Sunday, November 7, 2010

Halloween 2010

We celebrated Halloween not once but 3 times this year. Mason had a class party at Preschool, we attended the Halloween Parade in Council Grove on October 30th and then went trick-or-treating on Halloween.
Although Halloween is just a few days behind us, Mason has already started talking Christmas and Santa Claus! His wish list is about a mile long and includes Toy Story and Buzz Lightyear anything and everything!
Taegan is now 8 months old. She literally started crawling, getting her first tooth and pulling herself up all within the last few days! She has a sweet and silly personality. She loves to watch her brother play and he can make her laugh like nobody else!

Taegan- 7 MonthsBlondes have more fun!






Mason's 1st Pumpkin Patch

Taegan's 1st Pumpkin Patch too!


Visit to the Farm, Oct 2010

Mason LOVES "working" on the Farm
Making treat cups for school party
Preschool Halloween Party



Nana feeding Taegan
Mommy & Daddy as Square Dancers!
Ready for the parade in CG
Mason and Cousin Dawson


One Cool Cat!
Ready for "treats only please"!

Melt-down #1

Melt-down #2 With the Cogswells
An 80's Jane Fonda!



Matt accidentially gave Mason these, thinking they were his jeans!

They are Taegan's size 6 month jeans!


Let all that I am praise the Lord; may I never forget the good things he does for me.

Psalm 103:2 NLT

Monday, October 4, 2010

Fall 2010

Mason is pretty well settled into the routine at Preschool. In September he attended a soccer clinic for 3 and 4 year olds. He really seemed to enjoy it and was the only child on the field that was running and kicking the ball yelling out "Hey Mommy, hey Daddy look at me. Hey Mommy, take a picture of me"!! What a hoot!

Mason has been able to recognize all his letters and numbers for a few months now, and sings the ABC song several times a day. He is still into Dinosaurs and new favorites include playing with his toy cars. At night, he still sleeps with the same teddy bear and blankie. He hasn't sucked his thumb in several months. Getting him to stop sucking his thumb was WAY easier than we had imagined....actually a funny story because he literally kicked that habit in a matter of hours!

Our family went on vacation in September. We spent a week in Orlando watching Daddy play softball and did the Disney thing! Mason LOVED it. He did great on the airplane and loved the Disney parks. His absolute favorite ride was the "buzz buzz" ride (Buzz Lightyear) at Magic Kingdom. We were also able to spend a few hours at Animal Kingdom and Hollywood Studios. We hope we can go back as a family again!

Taegan will be 7 months old tomorrow...where has the time gone! She can sit up some on her own, but she prefers to be on her tummy. For several weeks now we have been thinking she is going to crawl at any moment. She gets up on all 4's and rocks, but then goes back to her tummy and pretty much "army crawls" to where she wants to go. She is a good baby, sleeps great and hardly ever fusses. No teeth yet! We feel her eye movements have improved some over the last few months. We took her to see a Pediatric Ophthalmologist at Children's Mercy at the end of August, just to be reassured by a 2nd opinion. The Dr. she has classic Congenital Motor Nystagmus. He felt it to be mild compared to some of the other cases he has seen and does not have any reason to believe that she will be visually impaired as a result of this. In just these past few days she has been saying "Ma-Ma-Ma"!

The following are pictures from our vacation, family pictures that were taken mid June and just some other random photos to enjoy!

"I an astronaut"

Taegan at 6 months old

Thanks for the boots Nana!

"I a super-hero"

Pure Genius...stashing toys in his underwear!

Reading to Sissy

Headin' to soccer


Soccer Clinic






Airplane ride...yes, that is the safety manual!

Ready for our first day at Magic Kingdom




Taegan's 1st swim!

At Magic Kingdom...

Diva!

Ready for Mickey's Not So Scary Halloween!

Hangin' out at Minnie's house!

Feeding the duck at Animal Kingdom

DUDE!


At Joe's Crab Shack...Too Cute To Be Crabby!



"Buzz Buzz"

Mason's favorite ride

Swiss Family Robinson Tree House

Sharing a cool treat with Daddy!

One of Taegan's favorite toys!

M-I-C-K-E-Y M-O-U-S-E!

Baby's got her blue jeans on....

Mason LOVED the T-Rex Cafe!

Monkey See, Monkey Do!

Mommy's new decor....TOYS EVERYWHERE!

Singing the ABC's to Sissy

Family Pictures June 2010


One of our favorites!





Mommy's two favorite boys!





My child, listen and be wise: Keep your heart on the right course.

~ Proverbs 23:19, NLT