busy busy busy.

We have been busy lately, with birthday's
{{Ahem, Happy birthday dad, Your half way to what now?}}
Busy With mason. He is just this little wild child.
There is no slowing this kid down.
AJ got himself another project car
and just had lasik eye surgery done today.
He says he can already see a difference.
Technology is amazing these days.
I got to watch the whole thing through a window
and i probably wasn't allowed to take pictures...
but i had to.
They are just poor quality phone pictures
but you get the idea.
It was really cool.

My Mr. Mason
turned 10 months on the 6th.
he weighed 22 lbs and was 30 in long.
He's just never been a super fat baby.
but he is for sure a tall baby.
He is waving at everyone and clapping.
Those are his newest tricks.

Haha. After the Dr. apt we came home and were playing in this beg empty room
when he stopped and got real serious about getting the band aid off his leg.
As you can see.. by the look on his face it did't feel amazing. lol

he always goes right back to happy.

Oh and Congratulations to Amanda and Josh,
he really is a beautiful baby!
Enjoy it cause time flies!!

9 1/2 months.

It's crazy to me that I am going to have to start thinking about Mason's 1st birthday in 3 months.
Time flew right by.
He isn't doing anything new.. he is just doing what he was doing faster!
He crawls crazy fast.
It makes me laugh.
We sure do have fun watching him grow.
I am really hoping to get out to Missouri to see everyone before he gets too big.
I want you all to meet him before he gets too big.
He is just so stinking cute!
But we will see.
Money is tight for all of us.

We walk down to the park all the time
Mason thinks there is nothing better then the swings,
and the grass.

Here he is decked out in his green outfit for St. Patrick's Day.
Mom came up and hung out with us at our house and we went shopping
at carters in the outlets.
I didn't know there was a carters.
I was in heaven i love their baby clothes.

He loves books.
Always has.
We just have to watch him close cause the second we turn away he will have that book all torn apart.

And last but not least..
Mason got his big boy car seat.
It is funny to turn around and see him looking at me.
It is such a cute car seat.
AJ's dad got it for him.
It's a simpson racing seat.

24 hour flu.

So this last weekend was a rough one.
My little mason turned 9 months on Friday
and the poor little guy caught a flu bug.
We went to our friend Cassie and Joe's house to see their new dog
and by the time we got home around 8 he was barfing.
He threw up every half an hour till about 11 and then
went to sleep for the night.
He didn't throw up again till the next day around 3.
and then he was done.
But that wasn't the last of the evil flu bug!!
I got super sick Sunday evening around 6.
I was barfing every hour until 3 the next afternoon.
When they say 24 hour flu bug they aren't kidding.
I'm pretty sure the flu is the worst thing ever to have.
Thankfully AJ stayed home Monday to help me with the baby
cause i just couldn't do it myself.

Mason is one funny kid.
He is crawling everywhere and cruising along things all over the house.
He loves to eat everything!!
He also loves to play in daddy wires for the tv.
he starts to go over there and i will catch him and say
Mason No No
and he starts crawling as fast as he can to the tv.
punky boy.

I took him over to mom's house yesterday
and he encountered stairs for the first time..
he didn't even hesitate he just crawled right up them.
I'm pretty sure he wanted the cat at the top of the stairs and would
stop at nothing to get to him.
He is such a smart, happy, boy
I just love him to pieces.

Crazy crawling kid!

So this last week mason learned how to crawl not just crawl but he is pulling himself up on everything! crazy kid. :)
I have a crawling baby boy!

My little man is 8 months, 1 week, 4 days.

My little mason is growing up.
He still isn't crawling, and i thought for sure by now he would be...
but i guess i need to be more patient. lol
He Rolls everywhere, scoots backwards, goes from laying down to sitting up,
Pulls himself up on everything, says momma and dadda
and eats like nobody's business.
Pretty much is doing everything but crawling.. or walking.


For AJ's birthday mom and dad got him sharks tickets for this Thursday..
It will be my first time leaving mason home with a baby sitter..
every time i think about it i get all teary lol
I don't know how im going to handle being away from him for even a few hours..
Guess we will find out..

AJ's surprise birthday party.

AJ turned 24 on Feb 8th.
I know, I know, I'm a little behind.
I kept asking him what he wanted to do for his birthday
but he just kept telling me "nothing"
So i went ahead and planned him a surprise birthday party.
I have no clue how he didn't figure out what we were up too,
but he really didnt know.
I got ALL his friends over and everything.
So here's to you hubby.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

{{AJ with one of his best friends Joe}}

{{AJ and I}}

{{Oh and what would a surprise birthday party be without someone's car
catching on fire in front of the house. Don't ask me how it happened, all i know is someone came running in the house yelling a car was on fire. So we all ran back out and sure enough.. there was a car on fire.}}

{{Dont worry, No one was hurt or anything. We got the fire out before the fire department even showed up.}}

{{Here is me with one of my good friends, Tracie.}}{{Some of the girls that were there.}}

Weekend Wrap-Up.

We were busy this weekend.
I'm going to go a little backwards here for a minute.
I took these pictures of Mason friday morning.
If you look close you can see he has all 4 teeth on top in.
Finally.
He was so grumpy with those 4.
But as you can see, we are back to happy mason.

He is getting so coordinated.
and finding his balance.
He just moves so good now.
Any day now he will crawl.
{{and then i'm in for it!!}}

Here is a side of mason we don't see very often..
He gets so mad when he can't crawl.
He tries so hard but in the end he just get frustrated.

He has had super sensitive skin since he was only a few weeks old.
It gets dry really easily and I have to use special soap and everything
so he has never had bubbles.
I have been noticing his skin has gotten a lot better
so we tried bubbles for the first time and he did not want to get out.

Friday afternoon AJ got off work early and we went and picked up a puppy.
He is a blue blood bulldog.
He is only 8 weeks old and such a good puppy.
He hasn't had an accident yet in the house..
More then likely it will happen eventually but
it hasn't yet.
He is a quick learner.
He has bright blue eyes
and saggy skin.

Mason is not too sure of him yet.
He likes to torture the puppy when he is sleeping.
But when he is awake and excited he likes to lick mason's face
and mason doesn't like it so much.
haha.

He is a keeper.

Anyways. Saturday AJ ran the rototiller over the yard.
In the garden and around the grass.
and then him and all his friends went and picked up a huge Wooden play structure
for Mason.
It has a slide and swings.
What more could a little boy want.
Honestly.
haha.
Mason got to meet My Grandpa Darrell {his great grandpa} for the first time.
He was in town to go to a sharks game with dad.
It was good to see him.

Today we have just been kicking back.
AJ mowed the lawns and worked on the back yard a bit
It looks really good back there.
I can't wait to get the garden going again.