String of Birthdays

This post is late, but I wanted to add some of these pictures. 


Damen's birthday was at the end of January. It was a low-key day including dinner and a movie with Kade & Minda. Mason got to join us for dinner, but stayed with Aunt Katherine while we went out to see Sherlock Holmes.


Just over a week later was my birthday. We went for a small hike since there wasn't enough snow to go snowshoeing. It's been a pretty dry winter. Here are some of the photos from our hike. Mason rode in the pack well, hardly making a peep but looking around at everything. Once he got tired, he just went to sleep. It was cold, but he didn't seem to mind.

Then a couple weeks later was Kade's birthday. We went and stayed in Smithfield for the weekend to celebrate, and for a little R&R. Here are a few photos of Mason, including an attempt to get a picture of his vampire teeth. He got the second canine tooth about a week after the first one. They are hard to see, I'm still trying to get a good photo of them.

This week was Katherine's birthday, but I forgot to take any photos. We got to spend the day with her which was fun. I think we are through our family birthdays for a couple months!

I'll Have What You're Having

I have been worried that Mason would be a super-picky eater since the only baby food he'll eat (still) is squash and applesauce. 

Well, lately it has seemed that he will eat anything - as long as it's what I'm eating. I've tried making things specifically for him, but he prefers to eat off my plate. I'm ok with that for now.

Most mornings we share a bowl of hot cereal or Cheerios. He also seems to like rice, pasta, broccoli, asparagus, cucumber, cheese, carrots, apples, potatoes, chicken, salmon, avocados, crackers, pears, etc. He has even tasted a few sauces like spaghetti sauce and a mild curry that he seemed to like. The trick is trying to get a full "meal" out of any of these items. He moves on quickly...so he still gets a lot of squash and applesauce.

Here he is, begging for his favorite...yogurt. He gets really excited when I eat it, and he is getting big enough now to climb into my lap to get it.

I still get the "grossed out" face a lot. He squints if he doesn't like something, if he gets too big a piece of food, if it is sour, hot, or cold. This a photo of him stealing my orange slice and tasting it. As you can see in the next photo, he soon got used to the taste and happily chomped away.

It took awhile for him to handle anything with texture, but he has really been getting adventurous the past couple weeks. 


Uh oh. Now I need to go empty his mouth. He just bit off a piece of yoga mat that he's chomping on. Guess it's time for a snack!