Tractor Pull!





When Bryce returned to Jo's house, he was TERRIFIED of her dog, Ruby.  Seriously.  Terrified!  I mean, if you took him over to her kennel, he would shake and cry.  If Jo was in the kitchen, he would REFUSE to go past her kennel to get to Jo.

 



Bryce eyeing Ruby!

It took a few days...but they became friends!

Bryce and Ruby...friends!

So the above two pictures...both from Jo...were all I had this week.  Um...all I can say is I'm back at school.  Life is busy.  It's hard to keep up!  So I got the camera out tonight and snapped a few photos:

 



Mason posing for me...this is so Mason!

And now he's swinging his arms back and forth...

Do the twist!

This little fella is able to get himself up to standing...and today got up a step!

Hi little buddy!

Getting the hang of balance...

Love him!

DAD!

Seriously...how did he get this big?

For a couple of weeks, Matt and the older two have been working on making a tractor pull for their toy tractors.  They have been all about tractor pulls since we went to the one at the county fair!  Today it was finally done and ready to test out!  I seriously don't know how Matt knows how to do all of this stuff...but he does...and always finds a way to make things work.  He sure made two little boys happy with this!

 



 

Zane-isms

• Zane has daily behavior calendars again this year.  The goal is to have a green day...that means he followed directions, etc.  He's already had 2 yellows...and an orange!  When I asked him why he already had these when last year he had a whole month of green, he said "Well, last year I didn't know what to do!  Now I do!"  Then I asked him what it was for and he said, "Talking."  I told him that he knew he should only talk when appropriate.  He said, "Mom, you know I am a talker!"

Mason's Marvels

• One day we were driving past the police station.  Mason said, "Oh, there's the police office."  I said "you mean the police station?"  He said, "No, it's a police office.  It's not a station.  There's no gas there!"
• One evening Mason and I were sitting out on the porch waiting for supper to finish grilling.  He was trying to tell me something and I must have had a quizzical look on my face because he said, "You have no idea what I'm talking about, do you?"  I laughed so hard!
• One morning Mason heard Bryce crying, so he went in to his room.  He climbed into his crib, sang a song to him, and he calmed down.  Later he told me, "Mom, Bryce was fussering and fussering, so I sang 'Twinkle Twinkle Little Star' to him and he stopped!"
• When we went to visit Mason's daycare that he's going to before Preschool...he said, "I don't know what this one will smell like."  When he visited his preschool...he walked in and said, "It smells good!" so that must have still been on his mind!
• Yesterday I was visiting Maggie and Jaxon and the boys came over to say hi.  Mason was crying becuase he's scared of Maggie's dogs.  He put his head on my shoulder and said, "Just a minute.  I have eye drops (tears)."