Things Are Changing.

Things are changing. As this little boy grows up, I find myself doing less observation and recording of the new things he experiences every day, and instead I'm chasing him around, trying to keep up with him. The things he discovers. The things he knows. I hadn't even realized it but I taught him all his colors and he REMEMBERS them. Every once in a while he'll forget one or two but it's amazing how smart this boy is. He almost knows how to count to ten. Usually it's just me counting and he throw out the next number. It's usually eight or night, always one, two and three. But yesterday he proved he knew six came after five. He's not even two, they learn so fast at this age. It's amazing!

Oh lets see Mason what else have you been doing lately that I haven't told anyone about ...

Speech: Mason's now speaking in full sentence. We still can't understand half the sentence, but it's there.

Nursery: Mason loves Nursery. He had a cold one week and couldn't go to nursery. His world almost fell apart he was devastated. For the whole week, everyday, he'd ask if it was time to go to nursery. Understanding that nursery only happens on Sunday, is really hard for a 1 1/2 year old to understand. But we made it through the week. And the smile on his face when he realized it was actually time to go to nursery, we couldn't run up those stairs fast enough. He loves all his friends in Nursery and he will call them by name. And he ditches me at the door. No separation anxiety when it comes to nursery (It helps that our nursery leaders are all amazing with these kids.) And last week when I went to pick him up, I got a "Hi mommy," before he turned and chased his friend Kaden up the stairs and down the slide. He wouldn't leave with me, so we waited for daddy. He wouldn't leave with daddy. I think he knew we were going to choir and it's not very much fun for a toddler. After not seeing them all through choir I went outside and my two boys went from the nursery slide to the hill outside the church. Mason was running up and down that hill, laughing at the top of his lungs.

Ramps: I'm sure I've mentioned this before but I"m going to do it again because it still amazes me. Mason is fascinated with wheelchair ramps. They're like a slide in his mind only these ones your allowed to run down. I first noticed it when we were on the Disney Fantasy. There was a pool, toys, so many other interesting things around him and all he wanted to do was run up and down the wheelchair ramp. And he still does it. No matter where we go, if he spots a ramp nearby up and down. Up and down. Up and down for hours. Cracks me up.

Trains: Obsessed! We try our best to go for a walk in the stroller everyday, doesn't always happen but we try. Mostly because when we go for a walk, Mason is able to see the Train's go by. We have two sets of train tracks. One is the "Trax" train so it's more like a cable car, the other is usually the Front Runner, so it's a bit bigger. But doesn't matter what kind of train it is Mason's face when the lights turn on and the hears the sound of the train is of pure delight. He he sits up in his seat, looks both ways and says "Here it comes." In his sweet little, high squeaky voice. Knowing this, the boys disappeared one saturday morning and I got this as a text message.

The Train went the length of the mall, and Mitch followed it the whole way. But the fact Mason was the only one on the train didn't phase him one bit. He came home so excited he got to ride the train at the mall. Yep, you can say daddy spoiled him quite a bit.

Gram's Train Set: With Mason's birthday coming Grams took the two of us to Toys R Us. We let Mason play around, getting an idea what toys he might want to play with. And he played with everything pretty equally. We went to the electronic toys and he climbed in each of the cars, not a surprise he went for the corvette first. Probably because it looked like it had the most power, he is his father's son after all.

Mason's got a great imagination going when it comes to playing with his toy cars. So we took him to the car section and started looking at the emergency vehicles (his favorite) and all the cities you could build and play with with. He walked along beside us, point at the cars as he recognized them, and also told us what colors they were. We picked out a few things we thought he would like and walked to another section of the store.

He saw it before we did. And he RAN! He ran across the isle straight to the train area. They had a table set up with the wooden train set and he let out a CHOO CHOO and played for at least 30 minutes. Grams and I sat on the floor and watched him. We looked from the Car sets we'd picked out to the isle of trains and decided a Train set was probably the best way to go. It took so much energy to pull him away from that train table. Other kids came up and play then left, more came and played and left. Only Mason remained. Leaving was devastating. We had to pull out his new train set the instant we got home. And Mason was ... well see for yourself.