Mason on Sunday

It is most of the time a struggle to get Mason to wear anything but a T-shirt... his favorite piece of clothing. But for church today, I managed to bribe him to wear a cute sweater and pants handed down to him from his cousin Gabe. (Thanks Gabe!)

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Wild Child

My little wild child Zebra girl.

Storytime with Bill

Mason thinks his Uncle Bill is pretty cool. We saw them breifly Friday night and Mason insisted that Bill read him a book before they left.

My Birthday dinner!!

Okay, this is almost a month old... but a picture of my girlfriends and I from dinner on the night of my birthday. We had such a good time!! I wish we could do it more often. The guys were there too, but we didn't make them get in the group shot!

From Left to Right: Christine, Jennifer, April, Colette, ME

Bottom row from L to R: Janet, Amber

Thank you girls for coming - y'all made me feel special!

I try.. but I give up

I keep trying to get a cute snap shot of my M&M smiling... I am starting to think it is impossible.
Here are a few of my attepts last night...
The first one is funny because Maya is gagging herself with a "Home Depot" toy tool. The 2nd, M&M were both too interested in the Olympics on TV.

And then there is this... Maya looks like she was caught red handed steeling a screwdriver. She loves these Home Depot tools. They were a birthday gift last year for Mason from Maddox (and Janet & Derek). Mason really enjoys them too, but I think it is funny how Maya goes for them all the time.

Play date with "Kiki"

I just like to call Kirsten "Kiki" because of the O.C. which I don't ever even watch anymore.
Anyway, here are a few pictures I took before my battery died. I keep taking my camera with dead battery... not on purpose.

Kiki looks thrilled that Mason is hugging her here.... but it was cute regardless.

Then the girls playing in the talking house.

Kiki coming thru the door.














Mason on the way home - he fell asleep. He may be getting to be a big boy, but he is still my little angel baby when he is asleep.

Cowboy Mason

My dad sent this picture to me this morning and I thought it was TOO cute not to share.
This is Mason geared up in his Dad's cowboy hat, Dad's sunglasses and one of his favorite shirts that Allison got for him with a helicopter on it.

This one is for Daddy - Welcome home today DADDY!!

Happy Valentine's Day... a day for Pink...

Mason had a Valentine's Day party at school today. The kids were all supposed to wear pink. When I got that note last week, I thought, well, I guess he will just wear some sort of Valentine's Day shirt - but I didn't expect to dress him in pink. Just when I had given up on finding anything "Valentine's" for him to wear - I came across a PINK polo style shirt. I thought at first it was for girls, but then quickly realized it was actually for boys! So, Yes, Mason wore a pink shirt today. He really liked it, too. He said "I have a pink shirt just like Nesha's." Nesha did also have a pink polo type shirt on today. Then he also noticed that Nesha had on pink and white shoes...."I want pink shoes like Nesha, too." Well, I am not going that far.... Oh and by the way, Brian was out of the country when I bought the pink shirt for Mason - and when I sent him off to school in it. I told him this afternoon about it all. After Brian heard that Mason asked for pink shoes he said "See, you are confusing him..." I laughed and assured him he was not confused.

Nesha said when she took him to school everyone was commenting on how cute he looked in his pink shirt...strangers and all. His teachers LOVED him in his pink shirt...and so did his Mommy!

Ironically, Maya did NOT wear pink today.... She wore a cute red shirt that said "Heart Breaker."

I had a lovely Valentine's dinner with my 2 children. It was very fancy -- pizza. My husband is in route back to the USA!!! FINALLY. We missed him so much.
For the last 10 days I have heard these things from Mason over and over and over like a broken record: "Where's Dad?" When I tell him Australia, he says "Why?" I say "he had to go there for work, "Why?" I say "I don't know, Mason, he just had to"...some others "I miss Daddy so much" "I meed (need) my Dad" "I want my Daddy" "When is my Daddy coming home?" "I want my daddy so much".... "So much" has been added to any and all of his phrases about "daddy" whether it makes sense or not. He knows he has been gone for TOOOO long. This list goes on...

Apple

I thought until a few days ago that apples would be too hard for Maya to chew up - so I was still giving her baby food apples. So, one day Mason had a whole apple sitting on his little table. Maya crawled over to him and attacked the apple. I tried to get it from her because I didn't think she could handle it. Well, she prooved that she could...except she did get a little choked up on the skin... so I cute some pieces up that she could hold and bite off of and removed the skin.
Last night, I decided I would let her have a whole one, after I peeled off the skin. She gnawed on it until I made her give it up. Funny girl! I wish her brother would follow in her good eating habits. Let's pray one day he will....

Cousin Oliver

Chrys (my cousin), Mike, and Baby Oliver came to have lunch with us yesterday. It was great to see Oliver in person after reading ALL about him on the blog. He is just as cute in person as the pictures!!
We tried to get all the cousins in a photo together... these are a few (of MANY) attempts.. Maya stood on the floor for a lot of them for fear she would immediately try to crawl off the couch.

Piano Players

Caught 4 cousins (In the first picture From Left to Right: Maya, Carmen, Mason, Gabe) playing piano together. It was a beautiful song...I'm sure you can imagine.

My little Sweetheart

We are getting ready for Maya's first Valentine's Day... Sunday my Mom deemed to be Valentine's lunch... Maya had her lunch with her new adorable bib from Grandmother.

Colette and Reese

I had lunch with my good friend Colette and of course our kids...Reese, Mason, and Maya.
The pictures I got of the 3 of them weren't so great and then my battery died..so we will have to get together again soon and get some better pictures. Anyway - it was great to see them - and I look forward to seeing how Reese and Maya will play together someday!

"Pebbles"

We came home from work one day to find Maya with a cute new "Pebbles" hair do. Nesha had made her hair stick straight up with the bow in it - it was sooooo cute!!

Vacuum

Vacuuming at our house is very exciting. For whatever reason, our kids both love the vacuums... When one gets turned on, the kids go for them like a dog after a bone!! My job that evening was to keep the kids in the living room while Brian vacuumed the tile. It was near impossible. They immediately went over and got in the way.