10 Months

Mason turned 10 months! He is a growing boy. Malone and I agreed that he felt heavier today, so I weighed him and he is 19 lbs! Two pounds heavier since the last time we weighed a month ago. He eats all sorts of new foods and has started to dislike foods he use to enjoy. For example, he use to hate peas and sort of liked green beans. Now he really enjoys them. He use to love pears and peaches and fruit of any kind really, and now he won't eat pears and peaches and struggles with his prunes. But he is really enjoying feeding himself when he can. We give him little bits of bread, cereal or whatever we're eating and he shoves it in his mouth.

Speaking of mouth, Mason now has 4 teeth! His second front tooth popped through while we were in Idaho on vacation. He was pretty miserable that day or so before it come through, poor guy. Now he's got the two teeth on either side of his front teeth coming in. One will be in any day now. So once again, we're going through teething. He's miserable, again.

Mason has been doing so great with his therapy! Last time I wrote he wasn't showing much interest in crawling and wasn't bearing much weight. Since then we've been working with his new occupational therapist (who's really great)  and he has made a lot of improvement! Mason bears a little bit more weight and will stand for a few seconds before sitting or just bounces a lot. His core muscles are starting to get stronger as well. He will be sitting there and is able to turn and play with toys to his side and can shift around behind himself to get to things. When I hold him I can feel him getting stronger because there is more resistance when he moves... I can't explain it. He made a HUGE breakthrough with army crawling today. We have been trying to help him learn to use his arms and legs to move forward. Today it's like he woke up and figured it out. The therapist came and he really showed off for her, because he was able to move himself forward over and over again! I was so excited, and felt a little emotional about it. This little boy just amazes me all the time and I feel like I am a witness to miracles all the time. Mason is such a blessing!

Mason continues to be a chatty boy. He makes Malone and I laugh all the time. I don't think he's figured out to call me mama and Malone dada yet, but he does say those words. He jabbers all the time and smiles a lot too. He is such a happy boy. He'll do or say something and then look at us and give a huge smile and give a chuckle. I think he's got a sense of humor already. He is such a doll!