Letters to Mason: Mason-13 & 14 Months

After Mason turned one, I decided to back off a little from writing these entries on a monthly basis, mostly because I was starting to feel the stress of not getting to them on time and having enough material to fill in an entire post. Rather than doing them monthly, I will mostly make updates relevant to our life and of course, our babies.

Mason is now 14 months and he has changed a lot, for instance, he now demands to do certain things, he elects what books he wants us to read to him and lets us know in the best of tantrums if that is not acceptable or up to his expectations. It's cute- most of the time. 

Mason loves books, we have been reading to this little guy since he was born and I never thought that it would eventually cause him to be obsessed with books. I do feel a bit of gratification because one of my goals of reading to him daily was so that he would one day love to read. I place so much value in not just reading but loving to read because in this day and age where everything is about electronics and quick access, people just don't seem to have the time anymore to pick up a good book and read a few chapters. I'm hoping that by doing so, I'm turning Mason into a bit of a book worm. Hopefully I'll be able to do the same thing with our next baby. 

He's playfull! Tiff says that she thinks Mason has my sense of humor- likes to joke around, poke at people, make people laugh, attention driven. Mason will look at you and if you're laughing, he'll assume you're laughing at something he did and he will just burst out into major cackles. He loves attention (Tiff says that's me too- ::eye roll::) and he loves receiving hugs or kisses or simply, just someone next to him playing with whatever he's playing with at the time. 

Affectionate. Mason loves his family, he is extremely attached to Tiff, myself and the two grandmothers (Mita and Nana). He will often cry if one of us leaves the room. If he ever becomes unsure of someone or a situation he will usually come up to one of us and cling onto our leg. He seeks our attention and love and we all eat it up. He gives open mouth kisses and makes a humming sound along with it, he gives hugs and likes to play with our hair and hands while he's drinking and relaxing on us. 

Mason is a routine driven little man, when you disrupt it, you better realize its going to be a day for the books. As flexible as we've made him with all the traveling he still needs his naps and comfort milk and bottles. He does well with adjusting to different nap times and places but we are still struggling with getting a nap routine going. We cant help but to think that because he's not in day care and he goes to two different places during the week, that consistency tends to go out the window because we do different things at both places. 

We are so blessed for our life and our gifts and the Lord has blessed this house with incredible happiness. Our life is now all about our family and how to spend time together. Now that we're expecting another little baby we are settling on the idea that we have about 6 to 7 months on Mason being alone with us. I want to give Mason his time with us but I also think about the fact that our second child will never have that alone time with mom and dad and I wonder if that is the major difference between the oldest child and the rest of the children. It must have a difference in the way they think or operate. Either way, Mason will be too young to probably remember that he was ever an only child. Perhaps, this is the best way to do it. 

We found out the gender recently and we plan to wait to announce it because we want to let the holiday season pass. We are excited about our growing family!