Mason Update: Visit to the Children's Museum

Matt and I took Mason to the Children's Museum of Minnesota. They are having a Curious George Exhibit, so we just had to check it out.

He had a great time playing at all of the exhibits, especially the water tubes! The museum has an area for kids ages 6 months - 36 months. It's full of padded ramps and tunnels. There were great views of Saint Paul from the third floor.

On the rooftop, they have a place where kids can build sand castles and paint on water stones. There was just so much to see we couldn't do it all at once. We will definitely be visiting again soon.

Check out the pictures on our gallery: Children's Museum

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Mason Update: 14 Months

Oh, the Places We'll Go....

Mason is off and running now. He started walking a few weeks ago and hasn't stopped since. For the longest time he was holding onto my hand and walking around. One day Maddie and Dylan were over for the afternoon and Mason just dropped my hand and walked over to Dylan. Then he walked right over to Maddie.

His two front teeth came in, so now he has his top two and bottom two. Mason chews on everything and I can see his back molars coming up.

Our little chatter bug loves to sing songs where he can clap or say the work 'Duck'. As you can imagine, we sing a lot of "If You're Happy and You Know It..." and "Old MacDonald Had a Farm". He also sings "E-I-E-I-EEE". He hasn't quite got the "O" down yet!

Latest words: DaDa, Buh (for Book), Pah (for Park), Pu (for Plate), Aaa (for Out), Baa (for Ball), Duck, Mmmm (for eat), Ahh (for drink), Uh Oh (usually when he wants the TV on)

He thinks it's really funny when I say "Say MaMa"...and he replies (with a huge grin) "DADA!"

Let's see, what else is new.... yesterday Matt was reading Mason the "Moo, Baa, La La La" Book, in which the first line is "A Cow Says...". Mason replied "MOOO!" We were both so excited we probably asked him what a cow said 20 times. I'm sure Mason was thinking "are you not hearing me, I said MOO!".

We go to the park across the street almost twice a day. He love seeing, you guessed it, the Ducks! He also loves the swings and the slides. We walk around waving to all the other little kids there.

Favorite toys right now: any sort of ball, Push Buggy, Play Kitchen, cars, motorcycle (check out the pictures in June to see him and Matt riding on it)

Mason is kind of neurotic about putting on the TV. He always says "Uh, Oh" when it's not on. He just gets louder and louder until we push play. He loves watching the Baby Mozart Nursery Rhymes and he still loves the Baby Einstein Day on the Farm.

That's about all I can think of right now. He's such a happy kid and such a joy to be around. I'll try and post updates more often. If you're still checking out the blog, drop me a line and let me know!

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Photo Galleries: 20 NEW Photo Albums

Wow, it's been a while since I've posted. I finally uploaded all of our photos to the Kodak Gallery website. We have 12 new albums at www.kodakgallery.com/hughesweek. I also create a Foster Family website at www.kodakgallery.com/hughesweek/foster. There are 8 new albums on that website.

If you want any of the pictures, you can right click and download them. Otherwise, you can always order prints from Kodak for 15 cents.

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