Mason's 4th Birthday!

We had such a BIG day celebrating Mason's 4th birthday! We obviously celebrated for most of the week and then at the beach, too, however, we will just talk about the one day for now. 😉

Just kidding, let me go back to the day before. We took a few pictures before bed celebrating the last day of three! Maddox joined in, too! He is a complete goof! 

When I woke the boys up singing (video below), Maddox was wondering what in the world was going on! 

Meanwhile, Mason was SUPER excited! 

 

We FaceTimed Matt ASAP

  

Then, PIZZA!!! Mason requested pizza for his birthday breakfast. Who was I to say no? 

  

  

He opened a couple of presents...books and two t-shirts as well as his card from GiGi and it had stickers!!! 

  

Wondering what in the world is going on...

  

Pizza for breakfast? HUH!? 

I agree...but dang, it was good! 

 

Our first stop for the day was discount Halloween candy shopping at Wal-Mart. Usually Matt does this but he was working so I filled in. :) 

  

And of course, we had to see the fish, too. 

Mason had speech and then we headed home for some chill time. 

Matt got off around noon and we headed to go pick up our car! After 16 days, we could not wait to see it, drive it, hug it! 😉

Matt's co-worker gave Mason this awesome Cars mechanic set and he LOVES it! 

  

After we picked up the car, we headed to our favorite donut shop around here...Sunny's!! 

  

Matt ended up having to take Maddox to the doctor (croup) so Mason and I went to story time to meet our friends who were joining us! 

  

  

  

Storytime was FUN and even included the birthday song! ! And then we headed to a little park to play for a bit before dinner. 

Bojangles! YUM!!! 

Meanwhile, I got this set of pictures and texts from Matt...oh boy. Sorry, I missed that. 

  

All cleaned up. 

Our sweet friends treated Mason to YOMO for dessert. They looked so big chatting together! 

When we got home, thanks to our friends, Mason had a present from our awesome neighbors. There was a present for Maddox, too. Can't leave anyone out. 😉

 

  

He got to end the day by staying up a bit with Matt for games, TV show and snuggles. THE BEST! 

A few birthday messages came, too. 

  

 

And here are videos from the day, too 

It was such a fun day! 

Mason {FOUR YEARS OLD!}

Our sweet older child turned four this past week! I have to say, three was ROUGH for us in many ways and I'm looking forward to hopefully turning a corner during FOUR! I wanted to post some pictures Matt took of our big four year old while we were at the beach and also give an update on what's going on with our big guy these days!

**My precious husband caught this pictures of Mason while we were at the beach this past weekend.** 

Weight: 42 pounds (89%)

Height: 3 feet, 5.75 inches  (80%)

Speech: Much much much improved! He is still receiving services each week but he's made a ton of progress in the last year and he is much more stimulable and getting better with each session.

Developmental Milestones:

He gets super excited about new things and adventures.

He loves make believe, especially with his cars and repairing them.

While he does enjoy time at home to play alone, if we head to the park, church, MOPS, etc., he loves to play with other kids.

He is learning more and more about cooperative games with others.

He loves music and singing, especially his songs from church.

He is starting to tell stories more and coming up with theories as to why things happen.

He can say his first and last name, working on the middle name.

He recognizes all letters (upper and lowercase) and numbers (mixes up 6 and 8 from time to time).

Working on writing letters and numbers.

He is starting to understand time and reading the clock for simple times.

He is counting consistently to 12 and understand what that actually means. He can count past that but gets too excited and gets out of order. 😂

When we read, he understands stories more and more and is answering comprehension questions from books, too.

He understands "same" and "different", "less" and "more", etc.

He doesn't really like drawing and coloring but he did do as the doctor asked and draw a person with three body parts so that's on target.

He uses scissors with minimal help.

Physical development concern is a bit of toe-walking but we are addressing with exercises for now and will go from there. Thankfully, it is not full-time so doctor was majorly concerned.

He does have an umbilical hernia which he has had since birth. Doctor went ahead and gave us a referral for surgery. This is outpatient and mostly for cosmetic reasons at this point but not likely to self-correct itself at this age.

Mason is such a sweet kid. He has his moments as any toddler/kid does but he is respectful, shy, loving, caring, and so very active!

He loves adventures but loves to be home as well.

I know there is plenty more that I could say but I'll let the precious pictures speak for themselves! Plenty more below....