Lets compare!

It's obvious which boy is which, but do you see similarities?

THE NOSE!! 

And the cheeks.

Both super cute!

One month

Mason is a month old already!  

12lbs  22in

Sad little baby rash:(

Sleeping SO good at night:)

Loves to cuddle!

Halloween 2011

~Halloween night~

 Look out, the "hero" is coming!  Damen has not watched enough Star Wars to know that he's the bad guy, we let him go with it!

He wanted to quit after 1/2 hour, but I made him press on!  Mama wanted some Reese's:)

He very carefully went through his stash to take out any peanut candies, what a good kid.

Posing with brother.

Mason did not go out last night, he was too sleepy, but he did go to the church on Saturday to "Trunk R Treat" all dressed up.  

Last week Damen went to a Halloween party at a friends, a party at school, and to the church "trunk r treat" dressed in this costume, Spiderman, this is the ONLY picture I took!  He insisted he was not going to be a star trooper, then changed his mind on Halloween night.  

We didn't go to a pumpkin patch, first time in years, we didn't even buy pumpkins.  I felt bad, but the world went on, and no one seemed to care.

INTRODUCING. . .

Mason Ryan 

Born on Oct. 8th

8lbs 10oz 

20inches

He's perfect!

This wonderful new addition to our family has been long awaited.  

To other moms out there, I have to say his birth was kind of a boring experience, compared to Damen's anyway.  I was induced one week early because of the Gestational Diabetes, we were worried about him being BIG.  So at 2pm we arrived at the hospital ready to go!  My paper work hadn't arrived though so we had to wait until after 4pm to get started.  Then the pictocin began to flow.  

Not much happened until 10pm when the contractions started to increase and I asked for an epidural, that was the worst part!  The anesthesiologist missed the first time, I had 4 contractions during the whole process, but Dustin held onto me and talked me through the whole thing.  

Then I took a nap.

Around 1am I was at 8cm and moving along. 

An hour later I  felt something strange, warm, on my legs and sure enough my water had broken!

Another hour passed and the nurse called the Dr. to come in, we were getting close.

Three contractions, and a few pushes and out he came.  He was born at 3:59am, I bawled, like a baby.

His beautiful head of brown hair was a surprise, so many differences from Damen.

It is amazing how something so TINY can take up so much space in my heart.

Welcome to the world Mason!!

This is love

He snuck into my room in the middle of the night.

Wrapped his arms around my neck and whispered:

"I love you mom."

Before I could say anything he was hurrying

Out the door to his bed.

I love you too.

Beauty

On a beautiful September morning, the sky was inspiring.

Just like ANDY!

The other day after my nap, Damen wanted to show me what he'd been doing while under the watchful eye of his Daddy.  He was explaining it to me, "Just like in toy story mom!" He was really excited, but I didn't understand until I got a closer look: 

He got the D -a - m - e  on before he ran out of room, nice.