Getting Ready to Move?

We are finally over the stomach bug and Mason is pretty much back to himself. Thank goodness! Scott and I now have colds and are hoping that Mason doesn't catch this too but I am sure that it is only a matter of time. He's building up his immune system right? That's what I have to keep reminding myself.

Mason is now getting quite good at pushing himself up while on his tummy. He will push himself up and then bend his arms and go back down and then push himself right back up again. It looks like he is doing pushups and we are just waiting for him to figure out how to bend his knees and lift his stomach and bottom off of the ground. He is on his way to crawling! (I will be saying this now for the next few months just as I went on about him cutting teeth. Heehee!) Strangely he still is not sitting completely on his own although we are pretty sure he is able to do this but just prefers being on his stomach. We will sit him up and he will sit for maybe 5 seconds and then he squirms himself backwards onto his back and immediately flips to his stomach. Hopefully he will be sitting on his own by the end of this next month!

Ava was trying to show him how to crawl from this position. Here's our happy little boy!

We go to the pediatric opthamologist on Monday (Mason will be 8 months that day) to have his sty (on his left eye) checked out. He has had this since he was 3 months old and although it is starting to look a little bit better lately, we want to make sure that this purple mark is only a sty and nothing more. Our optometrist told us that the opthamologist may simply "scoop" out the sty. I am trying not to think about how this procedure is done. I will update all of you after our appointment.