Mason: Week 2

Mason turns 2 weeks old on Friday… it seems like forever ago that we went into the hospital with a huge belly and an overnight bag. Our lives have changed so much already! Including how much we sleep. I’ve made a small list of things I love:

• His smiles
• When he tries to eat my nose when I give him kisses
• How he always keeps his feet up near his belly
• When he holds my fingers
• When he punches me in the face (he’s a strong little guy)
• When his hair gets ruffled and I get to brush it
• His nose boogers (and the “Mason has a bogey” song that follows)
• His explosive gas/poops Always makes us giggle.
• How he can sleep through ANYTHING
• His grump face. Cutest. face. ever.
• How he’ll go from smiling to crying to smiling in 5 seconds

Here are some pictures:

First restaurant experience! He was passed out the entire time.

He likes to eat his fingers.

Dad (Poppy) and I picked up a hat for Mason. It’s too big, but sure is cute!

Here he is in his too-big onesie (it has cows, sheep, and horses on it. I had to make him wear it.) all snuggled into his blanket that has elephants, alligators, giraffes, and rhinos on it! This kid had better like animals…

I’m interested in seeing how much he weighs at his appointment this week. At his 4 day appointment he had lost only 1 ounce since birth. Go Mason.

I’ve been using the baby monitor during the day a lot- when I take the dogs outside I can spend a little time outside (I’ve been weeding), and get the laundry and dishes done. Guess I should try to get some sleep in there somewhere too…

Crying baby calls.

Baby Mason is here!

We welcomed our new little one, Mason Wyatt, on Friday, July 15! He was born at 4:19pm, weighed 7 lbs 11 oz, and was 21.5 inches long. When we left on Sunday his pediatrician said he still weighed the same, and he seemed pretty excited about it, since most babies lose 10% of their weight before they leave the hospital. We had his 4 day check-up yesterday and he was only down one ounce to 7lbs 10oz.

Enough with the boring stuff (okay, it’s not boring to me, but probably to everyone else), here are some pictures!

Proud daddy!

Our first family picture

My parents (AKA Poppy and Gammy) with baby Mason

This is how he “holds” Mason. I think it’s cheating But baby doesn’t cry, so I suppose it works!

What a cute hospital blanket. Har har.

Here is Mason in his going home outfit (AKA all his “fancy” clothes are too big. Never thought that’d happen.)

Hopefully he doesn’t accidentally throw Mason instead of the football…

Sleeeeepy baby.

This picture is fuzzy, but here he is at his very first pediatrician appointment! I think this is the way he’s been “laying” for the last few months- OR he’s just like his momma and sits awkwardly.

My mom came with us and decided we ‘needed’ a picture of Mason with his Dr., then felt awkward about asking, so she snapped this picture while he was getting checked out.

Mason’s first bath! No ‘during’ shots, since it was just Nathan and I and a VERY wiggly baby, but look how cute he is!

These are stress related smiles here, people. The end result was great, but the process was difficult. Maybe next time we’ll walk in with a plan rather than “Let’s wash baby!”

Yay! We’re finished! Oops, Mason’s very active arms got in the way. Go figure.

Redo:

There you have it. We’ve had him in our lives for a little over 4 days now, and it seems as though the world revolves around him. And we don’t mind. In fact, we wouldn’t have it any other way.

Where is baby?

Not here yet! The little booger. So, in lieu of pictures of baby, here are pictures of our current babies!

Bosco likes to plop down on Bruno. Or me. Or anyone/anything around. And they both like to lay in the sun. Weirdos.

Bruno usually has his tongue out. This is an odd moment.

Sleepy face? Should be, since he’s laying on my bed. AKA The couch.

Here’s Bruno’s sleepy face. Again, on my bed. Maybe if I “made” my bed every morning (pick it all up, throw on actual bed), they wouldn’t have the chance to lounge on my sheets and pillows.

This is how we spend our days. Except normally I’m not taking pictures; I’m laying on the other side of the couch. Sometimes with a dog face in my own. Good thing they’re cute.

On to other things (the only semi-baby related thing today):

I made a lamp! Okay, so I broke a lamp (on accident) and took the cord and shade and put it in a vase. It sat around the kitchen for a couple of weeks because I couldn’t figure out how to make the shade stay in the vase nice and straight. Turns out if you take a paper towel roll (okay, one and a half) and hot glue it to the base of the shade it will stand up straight! Then I wrapped some ribbon around it. So it’s not something you’d buy at Pier 1 (where my original beautiful lamp came from) but it works. AND it matches. Because inside that shade (which oddly looks shiny. It is not.) is fabric that matches the curtains. *Insert me doing a silly “woohoo” dance here*

I’m going to plant flowers today, since my parents are here and can help. And by plant, I mean put them in pots and hanging baskets. Because our hanging basket flowers died many many moons ago. They look sad. So do I, when I look at them. See the dead flowers? Poor dead flowers. (Be happy you don’t see the old man across the street mowing his lawn with no shirt on. We’ve got a fun neighborhood.)

And here are the flowers and “pots” we’re putting them in. *See the mulch? We did that on Sunday. I almost died.*

We got the moisture control potting soil, since I tend to forget to water the flowers. *See picture above of dead flowers. Maybe I’ll get pictures of them when they’re potted. We’ll see.

Hopefully we have some good news to post this week about baby. I doubt it. Oh well, he’ll come when he comes.