Happy Birthday Mason!

I can't believe our little boy is 1! My how time flies!

Last weekend was a whirlwind weekend with Mason's first birthday and our 6th wedding anniversary on the same day! Travis and I managed to get out for dinner the week before so that we could focus the whole day on Mason. We had family over for dinner, gifts and cake and ice cream. As you can imagine we all totally spoiled Mason and he got lots of new big boy toys. His favorites include a plastic puppy rocking horse (or I guess I should call it a rocking dog). He also loves the alphabet wheel, tool set and gears.

Our Birthday Boy at the start of all the action

Rocking on his new doggie!

Opening gifts was fun!

Birthday cake mess!

Another view, here you can see Buster was also caught on camera!

After the post-birthday cake bath

Everything else is going really well. Mason is almost ready to crawl. He can now get himself into the crawling position from lying down and then he will spend some time rocking back and forth and trying to figure out how he can get to his toy without falling. His upper body strength is now enough for him to fully support himself. Mason is also getting great at standing against furniture without any help from us for longer amounts of time. It looks like he might start cruising the furniture soon. Our physical therapist is extremely happy and says that Mason is getting close to being "age appropriate" for his adjusted age which is about 10 and 1/2 months (since he was born 7 weeks early). This is great news, but the one downside is that he may not qualify for Early On therapy and support after this school year.

Mason has his 12 month well baby check-up tomorrow. I will post another update after that appointment.