Happy Birthday, Mason!

I remember celebrating Mason's birthday last year. Wasn't that great of a party. There was one very important person missing--Mason! This time he was HOME for his birthday. This big boy turned 3 yesterday!

Rather than cake, we had a dump truck full of pudding, which once again works great for his current diet restrictions!

I thought about interviewing Mason for this post, but I figured he would answer "no" to most of my questions (his favorite word right now). I'll do my best to guess at some of his favorites:

• favorite color: red
• favorite food: yogurt (works well for his soft diet right now as we undergo healing post palate revision) and pizza
• favorite toy: that's tough--any sort of vehicle---tractors, combines, trains, dumptrucks
• favorite TV show: Curious George
• favorite playmate: big brother, Zachary   
• most common words/phrases: oh shoot; come and get me
• favorite book: really any book with vehicles

Mr Mason's (aka fast hands) personality has revealed itself these last few weeks. We've got a goofball on our hands. He loves to make anyone laugh--by rolling around on the floor, starting up his belly laugh, pulling his shirt over his head. He loves to charm girls he finds intriguing--he was blinking his eyes at one of the nurses last week after surgery! When he's really proud of himself, he'll strut. So darn cute!

Mason and Zach both had surgery on their palates last week--Mason had his palate closed up. They had done it in China but it didn't stay closed. Zach had a pharyngeal flap done. Early this week we noticed that Mason's has a hole in his palate. Some of the stitches worked their way out for some reason. So we are praying that this will heal shut on its own. All over the gospels we can read about Jesus healing people, with the purpose of glorifying God. The leper said to Jesus "Lord if you will, make me clean" and Jesus said "I will". So we are asking God "Lord if you will, heal Mason's mouth". It's not a question of "can he". We know he can. It's "will he". Regardless of if he does or not, we will still glorify Him.