The Grim Meeper: One semester down!!!

The past couple of months have gone by so fast. It has been a combination of amazing and yet so hard at the same time. Mason is getting big even quicker than Owen did. He has started smiling which is so amazing. It is so rewording when he gets excited to see me. It makes all the late nights and crazy days so worth it. He is such pleasant little person. And it is so fun to see his little personality start to show. Owen loves Mason and is so cute with him 95 percent of the time. But there is that other 5 percent of the time where Owen has a hard time understanding why Mason demands so much attention from me. I always have Owen sit next to me while I’m nursing Mason or just holding him. We read book or play games on the Ipad. And when Mason falls asleep I try to give Owen my undivided attention. But sometimes I guess it’s just not enough. And he tries to hit Mason. And all I want to do is get mad at him and yell. But I know that he is just trying to figure things out. I wish I could just explain to Owen how much fun he will have with Mason once he can laugh and play a little more. But I know it will happen soon enough. And for the most part Owen is really good with the baby. And they are both very patient with me. Especially When Mike is gone so much lately. The days have been really long. I can usually keep things under control the first half of the day. But the second half everyone starts getting pretty antsy. Including me, sometimes I just want one second to even go to the bathroom by myself. I not sure what it is about Michael being gone but when It’s just me and the kids Owen wants to be right next to me. And of course Mason does as well. But when dad is home he couldn’t care less. I do have to say that Owen and Michael are so adorable together and I love that he loves his dad so much. Michael always knocks on the door when he gets home so that Owen will come and get it. So during the day randomly Owen will go knock on the door put his hands in the air and say (Where’d he go). He also does the same thing when we are waiting in the parking lot for Mike to get out of school. So adorable!!!

Mike has had to be gone a lot getting ready for finals and everything. He is working so hard and I’m really proud of him. Not only is he doing well academically but he extremely well liked up at the law school. Whenever we take him lunch everyone knows who we are and wants to see Mike’s cute kids. People are always telling me how funny he is. And I’m always telling them to give it time it will where off. Ha ha anyone that knows me knows that I’m the first person to laugh at Mike at any given moment in time. That’s probably one of my favorite things about him. He has such a fun sense of humor and is so fun to be around. He makes people feel good about them selves. That’s why where ever he goes everyone wants to be his friend. He always teases me and tells how lovable he is. And I hate to admit it. But he kind of is... There no doubt in my mind that his sense of hummer and ability to become friends with people is what will and does make him so successful in life. I wish I could hide this blog from him. Because if he knows I feel this way I will never here the end of it!!!! I can already picture him walking around the house doing annoying things just to bug me and him saying but I’m lovable. I’m totally in for it!!!!

On a slightly less damaging note to my immediate future. Lots fun things have been happening around here like Halloween and Grandma Anderson came to visit. Halloween was awesome this year because Owen actually understood what to do. It was the cutest thing I’ve ever seen in my life!!! Watching him run around knocking on door and just taking candy for people was priceless. They would open the door and Owen would imminently start saying and signing please… please… please!!! Then after they gave him his candy he would put it in his bag and just stare at them like you still have candy why aren’t you giving it to me. It was hilarious. But the thing that made it even cuter was his costume. He was the Grim Meeper. Which if you were around when Owen was born. You know that for the first few months of his life he would meep at us which sounded a lot like a little puppy crying. It was adorable…until he started screaming!!! So we always called him meeper. His costume was hit everywhere we went. People wanted to take his picture and they even gave him extra candy. But that might have been due to the fact that he would just stare at them with his big blue eyes and very nicely say pleeeease!!! Then he would walk away waving and saying good bye. It was seriously so much fun! I can’t wait to see what it will be like with both boys.

The week after Halloween we had a very important visitor! Grandma Anderson came to see us. It was so awesome to have the extra help with the boys and around the house. I was able to get so much done. I even got to take my shower in the morning time which always makes me very happy. And LuAnn is amazing and helped me organize the kitchen. It all started when I made a quick run to the store. When I go back she had had found the measuring tape from the tool box that she gave us and measured the space between the wall and my washer and dryer. Then took me to Wal-Mart and bought us some shelves for extra storage. It is so awesome to have the shelves there it makes things much more functional and clean. She also made us some of our favorite LuAnn meals. These were obviously a request from Michael. Because I was planning on making dinner for her since she was the guest at our house for a change. But I’m not going to lie it was awesome to have someone else make dinner especially someone who knows what they’re doing. And it was fun to learn how to make some of Michael’s favorite meals. The best part of LuAnn cooking for us was her assuming that I would have some of the regular ingredients that you would find in an average house hold. For example we went to the store to get some noodles and cheese. So that she could make some of her delicious homemade mac and cheese. When we got home and started making it she asked me where my flour was. I was like flour??? Like the stuff you use to make bread… oh I don’t have any of that. She was pretty shocked and made sure I had flour in my house before she left Idaho. Luckily our favorite neighbor who is a much better cook then I am was kind enough to give us some flour so that we could make LuAnn’s yummy mac and cheese.

It has been a very eventful couple of months and now it’s finally time to come home for Christmas. I can’t believe it almost the end of our first semester. It feels like we just moved here and were waiting to meet our sweet Mason. And now he’s two months old and smiling at us every chance he gets. Owen‘s learning new words every day! It’s so crazy to watch how he figures things out. It feels like he is always surprising me with how much he really understands. If every semester is like this then will be home before we know it. Even though it’s hard being away from the people we love the most. I know that it will be worth it. We are making friends that I know we will have in our lives forever. And learning things we would never have to learn if we weren’t on such a big adventure.

Halloween was crazy amounts of fun with these two!!!

Note to self don't put black makeup on a 1 year old!!!

Just chatten.

I love my mummy!!!

Much better the 2nd time around.

Owen and Mason just holding hands and talking!

Owen trying to make Mason laugh.

Our Christmas lights in all there glory...

Mason's first sunday!!!

Our church starts at 11am. Right about the time Owen needs a nap. I had a feeling we weren't going to make it home in time. So we picked up some chicken nuggets for him. We didn't make it home....