Grandpa's Helper

Thanks for the pictures Debbie, these are too cute! Mason stayed to the night with Grandma and Grandpa Lawrence on Wednesday while I went to a concert out of town. I'm sure this is only the first of many pictures of Mason helping Grandpa.

Easter Sunday

Sunday we had brunch at Grandma and Grandpa Lawrence's and then dinner at Grammy's house. Mason got a savings bond and 5 easter baskets. I think he did pretty well on goodies! He wasn't too interested in hunting eggs but when he saw what was inside the egg he got very excited. He loves snacks! The eggs had puffs, cheetos, goldfish, apple-jacks, and mini marshmallows. The easter bunny brought Mason a little car that you can scoot around on or change into a tall push around thing. He likes driving backwards in it. He backs it up to his toys to get whatever one he wants. He loves getting up by the computer chair and spinning the chair in circles. He never gets tired of it either! Monday night we gave him a green frog marshmallow thing and he demolished it. His face was green all around and he was covered in sugar. I had never seen a child so sticky in my life. It was hilarious to watch. Needless to say we got a bath after this.

My 1st Easter Egg Hunt

Saturday we went to the 1st annual Orschelns easter egg hunt. Mason had his picture taken with a real baby bunny and baby chicks. They were all so cute. Mason was so fascinated with all of the animals. He enjoyed petting the bunny a little too much. I was afraid we were going to be buying a dead bunny to take home. Mason's hunting consisted of sitting his tush down and marking his territory. In his reaching area he was able to get three eggs! (more candy than he needed)

Finally!

Finally, yesterday Mason crawled! He looks like a worm/caterpillar, but he has finally started to use his arms and knees to scooch around. For some reason he thinks he needs to use his head too, it's so funny to watch. I just figured he'd skip crawling and go to walking. The story to how this all came about is: Yesterday we woke up in a great mood, got dressed, and then decided to head to the kitchen for some breakfast. As I knelt down to pick him up he pulled up on me to stand so I decided we'd walk to the kitchen together. I held his hands as he walked down the hallway and he stopped by the door to wave to Rosie. (too cute!) We were so excited when Rosie decided to follow us to the kitchen. We made a pit stop by our monkey ball drop and plopped there to sit on our tush to play. Suddenly Mason spotted Rosie's chickie stick across the room. He plopped on his tummy and I thought nothing of it because he does this all the time but just never goes anywhere. Next thing I know Mason is scooching across the room and had picked up her chickie stick to put it in his mouth. eww.. Everytime I would move it away from him he would go after it. Rosie finally got tired of this and walked over, picked it up into her mouth, and took it away from him. Me: Haha, this is hilarious. Rosie: Damn baby, first he gets all the attention, then he has all these toys i'm not allowed to play with, all kinds of blankets i can't snuggle on, he gets special food i don't get any of, and NOW he's going after my treats! As if I wasn't excited enough yesterday about this new crawling business, Mason wowed me again! He has sort of been clapping for a while now, he claps his tummy, claps the air, but yesterday he also started clapping for real and can make noise. He was so fascinated with this new form of noise he can make that while we were laying down attempting to take a nap he was clapping. Today as I was on the computer Mason was playing with his monkey ball drop and was standing as usual. The music went off and he started cracking up. I looked over to see what was so funny and he was dancing! He was shaking his little tushie in the air laughing so hard. Jamie and I were cracking up. This has been a very exciting few days. I don't know where my little baby went but this little boy sure is fun! Of course all of these things happen when I don't have a cord for my camera! Luckily today I thought I would use my video camera that I always forget about. Hopefully I can load some dance footage later.

Easter Pictures

Don't have much time to blog right now but I had to post this picture. The fam went to Joplin today to Sears so Mason could have some easter pictures taken. He of course was not into it... I was really happy though with the lady and how quick she was. I'm learning with his outfits in pictures that the motto is "less is more." Maybe his one year pics he'll be in a plain white onesie! At least then I won't have to worry about fidgeting with it! I bought the bunny that's in the picture with Mason a few weeks ago to put in his easter basket and I love how it looks "old." He seems to really like it too although the picture looks like he just killed it by the way he's holding it by the ears. Haha.

Much Better!

By the weekend Mason was feeling much better. Last Thursday we went wedding dress shopping with Aunt Mal and Grammy. Mason was sooo good. He loved all of the mirrors in the store. I was drenched in sweat though by the time we left because these days he wants to be on the go at all times. I was holding his hands the entire time so he could walk all over the store. He loves walking! Saturday I got out of work due to the crazy snow storm that we had. Jamie and I knew it would be slow and that it would be easier for me to stay home than have one of his grandparents come into town to watch him. (darn the luck, no work for me!) Last week I also got Mason's 9 month pictures back. (he was actually 8 1/2 months at the time) I was sooo happy with them! It was a photographer from olan mills and all of the profits went to some daycare. It seriously took five minutes and Mason smiled so well for him. Since it's killing me not to blog and post new pictures due to my usb cord being broke, I decided today to scan some of his pictures. Last night Jamie and I were watching a movie and Mason was holding on to his bounce center walking all around by hanging on with one hand. He sure thought he was hot stuff! He pulls up on everything now too! Life sure has changed in our house! I still can't believe how big he is getting. I see him everyday but every week he has grown. Every day becomes more and more fun as he grows into his own little person. He sure has his own personality. He knows exactly how to get his way too. It's hard to believe in just a few months we'll be celebrating his 1st birthday.

sick sick sick

This has by far been the worst week for poor little Mase. This is his first time being really sick. He has a terrible cough, bad runny nose, fever and most likely a sore throat since these are all of my symptoms from last week. On top of all of this I think our top little toothies will be coming in soon. We are drooling like crazy and want to bite down on everything. It will be a few days before I can post any pictures because Mason has also drooled on the USB cord for the camera and ruined it. We have tried some new foods this week! Mommy's favorite thing when she is sick is chocolate pudding! Mason hasn't had a great appetite this week so I thought he would enjoy some pudding. He hated it! Haha! Just kidding! He loved it. We also tried some homemade mac n cheese the other day. He ate it very well. Our third new food wasn't really to eat, just to chew on. Beef jerky! Sounds crazy but our doctor is the one who told us he gave it to his kids when they were teething. Mason was occuppied for at least 30 minutes with this. After it starts getting broke down enough for them to swallow you just take it away so they don't actually eat it. It was a great idea! Mason had some medicine called in for him a few days ago but I feel like he's getting worse so we are going back to the doctor later this afternoon. Hopefully we get something strong to get rid of this nasty thing! I am still not 100% better from last week. I feel soooo bad for giving it to him but I tried to stay out of his face as much as possible. I even had my mom take him one afternoon so he wouldn't be near me. One more interesting thing in Mason's life: we can stand all by ourselves! He is very good at standing but gets so mad when I let go of him. I think he's a bit too sheltered and doesn't want to do anything on his own. He will stand for quite a while on his own until he realizes I don't have a hold of him and then starts grabbing for my hands. This is what makes us fall down and go boom. He is also doing very well with walking while we hold his hands. We just have to convince him that he can do it without us! Maybe we skipped crawling for a reason, who knows!