This Week

As my maternity leave is coming to an end (only 2 weeks left!) I am treasuring every moment that I have with my little man and we are having such a good time!  I have finally started exercising again and I invested in a jogging stroller!  I bought this one from my friend, Haley, who gave me a great deal!  This is a picture of our first outing and, as you can tell, he loved it.

We have spent some time at the pool and outside in the bouncy seat.  The bouncy seat does not provide enough entertainment anymore so we don't like to stay in that for very long.  Notice that he is wearing Luvs diapers from the one pack we received (we mainly got Pampers) and more on that later...

Mom and Dad came down this past week for a conference my mom had to attend for work.  So lucky it was in Montgomery!  Dad kept Mason for me a while so I could run errands and then Mom and Dad kept him while I made my first "trip" away from him up to Birmingham.  Even though I was only gone for a few hours, I was really nervous about being an hour and a half away from Mason.  However, I knew he was in good hands and of course, he was just fine.  

On Saturday we were invited to come to Lake Martin.  We packed up Mason and all his gear and headed to Tallassee.  Here he is in his swim shirt and swim hat.  We have a hat that matches his swimsuit, but it is a size newborn -toddler (?) and covered up his entire head.

We put him in a life jacket just to be on the safe side....

I think he was really confused but too sleepy to care....

Here is our ride.  That boat was put together by our friend Ben B. and some high school guys as a summer project.  It is great and perfect for cruising the lake with a baby!

These are Ben B.'s dogs, Pete and Berkley's buddies, who always provide entertainment!

Here I am with Mason enjoying our ride..... even if the max speed was 15mph, which was perfect for us. I realized looking through pictures for the blog that I have very few pictures of me with Mason because I am always taking them!

This is one of the few family photos that we have taken since Mason was born!

Our friends Ben B., his sister Mae Mae, and his niece, Alley.  Great looking family, aren't they?

Mae didn't make the whole ride awake.... Good thing Katie had a hand on her or I am pretty sure she would've ended up in the floor.

Beautiful Lake Martin sunset!  Ben took this picture and it might have been just what he needed to convince him that shooting on "auto" is for the birds.

And that brings us to today.... But, let me back up and talk about church yesterday.... So, I dressed Mason in this adorable Feltman Brother's bubble outfit that Cara gave him.  Ben said it felt like sand paper but it was so cute! Anyway, about 5 minutes into the sermon, I smelled a dirty diaper.  I go to change the diaper only to find that the poo had leaked onto the outfit. Darn. Then, Mason starts spitting up on the outfit before I can get it off of him and put on the back up outfit. I finally get him changed and then just as I am snapping up the clean onesie, Mason decides he is hungry.  When he gets hungry there is very little warning and he gets furious! He gets it honest though.  Anyway, so I feed him and he spits up all over outfit number 2 just as everyone is exiting the auditorium. Awesome. I am asking myself, why do I come?  I guess you just have to keep going and eventually you may get to hear one whole sermon.  We will start putting him in the nursery when he is a little older and maybe then I will be able to focus on the service.  

So, this weekend, Ben bought Mason one of those little jumping seat toy thingees (not sure what they are called) and I put Mason in it for the first time this morning.  Notice the face....

When I got him out of the seat, my hands felt something wet.... weird. I didn't see him spit up...

Surprise!! Not sure about those Luvs getting the job done.... I had to lay him there because my changing table cover was being washed from the last blow out and the changing pad is cloth and not plastic. I don't typically lay him on the floor like that in case you were questioning... 

Anyway, it is feeding time so I better go!