Little Choo Choo Boy

Damien goes to Occupational Therapy on Monday mornings and he loves it. All his activities have some underlying way that they help him cope with his sensory issues but he pretty much gets to go and play for 45 minutes in a big open gym full of fun stuff that he doesn't have at home haha. He's doing really great and the combination of speech therapy and O/T has made a huge difference in him and in our life at home. He's really "blossoming" for lack of a less corny word!  Here's a few videos of some of the things he does at O/T....Sorry they're sideways!

Grow Baby, Grow!

Mason had his nine month well-baby check up at the pediatrician on Thursday. I knew he had gotten a little taller, because we had to pack away all his 9mo sized clothing and pull out the 12 month and bigger things, but I had no idea how much he had grown! The first week of October her was 19.9lbs and 27.5 inches, Thursday he was 21.1lbs and 31INCHES! He's grown 3.5 inches in a matter of 3 months, it baffles my mind! He's so healthy, he's in the 75th% for both his heigh and weight. He got and A++ from the doctor :) We went over all the normal well baby check up questions and answer, and the doctor cracked me up. He was overly concerned about us feeding Mason table food. Mason has been eating mostly table food for about two months. He kept insisting that he was going to choke on it haha, right, I'd purposely give my child food he would choke on! ;) Both my boys have preferred real food over mushy baby food, its just how they're wired. Another shocker for me the slip he handed me for blood work. We never had to do blood work for Damien at a year, but Mason has to go to the lab and have a CBC and lead test done. I'm definitely not looking forward to that one, but hopefully its just a toe prick and not a full on blood draw!

Trick or Treat!

Halloween was so much fun! We hit up the trick or treat at the mall first, thinking it would be easier with the kids to be somewhere with lights on, but it was a bust! Damien had fun but it was way overcrowded and we got there only 45 minutes after it started and most of the stores were out of candy already. After that we headed over to our neighborhood and Damien really got the hang of ringing doorbells, saying "Trick or Treat!" and then thank you. He got TONS of candy (yay me! ;)) and literally did it until he was near tears he was so tired. He didn't even want to stop then haha he kept asking to go to the next house! As you can tell by the pictures Mason was less than excited to be in a velour jumpsuit with wings on it haha....