Bean In 3D

Had a follow-up to our last ultrasound today. Here's how the little one is growing. Stats are all right on for this point. Baby Bean is checking in at a full pound now. It was pretty funny as he/she was not into cooperating with us, at one point even putting its hands and feet up to block where the technician was poking around with the probe. Again you can see the preferred spot for that little hand is right in front of the face! The top one is my favorite.

New wheels

Check out the daycare kiddos rockin' their new ride. It's like a stroller bus!

An Egg-cellent Adventure

We trekked up to Ft. Tryon Park on Sunday for Mason's first official Easter Egg hunt. The little man came away with quite a load of eggs and we all enjoyed the beautiful weather and beautiful surroundings in the process.











Here are some scenes from the park:





And a video of the action -- apologies for the quality...the camera kind of loses focus as I chase after the little egg hunter!

Mason Being Mason

Silly that is ... undies on the head ... all him and he knew it was hilarious! It's funny to see his little sense of humor developing.

Party Time

We caught up with Mason's buddy Matthias last weekend for his third birthday party. Mattias and his family are friends of ours from Nursery North. It was great to see him and his parents, meet his new baby sister, Olympe, and catch up with all of our old friends.

Mason sported a cream cheese moustache:



Thanks in part to his multi-tasking -- Thomas toys in one hand, breakfast in the other:



The birthday boy:



Making like a clown, while playing with the spit balls ... seriously:



Cute little Peony poses for the camera:

The Proud Graduate

Saturday was a big day for the Mason man. As you can see, he graduated the latest round of swimming lessons.



This round, we took them at Riverbank State Park, where we've been schlepping every Saturday morning since early January. There were some days where it was particularly frigid, but it was worth the effort.

Here's Mommy and Mason on our last day of class.



The little guy in action:






And, of course, videos. Maybe I'll get creative with them later and make one highlight film, but for now enjoy this trifecta!

It's a...

Boy? A girl? We don't know -- and don't plan to find out, so for now, we're referring to the little one affectionately as Baby Bean. Here are our favorite pics of the little one in action from our 18-week ultrasound yesterday.

Dad-O's Favorite



Mommy's Favorite



I'm feeling pretty good, though very tired! Like I said, I'm 18 weeks along, now. The baby is growing right on schedule and due to arrive in mid-August (August 15 is the official date, for those keeping score at home.)

Mason's pretty excited to be a big brother. He's sure it's a little sister (Papa agrees based on the second pic, where you can faintly see Bean's hand draped across his/her forehead in dramatic fashion.) Though, when we told the Doctor this yesterday, and she immediately asked Mason what Mommy had in her tummy, he said a baby brother -- go figure.