2009- In Rewind

I can't believe that 2009 is almost over! I still remember thinking how strange it was when it was about to be the year 2000...now it is almost 2010! This has been an amazing and memorable year for our family and one that we will never forget! Here are some of my favorite highlights!

We found out we were having a BOY on December 23! (I figure that was an important event and close enough to 2009 that I should include it!) Here is me in almost 2009 at 19 weeks pregnant! Its funny to think how huge I thought I was here....if I only knew what was coming!
In February, our precious nephew Liev was born! It is so neat that him and Mason are only 10 weeks apart in age. They already love to play together and I am sure they will continue to become closer as they get older!

In March and April we stayed busy getting last minute stuff done to prepare for Mason's arrival!

Here we are at an amazing dinner at Ziziki's for my 27th birthday with my parents. This just so happened to be exactly one month before Mason was born!

In May, our precious Mason was born! Our lives definitely have not been the same since!


Mason started smiling in June! It was the sweetest sight I have even seen!

In July, Mason took his first road trip to visit family in San Antonio!

Mason loved going swimming for the first time in August!

Mason went on his first plane ride in September to San Diego!

We had so much fun on Halloween with our little Dinosaur.

Mason loved his first Thanksgiving and had so much fun playing outside with his cousin Liev.


Mason's first Christmas was white one! It was a day we will definitely never forget!

I can't wait to experience all that 2010 has in store for us! I hope everyone has a wonderful new year!

Mason's white Christmas!

So for the first time in 83 years, Dallas had a white Christmas! It snowed ALL day Christmas Eve and stayed below freezing most of the day on Christmas so the ground was covered with snow all day! Here is a picture of what we woke up to on Christmas morning!


We hosted Christmas at our house and had a great time! It was so cute to watch Mason open his gifts, look at them for a second and then promptly try to eat the wrapping paper! I'm sure that by next Christmas the actual presents will be a lot more exciting to him!


We can't wait to celebrate many more Christmases with Mason and start holiday traditions of our own! I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas!

Seven Months!

I can't believe that my little man is 7 months old! It is unbelievable how fast time is flying! Mason has been really busy this month and developing more and more each day. Here is what he is up to:



- He loves taking naps in his crib! I think it is time to officially retire our swing because he finally seems to be okay with naps in the crib.

- He loves eating and has tried lots of new foods! This month we started giving him three meals a day and he likes almost anything we give him. A few of his favorites are squash, peaches, avocado, and baby yogurt! He is not such a fan of green vegetables such as peas and green beans but we are working on that! He also started eating puffs and loves them!

-He is now mobile! He's not quite crawling yet but loves to roll from one place to another or army crawl to get where he wants to go.

-He is pulling himself up! I'm thinking he may skip crawling altogether since he seems to only be interested in pulling up and standing! He is starting to "cruise" and walk around his toys holding on with one hand.

- His eyes are still blue but are starting to look like they might change color. They seem to be getting a little hazel in the center...I am so curious to know what their final color will be!

- He still only has his two bottom teeth but I can now see the top ones poking through! I can't wait to see him with four cute little teeth!

- He is so curious and wants to get into everything! He seems to be able to find the doorstop, cords, or plugs in a room in a matter of seconds and scoot his way over to attack them.


Here is a video of Mason pulling up on his favorite toy.

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