Summer Fun

Mason and Ava

Our bathroom remodel...We left for a week and came back to this beautiful bathroom! I felt like we were on one of the home makeover shows!!! Todd's brother Shawn completely gutted our old bathroom...new sink, toilet, tub, shower and sink faucets, shower tile, floor tile, and a new door! It is awesome... he did a GREAT job!

Mere-mere and Mason playing with bubbles.

Ava and Mason at Ava's 2nd birthday party...

Ava and Mason rockin' on the mics!

Time for cake!!!

Olivia at her 13th b-day party

Olivia with her itouch

My mom after right and left knee replacement surgery. She is doing great!

We are all so proud of her!

Brandon, Uncle Tony and Mason

We went to Kalahari Resort in Sandusky for few days in July and had a BLAST! It is a great place to just get away...but not too far away! Kalahari has an indoor and outdoor waterpark, a huge arcade room, indoor put-put, tons of places to eat and drink, and an indoor dry play area. Check out the pics from the trip...

Mason always had to stop and talk to the elephant!

Family photo

Loving his ice cream...

My guys!!!

The basketball stars...

Slam dunk!!!

We finally got brave and let him go down without catching him...scary!

We got to feed the giraffes!

Daddy and Mason got to ride a camel... I was soooo jealous!

This was the closest we got to the beach this summer... a sand volleyball court!

This was Mason's absolute favorite...watching the bucket dump the water. We probably spent half of our time watching this...no kidding!!!

This was our view from the balcony of our room!

4th of July

Waiting for the fireworks at the Carter's

At Mam-ma's house riding in his car!

Mason LOVES to sweep! We finally bought him his very own sweeper!

Check out this face!

Mason's 1st Haircut

Here area a few pictures of the journey to Mason's 1st haircut...

BEFORE...


What? Isn't this what you're suppose to do when you're finished with your yogurt?!?!?



Check out the black wristbands...is it football season yet?!?!

DURING...
Hey big cousin Brandon, do you have these types of planes to sell...Mason REALLY loved it!
Just call and let me know... hopefully we can work out a deal (ya know b/c we're family and all)!!!
Maybe you could fly it up here to Ohio and surprise Mason :)

Video of Mason's 1st Haircut

Notice how calm he was...we were so proud of him!!!

AFTER...
He even got his first certificate!!!


Playing at Cookie Cutters after his haircut...



Playing at Barnes and Noble...
he was so good he got to pick out a book and a wooden train!

WOW! Sorry it has been so long since I last updated the blog. We have been very busy the past few months...mostly fighting the nasty flu between Mason and myself. We are all doing great now! Mason had his 15 month check up a few weeks ago and he is right on target with everything...wait a minute, did I say 15 month...it can't be, where has the time gone?!?!
His doctor asked us how many words he was saying and we a made guess that it was about 10. When we got home, we decided to write down all of the words to see the true number.
Ready, here they are:
mama, dada, paw-pa, mam-ma, nana,

mamba (banana), up, down, bye-bye,

book, duck (both with a huge emphasis on the "k" sound at the end),

Melmo (Elmo), meow-meow, moo,

he does a monkey sound but I'm not sure how to express it on paper!

mil-mil (milk), ma (more), ball, uh-oh, do (dog)


He is doing and saying more every day. It is so amazing to watch this little guy grow!!!