Happy 2nd Birthday, Matt! (Part 1)

Today is Matt's second birthday! I'll post about the first half of his day while he's still napping, and I'll post again after we have our big birthday celebration later this evening.

After he woke up, he read a book or two on his own.

We then got dressed and headed downstairs, where Matt discovered the decorations we put up after he went to bed.

After breakfast, we read some more.

We then went to the children's museum.

Driving choo choos

We attended music class there. Matt sat through almost the entire 45+-minute class, which is a long time for him.

His favorite part was definitely the parachute with Grandpa's help. He's watching the farm animal puppets bounce around in it.

Fire engine - weeee!

Preparing lunch for Grandma

We then headed to the outside part for some sunshine on this really nice autumn day.

Playing the musical frogs

Testing out the butterfly wings

Celebrating his birthday with some pretend cake

More to come later tonight (or perhaps tomorrow)!

October Recap

I've already posted about some of our October activities; here are the rest.

The weather has turned a little colder, but we still got out to enjoy the outdoors a fair deal.

Checking out the cranberry bog

And the fish tank inside

Last month of dig digs outside

 

Finishing up some work around the yard and house before the winter weather arrives

Taking a walk through our woods

Just relaxing

Blowing bubbles at the moon

However, we had a lot of fun indoors at home.

 

Big fire truck! And a firefighter coat and hat!

Building train tracks (sometimes with the cat's supervision)

  

Reading books

Playing doctor ("Baby sick!")

 

Going for a ride

   

Art fun with stickers and drawing

Playing with all of his toys

And we had a lot of fun inside at other places, too.

At the Totplex

At the library

At open gym

Banging on a drum at music class

Checking out the new grocery store, which has car carts AND a train (it was hard to leave!)

Finally, here are a few miscellaneous photos:

Pretending to be asleep

Walking around in Dada's shoes

 Trying to get the cat to play with him (since she won't read to or with him)