Lately. . .

Just like Dad.

Troy grew up riding motorcycles and rode them a lot during his High School days. It was a sad day when he sold his bike the summer we moved out to Iowa.
Mason loves trucks, motorcycles, trains, tractors, and anything like that. He especially loves to play with this little motorcycle that belonged to his dad.
Mason also loves to sit and watch Troy's old motorcycle videos. The longest we have ever seen Mason sit still is when he is watching them with his Dad. Good think we still have a VHS player.

I should be a little worried about Mason's love for Motorcycles and his lack of fear to be thrown up high, jump off things, and to try crazy things.
But I am actually really excited to get that first motorcycle for Mason and for Troy to be able to get a bike again.

Mason also treasures pictures of his Dad on motorcycles. He loves looking at them.

This pictures was when Troy was younger and this wasn't his most recent bike that he had before we moved, but Mason loves this picture and likes to carry it all over the house.

With the way Mason looks, his love for motorcycles, his love for hitting a golf ball, and with all his flannel shirts, he is his daddy's little twin.

These two little girls are also a lot like their Dad in so many countless ways, but here is one of them:
They absolutely love to look at his surgery books.
This foot and ankle surgery book is, in my opinion, disgusting. It is way too detailed with amazing photography and I can't even stand to look at the cover of it.
Katelyn and Kylie will spend an hour looking through this book together. And they do it all the time.

They especially love when Troy sits down with them and describes each picture and the surgery in a very detailed way. And the girls are totally amazed by it and act like they understand everything he is saying.

Hmmm, maybe there are 3 future doctors here?

By the way Troy is having fun participating in lots of surgeries these days.

Dinner Time

Dinner time at our house is loud, crazy, fun, messy and it is my favorite part of the day.
Well, when Troy is with us. Sometimes he has a night class or has to work but when we are all together as a family it is such a fun time.
I love to have us all together as a family and for some reason the kids are extra entertaining and funny when we are all eating. I just sit and laugh at them and the things they say.

Mason is extremely independent and ever since he was 12 months old he refused to let me feed him. He wanted to do it all by himself. He is actually really good with a spoon and fork and isn't too messy but occasionally when we have soup or spaghetti it can get all over.

Also he fought sitting in his high chair. He hated it and he just wanted to sit up to the table with all of us. So a couple months ago we finally just put his high chair in the garage and he has loved being at the table.

The girls stopped taking naps at a very young age and don't really fall asleep during the day that often.
So it was so funny when one night I told the girls to sit up and eat their soup and one minute later I found Katelyn like this:

Kylie and I were laughing so much and I let her sleep like that for about 5 minutes before waking her up so she could eat.

I say this often, but we have such great friends.
It seriously brings me real physical heartache thinking about moving away from this family.
We have had so much fun with them.