Mason is ONE!!!

Mason is one! Wow. I can't believe how fast this year has gone. He is such a fun, happy boy and such a blessing to our family. I can't imagine life without him. We had an early birthday for him on Sunday. He was a little cranky that night, but he did enjoy the cake. I feel like he has really grown up in the last couple weeks and is acting more like a toddler than a baby. He is walking. He started taking about 6 steps at a time on April 9 and is walking 75% of the time now. He is trying to communicate more, but he really doesn't have any words. He loves to throw balls. One day he just started doing it, we never taught him or really showed him how. Nate thinks he's going to be an athlete. It's so neat to see how innately different God created boys and girls. Alyssa never threw balls at this age ( Nate already thinks Mason is better at throwing than Alyssa), she would hug and feed her babies. It's so fun to have one of each.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MASON MAN!!!! WE LOVE YOU!!!!





Mason, how old are you?




Happy Birthday Boy!




He started walking about a week ago and he is getting better everyday!




This kid is a little daredevil.







We had a little family party. Mason wasn't quite himself that day, maybe he was a bit overwhelmed. I still think he did have fun though.




My attempt at creativity.
















He wasn't in to opening his presents. He liked them after they were opened.




He was not excited to sit in his highchair, but he didn't know what was coming....




He calmed down a bit once he saw the cake.




Eventually he decided to dig right in.




He wanted to feed everyone his cake.







I thought this would be the other way around. He's a strong little guy!

11 Months

Mason is less than 2 weeks from his birthday, so I had to get these pictures up before it was too late. I can't believe he is almost 1 ! This year has gone by too fast. He is a busy, busy boy. He started standing by himself for a few seconds at around 11 months and has taken 3-5 steps over the last couple weeks. He hasn't made a lot of progress recently, but I think he just needs a little confidence and he'll be off. He is learning a lot and communicating better. He points at things he likes all the time, he waves, he learned "so big", shakes his head 'no', he still doesn't say much, just an occasional mama or dada. It's so fun to see him learn.

I kinda thought we had the sleeping thing down, well at least better. But now we are struggling with him waking way too early. He was waking up at 6am for a while, which is early, but it's morning. But for a while now he has been waking up at 5ish and that is still night for me. We have tried earlier bedtimes and later bedtimes and nothing seems to consistently get him to sleep later. Someone just told me her 3 year old has gotten up at 5:15am since he was a baby. I really hope this isn't going to be his long term wake up time :( He's going to be staying with our parents overnight for the first time in a couple weeks when Nate and I are in Las Vegas.....I hope he sleeps good for them or they may never want to do it again.




11 months old 3/19/11






Mason is finally taking a sippy cup for most of his feedings! He is down to nursing in the morning and at night. Now Alyssa is so excited to feed him since she missed out on doing it the while first year.







Mason LOVES being outside. If he's ever fussy all we have to do it take him outside, no matter the weather and he calms right down. Although he gets upset again when we bring him in. I can't wait for summer when we can be outside all the time!