Weekend Fundays

Packed, fun-filled weekend for Matthew and gang, starting with a birthday party on Saturday for Matthew's friend Quinn who turns 1 on August 4th.

Present time!

This Minnie Mouse shopping cart was Matthew's gift for Quinn.  You can't even begin to imagine the tears that were shed when I pulled it out of the target bag and then had to take it from him to put it in the birthday gift bag.  As you can see, he waited with anticipation for HIS cart to be given back to him.  Thankfully, this was one of the last gifts opened so he was getting the hang of the gifts not being for him.

And then the kids were over the presents and Quinn received her first kiss.

And Matthew booked it outside.  Did I mention that he can now open doors?  Uh, yeah.  And when I quickly ran up and down a flight of stairs to give Mike the camera for our monitor, I came back to find 1) Matthew was no longer in the house 2) He had climbed (with no shoes, just socks) monkey bar-like stairs to the top of a tree house (that had one side of rails missing) and 3) He was ready to go down the slide.  Someone should really be watching him from time to time, cause this kiddo does things with purpose.

They also had a bouncy basketball court/slide which Matthew had a blast on with several other kids.  He now loves playing with other kids (rather than just near them).

On Sunday, Matthew not only had Sunday School where he played with other kids, but we had a play date with a co-worker of Mike's.  They have a 27 month old son and a baby girl who is about a week younger than Thea.  Jackson and Matthew struggled to share at times but really  took to each other.  They played golf, trains, kitchen, and of course read books.

Jackson pointing out and naming the animals in the book

The play date ended with them hugging each other!  Both of them extended their arms and squeezed.  It was really cute.  Matthew doesn't do that all the time so it was especially fun to see. Never mind that Matthew forgot to let go so it kind of turned into a choke hold turn body slam.  

And we had a short conversation with Rahm Emanuel on our walk back to the car.  No big deal.