13 Months

Mason, my cute little big boy! He is WALKING ALL THE TIME! On his 13 month old birthday we were at the mall and he walked all over the place. Matt was chasing him around and it was so super cute!!! Mace was being watched by all the mommies and they were so impressed with his walking abilities. And as you already know Mace is such a charmer with the ladies. He liked to follow ladies around, until he saw the train. The he was trying to walk as fast as he could to catch up with the little train that rolls around the mall.



Mace is still babbling. He knows who Archer, Mommy and Daddy are. And when we ask him were Daddy is he will turn and look at Daddy and give his cutest little smile. I sometimes think I hear him say "apple". I know I have heard it a couple of times. It is his fav thing to eat. He loves apples, and blueberries. He will pick out all the blueberries from his fruit and eat them all. He doesn't particularly like raspberries. He will eat them but prefers strawberries to them. Out of all the fruit he eats regularly the raspberries are the ones that end up on the floor for the dog.

Mason is such a sweet heart. He is in the squeezy hug and kisses phase and loves to give them all the time. He even gives little hugs to Archer when the mutt lets him. I love Mace more and more every single day. He is growing, learning and remembering new things and loves to explore everything. He is a little helper, or he thinks he is helping me. He loves to take things out of the dishwasher that I just put in, and tries to put them back in by himself but never where I put it. He tries to put his toys in bags, because he thinks he is cleaning up. Sometimes he does put his toy back in the basket where he found them but then just goes back and decides to play with it again. He loves to play with balls and roll them around all over the floor. He loves closing doors for me. Especially the fridge door. Whenever I open it up, he runs over as fast as he can and is waiting under the doors and will close them when I ask him to. He loves to imitate us too with sounds. He is just such a sweet little miracle.

Matt is loving working at this job again and loves working with his friends there. He comes home and plays with Mason and talks to him and he is such a great dad! I am still trying to workout almost every day. I am 11 lbs from my pre-pregnancy weight which is a miracle in itself considering where I was in the beginning of May, 40 lbs away! SERIOUSLY!!! I have an amazing nutritionist that has changed my life and eating habits. I fell better. My body doesn't hurt like it used to and I am happy with how things are developing. Also I don' have to work out 2-3 hours a day to obtain these results.  I am eating, a lot of food. Not always the food I want to eat but food that I know is good for my body. Anyhew in the next few weeks I am planning on surpassing my pre-pregnancy weight, and getting and staying out of the 200's for the rest of my life!!! And I will be half way to my goal so 3 big things coming up with just 1 little number. I just have to get to that little number for now and then see ya!

Anyhew enough about me. I hope that this post finds all of our friends and family well. We miss all of you!

Gma & Gpa Visit

Our week with my parents, Gma and Gpa, ended way too quickly for all of us. Mason had so much fun with them and giving them hugs and love and showing off his walking skills. We enjoyed trying new things, chocolate bowels made using balloons and cleaning up said chocolate when balloon decides to pop while the chocolate is still melted and splatters all over my kitchen, and eating lots and lots of yummy food!

~I have proof that Mace was born to play the piano. So when he is 14 and says that he is awful and can't play the piano I have proof otherwise.~

Mason has such a rigid schedule, by his own design, that most of the eating out we did was in the early afternoon. We had fun hanging around the house watching movies and Matt and I went on our first date alone in over a year. I know that sounds like a long time, but remember Matt was gone for the last year. We went to downtown C-ville and ate some yummy gelato and pizza by the slice and enjoyed the Avengers in the theater. We are going to try and have a date at least once a month without the kid. Now to find a babysitter.

~Gma and Mace having fun~

Matt returned back to his civilian job this past Monday. And Thursday was my first day alone with Mace since before Matt was home. I am out of practice apparently because I have been worn out by the end of the day. I am so thankful that I have the opportunity to be able to stay home with Mace all day and support Matt in his jobs! Yes jobs, Matt is going to be doing military on the weekends for the next few months to make up for the months of drill he missed while he was on active duty. Things have been good though! I love being a mom and watching Mason grow. He is getting more and more confident with walking everyday and will be walking in his own due time. We are getting our new couches next week, YEA!!!!! So I look forward for their arrival. We are donating these huge blue ones to a needy family. Giving them a little Christmas early and so they don't have to sit on just the floor anymore.

~Daddy and Mace chillin' watching cartoons! Soon we say good-bye to these blue monsters.~