Mason turned the big 1 1 yesterday and had a full day of fun! He invited me to have a slumber party in his room with him, but I counteracted for him to slumber in my room – I’m getting too old to sleep in the floor :). He didn’t mind sleeping on the floor at all…he was so excited about his birthday that he woke up several time in the night. Finally 6:30 am rolled around and he was up and at ’em.
We have a tradition of opening gifts before school – a tradition I didn’t even recognize until recently that is a memory from when I grew up. Kind of like Christmas you know? Anyway Mason was happy to get to do that and loved all of his gifts. I think the gift that surprised him the most was the money origami book. Grandpa & Grandma Baldwin heard that he didn’t have a new scout shirt and hooked him up with that and other scout paraphernalia. Mason loves scouts! In fact, Scouts were held yesterday on his birthday – perfect! They went to BYU-I to work on swimming stuff. He had a lot of fun swimming 4 laps. He said it was kind of hard. I was very impressed because I wish I could do that!
One of Mason’s stresses about his birthday were being sung to at school and church. Sunday at church he pretended to have to go to the bathroom right when the birthday songs were about to be sung. Little did he know, Sister Puzey was two steps ahead of him. She pretended to pull his stick out of the helping jar during sharing time and when he came up to "help" she had the Primary sing to him. He said he didn’t really like it, but he wasn’t mad at her. (haha) If you want to know the truth, Mason really doesn’t enjoy being in the spotlight…it makes him uncomfortable with people staring at him. Then he told us that at school the cafeteria ladies sing to the birthday kids…this was not going to work for him. I bailed him out and picked him up for lunch and took him to Wendy’s for 2 chicken sandwiches and a frosty. He is eating like a horse these days – he must be growing! Anyway I’m pretty sure I got some major browny points for rescuing him from the unfortunate birthday serenade.
After school, Mason was able to have all of his 3 best friends over. They had ridden their bikes to school and rode them back to our home. They had loads of fun riding and jumping the jumps Mason built this past weekend. After the riding we invited them in for some soup and cake. Grandpa & Grandma Parker were able to come and celebrate with us as well. We are glad to have them back in town for the birthday celebrations. By the way, when I asked Mason what kind of cake he wanted for his birthday this is what he told me, "I want a mountain and one half to be mountain biking and the other half snowboarding." So Stephen and I joined forces to come up with what you see pictured. Stephen even made the bike out of wire – pretty talented guy!
Mason had a wonderful day!
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Comments:
Michelle said…
Wow Mason-what a great day. Happy Birthday-you are growing into such an awesome boy. You are very talented and your family is lucky to have you.
Wednesday, March 10, 2010 11:54:42 AM
Anne said…
Mason so glad you had a great birthday! Love the cool cake too. Hope you have a good year.
Monday, March 15, 2010 10:00:09 AM