The Masons- 2008 in review

Here's our Smiling Claire, when she was still very new! She always gets that tounge in there. . .

Here's Ben, during the last month of having his Binky! One of the ones he had hidden in his room turned up this week, and I made him throw it away! He's pretending to be asleep. . .

Ben and Claire together. Awwwww.


30 Seconds later. . .

My cheesy little Ben!!!

Rock Star Ben! Our Hearth is his official stage. That's where he goes to sing and dance, these days. . . Maybe we'll start selling tickets.

Claire's favorite pastime since she was mobile-- Removing Laundry from baskets.

Claire learned to Crawl!!!

Boxer Claire-- Two big bruises, and a VERY nearly broken nose.



Ben's favorite pastime-- PLAYDOUGH!! How else do you keep a two-year-old who just had his tonsils out busy and quiet?
(Claire loves the camera-- those are her fingers in the way. . .)

The essential Bathtub picture, for future embarrassment purposes.



Our little Flower, Claire!! Thanks, Aunt Lacey for helping us accesorize!!

Hope you enjoyed that, hopefully our family will send us some of the pics from our California trip so we can share those, too. If I don't get back to the Blog before the Holidays, MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERY ONE!!!!

Recovery in process. . .

Hello, all!

Quick update this Monday night. Ben is bouncing back from his surgery so well! His appetite has been better the last week than it has his entire life, it seens like!! We're really excited about that. Hopefully he'll put on some weight. He does choose inconvenient times to be hungry, though. Just as we're leaving for the babysitter, or right before he goes to bed, "Mom, I'm HUNGWY!!!!!" Potty training is coming along, at Ben's chosen pace. We'll get there, hopefully soon!

Claire is doing great- she has now entered the copycat phase, and will try anything. She even knows that the word cheese has two meanings-- so, when we're eating cheese as a snack, she is also giving me the silliest, scrunchy nose grin she can find! She already had two bottom teeth, and she now has three new teeth on the top, and the fourth will come through any day now.

Josh and I are keeping busy, too-- this weekend is Ben and Claire's birthday party. Next week are their birthdays, and then two weeks later Christmas is here!! So many preparations. . .

I'll do my best to keep up, and also get some new pics up on the site!