Category: Firsts

mason update

so I was thinking I need to blog more on mason more often. Time goes by too quick, and it is worth noting the stuff he does. So without further ado..

he recently discovered pointing. it rules. like in the last week or so… so you can say ‘where is mommy?’ and he’ll point at rebecca. kitty, daddy, etc. it is cool. so now he is posting at everything. it is really funny.

so big… you can go up to mason and say ‘how big is mason?’ and he’ll smile all big and put his arms up in the air. ‘so big!’. that is in the last 2-3 weeks. funny stuff.

he is still talking up a storm, not that we can’t understand most of what he is saying. But his first word was kitty. that was about a month ago I would wager. He LOVES the cat. He loves the cat, he loves the cat magnets. he loves the cats in the books. ‘kitty kitty kitty’. it rules.

he is still crawling, army crawl style. he will get up on all fours and bounce around, and will occasionally crawl around for a few steps, but then he is back to the army crawl.

he likes standing but he isn’t super good at. he can’t pull himself up, but in the last week or 3 you can pull him up and lean him against the couch, ottoman, whatever and he can stand there holding on for a little bit. and if you hold him up and walk him around, he will step. he is getting the balance thing down.

Laughter…

So we found out yesterday that Mason is ticklish and can laugh. I can home from work and he was laying on his back on his play mat. He smiled and seemed happy to see me. I was playing with him and I tickled his ribs and he started laughing! It was pretty funny. He had made a noise once or twice in the past that we assumed was laughter, but we weren’t sure. But it was repeatable, we could tickle his ribs or his arm pits and he would laugh. It was funny stuff. I may have to take come ghetto video of it…

Through the night…

Although he has always slept WELL, Mason actually slept through the night last night. 7 hours straight. I woke up this AM, looked over, and thought to myself “hey, it is time to get up and Mason didn’t wake up at all!”

Sounds good to me! I hope this becomes a trend. It would be a nice trend. In the recent past he has been getting up once per night for feeding, which itself isn’t too bad. But this all nighter thing would be a nice change!

Go super advanced baby go!

So Mason rolled over today, at 2 weeks. Which makes sense cause all he ever tries to do is roll over. He sits in his cosleeper and tries and tries and tries and grunts and grunts and grunts as he tries to move. Rebecca set him in his crib on his back and went to the bathroom, when she came back, he was on his stomach, and was holding his head up. Last night he was on his side and kept trying to swing his legs around to get onto his stomach.

Hopefully this is indicative of things to come and he will be totally strong in a toxic spill kind of way and will be able to lift cars up and stuff. That would rule.

Yeah Doctors!

So we had our first pediatric appointment today with our pediatrician this AM and it went well. We were initially concerned as the doctors at the hospital were SO concerned about the bilirubin and whatnot. The pediatrician was very calm, collected, and knowledgeable and told us that our bilirubin levels were totally normal and safe. He pointed out that he is above weight (good thing) by 5 ounces and he looked great. Doctor said “your baby is perfect”. Which of course we already knew, but you know… 😉 But overall it was just nicer to have a doctor that was very upbeat, positive, and ran along the same lines that we did. Phew. Rebecca was very relieved.

The car ride with Mason was fine, he seems to be fine riding in the car. Odd thing, both the passenger side rear seats in both cars have SOME issue with them, so the baby has to ride behind the driver. Which is usually me. Which means that I have to ride all forward and what not. It sucks. I need to get those things fixed. Soon.