Fun weekend

We had a fun weekend this week - Saturday was an exciting day. We started off the day playing some guitar with daddy ,then Mason got to go see his first Robotics "Mall Day" where Grandpa John & Uncle Alan were both helping the Goddard team. He seemed to really enjoy all of the lights and was wide awake to spend some quality time with Grammy :)

After Robotics & lunch with both grandmas (while Mason slept!), we spent some time mall walking with Grammy. That was Mason's first trip to the mall and we had lots of fun just walking around.

It was an exhausting day for the little guy and he took quite a nap on the way home! Sunday was a little less exciting - but he got to wear his big boy shoes to church and he just looked so darn cute!!

I loved getting to take Mason to robotics as it was the 5 yr anniversary of Randal and I's first date and it was also the 5th time that I had attended robotics, since the first time when Randal introduced me to his family there...Randal keeps making fun of me for making a big deal about that, but I think it's awesome that 5 years ago this weekend I met and started to fall in love with my new best friend who I get to spend the rest of my life with...and now we have the sweetest little boy as a result! :)

Mommy and me

So I realized recently that we don't have any good pictures of Mason with me - I seem to always find myself behind the camera! So I mentioned this to Randal a week or so ago and tonight, he broke out the camera and snapped some pictures of Mason and I cuddling in the chair - so cute :) Hope you enjoy!

Playful...

Mason has been very playful lately - he has been loving spending time down on the floor and loves to watch Randal & I make fools of ourselves! Here are a few new pictures...he is getting so big! He has outgrown a few of our newborn outfits and now fits into some of the 3 month ones!

Giggles

Mason laughed this morning :) It was SO cute! I was getting ready to leave for work and Randal was talking to Mason and getting him to smile while he was in his swing and all of the sudden, there came this little giggle! It was adorable! :)

Meanwhile, Randal found this picture of him as a baby that looks JUST like Mason...everyone thought he was starting to look more like me, but WOW! He looks just like Randal!

Labor story...take two

Okay, so I finally got my labor story entered on my pregnancy blog - you can choose to read if you would like to :) Other than that, I just wanted to get down my thoughts on my pregnancy being over. It was kind of a rough road getting to this point, with all of our little issues and things to worry about on top of not feeling good pretty much the whole nine months. It felt like it would never end, but now that it has, I can look back and see the things that I will actually miss...

Probably the thing that I will miss the most is the feeling of Mason rolling around in there, even though it made me quite uncomfortable sometimes and kept me awake more than a little bit, i think it was his way of letting me know he was ok in there. It was always quick to cheer me up when I was feeling down about something, he always seemed to know when I needed a kick in the gut! :)

The next thing that I really miss is Randal playing "Where's Mason"...that was the sweetest thing and Mason would always play along :)

The last thing that I will really miss is everyone doing everything for me :) that was nice...

One thing that I will not miss is the exhaustion - everyone told me that a newborn would be even worse, but they apparently didn't really know how I felt for 9 months...I feel SO MUCH better now! I can actually keep my eyes open all day long and I haven't been able to do that for a long time! Yay Mason!!!

Well the big guy has had his bath and is in bed, so I should get there too...

All smiles!

This week Mason has been smiling A LOT! We've gotten a couple of pictures, but I thought that this one was the best by far! Even Carrie (the sitter) noticed and wrote on his "summary of the day" that he was smiling and talking a ton on Friday - she even took a couple of pictures herself! He's getting really big and has out grown a couple of outfits. His hair is coming back in on top and it is still red! :)