Mason and the Deep Blue Sea

A few weeks ago Mason and Mom took a trip into Chicago with some friends from their Mom's group, Crunchy Moms of Dekalb. Shedd Aquarium was having free community days and some the Mommas bundled up their babies and headed to the aquarium for some underwater fun.



They even have a play zone including a touch and learn tide pool. Mason lived rolling up his sleeves and exploring the coral.


It was a great day with friends, learning all about our underwater friends.

Our First Christmas with Mason

Time for another flashback, this time it is our first Christmas with Mason.  We all loaded up the car and headed up to Michigan to spend the holidays with our Nana, Papa, Aunt and cousins.  It was a blast, and as you can see, pictures speak louder than words.  Oh and if you are wondering why we are not in any of the pictures, it is because we spent the holidays lounging and sleeping on our brand new beds with our treat stuffed bones.

 Santa Baby

 1st present on Christmas morning

 Santa left him a gift under the tree

 Cousin Nicole, I think she may be his favorite

All the loot, Thank you everyone!

Visiting Great Grandma and Grandpa

Last week Mom and Mason took a trip down to visit the grandparents and great grandparents.  It had been over a month since great grandma/grandpa had seen little Mason, of course they do get to see pictures of him.  Once again he was such a good boy on his first road trip, and didn't cry or have a meltdown in the car.  He was even alert and smiling at his great grandparents!  Mom even took a little video of Mason.

Road Trips and Play Dates

This weekend was another fun one for us, we have really been getting spoiled lately!  Last weekend we all got to pile into the car and go for a major road trip, one of our favorites!  We all went down to visit our Grandma and Grandpa (well Great Grandma and Grandpa for us).  They have a fenced in back yard, lots of squirrels that come around, and three big dogs running around in the yard behind theirs.  We ran around and played for hours, then we went inside and had a nice dinner.  Miss Pattie even gave us watermelon.  There was even a birthday cake for Dad, Hercules decided to help himself and lick at one of the corners while no one was looking.  He got in trouble, but I have good manners so I didn't.  By the time we were ready to get back in the car for the road trip home we were worn out, we slept pretty much the whole way home.  Dad listened to the Tigers, they had a rough start, but ended up winning the game.

Grandma and Grandpa are so excited about the new baby coming, it was fun for them to see Mom's baby, and Grandma and Miss Patti both got to feel the baby move for the first time.