Chasing smiles....

Mason has started flashing a gummy smile and I've spent the last few days trying my best to capture it. He's pretty stingy with them so I've gotten every face BUT the smiley face....Soon. I promise! 

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Four weeks!

Mason is four weeks old- a month! I can't tell through the sleep deprivation fog if the month has truly gone by as fast as I think it has or if it's trickled by at a snails pace the way it feels at 2 am. In any event, check out our little one month old:

You can't tell it by this picture, but he has three chins! THREE!  And an informal weigh-in on our home scale shows that he is well over 9 lbs- that's two pounds gained in one month! Keep up the good growin', Mason!

Play time

Mackenzie cannot wait until Mason can run around with her. Until then, she finds any way she can to hang out with him:

Snoozin'

I happened upon this sight when I went to find out what was taking so long to get Mason down for a nap. It was too sweet not to snap a few pictures:

Three weeks!

Mason is now three weeks old! His umbilical stump FINALLY fell off and so we celebrated with a bath. I suppose I should use the world " celebrate " loosely since I don't think any one of us particularly enjoyed the occasion.

Isn't a bath supposed to be soothing? Not for either of my kids! They both screamed through their first baths and, from the sound of it, the trend will continue:

Mackenzie had been waiting to give Mason a bath for two weeks. She was all set to rub him down with lotion and use the soft brush to brush his hair. Poor thing was a little shocked at the volume and duration of her brother's cry:

But after thing settled down, all were happy:

Mackenzie Park

Wouldn't you love to live a world where you can just rename things after yourself on a whim? There are several parks in our city but the biggest one is now known to us as " Mackenzie Park" although Mackenzie did say that she would be willing to change it to " Mackenzie and Mason Park" when Mason is four and can play at the park, too. Poor little brother. It's gonna be a long four years!

Mack catching some air on the swings:

While Mack played her heart out ( and made some new friends, too) , Mike followed close by. Mason and I found a shady spot to sit and watch the action:

Mother's Day

As seems to always be the case, Mike had to work the night before and the night of Mother's day so he did his best to improvise and make me feel special! He came home from work carrying a Chai tea latte ( my favorite Starbucks drink) and the sweetest card and pulling a garden cart full of herbs for my herb garden!  After he scurried off to bed, I packed up the kids and we headed to my mom's for the day. My dad BBQ'd for us and it was a nice relaxing day. You can imagine Mason got more than his fair share of squeezes while Mackenzie and the cousins played outside the entire day. You can bet we were all ready for bed that night!

My mom with Mason on Mother's day! He's her 8th grandchild :

My cart full of goodies from Mike:

Our little herb garden! Grow babies, grow!

Mack after her first taste of cilantro: