Mason is 2!

I love birthdays! I love parties! I love my babies (most days)!

Today is Mason's 2nd Birthday. I still doesn't seem real.

Lucas at TWO

Bridget at TWO

Scarlett at TWO

and earlier this year... Juliet at TWO (she is still two)

Now, on to Mason.

He is, and will always be the clown of the family.

He is funny, and crazy, and most of all adorable.

Today was his GOLDEN birthday. Which means he turned 2 on the 2nd. So we went with it!

Favorite Foods: Graham Crackers, pronounced "Gaaam Caakas" and Popcorn pronounced"pawcown"

Least Favorite: Grapes, and anything wet like grapes.

Favorite Dessert : "coo-kees"

Favorite Toys : Cars and Trains. If it has wheels, he loves it. Not really into stuffies or anything else.

What he is good at :  climbing, swinging on things, chin ups, getting into things, opening wrappers, getting stuck in hard to reach places.

What he is afraid of : NOTHING. This kid loves to be scared. He thinks it is hilarious.

At this age all of my redheads have HUGE hands. Mace is no exception.

B and J still don't.

Mason and Juliet are best friends.

She calls him Buddy or Little Buddy all day long. He follows her like a puppy.

I took these as comparison pictures for next week, when I usually take them

SEE HERE

This is usually when they are done taking pictures....

Mason is still very small for his age.

He isn't talking quite as much as the other kids, but that is A O K

He has out done everyone physically at this age.

He may be small, but he is feisty!

Thanksgiving 2013

What a weekend! Jared and Erin were in town and we had some fun times with them. Unfortunately, it is never enough time when you are with family. :)

 Uncle Chris is always fun for a game or two...

 Mason was helping grandma set the table.

Elsa and Uncle Jared!

She is adorable!!!

 The men smoking and deep frying the turkeys.

Elsa was loving Uncle Nathan. He could get her to smile and coo and Juliet too!

Hannah and Bridget coloring in the basement loft.

Lucas played pool with the men. Jared taught him how. Lucas loooooved being with the big boys.

Bridget had some serious grown up girl bonding time:

 Fried:

 Smoked:

 The men washed dishes.

A candid moment.

A real moment:

A sweet moment:

A tender moment:

It was a fun day with the Witte Family.

Makes me miss my own family that much more.

Sweet Scarlett's Stitches

Poor Scarlett.

This little girl is growing so much. 

I think so fast that her body can't keep up with her brain.

Because of this, she is very clumsy.

I don't mean like a little clumsy, I mean extremely clumsy.

This little girl ran RIGHT into the frame of the door, where the metal piece is.

She hit it so hard we have to get a new one.

She hit it so hard, she had to get stitches.

We drove to 2 hospitals and Children's is where its at!

She got numbing cream, and it didn't end up working.

She actually needed 2 shots of Novocaine, poor baby.

They educated her before she had to get stitches. She was a little nervous.

We left with a band aid, 6 stitches and a teddy bear.

And, wouldn't ya know...she fell AGAIN on her way out!

*Sigh*

Here she is a few days later...

Ugggggly! Luckily, I already took their Christmas pics a few weeks ago, 

before the leaves changed to yellow...

While she still had both eyebrows. Haha.

 More Christmas pics later!

She gets her stitches out on Saturday, I hope we don't have to go back to Children's for a long time.

Scarlett's good friend, E came over to give Scarlett a hug and something to do since she had to miss school. It was so cute.:)

6 dates! (part 3 of 3)

We had to break it up into two days so Grandma and Grandpa Witte could watch the babies (and Lucas) for the day!

Date FOUR!

American Girl!

 Bridget knew all of the girls names of the historical dolls. She has seen all of the movies, and wants the books for Christmas. She is as obsessed as I was when I was a little girl.

Date FIVE!

Try fancy foods! We went to Bonannao's and she had:

 Tuna Tartare (a first for Nathan too)

 Grilled Artichokes

Which smelled SO good and tasted SO good

Thanks to Fancy Nancy, everthing was "exquisite or divine"

She tried Scallops

 She also had Carbonara Pizza which is Nathan and my favorite pizza. It has an egg in the middle and when you cut into it - it oozes and is SO good.

For Dessert she had Gelato!

Cherry Chocolate and Pistachio

We were being so silly.

Date SIX

Surprise!

Since Bridget loves adventure we took her racing. She was an inch too short to drive herself, but she didn't mind.

It was a fun time, and we were given free tickets to see an early premiere of FROZEN 3D on Wednesday, so Bridget is pretty thrilled about that!