Mason will spend hours playing with his bulldozers and dump trucks in the back yard filling them up with water or dirt, then dumping it out and doing it all over again. I cannot keep him clean anymore! He gets so dirty that I have to wash him several times in the shower when he comes in the house just to get the dirt out of his hair. He is a boy, that's for sure!
Here is Leah holding Bull. He is the only frog that lived out of the seven frog eggs we got in the mail. Even Joe likes this frog! When he sees us by his container, he perks up and stares at us to let us know he wants a cricket. He is a lot of fun to watch and the kids are happy to finally have a pet.
Here are the 'twins'! So, after years of headaches, Joe finally broke down and got his eyes checked. He is surprised at how clear everything is now! Mason keeps looking at Joe when he has his new glasses on and says, "We're twins Dad! We both have 'dwasses'. " 
Mason has been anxiously awaiting his first dental appointment for a quite a while now and he was sure that they would give him a truck toothbrush. He didn't the toothbrush he wished for, but he was just as excited to get an orange balloon and orange toothbrush (his favorite color). He did great and he felt like such a big boy:)
Leah tried walking on this log, so Mason had to try it too but he would only do it with Grandma's help
Leah looking over a bridge along the trail
Beautiful scenery
Mason is trying to make his hands into an airplane
Mason is 'flying' around the room to an airplane song
This is mason in his 'boat' floating around the room (and jumping)
Mason was mad in this picture because he couldn't make his scarf fly behind him like Leah was doing.
The boys getting out of the bulldozer
Mason and Mom snuggling and trying to stay warm while Leah gets a turn riding in the excavator
Digging with the Excavator
Grandma Camp and Mason waiting for dinner
Mason's face is all messy because I couldn't keep his little fingers away from the cake (chocolate cake with chocolate whipped cream frosting and topped with crushed Oreos (dirt) and a dump truck, fork lift and backhoe).
Mason got lots of fun presents! This is what he got for his birthday:
Here we all are just before we called it a night. I took of for a yoga class just before bedtime and Joe said the kids were asleep within minutes of being put to bed:)
This is my belly right before I went into the operating room for my C-section.
I got to see him for a few minutes after he was born and then he was taken to the NICU and I didn't get to hold him until the next morning. It was really difficult for me to be away from him but Joe stayed with him to make sure he was OK.
This is Leah seeing Mason for the first time the day after he was born. It was love at first sight for her! The first thing she said was, "Oh! He is so cute! Can we take him home with us?"
This is a few days after Mason was born. He stayed in the NICU for a week after he was born to give him time to get used to eating. Notice the feeding tube in his nose. He hated it and was always trying to pull it out. Anyways, he always fell asleep before he had eaten all he was supposed to, so they would feed him the rest through a feeding tube.
He was so little! Those days in the hospital were so difficult and tiring. I was sooooo tired in this picture. This is the day we took Mason home.
Here he is snug in his car seat ready for his trip home. He is swimming in it!
And here he is in his bed, right next to Mom and Dad's bed, at home!
Mason at his 1st Birthday party.
This is a picture of a picture of Mason right after his 2nd Birthday. He got his first glasses at 20 months and had an eye surgery at 25 months. Now, the thought of Mason without glasses is odd. They suit him quite well! He is quite a little man.
