Happy Holidays!

Here are the outtakes:

We’re wishing everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Oh, and here are some bonus, not-Christmas related pictures, cause you know you want them.

Can you tell how excited he is about his hat and Reebok shoes?

Someone found his feet… it makes diaper changing a blast.

Mason also decided to start paying attention to the dogs. Up until now he pretty much ignored them, now he wants to pet them every time they come over (which is a lot.) We’re buying stock in hand wipes, since dog petting+hand eating= gross.

Mason is laughing at everything lately, and is just the happiest kid. He rarely cries, and *hope I don’t jinx myself* is sleeping through the night! Also, he’s getting the hang of eating cereal off a spoon (whew) so we’re going to have to put that into his routine too… I’m trying to get him to nap in his crib now, instead of on me (what can I say, I’m an enabler!) or in his swing. We love that swing, but within the next few months he’ll be too big for it and I’d like to have him prepared for naps when that happens.

I’m not sure if we’ll be back on here before the holidays, so Happy Holidays to everyone! Stay safe!

Mason doesn’t like “real food” AKA cereal

And I can prove it:

*Look at those blue eyes!

That picture makes me laugh. Of course, he doesn’t like to even open his mouth for a spoon, so we’ll have to try again later since this is clearly not working. Oh well, guess that just means our food budget doesn’t have to grow yet

 

BONUS PICTURE:

This is how Nathan lays Mason while he’s “watching” him. The little bugger actually likes laying like that. *PS Can you see our Christmas props for our Christmas cards? Oh you just wait. They are to. die. for.

Mason just keeps making us smile; he squeals almost all the time, and is just such a happy baby! In fact, he’s been so happy he wants to share his happiness with us (okay, me) until midnight every night! How nice of him!! At least he sleeps past nine. And only wakes me up once in there (good boy). Anytime I see his pictures I wonder how he could be growing SO fast. Luckily he’s not growing out (yet) he’s just a looooong skinny baby (he doesn’t get his length from my side of the family )

We’ve added a few newbies to his room, including the Twilight Turtle and Gentle Giraffe- the turtle’s shell lights up and casts stars and a moon onto the ceiling, and he loves to look at them! The giraffe has a soundbox in it with songs to keep him calm and white noise so he doesn’t hear the darn dogs clanking around (and shaking their collars all the time) but we use the mobile for that, and an awesome lullaby CD of Metallica (the Johnny Cash one is in the car. Gotta love all the things you buy to *try* to get baby to sleep. So far so good though, he chews on the giraffe as it makes Serengeti sounds on his changing pad. Whatever works, right?

Enough about that, I have a crying kid to take care of

Mason’s first Thanksgiving

While Mason didn’t get to eat any turkey (or noodles, mashed potatoes, green beans, rolls, pumpkin pie, or chocolate cream pie- boy, I made a lot of food), he got to try eating cereal off a spoon for the first second time (the first was before we cut a hole in one of his bottles for nighttime cereal feedings). I’d like to say he was a champ, but he could have cared less and kept giving us the ‘yucky’ face. Oh well, we’ll try again later. If he’s like his dad all we have to do is put some soda in there and he’ll be happy as a lark.

Here are our pictures for the week:

No, that’s not cherry pop. Poor kid got his 4 month shots and had a fever, so he was lucky enough to get Tylenol. He likes to spit it out.

Here’s the start of our Thanksgiving pictures. Yep, they’re both passed out. Don’t worry, I was taking care of everything in the kitchen.

We set Mason on the table in his Bumbo for dinner. He’s pretty content in it, and doesn’t mind sitting on the table (Don’t worry, that sucker is tip-over proof, I swear.)

He loves playing with his toys! Of course, he kept shoving the links off, then expecting me to pick them up (I’m nice, I did) and then shoving them off again. The little booger.

Here we go!

“This doesn’t taste as good as my hands…”

“Ah, back to the good stuff”

“Get me out of here!!”

End of pictures, due to this:

Mason is 4 months old!

I don’t remember when I last posted (sorry) but here are some pictures. 

This kid loves his bouncer!

He has hair, see??

Gammy was here for my birthday AKA Halloween!

Mason’s first snow!

Here’s our little tiger! The costume didn’t last long…

Is it bad that I’m laughing while he’s crying?

Yay for the bumbo!!

Love those chubby cheeks!

Mason is getting better at sitting and will be doing it on his own soon! He mastered rolling from his belly to his back weeks ago, but this week he rolled back to front! It was pretty great