Happy Birthday Daddy!!

Brian & Mason getting ready to blow out the birthday candle stuck in the mashed potatoes...


Happy Birthday to Brian. His birthday fell on the day after Thanksgiving this year - and we happened to be having Thanksgiving with my family that day.


Maya sits with the Birthday boy.














Lauren holds Zoe and Maya.








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Cousin Paloma sleeps on her Mommy, Angi

Thanksgiving 2005

Maya enjoys her first Thanksgiving.



















Mason helps Pops feed the birds.























Great Aunt Paula brings Mason a surprise. A little basketball goal and ball. He really enjoyed playing with Paula, Paul, Teresa, Scott, Pops, and Grandmother. He got a lot of attention!

















Maya and Grandmother watch Mason play.

Happy Birthday Gigi!!!

Today is my Mom's Birthday. We celebrated on Saturday at a hibachi grill.

Happy Birthday Gigi!

Mason and Maya enjoyed seeing the fire come out of the onion volcano! Of course they enjoyed seeing everybody in the family too.









Maya and Zoe enjoyed each others company.





Mason experiments with chopsticks...

The day off

Friday was our day off!

We didn't do too much.


Maya had a super cute leopard outfit on handed down from Parker. Thank you Parker & Wendy!


Friday after we ate lunch, we took the kids up to my Mom's school so Mason could play on the playground for a little bit. After he played outside for a while, we went into the classroom while my Mom's kids were at Art or Music (or somewhere other than the classroom!)

That gave Mason time to vacuum my Mom's room. He didn't let Maya get in the way.














Mason relaxes on the bean bag chair.

School Injury

Well, I got a call today... Mason was "injured" while at school this morning. The school called home and talked to Nisha. They told her that if she wanted to come get him, she could, but that he was doing just fine. They said he had a red bump on his head - he cried, but they gave him a popsicle and he seemed to be okay. With that information, I told her she didn't need to pick him up. I got home to find a bump on his head - but he has definitely had worse!! About this time last year, his Aunt Debbie and Uncle Chip were in town from the BVI for Thanksgiving. They were playing chase upstairs and Mason ran right into the corner of a door frame. He had a nice red line on his forehead from that. Anyway, Brian and I asked Mason if he cried at school today... he said "I bump my head on ladder, put ice on it, ate popsicle..." He didn't seem too torn up about it. So, I took the picture to try to capture his first school injury - but you really can't even see the bump in the photo... I'm glad for that, don't get me wrong!

Happy Harris House

Happy Harris House

On the move

Maya is ready to crawl!! This first picture was actually taken last Sunday. This was about the time that she would get up on her hands and knees and rock back and forth like crazy. Her Daddy and Brother keep trying to show her how to crawl. Over the last week, she has made some progress in her crawling. She actually made a few "steps" forward. But mostly she moves backwards or to the side. Last night, she definitely moved forward a few times.

We met some of our friends, Janet, Derek, and Maddox for dinner Friday night at Babe's. Their food is so awesome - really low fat too, NOT.
We enjoyed getting to see our friends! Mason and Maddox enjoyed running around after dinner - up and down the sidewalk, around the gazebo...
All 3 kids were feeling under the weather - but we couldn't tell when they were playing.


Maddox and Mason in the gazebo after dinner.



OKAY - for those of you who think Mason looks like Brian - take a look at this picture!! I definitely agree in this one. I looked at this picture and could totally see the resemblance!
So, anyway, here Mason is showing me his new tennis racket that my sister, Allison, so nicely gave him. This has taken over as his new favorite toy.
He was so funny talking about it. He would repeat the same conversation over and over about his racket. He would tell me about how it had green on it and how it was cool. He was taking it in and out of the case. Last night, the tennis racket had to go to bed with him. This morning, he showed up at my bedside at 5:45 am. He had his juice, his "Sammy", and of course, his tennis racket. He carefully placed it by the side of the bed and climbed up next to me. Thanks Allison! Mason loves his new treasure!!

Pink Eye

Last Thursday Brian took Mason to the Dr. for his red crusty eyes -yuck. Sure enough, Mason had Pink Eye. He really enjoys when we put eye drops in his eyes as you see here in the picture!!

His eyes are looking much better now. However, Maya got Pink Eye too. We started her on the drops on Friday. She is much easier to administer the eye drops too - but she doesn't like it much either!!

I went to Canton with the "girls" on Friday and Brian left to go deer hunting in Paducah all weekend. Grandmother kept the kids all day Friday while I shopped. They got to see their great Aunts Susan and Paula while at Grandmothers house. They had a good day. (THANK YOU GRANDMOTHER!)



Every night when Brian washes Mason's hair, he creates what they like to call "Shampoo Mohawk." I finally had the camera handy to get some proof of it.










Poor Maya gets water poored on her head by her brother...

Halloween

Fun! Fun! Fun!
It was Maya's first Halloween and Mason's 3rd! Maya was one of the 3 little pigs. Her 2 cousins, Zoe and Paloma were the other 2 pigs. Although the 3 little pigs only were all together the day BEFORE Halloween... Poor little thing fell asleep before we got back home from Trick or Treating. She was so sweet.
Mason was a Texas Rangers Baseball Player. He had such a good time trick or treating. I felt like a sucessful mother after bribing him with candy to get his costume on!! Once he had it on, it was "GAME TIME!!" He even willingly wore his hat!

I have also included a picture of my oldest sister, Angi, and her family as the incredibles!! They were hilarious! And then one picture of my niece Lauren ALL GROWN UP!