Mason Family: May 2012

Padres, baskets and bats

A few random pictures of my cute kiddos! I came into the boys' room to collect their laundry and found this little guy hanging out in the laundry basket!

My cute little bats! It's a little hard to see their faces, but they are making some cute little faces in eat of these.

We went to a Padres' game with a group of friends from church. It was so much fun! We sat in a section called "the beach." The seats are all lined up with large grassy areas between the rows. And down front, there is a sand pit. They even provide a bunch of sand toys! The kids had SO MUCH FUN!! Jonah made best friends with everyone down there! That boy doesn't know a stranger! :)

my three plumbers

We HAD to install a new toilet in our downstairs bathroom. The one we had was probably 20+ years old! So we picked up this one up and my three plumbers got to work. Jonah was SO excited to "help." Dan went outside to get his toolbox and Jonah begged him to wait until he could run upstairs and get his toolbox! He also "helped" Dan read the instructions!

All three of them jammed into the tiny bathroom waiting to "help" Daddy!

absolute cuteness

My sweet boys before services. I couldn't decide which one to post, so I'm posting them all! I love these little guys so much!

Jonah has recently discovered pockets and he's obsessed with them! I love that he's got his hand in his pocket!

preschool

Several days a week I do "preschool" with Jonah. He absolutely LOVES it!! He asks to do preschool throughout the day! I love that! Well, for a while I was able to distract Henry with puzzles and other toys we don't play with very often. But recently, he's wised up to the fact that Jonah is having fun with things that he doesn't get to do. So, thanks to a few homeschool sites I found from pinterest, I came up with a few "preschool" activities he could do at the table with us. This one included different things like cheerios, dried pasta, and beans that he could spoon into cups. We just happened to have these little cups left over from Easter egg dye. He had a lot of fun and the mess was pretty minimal!

He's practicing counting from 1-20! He's pretty proud of himself!

Jonah

We finally took Jonah's "three year old" pictures. It was kind of fun to take them ourselves, although it gives me a huge appreciation for photographers! These are a few of my favorites. Jonah did really good and cooperated, although he's pretty photogenic!

Picasso & Michaelangelo

I found this cute little picnic table at a second hand store for only ten bucks!! We put it to good use immediately! The boys love eating lunch at their table when we have nice weather. We also like to use it for painting. I got the great idea of letting them paint on recycled boxes from pinterest. It works great! I can still recycle them and we don't waste paper that we don't even have! They had so much fun painting.

I found these really cool crayons and markers that you use on glass. They just wash off with water but they're really fun to draw with. So we get to "decorate" the sliding glass doors!

Easter

I always love Easter and this year was even more fun than last. Although that's not saying too much since the boys and I were deathly ill last Easter. But never mind that! This year we were all healthy and ready for fun! The boys woke up to their Easter baskets at the bottom of their beds. Jonah was so cute, he wouldn't open it until he came upstairs and asked us! Then he wanted to wait until Henry woke up so they could open them together! After services, we came home and decorated eggs and hunted for them in the backyard. It was a really fun day!

Waiting. More waiting.

Coloring his egg before we dunk it in the dye!

Didn't mean to stick these pictures here but now I don't know how to move them! Our easter pictures. The boys looked so cute in their little ties.

This contraption was supposed to spin the eggs around while you squirt dye on them. It was a super piece of junk. grrr.

Found an egg!!

Disneyland

Disneyland was running a special and we decided to snatch it up and take the boys. So glad we did. We had such a blast. The boys are at such a fun age, they found everything new and exciting. It's so fun to see Disneyland through their eyes!

We were able to go to both parks. Mater and Lightning McQueen were hanging out in California Disney so we took a moment for a family picture! They are opening a "Cars" land this summer and we can't wait to take the boys back for that. Jonah love everything Mater and Henry loves everything Jonah loves. So it will be a hit, for sure!

My sweet boy. Can't believe how big he's getting!

Henry was probably exhausted after a few hours, but he held out almost the entire day! He had a lot of fun on all the rides. He got to be a big boy and sit on the rides all by himself!

California Disney has the cutest camp playground. It was so neat! It's a forest setting with ropes courses, a little zip line, slides, waterfalls and fun logs to hide in. They boys could have spent the entire day in this one section! It was really nice to let them run around and stretch their legs.