Brothers

My amazing and talented sister-in-law, Hannah, took some newborn pictures of Mason. Despite both of the boys being extremely difficult she captured some beautiful images. All the ones with the bad lighting are my attempts at photography. I'll leave it to the professional next time!

  

 

 

Family of Four

I can't believe Mason is already two months old and as far as this blog is concerned he doesn't even exist. Since Brady was almost a week late I was sure Mason would follow in his footsteps and my doctor assured me my hypothesis would likely be correct. At my last appointment I scheduled my induction for Friday the 17th, a few days shy of my May 20th due date. In true second child fashion I waited until Thursday (the day before the induction) to get everything done. I went to Target and Costco to get diapers, pacifiers, and everything else I could've picked up the 9 months prior. All morning the contractions were terrible and while I shopping I had to constantly stop and clutch onto the cart or shelf or Brady or whatever I could grab to get through them without making too much of a scene. After putting Brady down for a nap I downloaded a contraction timer app and within an hour they had gone from 8 to 3 minutes apart. Around 2:30 I called Christian to come home from work. Cindy and Cassie helped with Brady and Christian drove me to the hospital. I checked into El Camino Hospital around 3:30pm and just a few hours later Mr. Mason made his grand appearance.  

Mason Anthony Hansen
Thursday, May 16th, 2013 @ 7:21pm
7 pounds 6 ounces

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Going home! The volunteer insisted that Mason had to be inside his car seat and I had to carry it. At that point it was whatever would get us out faster.   

Easter!

This is the first holiday Brady kinda got it...kinda. He didn't know who the Easter Bunny was or come running down the stairs Easter morning to see if there was a basket with his name on it, but he was full of excitement when we handed him his basket of goodies. During the Easter egg hunt he loved filling his basket with eggs. However, once he discovered there was candy inside the plastic shells, the hunt quickly ended and the candy eating began. 

 

 

Trying to take his basket to church!

 

 

 

 

Disney

For Christmas my parents gave us tickets to Disneyland and we were finally able to get down to LA and enjoy them. We spent three days in the parks. I've never seen Brady so overwhelmed, excited, and tired. Every ride (with the exception of It's a Small World) ended with him signing "more". The parades were his favorite. His eyes lit up with the music and dancing. He would sit completely still and was mesmerized by the entire show. I'm already looking forward to taking him back when he actually knows who Mickey is and understands that lines are part of the deal!

  

Q1

I do accounting for a start-up and as I was running some quarterly reports I realized I haven't documented hardly anything of our family's "first quarter"! There have been a lot of park days, a few beach trips, Happy Hallow visits, and a couple weekend trips getaways. I haven't taken a single picture on our real camera so here is our year thus far through the eyes of my phone camera. 

 He never falls asleep in his stroller or car seat, but fell asleep on a bike ride.

 My good friend Rachael came to visit from NY. She works for the Ritz and was able to get us a room in the city so we could spend more time together.