let's back up.

i thought that starting this blog  7 weeks into your life would be sufficient, but i started to think and boy..we've been through so much already.  let's back up to october 26, 2009.  the day you were planned to join us into this world.  you had to come out of mama at 39 weeks due to your frank breech positioning.  ever since i was able to feel you inside of me, that is the position you remained in. your little but not so little head rested comfortably for you right underneath my sternum. ouch! so at week 39 i was more then ready to meet my little boy! your birth day is a very special day. your grandparents meme and john sr. were married on that day 30 years ago! i could not have asked for a more meaningful day for you to join us on.

we were asked to be at the hospital by 8 am.  when we arrived the nurses brought us to the room we would be staying in for the next 3 1/2 days.  after getting all registered and ready for you a nurse came in to inform us that dr. heiss had a few "surprise" surgeries he had to take care of and it won't be too much longer. okay no big deal. four hours later the same nurse arrived and said the dr's were ready!   finally!

the c-section begain at approx 1:00 i would say.  i remained perfectly calm..until...i saw your daddy's complexion. o boy, i thought i was looking at a ghost! 

i think i was the one to make sure that he was feeling okay. at 1:22 p.m. i'll never forget the sound that came out of you after you had arrived to this world. you were not happy to come out of your cozy warm abode that you rested in for 10 months.  it was not a crying mason, it was a wailing mason! music to my ears.

they let me give you a kiss, and then you were sent up to the nursery to get all cleaned up. 

daddy went with you so that relieved mama.  

the next 3.5 days you had to remain in the nursery due to an air bubble that was in between your ribs and lung.  so here i am, merely 30 ft from you and unable to hold you, kiss you, or love you. it was absolute torture!  but when i was able to have you in my arms, i made up for lost time don't you worry!  

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christmas photo shoot

yesterday i tried to get a few good photos for mason's 1st christmas pictures. i tried and tried to get a smile, just one smile with no luck avail. i think the only thing missing was cartwheels.  

i may or may not use any of these but here's a sneak peek.

 

 

we may go for round II today since he is so cooperative.  maybe he'll flash that toothless grin!

'tis the season, to be loco?

so yesterday was a very fun day with a great friend - shannon is home for the  duration of the week and she immediately came to see baby mason!  let's just say we had a lottt of catching up to do!

but i had a moment that has made me realize that i am slightly in the clouds still (more than usual)  it is related to pregnancy brain, so i'm sure there has to be a term for it, new mommy brain? i hope some people can relate. this is just one of many:  our  friend  nate stopped by to meet mason, he mentioned how i should have mason sit in front of the decorated christmas tree and admire the flashing lights of it.  hmm.. lights? what lights?   

i forgot to put lights up before decorating! needless to say, i'm not surprised that i did this.  i just hope one day, my brain decides to return and my life will start to have normalcy to it.

here you go. you want lights?! you got em'.

so here it is ladies and gents, our lit but not yet decorated christmas tree!! mason sat and slept through the lighting ordeal, he is wearing his 1st thanksgiving outfit that hoob gave us late..wanted him to get a few wears since it's so cute!

**note to self, never put lights up again - next year wait for mark.  i think mason could do a better job! ha. now i better go get decorating!

two things that are missing: *my sister and *cpk christmas!

                                         
                                      

and so it begins

since this is my first time blogging, i feel a little lost. i tried contacting my friend shannon to see if she could possibly give me a tutorial. i feel as though there is so much i can do to this screen, but feel very ignorant to the whole blogging world.

i am going to play around and see what i can come up with. hopefully my friend will give me some of her professional pointers!

ciao

day 1

i have always enjoyed reading other peoples blogs with a slight desire to create my own one day. i never knew what to write, or what pictures to post until now......

it hit me the other night.

my mom, mark, mason and i were at my mom's for dinner..the topic of video cameras came up and mark questioned if we should be get one soon since our lil babe changes DAILY on us. we started discussing the different video cameras that have come and gone and what source has remained constant. well we all know that many of the new video cameras are adaptable through computers.. so i began thinking. video cameras will continue to come and go but one thing that won't, the internet.
after following kodi's (amazing)blog of little stella,  made me realize how special it is to be able to capture every day moments that can be stored forever.

it's like a live baby book! it's much easier to remember details and record on your blog then to get your baby book out every time..pages will eventually run out in that book; but this is endless.

i hope that one day, mason will be able to see this journey and will look back and smile.

so that is what prompted me to begin this, my beautiful precious baby boy, who is peacefully sleeping next to me.

what a wonderful life.