A Real Date Night

Jake and I got a rare treat yesterday, seven hours out of the house without Mason. We try to have date nights, but our choices of weekend babysitters have been two 14 year old girls that kind of freak out if Mason is the least bit cranky. Enter Grandma Cynthia, who told us to take our time and do whatever we wanted with our day. That we did! First, we went to a movie, which we have never done because I refuse to pay a babysitter to go to a movie when 1. The movie might suck and be a total waste of money and 2. We can just rent it later. Anyway, we saw 21, which got raked by the critics, but was actually very good. We both really liked it a lot. Then we thought of all the restaurants we don't go to anymore because they aren't baby friendly, but decided we wanted Red Lobster instead. We then went to Walgreens and bought Mason's easter basket for next year at a nice 75% discount, stopped by Barnes and Noble to read magazines, and then went to Carrabbas for dessert. It was a perfect day, start to finish, and it was so nice to not have to worry for a second that Mason was being taken care of.


Speaking of Mason, he's now standing on a regular basis, but has yet to take a step. I feel we are extremely close though. When he first started standing two months ago, I was opposed to him walking so soon, but I have come to terms with it at this point. Here he is in all his standing glory...

Grandma's Here!

Jake's mom decided to move to Boise much to our delight. She only stayed with us for a week before she found her own cute little place in Eagle. While she was here she cooked us dinner every night, which we are missing now. We have enjoyed seeing her every day and Mason just loves her. We plan on taking her up on her offer to babysit and may even go to the movies this weekend, a luxury we no longer partake of as we can't stomach spending money on a movie and a babysitter. Grandma Cynthia babysat for us on friday while we went to babysit my cousin Jen's kids. We're easing in to this date night thing nice and slow.

Fun Stuff...

Hello, and welcome back to The Mason Sideshow!

Happy St. Patricks Day!

My assistant was horrified that I forgot that it was St. Patty's Day and thus also forgot to wear green. I told her that I am not really worried as I am pretty sure there are laws in place to prevent my coworkers from pinching me.

Where's the Baby?

There he is! This is Mason's favorite game and while some babies may need a blanket or something that actually covers their eyes, Mason is not afraid to improvise. He will use any object and even just his two pointer fingers if needs be.

I'm having a bit of a dilemma...I have about 600 CD's, mostly all from the 90's. I think I stopped buying them around 2001, when downloading music became all the rage. I have this large rack of CD's in my bedroom and I don't know what to do with them. I have downloaded all of my favorite songs onto Itunes and though I occasionally grab a Michael Bolton's greatest hits or the Milli Vanilli album to listen to in my car, I don't really use them much. Lately Mason has taken a real liking to that rack and pulls out as many as he can before I catch him and cart him away. Now my perfectly alphabetized CD collection is missing three rows. On to the dilemma. I think it's time to get rid of my CD's but I am not sure how to go about it. I can take them to Hastings and probably sell about half of them, because half of them they won't take. That might actually net me a couple hundred bucks. But what do I do with the half that I can't sell? Maybe offer them up on Craigslist, $10 takes all? Or should I keep them? Really, it's a tough decision. I mean, I can remember buying almost every one of them. It's a good 10 years of my musical life.

Suggestions?

Way Too Long

Wow, I can't remember the last time we took this long to blog. My apologies. Let's see, what's shakin'? I went to San Diego to get my hair cut and colored and I triple love my new shoulder length do. If I could make it look half as good as it did right after being cut and styled, I would proudly post a pic. And what exactly fascinates babies about hair? Mason will spend several minutes just touching and pulling my hair every day. If it's in a pony tail, and let's face it, that is 90% of the time, he will gently push my cheek until I turn my head and then pull my hair out of the ponytail in a not so gentle fashion.

Today I found out that I have a kidney stone and infection. I've had a side ache for 4 days, but it didn't occur to me that it might be my kidney. I've had kidney stones before and they were horribly painful. The question everyone, including myself, is dying to know...Which is more painful, kidney stones or childbirth? What I pointed out to coworkers today is that I had an epidural during childbirth, which I am not so fortunate to have with kidney stones. However, I did experience a good 5 hours of labor before the epidural kicked in and so far that is winning. I got a shot of Vicodin before I returned to work and for all intents and purposes probably should not have returned to work. However, once I got to work I was in no condition to drive so I stayed until the end of the day. Vicodin makes me overly friendly and in between phone calls with clients that could have been mistaken for personal calls, I taught the intern how to google "street view" houses in Boise. For those of you not familiar with this new and exciting feature, you can type in an address and actually see the house or business. We started looking up our fellow employees' addresses in the phone book and then looked at their houses and critiqued them loudly.

That's all for now, but I promise we won't stay away for long. These pics of Mason are for his cousin Brian, who chose this outfit for him a long time ago and he has now grown into it.

Two Funny Things, at least to me

Mason has learned the art of sharing. He loves the whole give you something, take it back dance. Yeah, so, yesterday I called Jake from work around 4 to make plans for dinner. He answers the phone in a whisper. I ask if the baby is sleeping. He says "No, I am hiding from the baby, he wants to share everything with me".

The other funny thing happened today at work. One of my insured's told me "Either you are new at this or you just really suck at your job". I stifled a laugh and said "Yeah, it's probably a little of both".