9 Months!

On Friday, the Little Man was NINE months old!!!  I mean, in three months I will be posting blogs about his first birthday party!  (which I am already buying things for)

Here he is on Friday morning!

He would not stay still!!!

(I will upload the block pictures tomorrow.)

9 Month Stats:

Weight: maybe 19 lbs??

Height:  Long!  haha

*Crawls (finally real crawling after army crawling forever!)

*Pulls up on anything

*Walks around the coffee table

*Thinks you can let go, but instantly falls down!!!  (we have to watch you like a hawk!)

*Says da-da, and finally saying ma-ma

*waves bye-bye (backwards)

*Takes 4 5oz. bottles of formula

*Eats cereal for breakfast, veggie/fruit for lunch, veggie/yogurt for dinner

*Snacks on any of the puffs, etc.

*Quite possibly the sweetest, cutest little boy ever =)

Here he is playing with his toys this weekend.  We had a very relaxing couple of day...lots of playing and eating I feel like!  Look at these sweet little hands...

Today, Mason and I went to one of my good friend Julie's baby shower.  They are having another sweet little girl and Payton is gonna have so much fun with her baby sister when she arrives!  I picked my mom up before we headed over there and snapped a quick picture with my parents.

He did so well at the shower, especially since it started about nap time!

And here he is when he woke up from his nap after the shower...

Sleepy little boy with bed head!!!

I didn't take a single picture at the shower!  Im so mad at myself because he got to hang out with my friends and friends' moms and had such a good time!  We also went to Corky's tonight with John's parents and again didn't take a single picture...I am going to have to hire someone at the rate

im going!

Last tidbit...

Last Saturday when my parents had Mason while we were in Illinois, my mom and Mrs. Connie took Brinkley and Mason to have their pictures taken!  I was so surprised and so happy!  They are so cute!! 

 Aren't they too cute?!?!?!

All About Mason

Hello!!!  I am getting so big and I make all kinds of faces and sounds! =)

I love this picture, it is so funny!

He loves taking off John's glasses...

But he does not like wearing them! =)

"Mom, the flash is waaaaay to bright!!"

"Okay, much better!"

I just think he is the cutest, orange nosed little boy ever! =)

He has been doing so good lately.  Just learning new things daily!  Today, Mrs. Pat said he stood all day!  He wouldn't sit, crawl, or play...just stood at the couch and walked the length of it back and forth all day!  I think he might just be the most active little boy in the world!!!  He makes me tired just watching him!

Wedding Weekend

John and I both took off last Friday and headed to Illinois for our friend Jeff's wedding!  We had never been to Carbondale (and all the little towns around it) and I wasn't sure what to think.  Well it is beautiful!!! 

Friday night we went to the rehersal dinner which was at a local winery.  Turns out they have like 12 or so wineries there. I had never been to one.  Our view was sooo pretty!

This is an awful picture...I was slouching because my heels made me quite a bit taller than John. 

Here is Ben and Melissa (our cabin mates)

All the boys:

(John, Ben, Brian, Jeff "The Groom", Will)

All of the guys pretty much were roomates throughout college.

All of us minus Brian's girlfriend Clair who couldn't make it. 

Ok, well I didn't get the picture I wanted (should've just brought the good camera out) but there were bats flying around EVERYWHERE!!!  I think they like the grapes??  I don't know, but I had never seen any before!  (you can't see any in this picture either)

Saturday morning, the guys (9 of them) played golf on the course that our cabins were on which was pretty neat.  Us girls went to eat breakfast at the lodge in the state park and then decided to lay out at the pool there where I got fried!!!!  The cabins were pretty cool where we stayed so I took some pictures...

There was a tower by the lodge that we ate at and we decided to walk to the top of it.

***I thought this picture of the tower was pretty cool***

Here was the view...

So I guess this is a long post because we are only at the actual wedding now!!  Here is John and I at the reception.

Brian and Will

Ben and Melissa and us

The female singer in the band singing to Brian.  haha

So the guys were all in the same fraternity at Ole Miss.  Each year when they had a new pledge class after rush, they had to all take a picture on a firetruck.  (i think it was a symbol of Pike or something?)  Well, there was a firetruck in front of the reception place and Will got all sentimental on us and made them all take a picture.  =)

It was dark and the pictures did not turn out well.

This is the only picture of the bride and groom I got!!!  I know...terrible. 

John, Brian, Will, Catey

All in all, we had a GREAT time celebrating two wonderful people and hanging out with great friends!  It was so good to see everyone!  Jeff is one of the nicest guys I know and he and Jenna are perfect for each other.  We are so happy for them.  Its about time she became a Dusch!!!  (yes, you pronounce the name just as it looks!)  They own the name though...just before group pictures were taken Jenna said, "On the count of three, everyone say Dusch's!!!!!"  It was hilarious!

But I also wanted to say, if anyone ever needed a place to go with someone special where you just wanted a close, relaxing trip...this would be the place!  They have small lakes with beaches, cute cabins and lodges everywhere, and these wine trails I was talking about earlier.  You can take a tour of several wineries!  It really would've been really fun to do!  And it is only three to three and a half hours away!

 I will post a couple of pictures of the Little Dude in a minute on a seperate post!

It's Been A While!!

This week has gone by so fast and I haven't blogged once!  It might have something to do with the fact that I will have to admit that I didn't take ONE picture of Mason on the fourth!  I know...I'm horrible.  I never even thought about it!!

For the fourth, we went to Mr. Charlie and Mrs. Linda's house and had such a good time!  Mason was MUCH better in the water this time and he had tons of fun.  It is just so hard to get that little guy to take a nap when there is so much going on!

Saturday all three of us went to CiCi's Pizza.  I don't really know why we went there but it was yummy.  Mason got to sit in the big boy high chair and chew on some pizza crust.  He loved it! =)

We have had a good week.  Well John has been working his little tail off and has been getting home late, but nothing too exciting has been going on.  Tonight, I laid Mason on the floor while I folded the laundry and he headed into the kitchen.  I didn't hear him for a second so I went in there to check on him and this is what I found...

As you can see, he decided the dog food was much better than his paci!!  I swear it took him not even 30 seconds to do this!!!  After I got the dog kernal out of his mouth (yes, he had managed to get one in there), I had to get a picture.  I don't really think it left a good taste in his mouth by the look on his face here!!

Here  he is going in for more!!!

Look at that sweet, innocent face. 

I feel like we are already chasing after him and he isn't even walking!!!

This weekend we are headed to Illinois for one of John's good college friend's wedding!  Hope everyone has a good weekend!

Good Morning!

Hope everyone is enjoying a relaxing, long weekend!!  I know we are!!  After Mason went to bed last night, John and I caught up on the most recent Harry Potter movie which was great!!  It came out a long time ago but for some reason we never saw it.  I cannot wait for the last two to come out. 

This morning we woke up bright and early and I made some cinnamon rolls.  Yum!  John and Mason watched a little ESPN Sportscenter while they were waiting on breakfast.  (Mason of course had cereal...not the cinnamon rolls!) 

It is 10:30 and we have already had breakfast, finished the laundry, finished the edging of the last flower bed, and laid six bags of mulch!!  We are on a roll. =)

We have a fun crawfish party to go to this afternoon (minus the crawfish b/c they haven't been able to catch any in 2 weeks due to the early heat).  Mason has been looking forward to it so he is taking a long nap now! =)