Future Quarterback? Pitcher?

The "boy" in Mason is starting to really come out.  One of his favorite things to do is throw all of his different balls, and play catch.  Well, it's not quite catch but you get the drift!  Keeps him occupied for a pretty long time.  Wonder if we have a future quarterback or pitcher on our hands?  Hehe :)

I'll Do It Myself!!

Have I mentioned before that Mason loves to eat??

 :)

Mommy's Work Assistant

This morning I wanted to get some work done before Kelli got here, so I assigned Mason to some filing.  I think he's going to be a great assistant :)

On a side note, I have no clue how some people work from home and DON'T have help with their kids.  I'd get nothing done!

10 Months!

Yes, another month has gone by, and Mason is now 10 months old!  Life just gets better and better - for us and for him!  He is still such a joy, so happy and almost never fussy.  He's starting to crawl everywhere - still more of an army crawl but he's getting stronger every day and practices being up on all 4s.  He also loves to walk around holding our hands, and although he's still very unstable, he can stand holding on to the side of the couch or coffee table for a few minutes at at time, and is starting to move around like that.  He LOVES to eat, and is pretty much eating anything/everything we put in front of him.

Hard to believe in 2 months we'll be celebrating his first birthday!

Here's our 10 month photo shoot - as you can see, it's getting harder and harder to get him to sit still with Blue and Pooh, and he totally cracks me up as he throws around his sign.

 This one cracks me up - in case you can't tell, that's the paper flying through the air on the left.  Mason has just chucked it as far as he can.

Oh and in case you didn't notice his awesome shirt, check out these gators!

New Chair

We registered for this chair and I'd totally forgotten about it.  Mason's at the point now where we can start sitting together as a family for dinner (when it's made on time and everyone's home, that is!), but my problem was becoming distracting the little bugger while I tried to cook!  The other day I was in the garage and the box caught my eye and I realized it would be perfect...and I was right!

Last night it was just the 2 of us while daddy was at work, so I put him in there, and with the help of some green beans & peas we got dinner ready in record time!

I also learned that distracting him with toys wouldn't work...or at least, not unless I wanted to watch each of them immediately be thrown overboard :)

Playing Outside

Friday was gorgeous out, so we took the party outside our front door for a while during my lunch break.  I really love that my job allows me to enjoy these times with him!

Then after work Tristan & I took Mason down to the beach for a walk.  I'm not going to lie, I'm really, really, REALLY going to miss being able to do this once we move.  Makes me dread the big move, although I know it's for the best!

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

I'm off to LA tomorrow for 2 days for work and our work St. Patty's party (green beer for mommy, yay!).  Since I knew I'd be gone for Mason's first Irish holiday (hehe), I wanted to make sure he wore all his Irish attire this past weekend!

Gigi had this one made for him :)

With daddy at some friends house this past weekend.  Seems appropriate he wanted to get his hands on the beer.

This shot cracks me up, love Gracie the dog's cameo

HAPPY ST. PATRICK'S DAY!