The Holiday Season

  Starting with a few more pictures from Halloween:

Matthew slept with his Trick or Treat bag a few times

Going to Children's Fairyland in November

Visiting my family for Thanksgiving.  Seating was limited, but we know how to improvise...

Texting

 With Grandma and Grandpa

With Santa

Cooking class with Mimi and Nick

Raking leaves

At Children's Fairyland in December

"Playing Pillows" on Christmas Eve

Finding what Santa left

Christmas Day

At the BART station with Daddy

Pictures from the month of October

We had a really fun month of October.  My brother and his family came to visit, and then there was Halloween of course.  Here are some highlights:

Matthew reading up on how to play one of the Wii games

"playing laundries"

Jumping on the trampoline with cousins

This move is called "triangle time"

Visiting Children's Fairyland in Oakland

Walking the plank. 

L to R:  Matthew, Sylvia, Luke, Sabrina, Isabel, Hazel

  

Trying out a flower costume

I made Matthew a Trick-or-Treat bag this year since I didn't make his costume.  One of my favorite features is that its reversible...

Matthew was a lion for Halloween.  Here he is with Daddy at the Trunk or Treat activity.

One last project we did in October; we put another shelf in our closet to give us a little extra storage.

Fun Pictures

Well, they aren't the best pictures I've ever seen, but its always fun to see that there really is a baby in there!

So far, so good.  Due ~ April 27.

Matthew stories

Matthew just asked for goldfish crackers. I buy goldfish in bulk at Costco so I keep them in a plastic container in the cupboard. Lately, Matthew has enjoyed putting the goldfish in his bowl without my help. Until today, he always put them in by the handful, but today he decided to put them in one at a time and count them as he went along. He counted to thirty-five! He did need help staying on track a few times, but I was impressed that he could do it.

Yesterday, he decided to take all the butter knives out of the dishwasher and play with them. I started to put them back while he was napping, but I couldn't find all of them. Then, as I was walking past the dining table, I saw the three missing knives - one at each place. Matthew likes to help set the table, and I guess he decided to do that with the knives.



A little while ago, Matthew found a box of envelopes in a desk drawer and pulled out all the envelopes. He calls them "bills". And asked me, "I have them?"

I just took some bedding out of the dryer and Matthew jumped up and down, saying, "Hooray! Laundries! Clothes!" Matthew is a big fan of rolling around in the clean laundry or sitting in the laundry basket while I fill it up with clothes from the dryer. Sometimes he says, "Too hot!" or calls the clothes "dresses".

Talking to Daddy on the Phone

Bye bye crib

Almost two weeks ago, we decided to give Matthew more freedom in his sleeping accommodations. We started by taking the front railing off his crib. It worked out pretty well except for at least one fall out of the bed and another that we're not sure what happened. And then there was this night when he fell asleep half way out of the bed:

We had a toddler bed from my sister in the garage, and we decided that we needed to get that into use ASAP.  We got it up and functioning over the weekend.  Then on Monday, we got offered a hand-me-down bed from one of my mother-in-law's coworkers.  So we picked it up last night.  I didn't really think he'd be transitioning to a twin size bed so soon, but Matthew insisted on having it be his bed right now.  So basically we've been having an awesome week of musical beds!

Matthew with his latest bed:

How did he learn about jumping on the bed so fast?