Thank You Really Much

 Grandma took us to a really cool children’s museum which was once an old firehouse. Each room was furnished with a different theme and there were tons of hands on activities. We all had a blast. “Thank you really much," Matthew said to Grandma when we were leaving.

Matthew and I made homemade wheat pancakes for breakfast the next morning. We spent the rest of the day playing outside, doing a painting craft, and catching up on yard work.

Make Way For Ducklings

This has been a soggy and gray spring. Originally the plan was for the seven of us to take trip to the zoo, but on Monday the forecast called for scattered showers so we changed our plans to a trip to the Children’s museum instead.

Earlier that morning Matthew went off to school and Bob accompanied me to an ultrasound appointment.went great. It went great. Samantha weighs an estimated four pounds and two ounces. The tech said she already has some fuzz on her head too. We got to watch her opening and close her mouth too.

After the appointment, Bob went back to work, and I picked Matthew up from school. We met up with our friends for the planned trip. Lucky for us, our friend Lori was able to borrow a giant Mercedes from her family’s dealership which fit us all (three adults, three four-year-olds, and an eleven month old) in. The kids thought it was the greatest thing in the world and made a racket each time we went though a tunnel or under a bridge.

The museum was a lot of fun. Matthew bounced from room to room with his buddies to try as many activities as possible.

Four!

Matthew turned four today.

He already has these ideas in his head about sleepovers and tasting chewing gum.

“Wake me up at noon, when everyone gets here,” he told us the night before his birthday party.

Instead of sleeping until noon Matthew decided his time was better spent awake. “Today I am a little four and tomorrow I’ll be a big four!” he announced. The three of us spent the morning playing and getting prepared for the party. Eventually it was noon and people started to arrive.

Bob and I didn’t see much of Matt or each other during the party. Matt spent a lot of time outside with his friends, and Bob and I were busy being attentive hosts to all of our guests. The party went by fast!

The memory I’ll treasure most from the day was when we settled in to read books before bedtime. Our neighbor had given a set of books geared towards teaching young children to read. Imagine our surprise when Matthew began to read the first book out loud to us, taking the time to sound out words that were unfamiliar to him. We didn’t know that he could do that yet.

The birthday fun was not over yet. I still had to decorate cupcakes for his school. Matthew had requested hockey cupcakes.

Tonight Bob, Matthew, and I had our own birthday celebration. Bob brought home food from one of his favorite restaurants and after dinner he opened his presents from us. Then the three us went to Friendly’s for ice cream and spent the night relaxing and playing with his new toys before tucking him into bed.