Tigridia Flower

We planted a new bulb this spring that neither of us had heard about. The Tigridia flower is a very beautiful flower and we have them in red and yellow combinations.

The picture on the bag they came in showed over a dozen flowers in bloom at the same time. This has not happen for us. We get one or two in bloom at the same time (out of the 50 + bulbs we planted). I love flower but I have to enjoy each one quickly because they will bloom in the morning and shrivel up by the evening. I was extremely surprised they did not last for more than a day but I will take the beauty they bring to our yard for any amount of time they want to come out.

Mason = Energizer Bunny

Over the last month Mason went from his army crawl to crawling using his knees and now to make him even faster he does a gorilla crawl using his feet an hands. He loves to be chased although he does not make it very far because he starts laughing too hard. He has taken to the stairs in our house. With a lot of practice and after many falls he has mastered the two stairs on the main floor (one down from the kitchen and one up to the office).  He crawls to the stair, sits up and then slides forward until his feet touch the ground. See for yourself:

Mason has also taking to crawling up stairs. He is pretty good although someone needs to be with him since he turns and tries to go down hands first! He is in his own land of discovery as was evident the other day when I spent a half hour following and taking pictures. Now, if only I could take as many naps as he does!

In the bottom left corner you can see he has taken to pulling the books off the shelf. I have found if I leave them on the floor he just leaves them alone. I also did not get a picture of him emptying the DVDs from shelves.  He loves to be outside and now that he is so mobile I can't leave him alone on the blanket because he starts to wander. The other day I was watering and he wanted to help me...we both got a little wet!

As you can see most of the pictures above are without his helmet. We are down to just naptime and nighttime!  Hopefully after the 20th we will be finished with the helmet.

Hummingbird

We were surprised last night to find a hummingbird in our kitchen.  I was in the living room reading when I heard a strange sound coming from the kitchen.  I went to investigate and found a hummingbird trying to get out through the kitchen bay window. The bird kept running right into the glass. I called Tristan for assistance and also grabbed the camera (it is not often that we get a bird in the house).  We worked together to pull up the shades, remove the screens and open the two side windows.  We could tell the hummingbird was getting tired and frustrated when it started landing on the window seal momentarily and then would start to fly into the window again.  Tristan used the screen to carefully guide the bird out the open window were it flew away very quickly.

 That was an adventure.

8 Months & Super Active

Mason has become a little escape artist.  He does this great army crawl...pulling with this arms and pushing with his toes. He is amazingly fast when after something he wants (basically anything that belongs to the dogs or one of the dogs). He also loves to be outside and will crawl out the back door (which we leave open most of the day for the dogs) onto the ramp.

The other day he crawled outside and I watched him take the dogs stuffed turtle out of their toys (as if he did not have enough toys).  He played with it for a minute and then rolled over an dropped it off the edge of the ramp. He then looked at me, looked at the turtle and the next thing I knew he was going over the edge (1 foot drop). He cried for a few seconds and then realized all was well. The dogs also made sure he was okay.

We also took the opportunity to take 8 month photos. He is such a little ham!

April Showers...Bring May Flowers