Mason's Winter ONEderland

When Mason was born in December I knew he had to have a winter ONEderland theme, it is so cute!

This past Saturday, most of our close friends and family braved the yucky weather to help celebrate Mason turning one.  The one thing about planning a December party is, well, most people are out of town attending other holiday parties.  But we had a great turn out.  Especially for it raining buckets ALL. DAY. LONG.

I had lots of fun making all of his decorations. Although I think my house will have glitter in the carpet forever.  Most of them I can re-use for Christmas decor so it all works out! However, I cut out so many snowflakes I might not want to see another one until next Christmas!

We kept it simple with a hot cocoa bar  with marshmallows, white chocolate chips and whipped cream for toppings.The kiddos loved putting all the toppings in the cup, most had more toppings than hot cocoa! I baked all morning and we had sugar cookies, chocolate chip cookies, snowman mix and cupcakes to go with the hot cocoa.

I had planned on making fake snow for the kids to have a snowball fight in the backyard, but the weather did not cooperate, maybe next year!

It was a great party and I am so glad Mason made it until after presents and his cupcake to melt down and need a nap!

We love you sweet one year old boy!

He was NOT a fan of his crown! 

Mason says it is SNOW MUCH FUN TO BE ONE!!!

Mason is ONE.

I cannot believe my little baby boy is ONE.
The year definitely goes by faster when you have 2 kids for sure!

Mason is our sweet, smiley man.  BUT will anger very quickly if he does not get what he wants.  For the most part he is very calm, low maintenance and pretty easy. His belly laughs and his sweet baby curls make our heart melt. I was trying to think of our family before Mason and I just can't, he makes our family whole (well...for now.....)

LIKES:

• Standing up
• Dancing (which consists of bouncing up and down or head banging which is pretty adorable)
• Crawling...FAST. He also wants to go into every room and explore and gets VERY upset when we close the door.  
• Wave bye-bye and clap his hands.
• Putting anything and everything in his mouth.
• Giving kisses (well mostly just opening his mouth and leaning his head towards your mouth) 
• His paci (he really only wants it when he is sleepy) 
• Bath time with brother.....he is so happy in the bathtub. 
• To be destructive! Any toys are blocks that he plays with he throws and knocks over, little bulldozer! 

DISLIKES:

• Being changed. He screams to his little hearts content and we try to change him quick but sometimes getting jammies on a sticky little body is hard!
• If we take a toy away from him that is he not supposed to have (we are TRYING to not have you choke, kid!) 
• Being put in "baby jail"....or the pack and play as most people call it. Logan likes baby jail better. 
• Being held/rocked (yes, this hurts my heart.) Only when he is really sleepy he will let us rock him. 
• Shoes (will try to kick them off) 

FOOD:

• Goldfish crackers/ritz 
• Cheerios
• Applesauce
• Cheese sticks
• Yogurt 
• Kraft mac and cheese.  We are shells and cheese people and he does not like them!
• Chicken
• Avocado 
• Baby food (third foods) 
• Bread 
• Donuts (yes he tried some and wow gobbled them up!) 
• Pancakes/Waffles 

NICKNAMES:

• Buggie 
• Bugs
• Chunky (when he actually WAS chunky)
• Kumquat 
• Little bubba
• Bubs 
• Baby 

Mason weighs 24 pounds and has 4 teeth (2 bottom and 2 top).  More are looking like they are popping through the surface.  He is in a size 3 diaper and wearing mostly 18 month clothes.

Mason Bruce was our "surprise baby" and we could not have asked God for a better gift.  We love you to the moon and back Buggie boy!

It's my birthday! 

SUPER Halloween Fun

Halloween is one of my favorite holidays.  I love picking out our costumes and with kids, it is even MORE fun!

First was heading to the Pumpkin patch to pick out a perfect pumpkin!

 While we were there, my friend took some pics of the boys.

Then we headed to our friend's house for some pumpkin carving! Logan picked a pretty creepy looking face to carve so our Halloween pumpkin this year was named "Creepy" obviously.

We decided on a "super hero" theme since Logan is on a super hero kick.  He originally had picked out Batman, which would have been a little easier since we already had the mask from his birthday party, but the last minute changed his mind to Captain America.
We had already called Mason "baby Hulk" since he was born so naturally, he had to be the Hulk.

We went trick or treating and Logan had a blast! The combination of the excitement, wearing a mask and it being a little wet from rain did not help that he fell down twice.  He dropped all his candy and screamed "I don't like trick or treating anymore!" After a few tears and him being dramatic, we kept going.  We went by a really spooky haunted house and most of the kids would not go up to the door, but our brave Captain America did it with ease! He was always so polite in saying "Happy Halloween" and "Thank You" to everyone he got candy from.

After the kids buckets were so full they could barely carry them, we headed back to the house.  Logan actually had more fun handing out candy to all the kids walking by.  He was actually yelling at them to come over to the house, it was pretty funny.
Baby Hulk was easy breezy and just hung out the entire night.  He was perfectly content in the stroller.

It was a SUPER fun Halloween!