I'm otay!

If ever Mason falls or trips and isn't hurt, he'll holler "I'm otay!". Sometimes I don't even know anything has happened but I hear him yelling that from across the house.

Ha. I just went to type this one and realized he must get the phrase from me since I just typed it above. He often says "here's a toy if ever you need it" or "I will play that with you if ever you want".

Mason like to fill in Eli's side of conversations. For example:
Mason: Eli do you want to go with us?
Mason (in squeaky high baby voice): Yes, I want to go.
Mason (back in Mason voice): Oh good. Come on.

Mason likes to add "really really super" or "super duper" to his descriptions. He wants me to wake him up really really super early so he can get ready and watch cartoons before the bus. (Yes, we bribe him but the morning fits have almost disappeared). Or he'll ask for water from the fridge that is super duper super duper cold.

That's our Mace Face:
 

school pics

Mason (finally) brought home his class picture today which reminded me I never posted his First Ever Official School Picture. It was taken this past fall. Isn't he cute? It's sort of his "nervous but this seems cool" smile.

Ah, times have changed. Instead of an actual class picture they just put each student's individual shot all together on one 8X10. Also, I got a cd with a digital copy. Which is cool, but I can't find it, so here's a poor scanned copy.

HE LOOKS 18! or at least 8. 

his job

Mason was struggling to get his PEZ into his Death Star PEZ dispenser. That sentence alone makes me very happy. He came and asked me to help him because "I just don't know how". I told him that my job, as his mom, is to teach him everything I can. His job is to learn as much as he can. Mason responded, "No, my job is to take care of Eli."

That too.

Oh what a Valentines Day!

Mason came home from preschool with a bag full of valentines from his classmates. I am not fast enough, nor is my camera to capture his delighted expressions. Each one made him so happy. He couldn't believe his friends were so nice. Mace was just happy all day.

We ran around door bell ditching and dropping off Valentines for friends and cousins until he fell asleep. He thought running around with his dad was pretty fun. Good thing Dad held his hand so well to keep the excited boy on his feet. Grandma and Grandpa Heaton stopped by with some treats and then... wouldn't you know... Cupid  (an old Heaton tradition) himself door bell ditched us and left more goodies.  We ate the cookies and put the rest up for rewards.

I have to include these pictures of Mason decorating the house. He kept asking "I can put them ANYWHERE?"  and "I can use up the WHOLE THING?"

 

 

 

 

 

On being Incredible

Mason was given a set of long pajamas from one of his cousins (I'm guessing Ryan). They have the Incredible Hulk on them. Also they are size 7 or something which makes for a lot of rolling. But he loves them.  Mason was asking who this guy was so I've tried to tell him, but I honestly don't remember much about this character.

It has actually been a good opportunity to talk about tempers and anger and what happens when we lose control. Mason tells me all the time that we don't want to act mean or crazy like the Incredible Hulk. Also when we are cleaning up we like to act like different things (spies, tornado's, robots) while we pick up and adding the Incredible Hulk to our repertoire has added some fun variety.

The other day Jason let Mason watch a short clip on YouTube. Since then Mason has walked around with a furrowed brow and instructing us how to also look like the Hulk. He and I took these pictures of each other and he was quite pleased to see us turn mean and green.

When Mason says it, it sounds like "An Edible Hult".

The Book of Mason and other funny sayings

Mason is now in primary. He has been asking me for a week when he gets to have his own scriptures. Yesterday before church I gave him a copy of The Book Of Mormon. He recognized enough letters to think it said "The Book of Mason" and was very excited. I showed him where the front has a few pictures of Christ, Joseph Smith, Nephi, and others. When Jason walked in the room Mason grabbed his scriptures and said "Hey Dad! Want to hear about Joseph Smith?" Suddenly I'm having visions of him as a 19 year old missionary, walking up to strangers and asking them the same question.

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Mason was playing in one of the kitchen drawers and found a sheet of twist ties. (Side note: when Mason finds twist ties in the produce section of the grocery store he makes them into rings to give to me. I ask him what it means to give someone a ring and he answers "that I love you forever". ) He asked if he could have some and I said "three, since you are three". He replied "When I'm 18 I'm going to have 18 and make a big mess."

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Mason loves pajamas. When he comes home from preschool he often changes back into jammies before I can stop him. It can be a pain if we're going out and he needs to change back into play clothes. One day I even took his entire drawer out and put it up on my closet shelf just to keep him in his clothes. He has a bunch of hand me down tank tops (okay, wife beaters) that he prefers over any other top. And he has a favorite pair of jammie pants that I have a hard time washing often enough since he's usually wearing them when I'm doing laundry. The other night I was helping Mason get ready for bed and retrieved those special pants out of the dryer. His response? "Daddy couldn't find my special jammies but you found my special jammies because you are a great jammie finder."

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Mason was sick and having a really hard night. We'd been up several times and I was exhausted. Around 3am he came to my room again and we fell asleep on the floor. I woke up after a few minutes and told him to come crawl into bed with me. He asked "Is Jason up there?" I said yes and he said "Mo-om!" meaning he knows he's not supposed to get in the parent's bed until his dad has gone to work. I told him it would be okay this one time and Mason said "Oh, thank you so very much."

other silly lines:

I don't like monsters, bad guys, or Satan. Satan is a mean guy.

Holy flip! What did I just do?

(when told he can't have any more Otter Pops) But my hands are warm and my mouth is warm and my body is warm. I need something to cool me off.