Ring Bearer in Training

At Thanksgiving today, Mason's Auntie Rachel and her fiance Chad asked Mason to be a ring bearer at the wedding in August.  We are very excited to see Mason in a tux and a part of their wedding (of course Corey and I were thrilled to be asked to be a part of their special day too).

Let the Holidays Begin

Tonight we decided to put up our Christmas tree and decorations.  We were pleasantly surprised to get a very enthusiastic Mason who helped us with the decorating fun.  

From bossing mom and dad around on how to assemble the tree, 

to putting on ornaments and the tree topper, 

and even hanging his own stocking, 

he really enjoyed all the decorating.  I hope his excitement continues throughout the holiday season!

BOY!!!

This morning we found out that Mason is going to have a baby brother.  Our doctor said that the ultrasound photos were quote "beautiful" and everything looks perfect.  

We are all very excited and anxiously awaiting his arrival.

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check in later today for ultrasound results and pictures:)  Can't wait!

Weekend Recap

The Voth Family had a busy weekend, well at least a busy Sunday.  We made a visit to the Portrait Studio at Target for family and Mason pictures.  It is sad, but this is the first time that we have had our family picture taken professionally since Mason was 3 months.  Needless to say, it was long overdue.  Here are a couple of samples of our photos (as you can tell, they are protected by Target).

After pictures, we had our first successful movie theater experience at an afternoon showing of Madagascar 2.  Corey and I were both impressed when we actually made it to the end credits.  For those of you who haven't heard the stories, we have had 2 previous movie experiences that did not turn out this well.  

STAY TUNED - next week (November 24) we will have ultrasound results!

Milestones in Potty Training

Many of you have been privy to our concerns with potty training.  Between us and school, Mason has been given over a year's worth of opportunities to use the bathroom like a big boy, but has never indulged his parents, grandparents or teachers...until this morning.  We finally had a successful attempt in potty training, which was of course then followed by a trip to Target for a new Geotrax train.  Hopefully this is the beginning of the end of diapers for Mason!

Election Day by Mason

Mason got to witness the great democratic process of voting on Election Day with Grandma Geralyn.  She explained to him the order of events for that afternoon.  First they were going to go vote and then they could go to the park.  From that point on, Mason would say that they needed to go "VOTH."  So when asked what Mason did on Election Day, he would reply "went swimming, VOTH and go to the park."  So for all of you who visited the polls, thanks for your VOTH.

Happy Halloween