Kellen at Eight Months

The Kellephant continues to amaze us with all the new things he learns and does. He has learned several new tricks. My personal favorite: he learned to say “Mama.” EEEEE! I had been saying it to him over and over hoping he would say it back at some point. One day, we were playing on the carpet and I had been repeating, “Mama” when I finally gave up and left the room to go grab a diaper. I had no sooner stepped into the hallway then I heard Kellen say “Mama” for the very first time! That toot! I came sprinting back into the room asking Spencer, “Did you hear that?!” Luckily, he had heard it too. And luckily, Kellen has said it several more times since then. He also knows “Dada” but those are pretty much his only words so far. But honestly, he is a pretty quiet baby. He doesn’t talk very often so we all get really excited when he has something to say. Surprisingly, the times he is most talkative are when he’s supposed to be sleeping in his crib. Then he can chatter on and on forever.

Kellen is awesome at sitting up and can sit up and play forever. I am continually amazed at his attention span when it comes to sitting and playing with toys. Especially if Mason is playing too. I have never seen a baby with such a long attention span.

He still rocks the open mouth smile. But he has some other facial expressions that are really quite hilarious and that we love ever so much. Behold:

“ANOTHER picture Mom?!” I’m sorry kiddo. It’s your own dang fault for being so cute.

Kellen has started to feed himself tiny tidbits, usually puffs. He likes to hold his own bottle whether we’re holding him or not. But pretty much if we’re not holding him he sips a bit and then rolls away to play, so he doesn’t feed himself very often. Not to mention, I want to cuddle him as much as I can while he’ll let me. But look how big he looks feeding himself:

He usually eats a jar or two of solids and eight ounces of formula. I think he’s about to have a growth spurt because we have been amazed at the amount of food this kiddo can put away. Kellen’s mostly wearing 12 month clothing. He even has a few 18 month items he can fit into already. Mason and Kellen grow ever closer to being the same size!

He continues to roll all about, but still isn’t technically crawling. He pushes up to his hands and knees a lot though. Spencer calls him the most mobile immobile baby in the world because though he can’t crawl he can roll anywhere he wants to go, which is still usually under the coffee table or towards the DVDs. If there’s something on the floor that he shouldn’t have, he can be there in a flash. The kid is FAST.  

And did I mention that he finally has enough hair to mohawk? I didn’t? Well lets talk about that shall we?

His hair is so thin and so fine that it doesn’t stay mohawked for long, even with product in it. But he sure looks cute when he has his hair all styled for the day. We love our Kellen from the tip of his mohawk to his chubby little toes.

It’s Baaaaaaaaacccccckkkkkkkk!

It’s pumpkin beanie season! EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! We all know how I feel about that. We’re pretty jazzed about pumpkins around here. In fact, we took our boys to the pumpkin patch last week where we went on a hay ride, picked our pumpkins…

…rode the tractor train…

… pet some piglets…

… and some squash…

…and Mason’s favorite part, ROLLED AROUND IN A CORN PIT! Seriously, he had a ball. Who would have thought corn could be so exciting? Mason loved it so much and got corn everywhere. It was even in his underwear.

This time of the year is seriously the best. We have so many more fun things to do with our little pumpkins!

Mason Bug at Two and a HALF!

Oh my Mason Bug. He is such a fun and funny boy. He is such a good little talker and he says things every single day that make me laugh. I try to be really good about writing the funny things he says down because I don’t want to forget the adorable way he phrases things. Like this morning, I walked out of my room after getting dressed and Mason was standing there in the hallway and he said, “Oh Mom, you look handsome!” Haha! I wonder where he’s heard that before. He says lots of cute little catch phrases throughout the day.

“I’m HUUUUUUUUuuuuuuuuuuugry.” He draws out the word really dramatically and urgently and it is so cute.

“Where’s Daddy? Daddy had to go to work dang it.” He is very into asking and answering his own questions. But mostly I just think it’s hilarious that he says, “Daddy had to go to work dang it.” He misses his daddy when he’s gone.

“I have to poop so bad!” I have NO idea where he picked that one up from, but he usually says it when I’m helping Kellen with something and I tell Mason he has to wait until I’m finished. But there are the occasional times that Mason is actually telling the truth, so I don’t usually dare risk it by having him wait.

“I wanna hold you my Mommy.” I LOVE when he says this. He means that he wants me to hold him, of course, not the other way around. I love when he wants to cuddle. My favorite times ever.

“Oh look! It’s a plane/truck/’motacycle’/’copter’/train/tractor!” Mason should spot things that go for a living. He can see a plane when it’s just a speck in the sky and I swear he can hear a motorcycle miles away. He will gasp and run to the window in hopes that he can see something exciting shoot past. He adores trying to spot bulldozers and excavators out the window when we’re driving down the road. He is just such a BOY. His passion for modes of transportation and construction equipment is so adorable to me because it is something he developed all on his own, without Spencer or I really introducing any of it. But when we go to the library to pick out books, Mason will search out the ones about busses, trains, planes, and cranes. He even sleeps with his little John Deere tractor from Grandpa and Grandma every night! I love that he has his very own interests.

A few more Mason phrases:

“Oh what’s that noise?!”

“Wanna play a little minute.”

“Jose no!” Instead of “No way Jose!” Haha!

“I do it myself.” Oh man, we are hearing THAT phrase more and more often in our house. Little Mr. Independent.

It has been especially fun the last little while, to watch Mason as a big brother. He is starting to realize that Kellen is growing into a real, live, interactive human. I think he didn’t realize that when Kellen was smaller and so completely helpless. But especially as Kellen gets a little more mobile and gets better at sitting up, Mason has been having more fun playing with toys with him. Mason loves to tickle Kellen and blow on his belly. He will bring him toys and always wants to help feed him. And lately, Mason has been a real lifesaver when it comes to helping me with Kellen when I change his diapers. Kellen is in this stage where he is desperate to grab the diaper as I’m trying to change it. Which is really convenient, I tell ya :). But Mason will hold Kellen’s hands and talk to him while I change him and it is so cute because Kellen just lights up. Mason always loved Kellen, but now I think he’s realizing that Kellen is going to be his friend. It is so exciting to me that my boys are playing together more and more.



Mason’s imagination is getting more and more active. He likes to take care of various animals like they are his babies. He will swaddle them or feed them “solids.”

I still love seeing the result of Mason’s play. It is so darling to get a peek into that little mind of his. Exhibit A: Bumble Bee Pooh Bears out on the town.

Darling. Mason is also very into lining up his toys. He likes to take inventory every now and then.

Mason is a daredevil. He is completely fearless. I sometimes wish he had a smidgen of fear about at least some things because he is constantly scaring me half to death with his wild and crazy antics. One day we were at the park and he just leapt off the play equipment. No warning, no pausing, just a flying leap. Luckily, it wasn’t at the highest point of the equipment (he was only a couple of feet up), but he did bump his head on the ladder at the bottom. He wasn’t seriously injured, but I screamed when he jumped because I happen to be a very jumpy mom and I was terrified. I think my screaming scared him more than the impact of his landing. I scooped him up and asked him  if he was okay and he told me through his tears, “I went down da ladder on my face.” We spend a lot of time reminding him to be careful.

Mason has such an abundance of energy that we try to spend time outside every day. Everyone is happiest that way. We go to the park pretty much daily. Mason’s favorite parks have sand. He dearly loves buckets and shovels.

And no blog post about Mason would be complete without a mention of BYU football. Mason is obsessed with football. He walks around the house saying, “Hut, hut, hike” and “Gooooooooooo cougars!” He loves to watch games on TV, especially with daddy. He will sit still longer for football than almost anything else he could watch on TV. Occasionally we drive past the peewee football teams practicing at a local elementary school and Mason will beg us to get out and play too. I don’t know how I feel about him playing football, because I don’t really like the idea of my baby getting pummeled! But it is really cute to see such a little guy so interested in football. Spencer is thrilled.


Cutie Patootie.