The Shenanigans of Mason and Oakley: Part 1

It's no secret that I am so happy that my sister and her little family moved to Salt Lake. We get to see them MUCH more often, which is so fun, but especially for Mason and Oakley. Mason gets SO EXCITED every time he sees Oakley. When she comes to our house, he immediately jumps up and down and starts grabbing toys to share with her. When we go to her house, he starts running around in circles because he is so excited. It's adorable. I think he recognizes her (mostly because he watches videos of her on my phone a lot) so anytime he sees her he gets excited that it is real life. Here are summaries of the last few times we have gotten together.


Also, feel free to skip over the narration. Most of it is just me remembering details since I'm not good at keeping a personal journal.


April 29-30: Mason and Oakley's first sleepover!

Remember my last post about my little brother coming home from his mission? Well a few days after I got back, Mason and I drove to the airport to pick up Carly and Oakley! They flew from CA to UT so that Oakley didn't have to do the drive from Washington to Utah (where they were living before). We had to wait in the park and wait for a few minutes but we had banana bread to eat so it was okay ;) The airport was CROWDED for pick-up; they kept trying to make me circle around, but I kept saying "My sister has her baby and stroller and bag AND carseat and she's walking out right now" so I kind of got away with not having to circle. We got the carseat in and the babies were so happy to see each other!

We got home and ate dinner and the babies played and played. Mason would find something and take it to Oakley and say something in baby jibberish to her. Sometimes she would take the toy and sometimes she would look at him like "uhh I don't want that".

We got them ready for bed; Oakley went down first, and then maybe 15 minutes later I put Mason down. We set up our pack n play in Masons room. We thought Oakley was asleep when I took Mason in, but she totally stood up in the pack n play and grinned at Mason. Stinkers. We didn't hear from them at all so I'm assuming they both fell asleep pretty quickly.

The next morning, Bryce left Washington with the moving truck around 5am pacific, so we based our morning activities around his arrival in Utah. We got the kids ready, went to the park and played for a while, and then went home to have lunch and naps. After nap time we loaded up and drove up to Murray, where Carly and Bryce's apartment is, so Carly could check in and get the keys and everything. Bryce got there within an hour of us getting to the apartment, and the boys unloaded the van, while Carly and I took turns watching the babies and helping unload.

 

Toddler hugs: oops!

After we unloaded the van, we went to dinner at Red Robin! Poor Mason was so sleepy, he was really cranky the entire meal. We haven't had good luck with him at Red Robin recently (my bday dinner he was cranky too... weird).

Welcome to Utah, Carly and Bryce! We are so excited you live close!

A week or so later, they drove down and met us at Coldstone, and then we went back to our apartment to eat ice cream. We didn't get any pictures that day.

May 10: Mother's Day/Sean's birthday!

Bryce and Carly came down to celebrate Sean's 27th birthday with us! I made lasagna, and we had Caesar salad and garlic bread to go with it. Then we had delicious fun-fetti birthday cake! We had a great time; we played Scattegories and Catch-Phrase while the babies played. Oakley also ate lasagna! (I think I remember them saying it was her first time really actually eating it... correct me if I'm wrong Carly).

May 20: Paint, paint, paint!

Carly and Oakley came down so the babies could paint pictures for our sister, Jenny. We laid a tarp down in my kitchen, stripped the kiddos to their diapers, and gave them each a paint brush and piece of paper. They got the hang of it pretty quick, AND the kitchen didn't get any paint splashed in it! They got pretty messy, so we threw them in the bath real quick after. Oh we also painted one foot each and did footprints to send to our parents. Oakley did not like getting her foot painted, but when Mason saw me painting her foot, he stuck his up in the air! So funny!

 

 

They also rode the train together :)

May 30: date swap!

Carly texted me a few days before and suggested we do a date swap! So we drove up to Murray and dropped Mason off with Bryce and Carly, while we went to a movie. Then we got back to their place, and they went gun shooting/shopping. They came back and we made dinner and watched Daniel Tiger so the babies didn't have meltdowns. Mason didn't get a nap this day. But neither baby cried when their parents left so that was a win-win!

 

Carly spun them around and around in their computer chair. She took a couple videos of them laughing. It was so cute!

 

More hugs. They are so sweet!