I sure hope so. Matthew was quite wound up from the play time in the sun, but he slept pretty well because of it too...
Matthew looked terribly cute in his CAT hat that he got from my dad last year (or maybe the year before?). And look- it fits him now!!
...though I never was able to talk him into leaving it on his head.
Ok. so it didn't snow all day long- but it was pretty dang cold. The Easter Bunny left eggs down our hallway for Matthew to find... he was pretty excited, he knew what to expect in the eggs... he'd done something similar before when we visited Mia and Bebop.
After we got home from Church, while Erik and I (well, mainly Erik) were making lunch, Matthew found out that he could open his eggs and get the chocolate out... all. by. himself. I don't think he got too many, though we'll never be sure...
You'd think by the picture above that this was where he got caught sneaking the chocolate. What a happy boy to get to open a huge chocolate egg! I think he was a little, um... disappointed maybe with the surprise inside the cadbury egg? after he'd broken through by eating 1/2 the chocolate shell, he quit. Maybe he just decided he'd had enough chocolate for the day?
With the new shelves, Matthew was able to reach his Monkey buddy and give him a proper check up. This guy has been with us since Matthew's birth (Aunt Monkey Sue brought him to the hospital), but was always so much bigger than Matthew, that he wasn't really an option for Matthew to carry around with him...
Then after we changed clothes, Monkey got a ride on the "bi-kul-kul-kul".
And later that afternoon before we were able to head out the door, Monkey needed a jacket too. Luckily I had the baby clothes out because I've been going through them to see what we'll be able to use this time around, so it wasn't a difficult request to fulfil.
This Play Doh pocket knife became an airplane... can't you see it? He thought it up all on his own, and I'd say it provided 30 minutes of entertainment?
They're up! Finally!! It took a while to get motivated to move the computer desk over to make room, but the shelves are up!
Matthew's super dooper Uncle Mike made a trip to IKEA to pick these up for us, then Mia and Bebop picked them up from his house, brought them to their house, and then to our house! What a travelin' pair those two are! I do have to admit, road trips ARE a lot of fun when your traveling buddy is your best friend.
As you can see, Matthew was a big help with the "turn turn"-ing of the process.
I had to move everything out of the room EXCEPT for the computer desk to get these babies together, and even then it was a tight squeeze.
I'd promised myself that I'd leave them empty until we'd screwed in the child safety tip resistant thing-a-ma-bob that came with it. Although I doubt they'd fall over because of their current position, partially blocked by the large computer desk, I didn't want to take any chances of a little person deciding they looked like a ladder that would be fun to climb, and having them and a ton of stuff fall on top of the little explorer.
A day later- they looked like this...
Why is it that horizontal surfaces tend to collect junk? I decided to put an end to the junk stacking, clear the shelves off and break out the drill. With the shelves secured to the wall, they've started filling up with less junky looking items- most from the shelves that were hanging above the computer. I've taken those down now, and they'll be making the move to the basement in a few months (weeks?!?) with the computer desk.
Matthew found a favorite toy at Mia and Bebop's house. Duke drove and Tom rode. Matthew helped fix their tires and heads with the "drills" that were in the back of the Jeep... they even made a sound when you pushed the trigger.... er button. How he knew to run around and point them at people will always make me wonder- but at least now, next time he sees a play gun, he'll head to fill the tires up with air...
