It's just a little crazy around here!

It's a big week at the Bennett house mainly because I got a job. Another job, I should say. I am currently still working my part time job, and now I have a full time job, hence the craziness. I hadn't even been looking for a job but a friend emailed me about a subrogation specialist position at an insurance company and it looked interesting. There were many attractive qualities about this job, including the fact that I wouldn't have to drive downtown, I get off at 4:30 everyday and oh, they pay me. Before I had Mason, I told Jake that I would continue working even after the baby so that he could finish school without having to have a job. Then I lost my job and gained the second love of my life and my priorities shifted a bit. I promised that around Mason's 6 month birthday I would look for a job, but that if I didn't get one before Jake went back to school in January we would just take out student loans and I would stay home. Well, I got the one and only job I was interested in so I guess I'll be working for the next two years. Lucky for us Mason goes to Sunny's house for the day where he is loved and adored and equally loves and adores her boys. Although I shed a few tears this morning, I am so relieved that I don't have to worry about him being ignored at a day care. My cousin Jen tells me that there will come a time where I actually enjoy using my brain and talking to adults. But I was just starting to learn spanish from Dora the Explorer and her cousin Diego!

A Breakthrough!

Mason has been crazy cranky this week and we know he is teething, but he has really ramped it up. He doesn't so much cry as whine and then screams very loudly and then returns to whining. I checked his gums every day and there was nothing, there was not even swelling. Well, two nights ago I finally got the big payoff, the tip of a tooth breaking through his gums! He's still kind of cranky and refuses to sleep more than 20 minutes during the day. He is now sleeping 12 hours at night though so I guess I shouldn't complain. My question is this...will he be this cranky every time he gets a new tooth? We looked it up and he will get a total of 20 teeth. That's a lot of crying, yo! Here he is in happier times...

Our Free Time Is Never Wasted

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We Caved

When I typed the title to this blog, Jake said "What's this we crap?" So I suppose to be truthful I should say that I caved. I just felt bad every time I ate a bowl of cereal in front of Mason and he would watch the spoon go from the bowl to my mouth and back to the bowl. He looked at me with these eyes that said "Momma, I could do that, you should let me try". And so I did. We fed Mason on October 15, 2007, a full 2 weeks before his 6 month birthday. But Dana was right, now I have to remember to feed him twice a day, which I have forgotten on more than one occassion. Anywho, our little guy is totally getting the hang of this eating thing. At six months we'll start feeding him vegetables. Yum.

The place is on fire!

I was just talking to my dear friend Erin, who resides in Escondido and I mentioned that I hadn't seen her online lately. She said "Well, I lost my cable and the place is on fire". I laughed. She said "No really". Turns out she's right! We hope that our friends and family in San Diego County are all safe and sound and don't have to take up residence in Qualcomm Stadium because that place is scary when you don't live in it. Here's a picture of Mason to cheer you up. He dressed up for the evacuations, but obviously takes them very seriously.

Another First

It seems like every week Mason does something for the first time. I can hardly keep up with them. One first that he had last week that was entirely unplanned was his first chiropractic adjustment. We were actually at the chiropractor for me but the doctor asked if I had had Mason evaluated and I said "Uh, no. Isn't he a bit young and a bit tiny for this?" He said he had worked on babies three weeks old. I said ok. He proceeded to pick him up and hang him upside down and then told me that he favors turning his head to the right. This is true. Then he had him lay on his belly on the big table and he adjusted his lower back. At this point, every person in the office is gathered around to watch the tiny man on the table. Even the other patients where watching. What was Mason doing? Loving every minute of it. He particularly loves the hanging upside down part, so we recreated it when we got home, much to his delight. Then he got to listen to his Ipod, which he also clearly loves.

Mason's Bath Time

A Bath Video, well, um, OK!

Hay!

This weekend we went to Payette to visit with Jake's Aunt Georgia and other family members for their annual "Weinie Roast and Hay Ride". We weren't quite sure how Mason would take it as it has certainly turned chilly up here. And San Diegans, we do realize that this is the sacrifice we must make for living in Idaho and have invested in several warm coats for just this purpose. Anyway, we layered some clothing on Mason and put him in an adorable hat, and he was actually quite happy. He didn't love the hay ride as we sat in the back with the very loud singers. His look was reminiscent of the football game debacle we subjected him to.

We met Jake's second cousin, who happens to have a baby boy 2 weeks younger than Mason. His name is Miles and he eats cereal from a spoon. We don't yet feed Mason anything but a bottle because the doctor said we could wait until he was 6 months old to introduce him to foods if we wanted to and we thought that was a fantastic idea. He said if Mason expressed interest in eating food, we could start him earlier. He hasn't said anything to us about eating food, so we have stayed on the bottle track. Judging by the way he nearly pulled the spoon out of Brooke's hand to put in his mouth and his sadness at not succeeding, he may actually be interested. What are we going to do about it? Yeah, we're going to wait until he's 6 months old to give him cereal. I'm sure he's forgotten by now.

3 Years Strong

Today is our 3rd anniversary, but since it is a Monday and we have other things to do (at least Jake does) we celebrated this past weekend. We said from the beginning that we would go somewhere for just a night every year for our anniversary and we did the first two years. This year I kind of didn't want to go because we would have to leave Mason overnight with a non family member. However, when our neighbor offered most excitedly to watch him for 24 hours we decided to continue the tradition. This year we went to McCall, a super charming little resort town in the mountains. It's on the lovely Payette Lake and Jake and I are trying to figure out how we could possibly live there. I said I would homeschool Mason and we could just live in a cabin in the woods. Jake's reply was "I want Mason to have some chance of going to college". I'm just going to assume that it would be the fact that he was raised with wildlife instead of people that will preclude him from going to college. Anyway, we had a great time and I only had a small bout with panic when I realized we didn't get cell phone service up there. I had to dig deep and trust that everything was ok back home. And it was. So Happy Anniversary to my perfect husband, I love you more every year!

It was just a little chilly up in the hills.

A little something Jake crafted out of the twigs in the forest.

The Mile High Yacht Club (although it was actually about 213 feet shy of a mile high in elevation)

Our delighted boy