As of lately...

I try & keep this blog updated a couple times a month but haven't found the time to do it! I also do good at taking lots of pictures, but suck at that lately to! So here's a quick re-cap of March!

The Pitchers invited us up to their cabin for St. Patricks Day weekend, it was lots of fun! Lots of games, food & laughing! Also lots of crying! Mason started getting sick friday & we debated on bailing out last minute and just keeping him home. We ended up going & little Mase was a trooper! He didn't sleep at all during the night & was running a fever...long night for Nic & I! Luckly no one could hear him all night.

Mase did pretty good as long as he was being held the whole time & that is not like him at all! He likes to go & go. He's a pretty independent little guy! It made for a long weekend but we had fun & definently want to do it again!

This is Hailen...Cortney & Chae Geary's little girl. Mandee gets her one night a week & we try and get the kids together. They have so much fun! Plus it's a bonus to be able to catch up with Mandee & listen to all her wedding plans!! (Can't wait for her to marry Alex!!)

Mase never cares about this chair...until Hailen wanted to be in it. He wouldn't leave the chair when she was around. Jealous much?

He's always bonking his head...never slows him down though!!

 Mase never got better after we left the cabin. We thought he had a bad cold & ended up taking him to the Dr after he'd been sick a week. Well he's got an ear infection, no wonder he hasn't been sleeping! You would never know that's whats wrong...he doesn't care when you touch his ear & he is still pretty happy. He's been on medicine for a couple days & it's worked magic!!

Mase turned 15 months in March & he's just changing every day. He knows most of his animal noises & loves to repeat what we say. He's a handful! Takes after his dad! Mason loves to come spend time with me at work...or "papa's"! He gets so much attention there & makes a mess of everything! But that's our little boy!

"It isn't as bad as you sometimes think it is. It all works out. Don't worry. I say that to myself every morning. It will all work out. If you do your best, it will all work out. Put your trust in God and move forward with faith and confidence in the future. The Lord will not forsake us,...if we put our trust in Him, if we pray to Him, if we live worthy of His blessings, He will hear our prayers." - Gordon B. Hinckley

This fits this week. Sometimes we just need to take a step back & remember this!

14 Months

Mase turned 14 months last week & we're watching him grow into a toddler, I love it but it makes me sad to think how fast it goes. He's not a baby anymore....which freaks me out cause if we want mason to have a sibling close in age, we will need to think about it soon. Weird thought!  Anyways...here's some facts about Mason:

• He LOVES to dance. It can be in the car or at home but anytime he hears music he will stop what he's doing & bust out some moves.
• His vocabulary is getting a lot bigger, like: Dog, Dad, Mom, Papa (grandpa) Binki, Side, (outside) Cracker, Bottle, Daisy (that's Nic's parents Dog) Nana (Banana), Bath (you say that word & he runs to the bathroom now)
• When you ask him what a sheep, fish, cow, monkey & duck says he know & makes the sounds (most the time anyway)
• Which brings me to this fact, he has is own idea of what he wants to do & when he wants to do it. Takes after his dad! If we say Mase what does a monkey say & he doesnt want to tell you, he has this look he gives that makes us feel pretty dumb for even asking.
• Still is always alway always eating.
• Mason is attached to his blanket. If he sees it up on the table he cries till he gets it & is dragging everywhere with him.
• He's got 12 teeth & still more coming thru
• LOVES his Grandpa. No one else matters when he's around
• He still has a shoe fetish & that still freaks me out. He tries to put them on our feet all the time. We have to hide the shoes
• He loves to give kisses & blow them
• If we don't want him to move for a whole 20 mins we put on Mickey Mouse Clubhouse & it works like a charm! I think we have seen every episode made.
• Loves to brush his teeth & hair
• He's a big ball of energy. He is constantly going & can't sit still for more than a few minutes. Some nights he'll bring over his binki & blanket and just want to cuddle for a minute. But than realizes he's been sitting to long and have to get going again
• Could read books all day. He is always looking at them & reading them with us
• Mason loves to play "ring around the rosies" when we sing it he spins in cirlces & falls on his butt

Mase loves Grandma's piano. Takes after his mom :)

Thanks for the hat Uncle Jess! Mase loves to be outside!

Not sure how she can get him to sit there without him touching everything.

Chruch time!

Can I just take a few minutes & complain?! Chruch lately is AWFUL!! If we sit on the benches, Mason stands up on bench, turns around & thinks he needs to entertain everyone in sight. It's not bad if he's just smiling at the people behind us or sharing his toys, but once he starts jumping on the bench, yelling/growling (growling is his new favorite noise to make) or throwing toys it gets old real fast! And it doesnt help that most the people in our ward act like they don't know us or are too old & think we are probably awful parents. He's doing this new thing where he thinks if he drops a toy or bottle he can use it as an excuse get down & get it. It gets better...after he gets down off the bench he realizes he can crawl under it or wander off. If I try & stop him he just cries & throws a fit. He drops his head down & starts banging it on the floor. He kills me! I take books, snacks, toys...etc. Nothing works! Oh well...I'm hoping this long...& drawn out phase will pass one day soon. I don't expect him to sit still for the whole time I just need him to settle down a little bit. & Naps are definently out of the question! Any advice?! I could use it! And peferably before sunday! Don't get me wrong, I love Mase & his going going going personalitly. He his so funny & the first 20 mins of sacrament aren't too bad. He also loves to dance to the choir and hymns & it's the funnies thing i've ever seen! But man I hate going to church lately. We last thru sacrament than go home for nap time. 

13 Months

Update on Lil' Mase...He is so funny! He's always getting our attention to make us laugh! He gives kisses & blows them too! He still does his fake laugh everytime someone laughs, he's also learned to "fake cry". I pretend to cry & he pulls the funniest face & acts like he's crying. He's also learning temper tantrums. You tell him no, the throws his little body to the floor & starts banging his head on the floor over & over. Where the heck did he learn that?! He's got 10 teeth & 2 more about ready to come thru. Wish they would so we could get some sleep in the Hyer home! When we ask Mase to get us a diaper he'll go to his room & come back with one in his hand, he runs away when it's time to change him tho. He has a fetish with shoes lately & it grosses me out. I hate feet. He tries to put them on himself or on dad. He does a pretty good job!

I had to take Mason to work with me last week a couple times & he has an attention span of like 3 mins. It makes it sooo hard. I'm SOO thankful for our sitter Stephanie! She's awesome, i don't know how she does it with so many kids. I pull up Mickey Mouse Club online & he will sit & watch it until he sees grandpa walk by. Then he's out of the chair & following him around. Speaking of Grandpa...Mason LOVES him! We pull up to Bakers & he says "pa-pa". When anyone tries to take him away from Grandpa he shakes head no & he's not going anywhere.

This is a picture of Mase working with Grandpa. This is what Nic said about the picture:

For $0.05 a day, you could feed this child....

Thanks Nic, that's your Child.

The Holidays

I feel like with Masons Birthday I haven't put much thought into the holidays & blogging about them. It is so weird having his birthday 4 days before Christmas. But even with it close we had a lot of fun for celebrating both his birthday & the holidays! We started it off with an Ugly Sweater Christmas Party the Low's put together. There was lots of games, food & ugly sweaters! Most of them looked like some I could find in my grandma's closet! They gave an award for the "Ugliest Sweater" & Nic got won it with his nasty pjs/sweater!

Mase was quiet the onrey butt after awhile! He got tired but of course he loves to entertain so no sleeping for him till we got home...dang kid!

Love her antlers & BRIGHT red lips?!

We did white elephant gifts & Jlow got a toilet seat...Mason would not leave that thing alone. Proabably cause he wants to play in the real toilet at home so bad!

 This was Masons 2nd Christmas but it felt like the first! He got an Elmo Kitchen & lots of toys! Spoiled boy!

He loved it, even tho you can't tell from the picture! He was a tired kid!

For New Years Eve we had everyone over to play games & play Just Dance. It was fun to have everyone over! I do not know how Mason stayed asleep!

Masonator!

The past week Mase hasn't been sleeping good at all, he cries all night but is still half asleep! He is a total grouch during the day & it's wearing on Nic & I so bad!! We took him into the Dr. for his year check up & found out he had fluid in his ears, no infection yet. It made me feel bad for thinking he was just being cranky!  They gave him some antibiotics to clear it up & now he is back to him happy/hyper/monster self! That medicine is nasty stuff...its a chore to get him to take it. I told Nic, "you got to mix it with some yogurt or it's not going in his mouth". He tried to prove me wrong. It ended up everywhere but his mouth. Lesson learned.

Mase still isn't gaining weight, he's at 19.5lbs. Which shocks me cause he's a pig!! He can't go an hour with out some kind of food! He walking all over the place & never sits still. When he brings his blanket over & wants to sit with you for a whole 20 seconds, its SOOO nice! but it ends quick & hes off running around again. Man, he wears me out!! So the weight thing doesn't concern me too much cause he's always going...going...going.It was funny cause both his weight & height were in the 15% and his head is still in the 85%!! Geez this kids got a big head...seriously, his shirts do not go over his head. We have to put him in button up shirts or you can't get the shirt back off. Ha hopefully one day he will grow into it...poor thing!! Oh well...its cute!

1 Year Old

We just celebrated Mason's 1st birthday yesterday, I can't believe it's been a whole year already! It's been fun to look back on my blog & see how much he changes from month to month. He's so fun & has the sweetest personality. I love how much he's starting to learn & progress, but at the same time it makes me kinda sad to see how fast time goes by. Here's a few facts about Mason

• He walks all over the place, he hasn't crawled in probably a month now
• He says cracker, dad, papa (grandpa) & please (pease)
• He's got a mouth full of teeth, 4 on top, 4 on the bottom
• He LOVES The Mickey Mouse Club, he dances with the songs in it
• He's starting to mimic everything which has been fun cause he's not not done that too much
• Mase gives kisses, there open mouth, but i LOVE them!
• No more formula!! Wahoo!! I think we'll be saving about $55 dollars a month...he's a pig!
• He will try & try to get your attention, & he loves to make people laugh at him

For his birthday I had Chelsie come over & help me make cake balls, i was so excited cause I read recipes online & everyone said how easy they were. NOT TRUE!! The cake ball part was easy, it was the frosting them that sucked. Mandee tried to help frost them & it was not happening. I think we went thru 10 of them before giving up. We ended up just having cupcakes. Dang cakeballs.

I had Chelsie help me take the pictures in the post before of Mason eating the cake, I was thinking he was going to be shy at his actual birthday...but he wasn't. He first started to eat the cake without his hands...just went head first into it. 

He was excited to open presents....he kind of just looked at them until we showed him what to do, then he was all over it!  He didn't want to let his new toys go until he realized he had a new one to open...even then it was a hastle to get the toy away. He was so fun & lit up everytime he opened a present. He also LOVED the attention of everyone watching him & if you turned your head he would just keep watching you until you watched him. He's got such a funny personality & knows how to get exactly what he wants. I remember thinking how crazy our lives were going to be & change when we found out we were having Mason, but now I think back & can't remember what it was like without him. He's been the best thing thats happened to us & he brings so much happiness (& sleepless nights) into our home. Love you Mason, Happy Birthday! 

"Pre-Birthday"

 I was reading Kasey Williams blog & saw she had taken pictures of their cute little boy Ryder eating cake before his birthday, i thought that was a good idea because he was shy at his birthday party. So we decided to do the same for Mason. I think I had more fun watching him than he did eating the cake. He wasnt sure about it at first but then realized it was all his & scarfed that cake down!

11 Months

Where has time gone?! Mason is 11 months old now & nothing has changed, he is still all over the place!! I can't believe he's almost 1!!! Here's some fun facts about him

• He pushes his car around so he can climb onto things & get things out of his reach 
• He is a flirt when it comes to girls...he smiles then he burries his face into your shoulder pretending to be embarassed, when we know he's not!
• Mase has learned how to turn his tears on at the drop of a hat when he doesn't get his way, but only until he's disracted by something else in the room.
• He still only says dad, hi, dog & cracker
• Mason has learned how to start walking. He takes about 6 steps before falling down. He has this ball that he can stand up with & he chaces it around the house (but won't in front of Grandma!)
• He has this fake laugh he does...if he hears you laugh he does it, it's the funniest thing i've seen!
• He has "yelling" matches. Jlow was over the other night & they kept yelling back & forth, Mase is quiet a character.
• Mason goes to sleep pretty good! 8:30 comes & he's soo ready for bed!
• He loves to help with laundry. He will pull it all out of the dryer for me, even when the clothes are still wet.
• When you tell him "NO" he starts shaking his head no at you
• He can finally say the whole "uh-oh" after 4 months of just the 'Uh..."
• He still shakes his thing to Rhianna
• He cruises up & down the stairs

We went to Mandee's sisters wedding reception over the weekend & they had a photo booth there & we had some fun with it! Mase wasn't sure what to think!

On Sunday we had the Watsons come over to watch the Bears & Chargers game, we always say that Braylen is Masons girlfriend, well we got the pictures to prove it now! She went to give him a kiss & he opened his mouth for her, I can't believe we got a picture of it!

Mason LOVES guys...he always wants attention from Nics friends. He's always been a fan of Justin Hyer, now he is of Jlow too! && he likes Alex, but i think he just confuses him!!

This is an example of Mason using his "car" to climb on everything, he wanted the lamp!

Halloween Weekend

This was Mason's first Halloween & I'm pretty sure he cared less about it, but it was fun to dress him up & go show him off! We had a fun weekend before Halloween. All of Nics family went to the Hyers for dinner & Mase got to play with all his cousins. He loved trying to find them buried in the leaves.

We love when we have Kamryn & Morgan around because we can give them Mason the whole time & not worry about a thing. They LOVE him & are the best babysitters ever!

We stopped at the park & took some pictures of Mason playing in the leaves. He is the biggest punk, he was so happy & laughing in the car, we get there & could hardly get a smile. So we're lucky we got the 5 pictures we did.

                                    

We have pumpkins on our front porch & Mase thought that the top coming off was the most interesting thing in the world. He got it off & tried & tried his hardest to put it back. This is the end result, he did pretty dang good!

Halloween finally came & we got to dress Mason up as a Monkey! (We only had a costume waiting to be worn for the past 2 months) We made some cookies & took him around to close friends & family to show him off. He wasn't thrilled about the costume but he liked all the attention!

 The Chargers were playing Halloween & so of course we had to bust out the jersey...this is Mase doing his "touch down". Mase & I were super tired and went to bed at 9, Nic stayed up to watch the game. They lost...not going to lie, i'm glad we were in bed & fast asleep! Happy Halloween Mase! It was fun!