Masons 1st class!

Paige's Dance studio also has a gymnasium across the street.

Once a week her class is in the gym building.

Mason stares through the windows at the LUCKY kids who get to go in and run around, jump on the trampolines and FALL into the Foam pit.

HE FINALLY GOT HIS WISH!!!

I signed him up for a month of Gym in the 2 year old class and he couldnt have been MORE excited!!

They start them on the obstacle course....

Here he is Learning to somersault.


Attempting the cartwheel....with NO hands!

Hes amazing already :)

Rope climbing...hes got skills!

He SNUCK into this foam pit a few times before he was 'supposed' to....

but at the end they get to run down a trampoline and get launched into the PIT!!

He kept saying AGAIN AGAIN AGAIN AGAIN!!!

It was SO fun to watch him run around, 'stretch', jump and play with the other kids.

He can now officially somersault on his own....and he definately has the things on the obstacle course he 'skips' on purpose to get to the things he thinks are more fun.

Plus it gets ALL HIS ENERGY OUT for bedtime :)

My boy imitating me.

We're about to POP!!!!

Were at 34 weeks....6 weeks or less to go!

(42 days sounds a little more real.)

These kids make me laugh.

Mason in another 'blackmale' photo.

In Paige's recital costume and tap shoes when she was 2.

Fit him perfect, especially when hes in his Cars jammies haha.

As much as these two have a love/hate relationship...he LOVES to terrorize her some days on purpose and some days on accident....oh the fun of little brothers.

The times when they are playing together and happy are so fun to watch...

We call Mason "paper ears".

His ears have almost NO cartlidge in them :)

He takes them and bends them into "elf'" ears.....we have TALENT just bursting from our veins :)

All day party at Disneyland w. Daddy.

My pass expires this week so a couple weeks back we decided to go ALL DAY one last time w/Daddy....until we renew someday....no telling when that day will come :)

We got there and headed in.

First stop: Pineapple Dole Whips!! MMMMMMMMMM.

Second Stop: Pirates!! Masons favorite ride
(he likes it more after we get the water falls over with).

Third Stop: Eating soup bowls on the wharf .

Paiges request for clam chowder :)

Fourth Stop: Getting mauled by the bears.

Mason ran to the bear on the left and it put its HUGE paw around his head to hug him and Mason looks up to see GIANT mouth of teeth coming down to kiss him and it did NOT go over well :) But they made up with a high five at the end.

Pregnant at Disneyland at 30 weeks.....In my mind I can still walk for 8 hours and be 'fine'.

I almost called for a wheel chair by hour 3 :)

Cant believe we have no more than 9 weeks before we have 3 kids to tote around :)

Fifth stop: Let our 2 and 5 year olds get thier drivers licenses.

Never too early to learn right.

Paige was too excited to actually get to drive and took it very seriously!

I take it back about this boys 'favorite ride'....

autopia is probably topping pirates at the moment!

He laughs his head off the whole time while the car beats against the track.

Daddys kid!

Sixth stop: Mason's 1st pair of mickey ears with his name on them.....

and the outfit he choose the next morning....including his 'cars' backpack.

This kid is too cute :)

We always enjoy a day at the Happiest place on Earth.

So many fun traditions and memories .

Time to take a break from playing there for a while....

adding a new baby....

kindergarden in August

and everyday life will take its toll on our spare time -

and I guess thats OK for now.

:)

Yo ho.

So we are doing really well with the "theme" of his room....

However,

It definately hasnt been used for any sleeping for this little man yet :)

We try the bedtime routine...and when its done and we are about to leave he says

"All Done" and climbs out and into his crib.

Well see how much energy we can muster up in the next couple weeks to actually try harder to keep him in here !

The stickers are up....made by Tanya J. SO CUTE!

Email her at Tanyajorgenson@gmail.com if you need some for yourself :)

Hopefully soon I will be able to say

This is MASONS BEDROOM... :)

Masons Big boy room.

With the new baby coming-its time to move Mason into a Big boy room :(

Makes me sad that my baby boy is big enough for his own bed...and scared that he will TORMENT us in the night getting out and up early in the mornings?! Time will only tell :)

This new room needed to be COOL because if not I knew we had NO chance of him wanting to stay in there.....

Mason is slightly obsessed with pirates right now so we went with that theme.

Thanks to my SUPER OCD painter husband we have the PERFECT line that goes around the room...nice since we arent doing chair rail yet.
The bed is a queen so we dont have to get rid of the bed that was already in there.
He LOVES the bedding and sings YO HO whenever he sees it.
(good sign?!)



Here lies the problem.
This bed has always been the 'jumping grandma bed'.
So im not sure we can get him to actually sleep in it :)
like I said..Time will tell....!!


Here it is sort of done....We have put up stickers made by Tanya that makes the room pretty cool.
So, I will have to post those later since they arent uploaded yet.

Cross your fingers we dont loose our minds trying to keep him in his "big boy bed" at night! :)

Family night in our little piece of heaven :)

Being that February is the month of LOVE....

We decided to incorporate our LOVE for each other during a Family Night a few weeks ago....

and CELEBRATE our other LOVE for DONUTS together!!!

They even have hearts on thier boxes...perfect for our theme :)

What says "I LOVE YOU!" more than a box of HOT OUT OF THE OVEN Krispy Kreme donuts?!
Makes my mouth water just looking at this picture :)

Enjoying.
And no I do NOT have a photo of MY consumption during this evening - Craig kept trying to 'upload' something with his phone and I had VERY strong threatening words for him :)

We let the kids have thier 1 donut (since it was 8pm by now) and milk and they were in HEAVEN.

Then on the way out they take another stroll through the 'convayer belt of love' since the Hot light was still on and the employee at the end HANDS MY KIDS ANOTHER HOT DONUT!!!! HELLLOOOOOO LADY!

I scream OH NO NO NO! and it was TOO LATE.

The kids have happily accepted thier 2nd donut of glazed happiness and I would have had to pry them from thier screaming bodies :)

Oh well. Here they are happily leaving with another donut in hand!

I was once asked by Paige what we eat in heaven.....and I replied "THERE JUST BETTER BE DONUTS!" :)

Walk the dinosaur

Paige's Dance group had thier first competition this last weekend at the Disneyland Hotel.

Thier song this year is

Walk the dinosaur.

It is a lot more complicated of a routine this year and I had my doubts that this group of mostly 5 year olds were going to figure it out (because Im not sure I could even do it) haha.

But they did awsome and looked so cute.

Paige LOVES the stage and gets so excited to perform each time, which makes it all worth it.

Getting ready for showtime.
They got 1st place in thier age division and 6th place overall.
I was told that was 'really good'....im never quite sure how these rankings work :)

You can watch her dance here....its not great quality but shes the one who starts on the very right.

The Day at Disneyland.

Tanya and I have been taking our girls to Disneyland together since they were about 8 months old.

We have not been to Disneyland together alone with NO DADS or Grandparents to help out in probably a year (maybe almost 2?)

We (being 7 months pregnant) decide to brave it and go before both our passes expire in the next couple months.

We are now quite a scene with 5 kids and 2 big bellies.

But it was a fun crazy day.

The girls stalked Alice down the street until she stopped for them.


The conversation in lines went something like this:
"Mason get over here, Stop chasing ashlyn, Stay in line, Stop shaking the chain, get your hands off him, stop touching her, want a snack?, get off the railing, youre going to get hurt-get down!, Do you want me to beat you!? (jk)"

So excited that the Mommies actually let them wait in line for PETER PAN!
Not sure the kids knew this ride existed :)
Masons FAVORITE!!!

I wish I could get to the picture I have of these girls in thier stroller in bathing suits at 9 months at this same spot.

The kids did pretty good through the day with as few meltdowns as possible.

In the line we were subjected to a lot of "looks" as our kids were a little 'on the crazy side'.

The line to get dinner ALMOST did me in....I witnessed the scene of a lifetime by my very own Paige...over a piece of green streamer and macaroni and cheese.

Apparently it was quite the comedy show because the couple behind me LAUGHED OUT LOUD at the situation...and only laughed HARDER when things got crazier.

It took everything I had not to turn around :)

At least someone got a good laugh out of it.....

Toy story is always a favorite.

And after a cinnamon pretzel on the way out to the cars....

and praying me or Tanya dont go into premature labor....

we had made it out ALIVE and didnt lose any kids in the process.

Even better.....They passed out the second we got in the car!!!

Lots of fun memories....some I want to forget and some I know I will think back and laugh at how CRAZY this day was. :)