5 Months!

Today Mason is 5 months old! I know I know, nothing exciting- but for me it is! It just amazes me how much he grows week by week!

We went to see Alicia & Baby GT (George Thomas) for a bit & Alicia definitely looks like she's enjoying her maternity leave! George is a total cutie patootie! Looking forward to our future playdates!

Tonight before Mason & I went for a walk, I was sitting on the floor with him working on sitting up (he sits unsupported for about 3 seconds before toppling over) Shelby came running in because she saw my tennis shoes (means walk in her language) and I told her to go out. As soon as she walked out Mason let out a little chuckle. I was trying to get him to laugh more so Shelby came back in to join the fun and decided she'd sit & scoot across the carpet *ew*- so of course I said, 'Shelby, Quit! Go out!' Well apparently, Mason found it HILARIOUS because he let out the biggest belly laugh! OMG it was so FUNNY! So Shelby thought she'd be funny and go find her tennis ball, well Mason saw that tail wagging as she walked out and he started cracking up AGAIN! So we played a game of 'throwing shelby's tennis ball outta the room so she'd go fetch it to make Mason crack up!' I've just come to terms with Mason thinks her butt is funny looking. As long he doesnt crack up at mine I'm okay! LOL ;-P
So far the only other thing that gets him even remotely close to how Shelby made him laugh is me singing 'The Hokey Pokey' to him. He knows its bad, I know its bad, so at least I can get a few good chuckles outta him!
Yeah for Belly Laughs- that's a great milestone to me! I love laughter and coming from Mason is the sweetest sound ever made! ;-)

Mason meet Hendrix....

Last Monday Mason & I went to Sara's, Hendrix pretty much slept the whole time. Today he was a little more awake so we took a few shots of them! This time next year we're gonna be in big trouble! I can see that look in Hendrix's eye, he's gonna be a little instigator! LOL So here's pictures of Mason & Hendrix's first official 'playdate'! We also took advantage and took a couple shots of us! :)

PS- No more Maid work for me! LOL I was being nice and last week on monday, I made Sara & Kent dinner, did a load of dishes for them, picked up some and started some laundry. Today, I made lunch, did dishes again, cleaned up the kitchen, put away dishes, did another load of laundry, put dishes away and even unpacked her hospital bag for her (even though she told me not to, i cant believe she hadn't unpacked from the hospital yet! So I did anyway. lol sorry Sara!) But since she decided she'd go to work for a few hours on this past saturday night (C.R.A.Z.Y!) I thought, hmm, yeah I'm not taking any more pity on her being a new mom, she can do it herself now! LOL So hopefully she enjoys her partially clean kitchen, dishes and the 2 meals I made! (thats more than I do around my house on somedays! haha!)

Mommy & Mason

We hung out at Sara's today so Gavin could take some baby announcement photos of Sara, Kent & Hendrix. I LOVE this picture of Mason & I! Gavin just snapped a quick pic/test shot and it came out so good! I really dont have many pictures of Mason & I, so i think this is one of my FAVORITES (the other being our birth announcement one!) Love it Love it Love it!

Playtime with Lucas!

Mason & I went over to Kristin's this evening for some playtime and Mommytime! LOL Kristin spoiled me and made me dinner and we played with the boys for a bit. I still can't believe Luke is 2 years old. It seemed like just yesterday he was a baby! He's such a big boy now. I can't wait til Mason can REALLY get down on the ground and play with him (sitting up and crawling) So we look forward to that! Here's a few pictues of Mason & Luke hanging out on his couch watching Baby Einstein! :)

Sleep!

We've gotten Mason back to sleeping thru the night again! YEAH! So hopefully it sticks this time! He's sleeping SOUNDLY from 8 pm to 4:30 am (up for a bottle) then again to 8 am. Now if i could just get to bed by 11 pm I'll be doing good!

We're also on the search for a babysitter for Thursdays and Fridays. The Nanny we hired fell thru, so we're in search again! (So if you hear of anyone looking, pass on the word!) Right now Granpa Tony is watching Mason on thursdays (and doing a great job of it too!) and Gavin stays at home on Fridays to hang with Mason. So what we've got now is working, but I'd love consistency and to not stress about scheduling family! :(

Mason is also eating his toes now- he loves rolling all around, but he's happiest on his back so he can get his feet in his mouth! Its really cute! I'll have to get pictures of him today doing it!

Poor Kids.

This is what you get when you mix a camera with 2 Moms being silly. Poor Mason & Rilee.
*Do you notice how Mason is looking AT the camera in each shot?????* haha! (except for the last one w/Rilee laying across Mason- Rilee was playing "Stiff as a board" apparently and would NOT bend her legs! LOL we were cracking UP! Mason wasnt sure what to make of it!)

The 'hawk is getting taller!

Crazy Texas Storms....

Gotta love the spring time in Texas- Tornados & Spring Storms! These storms come out of almost nowhere and can do some serious damage. 2 weeks ago it was the hail that did alot of damage, this week it was 100 mile an hour winds that did the damage. we only lost a big limb off of our Burford Pear Tree, but that was it. Gavin was out meeting with a client & I was home with Mason. He was napping & the thunder woke him up, and shortly after the Tornado Sirens started going off (for non texas residents that means 'be prepared & might wanna take cover') so i cracked open some windows and the garage (tornados can cause houses to implode or even explode with the pressure- so opening windows can help) and Mason, Shelby & I went and hung out in the bathroom for a while. The power was flickering on and off, but it didnt seem nearly as bad as a few weeks ago, we didnt have any cloud rotation in the area (means a tornado) and no hail, it was just rain coming in sideways! Shelby is terrified of thunder so she was shaking like a leaf and wouldn't DARE leave my side! Mason found it all funny and just jabbered away at me! It passed over in about 10 minutes and then we went on in our merry way! LOL

Here's us hanging out in the bathroom :)

Boys First Playdate!

I love that 2 of my closest friends now have boys- Kristin has Luke (who's 2) and Sara has Hendrix (6 days old) I can't wait until Mason and Hendrix can REALLY play with Luke and run around interact. On Monday we went out to see Sara, Kent & Hendrix, I decided to take food to cook dinner for them and pick up what I could and help out as needed. Hopefully we were more of a help than in the way! LOL Mason decided Luke was too much fun and decided he didnt want to nap at all. Luke thought Mason was HILARIOUS because he could get him to laugh! LOL It was great to see the boys interacting and knowing what friends they'll find in each other as they get older. Not to mention its just fun to see my 2 closest friends being such great Moms and enjoying it so much!



Hendrix was very involved as you can see! LOL

Sucker

Thumb Sucker that is! OY. Mason has always loved his paci. for the past 2 weeks he's had ZERO interest in it. we still pack one for everywhere we go, keep them handy just in case. but NO, he's not even sleeping with one anymore (yeah!) but on the downside, i've caught him sucking his thumb! :( I dont know how i feel about that, because with the paci- you can take it away when he's older, but with the thumb you can't. with the paci- you have to constantly put it back in, but the thumb you dont! ugh. Maybe he'll just grow out of this too!

I've given up on onsie extenders. they suck.Mason is getting too long for his 3-6 month onsies, so i thought hmm, onsie extenders should work right? WRONG. i bought one at Babies R Us $3 for the package (and they're going back too) come to find out they ONLY fit one brand one onsies...because of COURSE it'd be WAAAAAAAY too difficult for all Onsie manufacturers out there to use the SAME size snaps! BAH! Today Gavin was changing Mason and put him in a clean onsie, when he came out of the bedroom i thought, wait that's a new onsie! I looked at the tag and sure enough it was a 6-9 month one! YIKES! but it fit just fine!
SO now i'm convinced they should make onsies for Long & Lean Babies!!