Monthly Archives: December 2011

Reindeer Attack

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Just wanted to warn everyone that I have now discovered that reindeer are evil. I realize this is an over generalization, but late last night as I was tidying up around the fire place I was attacked and gored by one of the “helpful” reindeer helping hold up Mason’s stocking.  It is amazing how much a toe bleeds, but I am happy to report that so far it looks like I will be able to keep the toe, provided there was no bacteria from the antlers.  Perhaps this was retaliation for eating some of their brethren when visiting Alaska, but in my mind it was unjustified and not very much in the Christmas spirit.

Thrill Riders

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This past Saturday we went to Six Flags Holiday in the Park and had a blast sledding down the fake snow hill and riding all of the other rides.  Below are a couple of videos I took to try and capture the boys’ excitement.  Cutler’s is from the sledding and Mason’s is from the small roller coaster in Looney Tunes land.  I had tried to film him on the mini mine train, but the powerful teenager running the ride forced me to put my phone away before he would start.

http://youtu.be/CF2VKnIixLQ

http://youtu.be/djXDPFJOIZo

Blood Results Are Back

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We heard from the doctor’s office in regards to the blood taken at Cutler’s two year visit and there is no sign of any molecular leukemia cells whatsoever and the host/donor ratio has gone up from 90% donor to 93%.  Ideally it would be nice for it to be a lot closer to 100%, but the doctor has said that he has many patients that it takes several years for it to get that high.  The most important thing is that all cells look normal.

Stuff Mason Says

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As Mason’s knowledge of life in general continues to grow he has really started to impress/humor me with his logic as he vocalizes it to us.  Rather than horde this information to myself, I think it is time to start sharing his wisdom with the remainder of the world or at least the few people who follow us.

My first entry into this new series took place a couple of days ago in the kitchen where Mason was jumping in his new basketball shoes.  Naturally, being a direct descendant of me his vertical is extremely limited and so I started to tell him he needed to jump higher or at the very least just clear 1/4 of an inch when he jumps.  He quickly retorted with “Dad, it’s gravity.  It’s holding me down.” 

I didn’t have the heart to explain to him that it was a lot more than just gravity.

Milestones…

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This past Wednesday Melanie picked up the boys from school and Cutler’s teacher told Cutler to tell Melanie what he did that day and his immediate response was “played with legos.”  Leave it up to Cutler to bury the lead in a big fashion.  The teacher was expecting him to tell Melanie that he had used the toilet to potty twice and poop another time.  He kept it up all week, but for some reason doesn’t have the same desire when he gets home and so aside from a poopcident during a bath on Thursday, it stays in the diapers at home.  We are thrilled that he has taken that first step and can’t wait until he starts to practice it at home.  Then again, we might be happy to wait for it to start at home until he learns to wipe himself as well.  🙂