All About a 4 Year Old

Happy Birthday Mason!!!

The pumpkins they painted.

Mas helping with his birthday cake.

Mom and the kids at the Dino Park.

Eating Dino Burgers.

Posing by 'Sarah'.

Dad and Tristyn chilling out.

Mason's dino gift.

Trick or Treating at home.

Little lady and fierce dinosaur/dragon!

Lovin' the dino cake!

I wanted to post really quickly about Mason's birthday! I can't believe our baby boy turned 4 yesterday (I can call him that as long as Dan's mom calls him her baby boy)! He is such a joy in our lives and somehow knows how to push all of our buttons and melt our hearts in the same minute! He learns so quickly and is communicating better every day!

Since his birthday was on a Sunday, we celebrated on Saturday (also Halloween), by going to the Dinosaur Park. The kids were a little scared of the mechanical dinosaurs and didn't dare get close enough for a photo. They did love all the fossils and the dinosaur statues they have outside. The playground kept them busy for a while too! Tristyn kept laying down on the floor when we wanted to move on and she didn't or when she didn't want to get to close to a display. Mason loved the pteranodon (spelling??) slide. He has been watching Dinosaur Train a lot lately and I think the 'dinosaur birds' are his favorite right now. It was awesome that he could point to a lot of the displays and know which dinosaur it was. I wish I could remember them all!

The kids went trick or treating that night. Tristyn actually carried her own bag around and Mason took good care of her by taking one piece of candy for himself and one for her (he did that at my work the day before too). He also had a blast handing out one tiny piece of candy to each person that knocked on our door! Because of that, we ended up with tons of left over candy!

Dan and I decided to make his cake this year and since he was a dinosaur/dragon for Halloween, we found a dinosaur display to put on the cake. Mason helped mix up the rainbow chip cake. He likes to read the back and tell us what ingredients to add--he's especially helpful with the eggs (funny since they are so slimy and he'd never eat one!). After he went to bed we put it all together and he loved it! We couldn't keep his hands off of it while we waited for dinner. My dad's birthday is today, so my parents, Suzy's family, and Melissa came over for dinner. It was a lot of fun to have them here to help celebrate. Mason loved having them here too.

Mason got a few dinosaur toys for his birthday and his fishing pole was actually a birthday gift too! We should pulled it out to remind him! He had a blast fishing with Dan a couple of weeks ago (see video on prior post).

I have a ton of other photos from the past few weeks that I want to post--I just wanted to be sure to post a few photos from his special weekend! Mason had a fun time and loved to have so much attention. It didn't take him long to figure out that he's 4 instead of 3. We have a Happy Birthday banner up and he referred to the letters on it while writing Happy Birthday in grandpa's card! It was cute. He's getting really good and copying words and writing!

Enough for now . . . more to come!