We have forward movement people!!!

Watch out world! Mason is on the move!! Several weeks ago he figured out how to turn in circles on the floor to get to toys that were all around him. Now he has figured out the sniper crawl! It is a very slow sniper crawl but he is for sure on the move. He can get his legs up under him but for now it's just his arms getting him around! Man this is so fun to watch!! He will also lean in when I say "kisses"! And as you can imagine this mommy was through the roof excited!! I can already see him becoming more and more independent and to have that little reminder that he is and will always be a momma's boy makes it all ok! Oh AND when we went to the doc Tuesday for the other have a his flu shot and he is 20lbs!!! Hopefully he got his daddy's height and not mine!

Catch up and some thoughts

Wow I feel like I haven't been on here in forever! Well, we made it through the whirlwind holiday time. I feel like it flew by! But I guess when you have 3 different families to visit in a 5 day time period it will seem that way. We drove to Marble Falls, Abilene and back and forth to North Austin 3 times! Oh and on top of that my sweet pea was sick. Poor baby! He had bronchiolitis. Like bronchitis but in a different part of the lungs. We had to do breathing treatments every 6 hours to help him breath better. Which for this Momma was a very scary thing! Oh of course my sweet boy took it like a champ! With the help of Baby Einstein videos of course. He is mesmerized by those things! He has a favorite little grey puppet that he laughs at everyt ime he comes on. It's so cute!! All this aside, we had a great first Christmas as a little family! We all were spoiled this year. However, Mason cleaned up! I don't think there is one toy out there that he didn't get. It was so fun to watch him open his presents. I would start a little piece and in seconds he was tearing into it, banging on the box and trying to get to the toy! He has played with every toy he got and loves them all! And the faces he makes as he tries to figure out what each button or moving part does are hilarious. You would think he was trying to figure out how to build a rocket! He is so serious.... until he figures it out. Then it is on!
We missed Grandma Nita's Christmas in Georgetown because of the kiddo being sick which is a bummer. But I hear it was quite the Party! We made it to Gran's Marble Falls Christmas though and got to watch all the little ones tear into all the goodies! Gran spoiled as usual. And she made me the sweetest quilt! It's a comfort quilt with a border of comfort scriptures that my sweet Pa picked out and it even has a patch of one of his shirts on it! I can't wait to cuddle up in it! The Christmas Eve/Day festivities at my parents house was perfect! MY BROTHER WAS HERE! He lives in Louisiana and does get to come home very often so any time we get with him is always a treat! We went to the candle light service at my parents church and then back to the house for some viddles and family time. Always such a good time!! Had so head home early though. Sweet Pea needed his rest for his first Christmas! Because he was sick, Mason slept in bed with us so we could keep him propped up. And I think Jonathan and I were more excited for him to wake up then he usually is! We immediately went to the living room to start opening our gifts to Mason. Jonathan and I did ours a couple days earlier. When I got my awesome new phone!!! I felt like I was in a dream watching Mason open everything up. I have wanted to be a mommy for so long and to have those special mommy moments. As I sat there watching Mason open and Jonathan video and take pictures I thought my heart would explode! God has blessed me beyond everything I have ever dreamed about! First a husband that loves me and his son with every fiber of his being. And does any and everything to make us happy and well provided for! And then the most perfect son!! This kid makes my world turn! I never knew things could be like this. A love like this is beyond explanation. Every time I look at him I am reminded of how much I love him AND what God's love for us must be like. Well, I don't think I could ever really know but I get a glimpse. OK I better wrap this one up. I could go on and on about all this! To sum it all up, Christmas was amazing ,as expected, and I am once again baffled at the blessings in my life! Until next time....

A jolt in the Christmas Spirit!

So now that Christmas is only days away I am really beginning to feel a jolt in the ole' spirit! As kids Christmas was so big and awesome and exciting. But the older I got it was really more about hanging out with the family and I didn't really get into much of it. Now that Mason is here I want to do everything! I want his Christmas memories of being a kid to be as awesome as mine are about how ours were as kids. Starting the day after Thanksgiving our house was turned into a winter wonderland! I am not exaggerating when I say Christmas threw up all over the house. PK had every inch of the house covered in something Christmas. On the tree all of our ornaments were in different sections and I would love going and looking at my section of the tree every year! There is the missile TOAD that hangs in the entry to the kitchen, the Wise men that my great Nana hand painted and many other staple Christmas decorations I looked forward to seeing every year. I will have to work up to the amount of decorations that she has but I want Mason to have that too. It just puts you in a good mood every time you look at it! It has changed a little since then, not the amount, but locations and the tree is a little smaller. Although I think there are more ornaments on it??
In addition to all of this something else has been stirring in my heart in regard to Christmas. Really trying to teach Mason the real reason for the season. We are not celebrating a jolly old fat man. We celebrate the birth of our savior!! I want to teach him about the real St. Nicholas and how he was a wealthy Saint that had lots of money and gave it away. That the Santa Claus we know today is the evolution of this Saint. I want to use Christmas to teach Mason of what baby Jesus' birth meant for us and still does today. I feel like all of this has gotten lost and we celebrate a jolly made up fat man and not the birth of our Lord. Now Grandparents don't freak out!! We won't be doing away with gift giving! We will just teach Mason that the reason we give gifts is to represent the gifts the wise men brought Baby Jesus.
I think I will leave this post on that note! Merry CHRISTmas everyone!!