The Day After

The morning after the party Matthew was enjoying the singing card he got from Grandma Joyce.

He has since ripped it in two and I finally tossed the pieces today. But don't be sad, he got another

one in the mail on Thursday from Auntie Colleen and crew.

Birthday Videos

Playing with the new sit n spin.

Matthew and Lily sharing the new Tricylce.

Matthew's 2nd Birthday Party

On April 3 we had a small party to celebrate survival by all parties of the 2nd year!

We had the kids make their own pizzas with a lot of help from the adults.

The timing was perfect as the kids pizzas came out of the oven as the delivery ones arrived at the front door.

Elliot Wells, who was super quiet the whole time in his snazzy sweater vest.

The cake, which I did NOT make myself. A shout out to Safeway.

An unexpected development, Matthew thought the bulldozer on top of the cake was great for dozering the icing off. He kind of destroyed a large portion of the cake.

You can't let all that good icing go to waste.

Lily really liked the cake too.

Opening gifts. He was getting a little pooped at this point so his attention span was pretty limited.

Lily was nice enough to model the cute shorts and shirt he got from Richelle.

We had a great time and Matthew slept like a log.

Pay back Presents

The morning of Matthew's birthday, after opening a gift from Nana and Papa, I let Matthew break out the drum and cymbals he got from Auntie Colleen for Christmas. We had been hiding them because of the noise but the night before Daddy had gotten a set of drum sticks from a concert that he fixed up for Matthew so I figured now was the perfect time.

As you can see he totally gravitated to the cymbals. Keep in mind it is about 7:30 am, we are skyping with Nana and Papa and Daddy is still in bed.

Mail

Yesterday Matthew received his first official piece of mail. A letter and a picture from Papa.

Eggs, Mummy, Eggs

Puddle Jumping

So there was a break in the weather for the first time in DAYS, so Matthew and I went outside for a walk at 6pm.
Naturally after DAYS of rain there are a plethora of puddles to explore and today Matthew discovered that not only can you walk, run and march through them but you can also Jump into them!
This is what happened when Mummy said that it was time to go home. Ultimately I got him home with the promise of a shower, his new obsession. I realize it is far from environmental but I let him stay in there until he drained the hot water heater and this blog post was almost done!