These little boys are taking over!

Last Wednesday, August 25th, Kingston and Mason met for the very first time and became instant best friends. We took tons of pictures of the boys while they slept through this big moment. It’s funny how big Kingston looked compared to Mason, we’re so used to Kingston being the small baby in the group. Mason loves his cousin and already felt completely comfortable with him, resting his head on Kingston’s shoulder, how stinking cute is that? Kingston also took his turn resting his head on someone’s shoulder, he’s already a fan of Aunt Steph and wanted some cuddle time.

I think it’s cool that they are only 2.5 months apart and know they are going to have so much fun growing up together!

On Friday the 20th, our nephew was born (see this post) and I couldn’t wait until I got off work to go see him. Kids aren’t usually allowed in the maternity ward and I didn’t want to take Kingston in the hospital anyway, so a co-worker generously stayed at work an hour late so that Jeremy and I could run across the street to the hospital and meet Mason. We spent an hour holding him and staring into his sweet face.

After two days at South Seminole Hospital being induced (his due date was August 13th and the Dr. wanted him out), he arrived at 1:10 a.m. via C-section. Mason had a big red circle on his head from where they had to pull him out by a vacuum. Poor baby! Thank goodness we don’t remember being born.

We’re excited to have Mason as a new addition to our family! He is precious!

We dropped Kingston off at the babysitter’s (a.k.a. Grandma’s) for the first time on Wednesday night and went out as just the two of us. You might expect we took this opportunity to go out to dinner, perhaps see a movie. You would be wrong. We went to exercise. We’re true romantics.

I never quite hit my goal of doing yoga while I was pregnant, so I’m trying to make up for it now. Since I missed my 6 week appointment, I’m assuming I’m okay to start exercising again. We decided this week we would try out the free yoga/pilates class a local gym offers. It wasn’t as good as the old yoga instructor we had a couple years ago, but it was free and worked our muscles so I think we’re going to continue trying to go. Anyone ever interested in joining us, let me know.

After, we took advantage of our brief freedom and ran in to Target to get some groceries, before picking up the little squirt. See I told you, we’re super romantic ; )

My parents had a little family cookout at their house on Saturday night so we could all enjoy dinner with my aunt and cousin before they relocate to Texas where my uncle got a new job. This was also Kingston’s first time visiting since he was born. He saw his little nursery there and he met their dog, Sydney, who wasn’t too sure about the new baby.

My parents have a pool and we took this opportunity to see if Kingston loves the water as much as we do. You can see in his face he wasn’t sure what we were subjecting him to, but he rolled with it. In fact he become so relaxed while I was capturing this video, that he let one rip! He was busted by the telltale bubbles : ) Glad I was filming, that’s a keeper.

As we were finishing dinner my other cousin, Mimi, stopped by to meet Kingston. She was in the neighborhood, saw our car, and knew the baby must be inside.

We hung out for a bit and then said our goodbyes to Denise and Brittany, not knowing when we’ll get to see them again. We’re going to miss having them nearby. Why is all our family moving to far off states? Guess we’re going to have to introduce Kingston to planes once we feel up to traveling.

Friday night, Kingston’s Great Aunt Sue and Uncle Bruce came to meet him.