the bear...

bears been learning how to feed himself... i'd let him do it more often, but it's sooooo messy!

here he is trying to feed himself oatmeal while watching Elmo...

mission accomplished! food in mouth!

the other day the bear and mama went to san juan capistrano(i think) with Nicole...

cheese:

bear under the lifeguard tower...

the bear is so much fun lately. he's picking up on lots of words and phrases

and he's so stinkin active and all over the place! =)

bear on keys...

bear looooooves music.

he loves the guitar- when other people play it and he loves to strum and pluck the strings himself.

and he loves the piano. he likes to play it.

he found this keyboard upstairs and called in a guitar! hee hee!

a musician in the making! =)

a little park fun day...

saturday turned into a fun day!

we first all ventured out to get mama a new pair of running shoes under $40- and success! thank you Big 5 Sporting Goods!

then we chilled at home and the bear took a nice long uninteruppted nap(the last 2 days after an hour or less during his nap he would wake up wailing and would not go back to sleep to finish his usual 2-3hr long nap)

and since rossy and the girls are sick uncle jino couldnt go golfing with papa so......

we packed up our skates and headed to pantera park in db for some skate and slide time:

the bear liked this whale rocker...

he liked that he could rock himself back and forth really fast. he came close to bonking his mouth and forehead several times on the bar he was holding...
mama rode down the hills on one skate while the papa rode with the bear...

the bear ventured through the playground equipment...

mama rode down the different slides with the bear. mama did not like the slides with the extra bump in the middle! and the bear couldnt slide on any of them by himself because of those bumps and stuff!

the bear wanted more of the blue whale!

the bear and the papa...

weeeeeeeeee!!!!

someday soon we'll get bear his own toddler skate and helmet and stuff and then we could all bombs the hills together!

by the time we got back on the road the bear was hungry for some din-din so.... we picked up a naughty Mc D's cheeseburger and fries for the bear

then i cooked some pasta at home for the papa and me!

yay for fun days!

rarrrr!

the after pic of the bear tossing woodchips at the mama...

Surf Beach Day Fellowship #3

surf beach day fellowship #3 was great!

good beach time, time in the word and prayer, fellowship and food and good surf!

here's tony... here's most of the group. we weren't at Old Man's this time but north of it instead for the sandy bottom....

the bear, tay and jackie...

group time...

josiah, the bear, papa and the courtney girls...

bear, mama, auntie and peyton...

group surfing...

andrea, i think...

josiah...

ken...

marcy and vivian (check out the guy in the back with the BIG shovel burying his kid!)

one of the courtney gals...

ruby the labradoodle!

there were tons more pix but i didnt wanna overload this blog!

we hope to have one more surf beach day fellowship to close-out the summer!

hope you can join us!

FIFTEEN

today the bear hit the 15 month mark!

happy 15th month birthday bear!

the bear is a camera-ham! cheese!

this is how he spent much of his surf beach day- in the sand!

=)

the bears table

we found a make-shift table/desk for the bear- a "breakfast-in-bed" tray!

he loooooves it! now he can eat and draw while sitting in his elmo chair. =)

he's been saying LOTS of words and repeating things we teach him. he is now onto 2-syllable words! he'll point and say what it is and stuff. i drew him some pix and told him what they were. some he recognized and told me first! he's enjoying coloring too! so cute! big boy!

oh ya- he can FINALLY scoot forward on his own on the little kid "bikes." yay!

weeds and being stuck!

we have a pretty fairly sized backyard for an apt- although it's on the long end so it's not much for playing in, etc. anyhow, we mason's aren't so much the gardening type and since we don't play in the backyard we have allowed the weeds to take over... until now.

i'd say most of those weeds are about my height!

here's the bear helping the papa...

the bear had a bucket to put the weeds in...but bear decided to put rocks and dirt in it...
the bear is trying to help by putting the weeds in the trash bag...

after papa had pulled most of the tall weeds by hand, i got into it and helped with the hoe and rake. the bear played in one corner getting the dirt everywhere and digging everything up! the papa finished it off with the rake and hosed it all down!

(i need to put an "after" pic)

maybe we'll put in some sod =) maybe.


the bear is all over the place- climbing and crawling on things.

he decided to go under this and he got stuck and cried and screamed, but eventually he got out... with a lil help =)

hee hee look at the anguish on his face!

blueberries and stuff

bears been into BLUEBERRIES! he looooooves them and gobbles them up. only problem is- what goes in one end... well, you know- and it's BLUE! ha!
and it's cute- he'll ask for them- kinda. he says something that sounds like "bee-bee-ies." the other day the the fridge was open and he snuck by, peeked in and grabbed the container they were in and held onto them like crazy!!

he's also been better at trying different foods- like the blueberries, mini cheeseburgers, dino-shaped chicken nuggets, cherries, watermelons, cheddar cheese pieces, wheat thins, etc. he still enjoys his bananas and refried beans with cheese though!

he has also really huggy and cuddley lately. it's so cute. and he'll hug and hold on for a long time and once in awhile plant kisses on us for pat us.

another thing too- pictures. he already enjoys looking through books and reading them and beign read to, but lately he's been into looking at pictures of me and the papa. he'll reach for a frame or an album and look at it/through them and i'll tell him who is who and he just stares or he'll point and say mama or papa.

the bear is growing so much. we love love love him and his little high-pitched bear-voice!
thank you Lord! =)

surf beach day #2

let me apologize now but all the pictures are out of order! oy! the first few i "borrowed" from brad and the rest a from my camera.

we had such a great turn out for surf beach day#2 (although we wished some others could have made it out!) brad and tony did a good job a getting everyone to come out. this day we had us, the millers, the hernandez', the courtneys, the calabreses, jessica and kenny, adam and some others!

i must say that even though it was far, San O was definitely a great spot to take our group and some beginners. We were out in "surf beach" between 4 doors and old mans.

here's tony...

adam and junior relaxing after surfing all day...
stephanie and daniel

andrea

steph on a wave

here's crystal

here's me ( i think i did pretty well for not having surfed since i was preggers)

marcos

josiah

vivian and daniel

mama and the bear

our little set-up

kenny coming in with tony from his first time surfing!

the bear in a wetsuit!!! he looked cute but didnt go out on a board. maybe next time!

bear really wanted to go out and brad was willing to take him out too! but the bear needs more floaties and some more practice swimming!

brad

some of them all riding the same wave

we all had a great day! lots of sun, surf, food and good fellowship and hang out time! it was a nice loooon day- we got there at 8am and stayed till about 6pm, grabbed some Pedros then headed home!

can't wait for surf beach day #3!!!