Baby Dedication, Green Beans, and Car Seats

Addie and Lincoln were dedicated at church Sunday night. It was really special to have both the kids dedicated together. Below is all of us after the service. Getting all seven of us to look at the camera is virtually impossible, so this is what you get...

Addie tried green beans for the first time a couple of weeks ago. As you can see, she didn't enjoy them too much. However, the gag reflux went away after the third day. She's now mastered peas, carrots, and squash. She'll get to start the tastier fruits in another week or so.

Today I was trying to get out the door for work (hooray for only 16 more days of rushing out the door) when I found the kids like this. I have no idea how Mason even got in the car seat. Getting him out was a feat in itself. I call this the 'Hey! Get out of my car seat!' picture.

I tell you what...I CANNOT wait to be with my little comedian and his fiesty sister!

Teeny Weeny

Addie turned 6 months last week, and thus we had her 6 month check-up. She is doing great and growing well. BUT, she is tiny! She topped the scales at a whopping 13 lbs 4 0z. I was really hoping for her to weigh in around 15 lbs, but she'll probably won't get to that weight until she's 1!

You can see how tiny she is compared to her 6 month old cousin, Lincoln. We have to remind Linc not to eat her. He's one chunky monkey. I guess that's how it should be though...the boy big and the girl tiny. I definitely would not want it the other way around.


Addison completely surprised us all this week when she popped up on her hands and knees. I truly thought I would have at least 2-3 more months of a stationary baby....WRONG! She's going ot be off in no time. She can get her knees going, but she's not quite figured out how to move the arms. I give her another week before she's off... Besides popping up on her hands and knees, Addie has also taken a liking to yoga. She has mastered the 'plank' and 'down-dog' quite well...not kidding. It's hilarious! Next week I plan on introducing 'warrior 1'...okay, that part is a joke :)

Not too much in Mason news, except he his reading, reading, reading...or should I say repeating, repeating, repeating. He has Brown Bear, Brown Bear memorized and will read (recite) the book cover to cover without a mistake. He also reads Diary of a Worm which he will only repeat the same few phrases over from that particular book. If you have a toddler boy, I strongly suggest Diary of a Worm...it's really cute!

Happy Easter

Addie finally got big enough to play in the exersaucer. She loves it, and so do I. She's contained from rolling everywhere, and super happy! Mason's enjoying it too...for the second time around. Yesterday I was vacuuming and noticed Mason wasn't 'vacuuming' behind me anymore, so I went searching. I didn't have to go far. He had climbed in the exersaucer...WITH ADDIE! They were both stuck. With a lot of jigglin', wigglin', pushin', and proddin' I got out both kids with all limbs still attached!

First Cereal

Addie will be six months old on Thursday. We went ahead and tried her first cereal out. We waited a couple of weeks after Mason turned six months old, but since Addie is such the finicky eater we started her a little earlier to give her a good practice run. She did great. I was shocked. She apparently has been watching us eat and decided she wanted to do what the 'big people' do!

Mason had to supervise the entire time. He was so cute cheering her on. Each time she'd take a bite, he'd tell her, "Addison, good."

Fun at Ms. Melinda's

I love our babysitter for many reasons, but most of all I love that she sends random pics of the kids day. She has been so good to Mason for the last two years and has worked beautifully with Addie. Here are the latest pics she sent me...

Mason and Logan chillin' with the books.

Nothing like starting your morning watching Mickey Mouse Clubhouse...in bed.

I love this pic of Mase because you can rarely get a smile out of him when a camera comes out. He becomes so fascinated with the camera you can't get him focused off of it.

LUNCH TIME!!!

My sweet, sweet girl who thinks her fingers are yummy.

First Major Boo-Boo

The Friday before Spring Break was over Mason was laying on the counter and I told him to get down. Well, he did a nice little barrel roll off the counter, hit the bar stool, and landed face down on the floor. Scared me to death. I was literally two feet away from him, but the way he fell I was unable to grab him before hitting the ground. When I picked him up to see if he was okay, I could see the blood dripping from his chin. I called Steven at work and he met us at Urgent Care. No stitches. Apparently they don't do stitches on little ones anymore. So he got some nice butterfly bandaids to hold the wound together. It's healed up pretty nicely for it being only a week, but today it got reopened. Mason was playing with his cars and fell forward AGAIN. Yep, right on the same spot. At least we know what to do now. All I can say is he is a trooper! Not many tears and super excited for an Elmo bandaid.

And here's a pic of Addie because she hasn't really received any love on the past two blogs. She is definitely more aware these days. So aware, she still doesn't sleep too well. Wakes up once at night around 3am and fights the naps. Mason sure did spoil us! So here's a rare photo of her sleeping on Daddy.

Snow, Snow, Snow

Saturday it snowed and it snowed and it snowed. Oklahoma weather is always interesting, but snow in late March rarely happens. However, we were excited to play with Mase outside for his first outdoor snow experience. Poor thing has always had to be indoors during snow either because he's been sick or I was home alone with Mase and Addie. He had a lot of fun, but he wanted to dot the same things he does on nice weather days...ride his trike and push his car. He did however help out with the snowman.

Working on Mr. Snow

Riding his trike in the snow. He got pretty frustrated when the tires would get snow collected on them and he couldn't go forward anymore.

Pushing his car. You can pretty much see him do this anytime he's outside. I don't really get the fascination of pushing an empty car, but he'll do it all day if you let him...up and down the sidewalk...never tiring...never stopping. I guess I should be happy for his perseverance.