Craft

On Thursday Mason got together with some friends and made a pine cone bird feeder. For those of you who did not make this in Boy Scouts or Girl Scouts, the concept is simple. Smear peanut butter all over a pine cone and then roll it in birdseed.
Even though our association does not allow us to have bird feeders, we figured we only have a week left. Mason will enjoy watching the birds.


Mason not quite understanding how Mommy wants him to hold his pine cone up to the camera.


The finished product. Bring on the birds!!

Mass Chaos!!

It has become quite evident in this moving process that in our house you can do one of two things.....

1. Live here or

2. Pack

This house was not meant to do both!

Elmo Slippers

Mason finally decided he likes his Elmo slipper he got for Christmas last year.

A baby girl...

Congratulations to my dear friend Valerie! She gave birth yesterday to Anelia (pronounced Ah nah lee ah). She was 8lbs, 7oz and 22 inches long. Whew!

Gymnastics

Yesterday, Mason and I went to gymnastics. Although he had issues with waiting in line for his turn, he had a blast! All that jumping, climbing and tumble sets set him up for a great afternoon nap!


The Marshmellow Pit

Halloween 2007

For weeks Mason was going around the house declaring"I'n the wobot Mason!" So, it was an easy decision to make him a robot for Halloween. Unfortunately, Mason had a bad cold on Halloween and refused to wear the jumpsuit that went under the foam cover. So, with half his costume on and sporting his new "ray-gun" (which was really a Buzz Lightyear from the Disney store) he was sort of half robot, half space man. Regardless he was excited to trick-or-treat and went around to a few houses in the neighborhood. After about a half and hour he wanted to go home. Fran and I thought he was just tired but we soon found out he just wanted to raid his loot!


"I'm the wobot Mason. I'n the wobot Mason!"




The Loot! His favorite take-away? A gummy SpongeBob crabby patty! Yum!!

My Tree House

Mason's Uncle Chris was generous enough to set up this wonderful playset for him in his back yard. He loved it and kept calling it his tree house. Despite the freezing weather he had a great time playing and jumping in the leaves. Thanks Uncle Chris!!

Dutch Wonderland

Mason with his friend Bence.

Update...

Well, we have a little over two weeks left until we move. Packing is not going well. I had no idea how difficult it would be with a 2 1/2 yr. old "helping".
We are still waiting to hear about our rental home so as of today we are still homeless.

The quotes are coming in for our radon remediation system. Looks like it is going to run about $700-800. Which is better than the $1200 I was expecting.

I will keep you posted...