Siamese trait?

I found this picture while we were home and laughed -- looks familiar!

(me & my dad)

With or Without Clothes

I think he is cute dressed up or in the buff...

After church on Sunday... had to get a picture of his outfit! A lady in the mother's lounge asked if he passed the sacrament.

And after our bath tonight!
(beware, cute naked bum below!)

Yuck!

Spiders make my skin crawl. They seem to be one of those creatures that a majority of people have a problem with (I say majority because my Dad will save the "good" ones to release them outside... I think his kind are few and far between! My Mom HATES them). I couldn't even bring myself to name this post "spider" because I think its an ugly word. I have been lucky these last few years living in Utah that there really aren't many creepy crawlers around - not even close to what Florida and Tennessee have! However, a big, fat black spider decided to grace my dining room ceiling this morning. I couldn't even bring myself to snag him with a paper towel, I got out the vacuum and sucked him off (from a safe distance of like 5-6 feet- heehee). I have been squirming and creeped out all morning because of it! Just thinking about it gives me goosebumps and I start looking around the room for one to jump out at me. Guh! Anyone else feel the same?

To nap or not to nap

Mason's new thing is to play in his crib during naptime instead of sleep! This morning he played for an entire hour (yes, he was tired when I layed him down) before finally falling asleep for only 30 minutes. I think he gets a kick out of practicing his new skills - rolling, wiggling around, moving his legs is random directions, etc. Although it is causing short naps, he isn't fussing much (sometimes not at all) to go to sleep and is often waking up happy, so I'll take it! When he finally fell asleep this morning this is what we found (his head is the complete opposite direction of where it was when I laid him down) --- and don't worry, he is breathing :) What a goof!

Dates!

I realized I never blogged about our "last" date - and our "first" date. Here weeeeeee goooo:

The week before I was due we decided we needed a "final" date before the babe was with us in the flesh. The week was busy and Thursday night, before falling asleep, we discussed our options for our date -- we had planned to see a movie but I didn't know of any that were out at the time that interested me. Matt told me he saw a preview for a movie that interested him - about a man who invented windshield wipers. I guffawed - windshield wipers? Wow, what a thriller! I told him I would probably have to pass. He laughed and agreed it sounded funny, but insisted it looked good. Well, Friday night arrived and we hadn't decided on a movie still -I told him to just buy tickets for whatever, I really didn't care. On the way to our theatre I asked him what we were seeing. "Flash of Genius", he says. Me: "What is it about?" Matt: "Windshield wipers...." Ha! I apologize if you liked it, but we thought it was terrible! Matt kept nudging me (sheepishly) and we laughed through most of the film. I mean, I even started cleaning out my purse in the middle of the movie. Afterwards we bought Ironman (we hadn't seen it still) and watched it at home to try to make up for the earlier flick! We both agree that at least the night was memorable.

Now, for our "first" date since Mason was born! Mason had his first non-family babysitter this past weekend. Thank you again Brittney for watching our little fella... she says he was good, but what babysitter ever tells you the whole story? :) Hopefully he was as good as she says! We owe you (again). As for me, I only had minor separation anxiety. :) For our date we went out to eat and caught a movie - Australia - which I must say, was significantly better than Flash of Genius! The only catch was Matt would nudge me every so often when Hugh Jackman was on the screen and say, "isn't he dreamy?" ha! Here is to many more dates to come...

Rolling (caught on camera!)

Mason was a rolling machine this morning and allowed me to catch him on video! He normally rolls to his right - and does it with ease, but in the video I got him rolling to his left which seemed to take more exertion. I shortened the video for your viewing pleasure. :)
On another Mason note, the little man totally caught me off guard this morning as - for the first time ever - I had to wake HIM up to start the day. Whoa. Talk about a weird switch. Saturday night he slept 9-9.5 hours straight (no waking) and last night he slept 10! (and maybe longer if I hadn't woken him... but I didn't want him to sleep too late). I'm not sure how we went from our 6 -7 hour stretch to the 9-10 hours, but I am not complaining!

Quick picture post

Dad was delighted to discover Mason can now wear his Carhartt overalls...oh boy.

(you can see Dad's huge smile in the picture!)