The Hose

This is Matthew being the ham that he is. That evening he thought it was fun to use his Thomas blanket as a slide; he slid down on his belly head first from the chair, climbed back up and did it countless more times. Goofball.

I think I've mentioned it before, but I'll say it again...Matt LOVES the hose. He asks to water the "pwants" everyday. Lately, he really enjoys playing with the spray nozzle and seeing what each different setting does. And spraying anything in the way. The best is when he points it directly at himself only inches from his face and then much to his surprise gets a cold blast of water all down his front.

Matthew has been all about his daddy lately, too. He's been waking up from his nap saying, "I wanna hold Daddy." Steven has been working in the yard a lot this week and so Matt has loved getting to help daddy put plants in the ground and play with shovels and dirt. Matthew was also very excited yesterday when we went to visit Steven at work. He was thrilled to see his daddy's truck in the parking lot and then exclaimed as we walked in "I go see Daddy!!! Give him big hugs! Daddy workin'!" He was so loud I asked Steven if he could hear us when we walked in.

We came home and guess who wanted to play with guess what right away. And we got more bubbles for his bubble gun so he had a big time outside.

This morning we did some shopping. I got some candles. Matt played with them for a solid 30 minutes until he came and told me he had broken one. This after I had explicitly asked him to be gentle and not to break them. Outlandish rules for a 2 year old, huh? He had indeed cracked one of them so I had to put them away. Tears to follow, but the prospect of lunch cheered him up. Notice the Walgreens basketball hoop on the window in the background...oh the privilege of being the child of a Walgreens pharmacist!!! Cheap swag. But the boy loves it.