Camping, football and everything Fall

Well, get this, we took our big guy camping Friday night for the first time. He had a blast. We went to Tyler State Park with his uncle Greg and aunt Liz. All the boy could talk about was "pitch tent...pitch tent." Needless to say, he has a book that is entitled "Me and My Dad," which talks about a boy and his dad camping. We pitched the tent and then set up the pack-n-play inside...what a sight...which brings me to my point. Tent, sleeping bags, pillows, food, clothes, blankets, pack-n-play, toys and...no camera. Yeah, yeah...I don't want to hear it. He had enough fun we will go back soon and take the camera...probably will forget the tent, but who can remember everything?

All you Longhorn alum don't get too fired up about Mason in this tee. I just couldn't find a "My First Baylor Tee" at the local Academy. It is hard to find good cheap tee shirts for the boy...this one was on sale for $2.00.

Aunt Jaime was home for the weekend. She has purchased a new silver Jeep and is flaunting it to everyone else who wishes they had a jeep to cruise around in. I am happy for her. She was also home for her ten year reunion. That really makes her old...that really makes me three years older than her old...ugh.

Sunday, we went to church, watched the Cowboys and then took our usual trek down to the Jacksonville Indian football practice field. Mason loves having 100+yards of burmuda grass to run around on. His favorite things to do are climb on the tackling dummies (rectangles, as he calls them) and blocking pads (trapazoids)...then when he has conquored all the foam shapes laying around, we throw the football and soccer ball and he commences to driving his dump truck around collecting them in the bed. Dad always get a good laugh...and shoulder work out.

We are going to see Thomas the Train this Saturday at the Rusk State Railroad. I don't have to tell you how excited he is about that. I'm sure you will all get to see a picture of him with Thomas next week!

Sorry, I had more pictures to add, but my computer locked up.

The "punkin" patch

It has been a fairly calm week here in J'ville. The Indians got their rears handed to them by Whitehouse Friday night. It was Mason's first football game. He was white eyed and in awe. He really liked hearing the band, tapped his foot most of the time. He really enjoyed seeing the two trains go by also. Trains and the band were really all that there was to watch anyway, the Indians don't know a thing about football.

Saturday morning, the wife, the boy and I ventured to Bullard, TX., home of Moore Farms and their kid friendly pumpkin patch. Mason has a tractor video and one of his favorite parts is the portion about the "pumpkin patch," hence, we had to go :-).

At any rate, we made the short trek to Bullard in search of pumpkins. It was quite an experience for the youngster. We got to go on a hay ride into the field (behind a tractor, no less) and pick our own pumpkin. There were also farm animals to pet, corn maze, old time well pump for the kids to pump on, and lots of pumpkins. Who would have thunk it, in tiny ole' Bullard. Mason had a blast.

I am happy to report that he is doing much better at going to sleep. Maybe it was just a phase, or it could have been the wooden spoon mama put on the dresser...hehe! Either way, we are getting better results. Brown's, Jones'...your time is soon!

This is new

Well, this is a first. Never "blogged" before. Must say, I was inspired by Trish and Al. Maybe just jealous that the whole internet was getting to see Matt and Josh and missing out on Mason!

Tonight we are batteling the ever "go to bed" bug. He will not go to sleep...bed time...nap time...ever. Usually by 9:30 or 10:00p.m. Would you lay in the dark for 1 1/2-2 hours talking to yourself ? Mason is a full believer in it...every night.

Poor Amber had to go to Julie's house, Mason's sitter, and spank him today at nap time because he was keeping all the other children awake. Broke her heart, but she was proud of herself when he laid right down and went to sleep afterward. He is a hard headed "buggabugga," one of HIS favorite words.

He is very independent, but wants you there to watch...just in case. We spend hours playing with our Thomas train set and in the rocks in the flowerbed outside our back door. If I knew he loved the rocks so much, I would have done the whole yard that way...then daddy wouldn't have to mow!

We are supposed to go to the "pumpkin patch" on Saturday. He is very excited about that. He has a fixation about pumpkins due to the pumpkin farmers on his tractor video. He also has a fixation about tractors, but who can resist that beautiful green paint with the yellow plush seat?

I will look forward to sharing with you all. You will just have to excuse my typographical errors and poor spelling. Maybe Mason will take after his mother and be much better at those things than his father :-).