Four Months of Mason.....

What an action-packed 4th month for Mase!

Although we had a few posts earlier about Auntie Diana's NC visit, Mason's First Thanksgiving and a special visit from GaGa and PopPop Valente, we wanted to wrap up month 4 by highlighting some of the things that Mase has been doing for the last few weeks.   

Mason took for the air for the first time this month as we boarded a flight from Charlotte to Newark in preparation for a busy weekend with friends and family.  The trip started with our annual Chrismukah Party where we got to celebrate the holidays with our closest and oldest friends.  This year's party had so many new additions with the crew adding 5 babies and a new fiance! By the look of these pictures, you can all tell that these parties will never be the same for any of us :)

Also while up North, we had Mason's Baptism.  We are very grateful that so many of our family and friends were able to make it out for his special day.  A big thanks to everyone that made the day such a success especially Mason's Godparents Diana Gebhardt and Dominick Valente.  It was a beautiful ceremony and celebration dinner in Freehold.



Mason still refuses to nap regularly and fights us each and every time he gets tired.  He hates napping in fear that he will miss out on some of the fun when he shuts his eyes!  Luckily he is sleeping 10-12 hours at night so the cat napping during the day is usually enough to keep him content.  

It certainly has been a month of firsts --thumb sucking, sitting in the high chair and rolling over!  Most recently he began to eat real food!  Being one of DaDa's favorites, we decided to start off with carrots.  From the picture you can tell there is about as much on the outside of his mouth that makes it into his stomach :)  

Look forward to our 5 month post since we'll have so much to talk about with Mason's first Christmas and New Years Eve!  


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GOBBLE GOBBLE GOBBLE...

Mason celebrated his First Thanksgiving with Grandma Lynn, GaGa Martha and PopPop!  We have so much to be thankful for this year and really had a great day filled with lots of yummy yummy food, drinks and relaxin!

Mason got to sit in his high chair for the first time and enjoy the Turkey Day feast table side like such a BIG BOY.  He absolutely LOVED it!

Mase even found his thumb during one of his many holiday siestas.  He is not quite a pro thumb sucker yet but he very well may be on his way if this keeps this up :)

And before we realized it, he finally got himself to roll over!  Check out this video of him in his playroom rolling over from his tummy to his back.....

The holiday festivities commenced with a Skype date with Auntie Diana and a little bit of black Friday shopping!  What a trooper Mase was and what an AWESOME first Thanksgiving he had!

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Mason Starts Month Four with a BANG!

Auntie Diana came to visit while her studio was closed last week.  She and Mason had so much fun together! It may be a little early, but since we are very busy the next few weeks and Auntie was in town, we decided we were going to go and meet Santa Claus! The elves took a very long time getting things ready but Mason was such a good boy while we waited patiently on line. When he finally got to Santa's lap, he made sure to show him the most serious face he could so he knew he meant business :)




Mason also got a chance to eat off of a spoon while Auntie was in town!  He was eating 8 oz. of formula at night and even wanting more at some feedings so we decided to add a little cereal into the mix.  


Although, he is definitely not LOVING it, he is getting more interested in the spoon each day.  We can't wait to start to introduce fruits next! 


At first he really thought eating off the spoon was GREAT but look how quickly he changed his mind! Check out this video.

Mason also helped us deck the halls and had a great time decorating for our favorite holiday while listening to Alvin and the Chipmunks' Christmas CD!

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Month Three Just Flew By!

Wow! Last month we actually said we were going to start keeping up by updating weekly but that obviously did not happen! Another month flew on by and now our BIG BOY is 13 weeks old! It is just getting better every day if that is even possible!

Mason had a great month and enjoyed every second of it with family and friends! We kept the traveling to a minimum but still managed to keep extremely busy.
Along with the Wingates, we enjoyed Carolina Balloonfest 39 and have amazing pictures from the beautiful day out.


For Mason's 1st Halloween, he managed to keep the costume on for about 10 minutes before he had had enough! We managed to get a few shots of him in costume but if you dig in, you'll see shots of him not too thrilled :)

We were lucky enough to have great friends come visit us - The Philips. After a well behaved dinner out at our favorite Mexican restaurant, Mase went to sleep and the adults got to play by the fire!


He is sleeping for longer stretches now but still manages to surprise us every once in a while by waking up in the middle of the night. He's also close to rolling over - check out this video.

Oh so close!

Mason is also FULL of personality and EXTREMELY impatient-like his mommy! He is smiling more often and starting to make louder noises and coos as well! He can sit up in his bumbo all by himself and also grabs whatever toy you put in front of him almost effortlessly!

Maternity leave ended on November 1st and it has been a crazy week to say the very least. A few tears were shed saying goodbye but we are making sure to maximize our time with the little man in the morning and evenings! It is just never enough!


Mase also had fun at his first birthday party - Happy 1st Birthday Skype Greenberg!


This month, we are celebrating Mason's 3 month birthday with his Auntie Diana who will be visiting for the week!

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