10 weeks, 97th percentile, and 9 news

Mason had his 2 month appointment this past Friday. He is doing great. Here are the stats:

Weight = 15lbs (97th percentile :) )

Height = 24 inches (50th percentile)

Linda this picture is for you, to cute in his outfit. Linda is my godmother or "fairy godmother" as we have dubbed her. She sent us lots of cute clothes and Mason loves them.

We have had a big week. Mason has started to hit some developmental milestones. One of them is the ability to self soothe and fall asleep. This does not happen all the time but it is saving our arms from 20 minutes of rocking to get him to sleep. He is a funny kid, whenever we try something new i.e. the swing, he dislikes it very much. After a few times he loves it. Now we can set him in there wide awake and he will stare at the toys above until he nods off into dream land.

The other milestone we have entered is a lot of talking ("cooing") He likes to mimic sounds Matt and I make. He is so alert now watching and listening to us, giggling, and kicking. So much fun!

This is a onesie one of my coworkers bought us. It is our college alma matter. Not sure if he will be an engineer, whatever makes him happy is fine with us.

We went over to GG's house for lunch and I insisted that we get a four-generations photo!

There's a smile, love that GG!

Cade, Emily, and Keegan came over for dinner. Keegan is a crack up, I love the age he is at. He says things like "love you so much" and "Baby has cold checkies and ears" while grabbing them (my California family will get that) and "Keegan eat all his dinner so he grow big and strong like dad and uncle Matt." He is such a good helper. He helped change Mason and when Mason was crying he would kiss his check and say "Mason it okay". He is one tall string bean with those Armstead "skinny legs", I guess that is how he fits in Mason's bumbo.

Matt made the news this week or his company did. Our line of work (as with many different lines of work) has really been effected by the economy. The type of civil engineering we do is solely driven by the housing market. His office decided instead of laying off a lot of employees to have people go to 32 hour weeks with Fridays off. The news did an interest piece on them and Matt made the footage:) The reduction in hours will last for two months and is a 20% pay cut BUT we are so thankful to have jobs and happily we will cut back of any extras. We know a lot of people effected by this economy(my brother) and we pray daily for them that things will turn around.