Happy 2nd Birthday MASON!

We celebrated Mason's 2nd birthday with a party at our home this past Saturday morning. We decided to just invite a couple American families and FIVE local families. We don't know any of the local families too well, but we are trying to get to know them, so this seemed a good opportunity! It was a little stressful for me since we had a very busy week last week but it all turned out good. I wasn't very pleased with the cake - I had two failed attempts at making the colored decorative icing and ended up sending Micah to the store to buy imported colored icing for writing. The cake itself tasted really good but was a little too moist maybe due to not cooking it long enough. (but you know how you never know how done it is till you flip it over to ice the "bottom" and by then if it sticks to the bottom of the pan it's too late to cook it more!!)


These two girls are actually 3 years old - Mason is holding some books that the girl in pink gave him (all in chinese, but very cute pictures and the chinese characters are accompanied by the phonetic pinyin so I can use them to learn and practice my chinese!)


Mason blowing out his 2 candles. Before we sang Happy Birthday, Micah read (in chinese) from Psalm 139 about how we are fearfully & wonderfully made and talked about how the Father knew Mason before he was born. Don't you love the way the little boy (Tong Tong) on the left is holding his hands over his ears? I guess it got a little loud for him.


Family pic at the end of the party


It was super fun (a little chaotic with 10+ kids in our home) and everything came together nicely. Our friend Ann brought lots of Mickey Mouse party supplies from Hong Kong and that really was special to have. Mason's actual birthday is Wednesday the 30th. He is getting to be such a big boy. Although he is sometimes hard to understand, he loves to talk, loves to repeat anything anyone says and has the sweetest disposition (most of the time;) ). He loves to play with Reister and loves to say hello to anyone he passes (and since most of the people he sees when we're out are Chinese, he addresses them appropriately in Chinese: "Ayi" (auntie) "Shu Shu" (Uncle) "Jie Jie" (big sister) "Ge Ge" (big brother) "Mei Mei" (little sister) "Di Di" (little brother)
We're so very thankful for our Mason Turner and the blessing he is to our family!