"I be rockin' them beats, yup, yup"

Thank you to the Black Eyed Peas for a little song called "I've Got A Feeling" as it sparked Mason's interest in music again. Mason and I anxiously awaited their performance on the American Music Awards hoping they would play his favorite song. Instead, they played "Meet Me Halfway" and "Boom Boom Pow." While Mason was slightly disappointed in the lack of "I've Got A Feeling," he quickly recovered and found love for "Boom Boom Pow." It turned into a small obsession, which included watching the not so great AMA performance over 100 times before it was not so accidently deleted from TiVo (see pictures below of Mason watching Fergie & the Black Eyed Peas with his microphone) and many of his own performances at home and at school, yes school.

I swore I would never post this video, but I think it represents the kind of rock star I hope he does NOT become (i.e. playing guitar in his underwear). It is also the only video of I have of him singing this song, and it is a poor representation of his performances we got to witness, but he gets quite shy when we take out the camera.

Good Run of Bad Luck

November was a rough month for the Voth family. Sickness hit November 1 on the dot and lingered into December. Of course our boys decided not to be sick at the same time and traded weeks they were sick while Corey and I traded days/hours we were home with them.

We made our first trip to the ER with a sick Cooper on November 13 after coming home from school with labored breathing. It was reasonably determined that he had croup, post X-Ray that is (which I can say was one of my saddest moments as a parent seeing my baby strapped down for this process...yuck!).

We made our second trip to the ER the following week, yes 2 trips in one week. This one occurred in a more traumatic fashion, for me at least. I am using this blog as therapy for the incident because it was so awful. I was home from work with two sick kids, who saw their pediatrician earlier in the day and given the all clear to go back to school. I was doing some laundry that afternoon and carrying sheets in one arm, Cooper in the other. As we were approaching the laundry room, Cooper literally jumped out of my arms. In a slow motion sequence that replays over and over in my head, he falls to the floor without me being able to catch him and lands flat on his back. Sheer panic sets in which included a hysterical call to Corey and a trip to the ER. After a quick check by the doctor and being told that babies are resilient to these things, we went home with a smily Cooper and a wreck of a Megan. I hope no one ever asks us later in life in fun if Cooper was ever dropped on his head as a baby, because I would sadly have to answer yes.

We hope that our luck with change and we can move on to more happy and healthy times.

Happy Thanksgiving

As many of you know, we attend 2 Thanksgiving celebrations every year. Yes, we indulge in 2 Thanksgiving meals. We begin in Red Wing with the Holden family and end the day at my parents house celebrating with the Wadleys.

Since Cooper had started eating solids, he got to enjoy Thanksgiving squash and a Turkey with Gravy dinner by Chef Gerber for Thanksgiving.

Mason on the other hand, being the world's pickiest eater that he is, did not enjoy any of the great foods Thanksgiving has to offer. Instead, he enjoyed a very large bowl of Honey Nut Cheerios.

Warm Days of Fall

We were lucky to take advantage of being outside into November this year. Since Cooper had mastered sitting up, we decided to try out the wagon, which Cooper LOVED. We are definitely looking forward to lots of wagon rides this Spring.

Santa 2009

Mac McGoon invites Santa to make a special trip down from the North Pole early in November to take pictures at their studio. We decided to take advantage of this trip and schedule some time with Santa to take a special picture with Mason and Cooper.

Mason talked big all week about telling Santa what toys/games he wanted for Christmas, but when we arrived at the studio for the picture, the panic started. Luckily the studio had had a number of years of practice and asked before it was our turn whether anyone was afraid. We opted for the "scared child" option where Santa would just peak at the boys from behind the chair rather than the boys sitting on his help. Thank you Mac McGoon. Unfortunately, the only picture that turned out well was the one before Santa came out. Thankfully, the photographer offered to Photoshop Santa into the picture, so we still have a photo memory, even though the images weren't necessarily in sync.

After the pictures were complete, we made the mistake of trying to have Mason talk to Santa, which resulted in a screaming child. It may have been too close to the Halloween incident to tackle Santa...oops.

Regardless, we walked away with a great pictures of the boys.

2, 4, 6

We made a 2 trips to MacMcGoon Studios this fall to get special pictures for Mason's 4 year pictures and Cooper's at 6 months.