You've come a long way baby!

Four months ago today, I got up, took the last long, hot shower of my life, and had a baby. This is what I looked like at 5:30 in the morning:


Yikes! Although there are some things I miss about being pregnant, there are so many things that I DON'T miss. That is a BIG belly. It's okay, you can agree with me, it won't hurt my feelings. I would post an after picture, but I don't look good enough yet. ;)

So, like I was saying, four months ago today, our little monster came into our lives and forever changed us. (Warning: It's about to get mushy.) He captured our hearts in ways that I could never even imagine until I was right in the middle of it. When he was born, I loved him with an unimaginable love - I didn't think that love could ever change. It did. It has grown and expanded in ways I was never able to fathom before. I love him more every single day, even the ones when he cries all day and nothing makes him happy. Those days are forgotten with one little crooked Trusty smile, or one enthusiastic laugh at the fool I am making of myself for him. How many times can I sing I'm a Little Teapot in a row? I will sing it ALL DAY if he keeps laughing at me like that. They say it in the movies, "I can't believe how much I love him!" (That was actually from Friends, go figure.) But I didn't understand until it happened to me.

As long as we're talking about Friends, here's another quote that I think is fitting to the current post: "I'm gonna love you SO much that no other woman will ever be good enough for you!" ~Monica Geller to her new baby boy =) I'm a loser, I know.

What did we do before we had Mason to occupy our every moment?

• Sleep? Pfft, overrated.
  
• Eat with two hands? Where's the challenge in that?
• Play on the computer? That's what laptops are for! Heck, that's what naps are for!
  
• Go a whole day without getting peed/pooped/spit up on? Well, okay, that one's not my favorite...

To celebrate Mason's four month "birthday", here are some "before" and "after" pictures. My, how he has grown.



















At Mason's check up today, he weighed 17 pounds, 14 ounces (90th percentile) (which means he's more than doubled his birth weight), and he was 25.5 inches long (75th percentile), which means he's grown almost 6 inches! Dr. Riser was very impressed with him and all of the milestones he has reached. She gave us the go ahead to start veggies, so I bet tomorrow I'll have pictures of Mason with avocado ALL over his face. I can't wait! (PS, I know avocado is a fruit, not a veggie, but whatever.) So tomorrow, I'll do my best to post avocado-face pictures, and a picture of the ginormous butternut squash I got today. =)