Thankful

Dear Mason,

This Thanksgiving I am more thankful than ever!

I am thankful that you have such a cute personality and sense of humor that keeps your Daddy and me laughing all the time.

I am thankful for your curiosity of everything around you- plugs, cords, the cat, your feet, leaves on the ground. Its helps me to remember how important the small things in life are.

I am thankful that you are such a healthy baby.

I am thankful for your sweet smile......it melts my heart and brightens my day!

I am thankful for your cute little baby babbles- even if they are at 4 am!

I am thankful for your precious laugh- its my favorite sound in the entire world!

I am thankful that God has blessed our lives with you for the past 7 months!
You have given us the best Thanksgiving we could ever ask for.

Things are finally slowing down!

I haven't posted in a while because things have been a little hectic here! Since my last post, we closed on our new house, moved into our new house and closed our our old house! We had two weeks in between closing on the new and old house so it was nice to be able to move gradually. It also meant though, that we being the procrastinators that we are, waited until the night before closing to finally empty out the junk that had been occupying our attic. Wow, you don't realize how much stuff you can accumulate in only three years! Even if we were moving up until the very last second, we are finally DONE and all in one place! We are so happy to be settled in before the holidays so that Mason can enjoy his first Christmas in the new house!

Mason has been up to a lot of new things lately! He went for his six month appointment last week and is 18 lbs and 28.5 inches long! That puts him in the 55th percentile for weight and the 95th percentile for height! His doctor said that if he continues to grow at this rate, he will be 6'2!


He also had a new cousin born- Austin Chase Tye! Little Austin is the 4th grandson in the Tye family (no girls yet!) and the 3rd baby born in 2009! I can't wait to watch these little guys grow up together! Here's a picture of all four grandsons!

Mason has been loving the cooler weather! Every time we go outside he still looks a little shocked by the cool wind hitting his face! We took a walk on a beautiful fall day and took a few pictures.


Have a great weekend!

Mason and Presley

So it seems that at only 6 months old, Mason has his first girlfriend. He actually has three or four but we won't get into that! Here are Mason and Presley:



We became friends with her parents in our birthing classes at the hospital. The crazy thing is we had the same original due date and then ended both having them two weeks early a day apart! Its so much fun to get Mason and Presley together to play because they are developing at the same rate and doing all the same things at the same time! Here are some pictures of the young lovebirds!



Two months old!

Three months old!
Five months old!
Six months old! (clearly she is more into her jacket than him!)

My little dinosaur!

Last Saturday evening we finally had the beautiful October weather that I have been missing this year so Jared and I decided to head out on a family walk. We drove over to a really neat area near our house called Adriatica. It is a village that is being built to look like a town in Croatia! All of the buildings are amazing and have so much detail! When we arrived at Adriatica, they just so happened to be having a Fall Festival! Mason's Halloween costume was in the car (for some reason more and more of his stuff is in the car and less in his room) so I quickly changed him and off we went! It was so fun to see the kids in their costumes and we got some cute pictures of our own little dinosaur!


The beautiful buildings at Adriatica:
Daddy and the dinosaur
Mason and Mommy

Fun at the Pumpkin Patch!

Yesterday we took Mason to the Flower Mound pumpkin patch! It is the cutest place, has lots of great photo ops and is FREE! It's great! Mason loved exploring all of the sights and sounds that were so new to him. He wouldn't even look at the camera in many of the pictures because he was so amazed at where he was! Here are some pictures from our day.
Not quite sure what to think and wondering why we are sticking him in this strange pot.He loved the scarecrow and sat next to him laughing and playing with his straw!Mason and Mommy at the pumpkin patch.I love that him and Jared are making the same face here! He was too interested in the huge pumpkin to smile at the camera!


I love this picture!
They give you these wagons to carry your pumpkins around in!

We had so much fun and can't wait to go back next year! I am sure that then we will be chasing Mason through the pumpkins!

5 Months!

I can't believe that our little man is 5 months old! That is almost halfway to a year! It seems so crazy and he is growing up so fast! In his 5 month picture he looks so much older to me...more like a toddler and less like a baby. Here is what Mason is up to this month.
-He is about 17 pounds and 28 inches long! He is getting so tall!
- He has one bowl of rice cereal a day and is starting to like it! He is getting much better about using a spoon and less and less cereal is on his bib each time!
-He is laughing all the time! He's so much fun and especially likes it when his Daddy makes him laugh!
-He is rolling EVERYWHERE! I can't leave him anywhere because when I come back he will have rolled several times.
-He loves meeting new people and loves to entertain them.
-He is starting to sit up. He still needs support from his hands but is doing better every day!
-He taking more naps in his crib or pack and play and less in his swing! This is a huge milestone because the swing used to be the only way to get him to sleep!
-He is starting to wake up from naps happy and not crying!
-He loves pulling on hair, necklaces and anything else he can get his hands on! I am pulling my hair up more and more these days!
-He still does not have a tooth but I am hoping it will be any day now. He is teething like crazy!
-His favorite game is peek-a-boo, it makes him laugh every time!
-He has discovered how to scream/squeal when he is happy and does it all the time. I am sure it is annoying to others but its hilarious to us. The expression on his face after he does it is priceless, almost like he has no idea where the noise came from.

Happy 5 Month Birthday Mason!

For Sale!

So after months of going back and forth on what to do, we have finally decided to try and sell our house! We love our current home but know that we will outgrow it a few years. We figure that with rates being so low and home prices down, right now is a good time to attempt to make the move to a bigger house. The whole home selling process has been way more stressful that I would have expected! I am a huge fan of all HGTV real estate shows...they pretty much take up our entire dvr. I thought somehow that selling our home would be as exciting as one of these shows to me. Ummm okay I was completely wrong here. The process of getting a house sparkling clean and show ready, hiding all of Mason's million baby toys, leaving and driving around aimlessly for two hours while your house is being shown and then not even knowing if you will find a new house you like when your current one sells is stressful to say the least! I've made a list of the not so fun moments of selling your home below.

-When your house is being shown you are given a two hour window of when the buyers will come. Chances are they will only stay for ten minutes and might come right at the beginning of the window but you have no way of knowing that. Therefore you have to stay gone for the entire two hours! That is easier said than done with a 5 month old!

- Realtors are not always on time for showings and sometimes they come early! Last Sunday morning Jared and I were frantically cleaning and getting the house ready to show. We had mops and brooms everywhere, Mason was crying in his jumper and we were running around like crazy! 40 minutes before our scheduled "window" a realtor knocks on our door! Jared answers and the lady asks if we knew we had a showing. We politely tell her that the showing was supposed to begin in 40 minutes and that we are still in the process of cleaning. Without even apologizing the realtor looks at her watch gives us a mean look and leaves!

- Always double check the dates for showings! Last night, Jared and I thought we had a showing at 6:45. We got everything ready to go, ate an early dinner and even made cookies for the prospective buyers. We come back an hour later to find no cookies gone! We figured either the people for some strange reason did not like cookies or they just did not show. This morning we looked at our showing schedule again and noticed that the showing is for tonight not last night!

Hopefully our home will sell quickly and this will all be over soon! I am hoping we find a new house that we can stay in for many, many years so we don't have to go through this again!

Because I can't make a post without a picture of Mason, I am adding some new ones below. Jared plays guitar and piano and plans to teach Mason how to play both of them one day. Here are some shots of Mason getting an early lesson!