Left with the Babysitter

Last Saturday night Mom and Dad decided to go to the TAILS Humane Society Annual Fund Raiser, which meant that we needed a babysitter.  Well, we didn't really need a babysitter but Mason did.  Miss Pattie, G and Uncle Connor all came up for the night to watch Mason.  They had to feed him dinner, give him a bath AND put him to bed (which no one but Mommy has ever been able to do).  Now by the looks of his sweet little face, one would think it would be no trouble at all...

 But Mason is quite the Mama's Boy and does not usually do well if Mom leaves for too long, so everyone was holding their breath to see how this would go.  To everyone's surprise it went really well!  Mom and Dad walked out the door and there were no baby tears!  Mason ate a big dinner (he loves food) and played for awhile before his bath.  After bath time he got a story and a bottle and was ready to be put to bed.  He didn't care much for the bottle, and laid down and started to go to sleep.  It started to go south for a few minutes when he began fighting sleep.  He would yell out and then lay perfectly still as if he were asleep and this went on for a few mintues and then he went to sleep and not a peep was heard from him for almost four hours.

Mom and Dad came home (with some exciting news to be shared in a further blog) and he was still sleeping!  Then it was time to go to bed, and just as Mom predicted, Mason woke up as soon as Mom went into the bedroom.  The smell of Mommy was just too enticing for Mason and he woke himself up and it was a typical night from there.

Maybe next time Mom and Dad have a babysitter Mom should just stay out all night!

Meeting Great Grandma and Grandpa

The day after we met our great aunt and uncle, our grandparents came up to visit baby Mason again, but they brought up our great grandma and grandpa!  We love visiting with them, they give us so much attention, but this visit, once again, was all about our little brother Mason.  He was such a good boy and slept almost the entire time that they were here.  We ordered pizza, and Mom and Dad got to eat a nice meal without holding or feeding Mason.  They were so excited to meet their first non-furry great grandson!  They all took turns holding him, and even giving him a bottle when he got hungry.

Meeting my Great Aunt and Uncle

The last Saturday in June we had our great Aunt and Uncle come visit.  They wanted to meet Mason, but we know they really wanted to see us too, after all they did bring treats for us (they were supposed to be chew treats that take awhile to eat, but we are such good chewers that we polished them off in no time).  Bumper even got a chunk of treat stuck in his beard, I wanted to eat it but he looked silly so I left it all afternoon.

Mary and Gary showed up in the afternoon hoping to spend a bit of time with Mason and giving us attention, but Mason had other ideas in mind.  He had been nice and quiet all morning, but decided right before they showed up to really give his lungs a good work out.  Mason screamed and screamed the whole time.  He screamed so much that Mary and Gary didn't stay too long (we were really bummed).  And then he ended up continuing the screaming all afternoon, evening and night.  We just hope that the next time they visit Mason won't have a 10 hour baby meltdown.

Welcome to the World Mason!

We got up really early Friday June 18th, Mom had to be at the hospital at 7:30 to be induced.  We got our breakfast and extra loves and then Mom and Dad headed out the door.  They went to Panera for breakfast since they told Mom she would not be allowed food once they checked her in.  As soon as they got there, they got checked into the room and the nurse started getting all of Mom's information into their computers.  She had the fetal monitor hooked up to her so they could get a baseline before the Pitocin.  Mom was not having any contractions and was only a fingertip dilated.  At about 8:30, just before they were getting her blood work and about to start the Pitocin, Mom got up to use the bathroom, and when she laid back down, baby Mason was flipping around and his heart rate had dropped really low.  The nurse kept having trouble finding it since he was moving so erratically and they called all the nurses in the maternity wing in to get her IV started and to make sure everything was alright.

Baby Mason soon calmed down the doctor decided to so a Pitocin challenge to see how Mason would react to the induction.  Just before they were going to do the challenge, Mason started flipping around again and his heart rate was fluctuating from 190 down to 60 beats per minute, and once again, the nurses came in and they got him calmed down, but Dr. Dubrick made the call that they would perform a c section since it would be the best as safest way to bring our little brother into the world.  The doctor and nurses did not waste any time prepping Mom and by 10 (only 2 1/2 hours after check in) they were wheeling her into the operating room and Dad was getting into his scrubs.  Our grandparents (P and G) got there just in time to see Mom before she went into the operating room.  They came up for the birth, and to stay with us so that we didn't worry too much when Mom and Dad didn't come home that night.  Dad waited outside the operating room, and P and G went to waiting room while they finished getting Mom prepped, and gave her a spinal to numb her from the ribs down. 

Then Dad got to come in and sit by Mom's side behind the big blue curtain and hold her hand.  Mom was totally numb and hadn't even realized they had started the c section.  Dad kept peeking around the curtain to see what was happening.  Within a couple of minutes, Mom felt a lot of pressure just under her ribs and the doctor was pulling Baby Mason out.  They held him up for her to see and then took him over to get him cleaned up.  Dad got to stay with Mason during clean up and follow him to the nursery while Mom was being sewn up.

Mason Avery Grier Bergeon was born at 10:48 am, 7 pounds 4 ounces and 19 inches long and perfectly healthy.  Dad was in the nursery with Mason and P and G got to see him in through the window in the nursery.  The hardest part about the c section was the nausea that Mom felt for about 10 minutes while they sewed her up, but she was just happy to know that our little brother was healthy and doing well with his Dad.

Mom had to spend about a half an hour alone in her room with the nurses for recovery before she could see her little boy, but the time when by fast and before she knew it Dad was pushing Baby Mason into the room in his bassinet.  The three of them got to spend some time together bonding and then P and G got to come in and hold Mason for the first time.

Since Mom was still numb from the spinal, Dad had to take care of all the diapers, he did such a great job though.  Dad stayed the night with Mom in the hospital while P and G stayed at our house with us.  We were really concerned that they didn't come home, plus on top of that, there were a few huge storms!  They were great taking care of us, and we had fun and got lots of attention.  They spent the next morning at the hospital with Mom, Dad and Mason and then checked on us during lunch, and then they went back home.  Dad came home that night to stay with us while Mom and Mason were in the hospital, but they said Mom would most likely be able to come home on Sunday, and our Nana and Papa were coming in Sunday to visit too!

Saturday Mom was able to get up and move around, really slowly at first and by Sunday she was doing great and was officially able to go home.  It took awhile for her to officially get discharged, Nana and Papa got to see them in the hospital and spend some time with Mason.  And at 2 pm she was officially discharged and they all headed home so we could meet our little brother, and we loved in from the start.

We love house guests!

Last week was a great week for us.  Besides it being Mom's first week staying home with us and Dad taking two vacation days, we had two visitors and it was the best week EVER!

 First our grandma (Ms. Pattie) came up and stayed the week with us, we even let her sleep in our bed.  While she was here they planted flowers outside, went to the movies (Sex and the City 2), had lunch and dinner at Mom's two favorite places (Pizza Hut and Villa Verone), and took us for a couple of walks.  They also did some of the final decorating for the baby's room (pics to come later this week).  We helped of course, we put up some of the wall decorations.  We got a ton of extra attention.  We also showed Ms. Pattie how to put on cloth diapers.  Then Friday she had to go back home and of course we were sad, tired, but sad.

 Mom and Dad stayed up late on Friday night, and we had no idea why until around 1 am when Phil, Dad's best friend from high school, showed up to spend the weekend!  We were so excited to have another visitor!  We stayed up with Dad and Phil for a little bit but then went to bed with Mom.  Saturday they all went to breakfast and we went snooping into Phil's stuff to see if he brought us anything...he didn't.  Then Dad and Phil hung out and played video games and so we spent the day with them, all the boys in Dad's man cave.  Mom, Dad and Phil went to see Prince of Persia and out to eat, but came back to spend time with us that night.  It was another late night for Dad and Phil, but we went to bed with Mom.  Phil left Sunday afternoon, and we were sad again.  But then we got to go on an extra long walk.  We spent the rest of the night catching up on sleep after our busy week.