New pic of Mason

Here is a new picture of Mason.  I tried going out this evening to get some pictures for his birthday, but he was pretty uncooperative.  There are only a handful that I like.  This is one of them. Maybe later this week I can redo them.

Happy Birthday Mason!

Today was Mason's first birthday.  We didn't do much, just hung around the house.  His naps have been off all week so I wanted to make sure he was able to sleep when he wanted.  We played outside for a little bit with his new splash toy.  Picture is below.  I discovered that he needs to be in swim wear to play with it because his shirt was soaked! I'm not sure if he splashed more water out or if Cayda drank more water out. Aside from that his birthday was pretty uneventful.  This past year has flown by.  I love each new stage, but miss the ones before as well. It was nice to be able to snuggle with him as a baby. But it brings much joy to be able to make him smile and laugh. His smile could light up a room. I will miss this past year, but look forward to seeing how he changes this year.

Happy St. Patrick's Day!  I have not been able to get any real good shots of Mason lately. Maybe on Thursday for his birthday.  I can't believe he turns one in two days!  Oh where did my baby go?  

Eureka!

I know I have been a bad blogger, but nothing new has really been going on and there's probably only four people who actually look at it:-) David and Mason are both sick right now.  I think they have the flu possibly.  On a good note, Mason is finally starting to wave bye bye! Woo hoo!  It takes him a while to copy us, but eventually he does.  He has a little drum that makes noises and after a certain amount of time it goes off by itself and says Bye Bye.  David said this morning that Mason waved to it. I'm not sure if that's totally true or not, since he often exaggerates his stories, but I'll take it none the less. He also walked along the couch to get to his bottle. So walking may be getting closer than we thought.

I have been practicing on my photoshop elements software and am still hoping to take a class this summer.  Here are the before and afters.  That's all for now.  

Before

Some cuddle time

Mason is not really a cuddler. He doesn't really like to be confined. Changing his diaper and clothes are difficult because he is being forced to stay in one position. Often I have to pin him down while he's screaming his head off just to get him dressed. He'd rather be crawling around getting into trouble. I now have to put the dog's water dish on a table. Otherwise, he'll crawl straight for every time and splash in the water (he loves baths). He recently climbed all the way up our 16 stairs with no help. Next month we will have to invest in some baby gates.  Right now he is standing on our Wii platform holding on to the back of his bouncy seat. Every once in awhile though, I get a rare moment where he will snuggle with me, making my day.  Usually he will cuddle right after he wakes from his nap when he hasn't quite woken up.  But that only lasts a few minutes. This time he fell asleep in his car seat and I was able to hold him after we took him out. I would have stayed there all night if I thought he would have stayed like that. Here is a picture.

 

Photography practice

So I've been reading this book on how to photograph children and the chapter I just finished was about light.  I've read the book already, but since I'm a skim reader I didn't really retain a whole lot.  I'm sure I'll be reading it over and over since there is so much valuable information in it that I need to learn.  Anyways, since we've had such great weather I decided to go out and take a few pictures. Here is one of my favorites.  There are more on facebook.  For some reason it takes 5 minutes to load them up to this blog so I'm giving up.

In addition to reading the book, I've decided to take a class this summer on photography. Hopefully it will be about Photoshop.  Then I can buy the real program with a student discount. I did try to edit the puffy dark circles under his eyes, but in some ways it almost makes him not look like himself.  Oh well. Hopefully a class will help me figure all that out. 

Gone are the days when I could sit Mason down and take endless pictures without worrying he'll move on me!  As you can see in the picture we first bribed him with a book and when that stopped working we bribed him with a musical toy.  The other problem is that when he does move he crawls straight for me and fast!  I can't back up fast enough to take his picture.  

Hope you enjoy!

Explosion in the Morgan home

So Mason has been constipated since pretty early on.  We first tried giving him juice, then prunes, then cut out all foods associated with the BRAT diet.  We've pretty much tried every kind of formula out there and are finally on a specialty formula that costs $25 for half the size of a regular can.  Pretty expensive, but hey if it helps I'm all for it.  At the end of the month we are going to take him to a pediatric gastroenterologist to see if there is something wrong.  

Well, because he has had this problem his diapers have been pretty manageable.  Nice and tidy, easy cleanup.  Today though, he pretty much had an explosion in his diaper.  Running down his leg and then all over his foot.  I didn't really know what to do with him since I hadn't had to experience this normal part of motherhood. Eventually I put his feet back in his sleeper, carried him upstairs to the bathroom and basically hosed him down. Just kidding about the hosing down thing.  I did give him a very thorough bath. Now he's as happy as a clam like he always is.  

I've got to say we've had it pretty easy.  He has got to be the easiest baby.  We did have that MSRA scare though. That was pretty stressful. It is scary being a mom, knowing you don't have full control over what happens to your children. I guess that's where we have to totally give them over to God knowing we can always trust Him to make something good come out of whatever happens.

Well, that's my little story for today.