Baby Sophia Elizabeth Potwora and some other fun activities

We are so excited that Ashley and Joe Potwora welcomed our beautiful niece into the world on Tuesday December 10th at 9:19am!!! Momma did so great and is at home recovering now! We are soooo happy everyone is healthy and doing fantastic!!! Sophia was 18 inches long and weighed in at 6lbs 3oz!  We were able to visit on Tuesday evening and just fell in love! 

Also this week mason and I had a few play dates with Mimi/Papa, Carrie/Derek/Finn Morrow and Colleen/Ryan/Madeline! Mason also had a slumber party at Mimi/papas while Mikael and I went to the Drake and Miguel concert! And we went to the library again to pick out more train and truck books!

This week was also a huge week because Mason finally likes going to the gym! It has been a work in progress, but after going consistently for ab 2 weeks, he finally loves playing with the other kids and doesn't cry when I leave the room. And today he wasn't even ready to leave when I came to get him! What a wonderful feeling!!!

It seems that mason is developing so rapidly! Here are a few things he did this week:

- He has started saying "cheese" when you take his picture. When we were eating breakfast this week, he pointed to my phone, said "momma cheese" and then said "to dadda!" (We typically send dadda pics thru out the day) But the fact that he picked up on that and pieced it all together on his own is amazing!

- we are finally taking 1 nap a day (just started this week). A few days this week he started to get fussy and then signed to me "sleep". When I asked if he wanted to take a nap, he signed/said "yes please"! Talk about being shocked!!! I put him down and he actually took a 2+ hour nap!!! So I guess it's safe to say he can let us know when he is getting tired!

- I try to have music playing at various times throughout the day... And now if we turn on the music on our phone, mason is not happy unless it is playing via the Bose stereo! Haha so he is definetly my child, as he enjoys listening to music loudly!

- mason still loves reading books and is getting more affectionate with stuffed animals! This week we were reading a Thomas the Train book and there was a dragon in the book. I told him when he saw the dragon he should say "roar". And he caught on super fast. Mikael came home from work and read him the book and without prompting mason remembered to "roar" everytime he saw the dragon on the page.

- during his bath he was holding his toy truck. I asked if he was washing his truck and he responded by pointing to the washcloth (it was hanging up on the bar) and signed please. When I gave him the washcloth, he put his truck under the running water, and started wiping it with the washcloth. And then gave me this little smile, basically saying "now I am washing my truck momma!"