We hit the Millard Day Parade again this year. We were a bit late because we had soccer, but the kids were more into getting the candy this year than the years past. The problem was that it was so hot the tootsie rolls were melting so they couldn't sneak a piece. Bryson was sacked out through the whole process, which amazes me the most when the marching bands come through!
Bryson loves playing on the chalk wall and when he leaves the wall he leaves hand prints. Ellery says they are leprechaun prints. We can follow the prints and find him pilfering through a kitchen cabinet or something else he isn't supposed to be playing with!
I finally met my 2nd cousin once removed from Germany. He came to town to see his Grandma and my Great Grandma Gray. It was fun catching up and I hope we can make a trip to Germany to meet the rest of his family sometime in the near future!!
Rob thought he was funny when I sent him out to to the store for salad and he came back with two blends. The European blend of course for our company!
Where to start. Bryson isn't walking without assistance, he will take a few steps, but nothing spectacular. He is a cruiser on the furniture and into whatever the other two are doing. He has a fond relationship with the stairs and loves crawling up and down them. He is learning to put his feet out first to dismount anything that he has climbed. He does enjoy climbing things more than my others did. He remains a picky eater. Not a huge fan of fruits and veggies, he likes to throw his food! Errrrr On the flip side he will eat casserole like items and meat? Things you think he is never going to eat this he loves for example: salmon cakes, egg rolls, corn casserole, taco meat. He also will eat an avocado mushed up, but won't touch the chunks? He also LOVES his bottles, we thought we were saying good bye and we have given up all of them except with meals, but this kid loves them? We will see how he is in another month, I won't panic yet. He remains a great sleeper at night, but afternoon naps are hit or miss. Poor thing is taken every where and plucked up from naps frequently because of our busy schedules. His favorite toy remains a ball. He also likes to find any tiny item and carry it around in his hand and then crawls around like a gorilla holding it. His favorite items to pocket in his hands are barbie shoes and legos. He doesn't eat them, just carries them around. He loves books like his sister and loves his family. Like Rob always says, he just wants to be a part of everything. As long as someone is close around he will play and be content, but alone he doesn't know what to do!
We are enjoying some fall soccer. Mason is on team Titan and Ellery is on team Daisy. They both are enjoying the sport and making Rob proud!
While we were at the festival, the roller derby group was walking around. They were pouring beer samples in the cute little glasses, so we had to get two for the kids to use! Poor Rob, I made him pose for a cute picture and I off centered him just so I could include the girls. I didn't tell anyone what I was doing, I think those girls could take me. That is why I will never join the roller derby league. 1. I couldn't pull off the outfit and 2. the girls could easily beat me up! I do think Rob is cute along with the tiny glasses!
Rob and I went out on date night to a Riverfront Wine Festival. Well, since we have had all the flooding the party wasn't on the riverfront, but it was still in the name. We had a great time! Not only did I remember the camera, but I remembered to take a picture of us together!
Oh, Bryson is getting to be so big! When do they grow? I am with them all day and don't notice they have grown. Maybe if I called one of the discovery channels, they could put a camera on him at all times, slow it down and then we could actually watch the process happen! That is a great idea for the next reality or documentary series! I would watch in awe!
These are the first papers that came home with Mason from school. He loves cutting and pasting. Let me just say, those smiling faces aren't ever going to fall off the paper. He also drew a picture of himself on a surf board! Surf's Up! He also has spanish class at school and comes home speaking random words. I now have to tell him Buenos Noches every night when I tuck him in!
Safety is important in our household!
At one of the many birthday parties we attended in one week, Ellery became a proud new owner of some pink, green, and purple braided hair clips/extensions. We wear them daily with a smile!
A friend of mine gave us the idea to buy a case of wine from the year Mason was born. In hindsight I wish I would have done it for the year we got married. We took her advice and finally cracked a bottle open to celebrate Masons first day of school. Don't worry we don't plan on sharing with the kids anytime soon! 
Rob captured this when we picked Mason up from his first day of all day school! It is a little blurry, but it just might be my favorite picture of all time! I think his picture captured how Mason's first day went.
Ok, the thing I will remember most about Mason's first day of school is that it is the first day I have ever had to wake him up. I was getting anxious when he wasn't awake before 7am. The kid has gotten up before 7am 99.9% of his life. I can count on 1 hand how many times he has slept past 7am in the last year and I have never had to wake him up for anything! I woke him up at 7:06 and the adventure began!
I guess we can't call it back to school mode because we are just now embarking upon our school experience. What an experience it is going to be! 
We had open house at Spring Ridge Elementary tonight! We learned that Mason will be in a class of 24 students, I think that is big, but another time another post on that one. We got to bring in all our school supplies, find out where he will be sitting, and meet his teacher. They don't have individual desks in kindergarten, just 6 kids to a table. I remember sitting at tables in kindergarten as well. Mason will be spending his time away from the family with Mrs. Farley. She is every one's top pick, the school has 2 other kindergarten teachers and everyone raves over Mrs. Farley the most. 
It was an emotional night, well maybe not so emotional for Mason, but it was emotional for me! I think the school transition will be harder on mom! The thought of someone else spending most of his day with him other than his family is a tough thought for me. Not to mention he is a young 5 and all the literature says I won't know if I made the right decision until around 4th grade. Seriously, why do they print these things for parents. I might have to learn how to get a grant and do a study that will tell us the results after kindergarten! I'll just add that to my running to do list!
Bryson is starting to climb up on everything. He particularly likes the hearth on the fireplace. We call it his perch, yup we compare our child to a bird on a perch. He pulls toys up, he pushes them off, he crawls back and forth like a cat on a tin roof, he get down appropriately, and of course he falls off. None of it keeps him from getting back on his perch and doing it all over again!
I was exchanging emails with a friend and she mentioned getting together to "water slide". I finally clarified on what water slide we were going to meet up at, I was thinking of leaving Bryson with a sitter if it was going to be a water park adventure. She sent me a picture of this monstrosity, that she has in her yard. We just had water day at our house and then go to a friends house for this water day! Thank goodness we did our water day prior to this one!
We decided to have water day at the house again. Nothing like hooking up the old slip and slide and putting it at the bottom of our play structure slide. The kids love it. I need to go get myself a shepherds hook so I don't have to hold the hose or drench myself as I wrap it around the play structure to shoot down the slide. They also love jumping on the trampoline with water spraying everywhere!
As we are eating breakfast and I want to talk to everyone at the table.
Not much to explain here. Surprise surprise, Ellery loves dressing up. She does have a strong desire for the Belle costume. I think she likes it because I don't buy her anything yellow.
Ellery loved licking the ice cream and frosting off her plate, and adapted to treating cup cakes like ice cream cones. Lick the ice cream off first and then maybe or maybe not eat the cake aka cone part! Mason just devoured his cake as fast as possible so he could continue on in the celebration! 
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