finally put it in the right one. it's SO funny!
• driving mommy's car. i still love to drive and i especially like mommy's car. i really like the push-button start. even though the car won't start, i can still turn on the music and dance!
• helping with laundry. i open and close the dryer door as mommy switches the loads, push the laundry basket into the den, and make sure daddy helps fold the clothes. i hand one piece to mommy, then one piece to daddy, until we're all done. we all help out around here!
• reading books. after months of not caring about books at all, i finally decided i like them. mommy was very excited.
• woofing at everything. even though i know all the animal sounds, i particularly like dogs. i woof at everything - dogs, people, cars, you know - anything that moves.

well, that's about all i can think of! i'll try to keep better notes for next month's post! love you!

mr. responsible

lots of kids want a dog. few kids follow through on the care and maintenance of said dog. not mason! he loves to let cassie outside to potty and delights in playing with her. his favorite part, though, is feeding her. here's where we find him at least three times a day:

can't be beat

mason's been sick for 6 days now. ugh. we missed the baby dedication at church for the second year in a row. mother's day and my birthday were whiny at best with our feverish kid. and we're just ready for our little one to feel better!

the silver lining in all of this is that mason is an excellent medicine-taker. he loves it! he never fights it, never spits it out, never makes a big deal out of it at all. even breathing treatments. it wasn't always so easy with the nebulizer, though. until we discovered the secret.

Make an on-line slide show at www.OneTrueMedia.com

yep. rap music. for some reason, he just sits, does the occasional head bob, and takes the breathing treatment like a champ as long as there is rap music playing. hilarious.

note: the video was taken several months ago, but the trick still works. we've been doing it 3 times a day for the past 6 days with no issues!

super hero

isn't this photo hilarious?
i love how mason looks like
he's about to save the day!

meeting the monkeys (and other assorted zoo animals)

last saturday daddy played in a golf tournament in shreveport. mason and i held down the fort while he was away. holding down the fort gets a little boring, so we called grammy, pappy, and special k and asked them to meet us at the houston zoo. they did.

waiting for the fam to arrive - can you believe it? we beat them there!!

hmm... it seems we overpacked. no more room for mason!

we saw the cheetahs first.

then the giraffes.
(i like how it looks like a two-bodied giraffe in the photo!)

gotta love elephant bottoms!

surprisingly, mason still recognized it from behind!

terrible photo, but he was actually looking at the camera.
that, my friends, is a first!

"what are we looking at?"

a giant longhorn! from africa!

shhhh... the bears are sleeping!

the tiger was hot - he kept pacing the water bank,
deciding whether or not to swim

the monkey section was the best

mommy doesn't have many photos because
her own monkey was climbing everywhere!

big smiles for lunchtime (and wagon-pulling!)

"hey! i'm not an eagle!"

mason found the one wheel in the whole zoo!

aren't prairie dogs cute?

especially these!

what a face! don't mind the lady in the back - we're not sure who she is.
mason just wanted to climb back in the prairie dog hole!

thanks for coming grammy, pappy, and special k!

how do you know you have a sick baby?

when he climbs on the ottoman at 8:45 am
and passes out for an hour

what a week. brad has a new account at work. it's a lot of work. kammy went to knoxville this week for a video shoot. mason, in what seems to be becoming an untimely trend, came down with pinkeye, an upper respiratory something, and a 3-day fever. why is it that every time i travel for work, he gets sick? he's still feeling crummy, but manages to be full of spunk and smiles. hopefully we'll be on the mend soon!

hi mom!

confession

my name is mason.

and i'm a milkaholic

don't judge me.