Alyssa can crawl!

Wednesday evening (8/24) Alyssa began to crawl, I am so excited and she is very proud of herself.

Mason's Surgery

On Wednesday, 8-24-11, Mason had surgery for a testicular hernia as well as a chordee repair. I think that this whole thing was harder on me than him. I was so scared because they had to put my baby under with general anaesthesia to do the surgery, but he was great. He was very groggy that day of but since he hasn't been in pain, even without pain medication. Everything is healing very nicely.

Below you can see Mason before his surgery. He looked so cute in his hospital gown. Poor little guy had to go without eating but he was happy because his nurse said that he could play with the call button (she just showed me how to turn the alarm off.

Mason in his hospital gown

She sat up on her own!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Over the past month or so Mason and Kyle have gotten fast at crawling and they walk along the furniture quickly as well. It is so much fun to see the two of them crawl after each other and they love it too. They race and wrestle which causes them to giggle (and sometimes cry). Alyssa hasn't really shown any interest in crawling and she just lays on her back and uses the back of her head and her feet to scoot backwards. When we sit her up she can sit for a long time and if she is near something she can pull herself up into a standing position and walk along the fence or the couch or whatever. If you haven't seen my living room the whole thing has a fence around it. It goes all around the furniture with the TV on the other side. On the inside we have all of their toys so the whole area is completely baby proof.  OK, back to my point, Alyssa wasn't really interested in crawling at all and I was convinced that she was going to walk and skip crawling, she may still, but today she finally was up on all four's and trying to go. That little girl has a temper and not being able to figure this our was pissing her off. In the process of getting angry she did figure out how to go from hands and knees to sitting which is awesome.