sweet little boy

So Matthew has a friend - there is another little boy in his Tumblebugs class, who lives in our neighborhood and also spends his day with a nanny. They have had a few playdates at the Wiggly Play Center in Frisco and met up yesterday to play there again. Annmarie told me that Matthew and Jesse were really good about playing together and sharing the toys (Matthew is about six months older than Jesse).

In the middle of playing together, Matthew suddenly leaned over and kissed Jesse on the nose! (awww!) When it came time to go home, Matthew and Jesse gave each other a hug (awww again) and somehow fell over! Jesse started to cry (not hurt, just surprised) and Matthew asked him over and over, "Are you okay, Jesse?" Awww my sweet little boy! :-)

Too sweet...

Matthew is a sensitive little guy! We bought the Cars soundtrack because he LOVES every thing about the movie so much, and when the James Taylor song comes on, he always asks us, "Are the cars sad? Why are they sad?" (in the movie, it's a flashback to when the interstate has been built and suddenly no one comes to Radiator Springs anymore, and all the cars are dejected and drive away slowly) So we tell him that the cars are sad because they thought their friends were going to visit and they didn't come, so the cars were sad because they missed their friends.

We explain this like two or three times a day, and he's always been like, "Oh, okay. Whatever." but tonight, when we told him the cars were sad, he got these big tears in his eyes and we asked him if he was sad because the cars were sad, and he couldn't answer 'cause he was all choked up and started crying. Awwww! I hugged him and he pushed me away and wiped his eyes.

SO sweet I can hardly stand it. :-)

Quarium

We decided we had a spare $50 or so that we needed to be parted with, so we took Matthew Monster to the Dallas World Aquarium this morning. They have done a LOT of renovation and additions since the last time we went (2002? Something like that) and it looked really nice. It probably would have been better if we'd gotten there right at opening time - it was CROWDED. Matthew was very interested to find the people who were playing the jungle music and not so interested in actually looking at animals. We did, however, spot the sloth, way high up in one of the trees.


Matthew's favorite - kitty cat. BIG kitty cat. Pissed off looking kitty cat. Needless to say, he took home a plush jaguar from the gift store - AS IF there weren't enough cats in bed with him. He already has two stuffed jaguars. sigh...




When it was over, we took him to TGI Fridays in the West End for some lunch. As usual, he only ate the fries.

Bike rides!

Matthew loves the WeeRide we bought and stuck on the front of James' bike. They go for bike rides just about every day now. Matthew "helps" Daddy steer.




(and yes, when they go out in the neighborhood, Daddy wears his helmet too. We were just messing around in the driveway for a little bit.)

We need to dig out Mommy's bike and pump up the tires so she can join in!

Red Race Car Bed

We have been talking to Matthew for a loooooong time about getting him a big boy bed, and he's been kind of iffy on it, so we decided we'd just go ahead and buy one and give him the chance to use it if he wanted to. So off we went to Big Toy Store to look at the ones he and Ree Ree have been eyeing lately. There were two big red plastic race car beds - a Lightning McQueen one (fits a crib mattress) and a more generic Step 2 Stock Car bed (fits either a crib mattress or a twin size). I assumed he'd want the Lightning McQueen one - a) because he loves Car Movie more than life itself and b) it's less practical and in the end will be more expensive because we'll have to upgrade him to a twin size sooner or later. So I was pleasantly surprised that he wanted the bigger Step 2 bed.

Of course, the damn box was waaaaaaay too big to fit into my MDX, so we had to take it all out in the parking lot and then stuff all those pieces into the car. It was packed to the gills and you could barely see Matthew in his car seat in there. When we got home, we dragged all the pieces up to the messy-as-all-get-out landing and got started.



Matt Matt was very keen to help Daddy put on the black wheels, so I distracted him while James put the body of the bed together by helping him move and pile the wheels in the bathroom (like you do). He decided that he needed to drive the toilet to Pretend Colorado Springs for a visit.




While we were doing this, James was hard at work assembling the rest of the bed.


After we attached the wheels (Matthew directing exactly which wheel went where), it was ready for a test drive.







That is only a small fraction of the toys we found in the bed this morning. He was very enamored of the idea of being able to get in and out of bed as he pleased (despite the fact that he's been climbing in and out of the crib at while for a while), so last night we had to go up twice to usher him back into his room. We may have to go Supernanny on his butt if that continues!

Bounce House!

We went to Noah's house for his birthday party and we saw the bounce house from the next block over before we even got there. Matthew wasn't too interested in going in when we arrived, but man did he sure end up loving it. It was hot as Hades in there, and Matthew slept like a *rock* for naptime that day. I'm considering buying one to have in the backyard permanently.

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