Face Painting at Matthew's Faith Montessori Birthday party

He is FOUR!!! (or almost)

I just wrote a very long piece about my very last baby turning four.  I wrote all about how much I love this sweet little guy and many details about the way that he plays with cars and his superheroes.  I talked about his love of grandparents and about how much he misses Papa Joe, but adores the other three.  The sun rises and sets with his sisters, though.  He loves, loves, loves, them and wants to do everything that they do.  You would find this to be a much longer post had some weird glitch not happened that caused me to lose the whole thing.  A few things:

He sure does love cars.  

He loves his dogs.

The Topas are bonus grandparents and he adores them.

His best friend is now in Kindergarten and when they see one another, they run up to each other and say, "I love you, best friend!"

He is all boy.  I mean, really, really, all boy.  He runs and runs around like crazy, says silly boy things, is rougher than the girls, but he also hugs, cuddles and loves his family.

Still working on the learning part of preschool.  We have the numbers 1-9, except for 7.  He skips over that one. :)

I am going to try to post more, but that is the bare minimum post on Matthew Colin turning 4.  My sweet little 5 1/2 pound baby is now more like 40.  His eyes are still gorgeous and his smile is still the sweetest thing you've ever seen.

A Pretty Awesome Birthday Party

Meagan's friend Makenzie, the girl on the left, had a great birthday party at a place called Painting with a Twist.  The kids all make the same picture and the instructor gives directions as they go.   The actually mostly do lessons with adults, but Meagan lucked out to be able to go to this one.  Makenzie is one of Meagan's oldest friends; they met in Ms. Erickson's Kinder class. I was beyond excited to find out that the two of them would be in the same class again this year!  The girl on the right is a friend from last year who did tutoring with Meagan over the summer.  Her name is Hannah.

 "Because you were always on my mind...."

No, Meagan didn't paint this.  She actually entered a drawing and won it!  It is a supercute longhorn, which is great since it was on a day where UT beat OU and shocked everyone, maybe even themselves.

If anyone needs a book....I just finished Cuckoo's Calling by Robert Galbraith, othewise known as a mildly famous author named JK Rowling.  It was an awesome suspense novel.  It started kind of slowly, but was beautifully written and drew me in.  Enjoy!

Another cool Girl Scout Project

Natalie's Daisy troop is now a Brownies troop.  They all stayed together with a few exceptions.  The leader from last year has a talented husband, and he built this clothes closet.  The school uses it to collect used and new clothes for kids in our district who don't have enough of their own.

 

Both girls are going with me when Meagan's Jr. Girl Scout troop goes to the state park out in Bastrop.  It is going to be a fun day.  It is my style of campout.  By campout, I mean hanging out and having fun and then going home to sleep in my own bed. 

Dolphins, mustaches, and a whole lotta love