Happy Birthday, Mason!

My little guy turned 5 on September 11th! 

I cannot believe how fast he has grown up! He truly is a blessing to our family and such a good brother to his brothers and sister! 

He is one crazy, energetic and off the wall busy little boy! 

He had school on his birthday and he was so excited to tell his teacher that he is now FIVE!! He wanted to have his picture taken with Taysom. He sure loves his little brother!

His birthday was sure a crazy one. I was busy trying to figure out how to make a special cake for a birthday, manage two busy kids and a newborn. It was probably the most overwhelming day I had had since having Taysom. Of course Tays was just 10 days old. His birthday dinner request was Sloppy Joes, which was easy enough, but his cake request, a stegosaurus, really threw me off. I did the best that I could with the time and energy I had. Oh well. He loved it!!

Since having Taysom, everything has taken me so much longer than usual. We didn't have dinner until almost 8 pm and cake until after 9 pm. It was an exhausting day and I paid for it the next day with absolutely no energy!   

Mason is my most polite child. He always says 'thank you' for everything. Dinner, gifts, opening a door for him, getting him drinks. Really everything. 

He also says 'I love you'. A lot. It is so sweet! His sweet little voice saying, "I love you, Mommy" just makes me smile every time he says it!  

Oh man. This cake. I had spent all day baking, cutting, molding, crumb coating and piping stars on to it. Finally, as we are eating dinner and I'm still working on it and only half way done, Vaughn convinced me to just wipe it all off. I knew I needed to give up on it, but I had worked so hard on it!!! So with great sadness I wiped all the stars off of it. I was pretty depressed, so I didn't try to even it out at all. Poor Mason. He got such a sad, ugly looking cake. Also the more I tried to salvage the face, the more it fell apart. Sam also helped with that. Oh well. 

A few days later we took Mason in to his 5 year well child check. He was 41.5 inches tall and he weighed in at 41.5 lbs!!  He is in the 50th percentile. He is in his second year of preschool and is doing so well with it! He is usually a happy kid, who loves to rough house with his sister and hold his baby brother.