Mason Turns 2

On July 5 Mason turned 2 years old. Time most certainly has gone by so quickly since he was born. In some ways it feels like he has been apart of our family forever and then there are times it feels like it was just yesterday he was about to enter this world. I am sure as the years go on time will feel like its moving even faster.

Each year for his birthday I want to make sure he feels so special. Last year we took him to the Aquarium in downtown Dallas, so this year I was trying to come up with something fun. I found out there is a pretty neat children's museum in Downtown so we decided to try that out after nap time that afternoon.

That morning started early, since lately he has been an early riser (waking just after 7 each morning).

We made his favorite breakfast, pancakes. The kid could eat his weight in pancakes, he loves them!

Mason and Jackson had a fun morning playing together while mommy got some work done.

We headed out to the Perot Museum after naps that afternoon. We started out on the top floor and worked our way down through the museum. It was the day after 4th of July, and a Friday so it was so busy, but we still had lots of fun seeing everything. I certainly think this is something we will come back to over the years because it was so neat and interesting.

 

Everyone had such a fun time seeing the dinosaurs 

 We got to report the weather also

 We finally made it down to the children's museum and Mason had a blast. We started off by trying to play with the water table but all he wanted to do was pour the water out and did not want to leave the apron on so we quickly moved on from that.

 Next up we headed to the farmers market. Mason loved gathering all the fruit and veggies and putting them in his basket and taking them back up into the truck and sliding them down again. He did this over and over again.

 We then headed outside to play in the large sandbox. He was so focused on everything he was doing.

 After we had played it was getting late and we were getting hungry so we headed out for a birthday dinner. We ended up at Joe's Crab Shack. Mason was not to sure about having all the strangers sign to him

 When we got home it was finally time for presents and cupcakes. He might not have liked being sang to at Joe's but he LOVED it when we sang to him at home.

For his birthday we got him a water table to play with outside but I came across the coolest thing on Pinterest a couple weeks before his birthday so Barrett and I decided to make it and give it to him for his birthday as well.

We had cupcakes and he was so silly eating them, but he was also probably really tired from his fun day at the museum.

Happy 2nd birthday Mason. Mommy and Daddy love you so much and so happy that you are a part of this family and we have been chosen to be your parents. We couldn't imagine our lives without you!

Beep Beep.....

Ever since having Jackson I have struggled on the best way to approach grocery shopping with two little ones. When Jackson was really young I would just take his infant carrier and put him in the back of the shopping cart, and Mason would ride in the front seat. As that worked for the most part there was hardly ever enough room for any groceries once the bulky car seat was there. As Jackson has gotten older he does not like the infant seat as much and wants to be sitting up watching everyone around him. I have tried a few different things while grocery shopping lately: wearing Jackson in my baby sling, letting Mason sit/stand in the back of the shopping cart (huge no-no maybe but I only do it on ones that have deep baskets), letting them both sit in the front seat sharing a leg hole. Nothing seems to have really worked out until we went into Kroger the other day and Mason saw the cart with the car attached to the basket. He kept saying car, car, car. I thought we would give it a try and they both seemed to really love it.

Grocery Shopping will never be the same for us now. I had to make a quick run into Kroger the other day for just 3 things and there were no 'cars' available and Mason said 'car, car, car' and was not happy the whole time we were picking up what we needed.  At least I have finally found the way to make my grocery shopping trips more enjoyable for all 3 of us. 

-Tiffany

Welcome to my blog

Hello all, welcome to my little piece of the internet. I will be blogging about my family's daily life in hopes that I will be able to look back over the years and remember these days. Let me take a moment to introduce ourselves

My name is Tiffany and I feel in love with Barrett and we were married in August 2009. We live in the DFW metroplex and love it. We had our first born, Mason, on July 5 2011 and just 6 months later found out we were expecting baby number 2. We welcomed our second son, Jackson, on October 5, 2012. Our boys are exactly 15 months apart and as crazy as the daily life is right now I am so happy for the sweet blessing we have been given. I thank God every day for what He has given to me.

Stick around I am sure there will be lots of excitement to come.


-Tiffany