Mason is 4 months old!

Happy 4 months to Mason!

What he likes:

• Rolling from his back to his tummy: The funny thing is that he gets mad cuz he's stuck on his tummy.
• Sucking his thumb: yup, he found his thumbs. He likes to suck his thumbs when he gets stuck on his tummy or when he gets tired. Dada's not happy about that. Mama's okay with it and is hoping that he'll just stop sucking his thumb on his own. She's heard that lots of babies suck their thumbs and stop on their own at a certain age.
• Spitting up: he spits up a lot...seems like it's after every feeding
• Being held. mama calls him a snuggle bug
• Sleeping through the night: hooray! he goes to bed around 8-ish and sleep until about 7. sometimes mama hears him around 4 or 5 am. if he's not crying, she ignores him and he falls back asleep.
  
• The sound of my voice: he breaks into a big smile and excitedly kicks his legs into the air when I come home from daycare
• Bumbo: it helps build his core strength and sit like a big kid
• Reaching for things: he likes to reach for the toys hanging from his playmat or that mommy put in front of him when he's doing tummy time
  
• Looking around at everything: he's curious about the world around him.
• Mommy baby yoga class: he stays awake for the entire class, likes to look at all the other babies and smiles when the mommies sing. He even likes doing super babies and flying on mama's legs.

 What he doesn't like:

• rolling from his tummy to his back. The weird thing is that he's done it before. 
• tummy time. he's able to tolerate tummy time for longer stretches of time, but still doesn't like it as much as being on his back

It's real!

Everyone's always amazed at Mason's crazy hair. Well, I can tell you that it's real.  How do I know?  Well, this morning when dada was putting the laundry in the dryer and mama was out bike riding with auntie Michelle, I yanked on Mason's hair. I pulled really hard. So hard, that Mason screamed.

Dada came running into the living room. Caught red handed! I got in big trouble. Dada yelled at me, sent me to timeout and then pulled my hair so I'd know what it felt like. I cried because it hurt and I didn't like it.  Lesson to my friends: don't pull other people's hair. It's not nice.

Humongous

Mirriam Webster defines humongous as:

Pronunciation: \hyü-ˈməŋ-gəs, yü-, -ˈmäŋ-\

Function: adj

Origins: perhaps alteration of huge + monstrous

First known use: circa 1967

1. Extremely large, huge
2. The word I used to describe the military cargo plane dada and I saw on the drive home.  Dada asked me if the plane was big, and I replied, "It's humongous."

Science is fun!

We had a science fair at CFC today.  Mama, Mason and PoPo even came to visit during the science fair. We had different tables set up in our play yard. Each table was supposed to help us experience different aspects of nature or science. I made a nature collage at one table. At a different table, I dropped colored water onto a coffee filter where I watched the color be absorbed by the coffee filter and blend together. I mixed oil with colored water in a bottle, where I witnessed that water and oil separate. At the last table, I colored a paper towel with marker, then soaked it in water watching the ink leach into the water.  Science is fun because you get to play with stuff like water, markers and leaves.

Farm Animals

My buddy Edison clued me, Matthew and Kyden into an opportunity to meet the farm animals at Deer Hollow Farm this weekend. The bummer is that he and Matthew couldn't join us because they had other plans. Hopefully they can check it out later.

The farm is pretty close to our house. It's inside Rancho San Antonio park. Apparently, mama, dada and auntie Christi used to go running in this park back when they were active and in good shape. That must've been a long time ago.

When we got to the park, the parking lot was full. Dada ended up dropping me and mama off while he and Mason waited for a parking spot. Luckily dada found a spot inside the park. Uncle Mike and Uncle Warren (Issac's dada) had to park their cars outside the park...somewhere in Los Altos.

I was excited to see the barn, the horse, the cows, and other animals.  Mama told me that we had to walk to the farm from the parking lot. I kept asking mama where the barn was, but we just kept walking.  Turns out the farm is a mile walk from the parking lot, and dada did not pack my stroller. So, I had to walk the entire way! A mile is really far for a little kid like me. Mama had to carry me about half way there in the sweltering heat, which made the mile feel really long. Hey, I was only thinking about mama and her efforts to get back into shape.

Eventually we made it to the farm and waited for dada, Mason, Kyden and his friend, Issac. We saw a cow (who moo'd at me), chickens, ducks and a goose (who performed a water dance in the pond), a rooster (who cock-a-doodle-doo'd with me), rabbits, pigs, sheep, baby sheep, goats and baby goats.  We got to go inside the pens to meet the animals. My favorite was the ducks, chickens and roosters.  I kept wanting to go back to that pen.

I had such a great time at the farm with Kyden and Issac that I passed out as soon as I got into the car. We'll probably go back and visit the farm again when Mason is older. By then I might actually be old enough to be interested in learning about the animals so I can ask the volunteers some questions.