Memorial Day - and Mason

We had a wonderful Memorial Day morning! We went to the Provo Cemetery and participated in a flag raising and listened to some fabulous speeches. The kids were very good, and enjoyed everything except the 21-gun salute at the end (Sammy was covering his ears and in tears). Definitely the highlight of the event for Mason was listening to the community band at the end. (As an aside, when the conductor was asked how often the band plays together he replied, "About every 4th measure" - so true! :o) You gotta love community bands!)

Mason has already fallen in love with the accordion ("Mommy, when we are rich can we buy an accordion?"), and found a new love today: the Sousaphone. We couldn't drag him away from it until the band was packing up and going home. Right this minute he and Stephen are looking online at how sousaphones and accordions work.

As we were getting in the car Mason informed us of something his cousin, Cannon, told him. Let me preface this comment with the fact that Mason is OBSESSED with my big silver dollar, and has called his grandparents and great-grandparents begging for one. Which Mormor is going to bring to him in a month. I guess begging pays off...anyhow...

"There was a boy in Cannon's class who took a big silver dollar to the bank and they gave him $1000 or more! When Mormor brings my silver dollar I'm going to take it to the bank and get $1000 (or more!) and buy a sousaphone."

Also today at lunch Mason finally decided what kind of engineer he is going to be. After a brief explanation of every kind of engineer Stephen and I could think of (electrical, mechanical, civil, computer, software, domestic, train - that was Elise's idea - etc.), Mason decided on an electrical engineer. He wants to build robots, and that sounded the best to him.

This is a Mason post! Another thing he informed Stephen at lunch was that "When I am a daddy I'm going to have great kids." He doesn't expect all of his kids to want to be engineers, just great. :o) Sounds good to me!