Matthew all ready to go on his last day of 2 year old preschool:
I asked him to make various “faces” (silly, spooky, smiley, etc) to get a nice smile out of him and it worked. I just love that boy. 🙂
I don’t want to sound too cocky so I’d like to mention that very nice shot was followed by this photography “fail”: we’ve been talking up potty training so I asked him to make a “potty training” face…
…and he grabbed his crotch. LOL
(I have no idea what I was expecting in response to my “potty training” face request but crotch grabbing wasn’t it. haha)
The day after Ian’s 5th birthday, I went to Virginia with my parents and Rachel to celebrate Kaitlyn’s 1st birthday. Ian got two Lego sets for his birthday and I asked Mike to set them aside so that I could build them with Ian’s help when I returned. I had the Monday following our trip off of work so Ian and I set to work building his new castle.
Ian attempting to assemble. Matthew attempting to destroy…I mean, play.
The two Lego sets had (literally) 4 booklets of instructions. It took four hours, start-to-finish, to get everything built. By the time we were done, my fingers were bruised from putting everything together.
After lots of interruptions by Mr. Under The Recommended Age For Playing With Legos, I set up a Thomas movie in the living room. I found this about 30 minutes later when it got a little too quiet for my tastes.
With Mr. Grabby Hands off in his bed upstairs, Ian and I got to work finishing up the castle. Here he is posing with the finished product.
And playing….
Update on Lego Kingdoms:
The castle is dead. Dead. Dead. Dead. I’d say within a month of being built, Matthew decimated the castle and nothing was left but tiny, Lego rubble. LOL
At the moment, Ian is really into playing with the Lego “guys” so we left the little caste guards and their weapons out to play with but packed up all the pieces to the buildings. I’m just hoping that the down the road, whenever we decide to re-build the castle, there will be enough pieces to finish it. Between Matthew pulling all the pieces apart and the cat batting them around, I have a feeling we’re going to have a half-built castle. Oh well!
Video style…
Ian taking a “stab” at golfing for the first time. 😉
May 2008
We’ve FINALLY gotten Matthew to learn the whole ABC song! Here’s a pretty sweet video of my baby showing off his ABCs singing skills as well as a bonus of Ian singing a few of his preschool concert songs. 🙂
He has a few adorable little flubs (S = X, V = P, etc) but my absolute favorite has to be the part where he says “now I remember all my ABCs” at the end. LOL I love that boy.