Our Journey to Matthew

~God created you, a beautiful child, you were just delivered to the wrong address.~

Sunday, November 16, 2008

Birthday Party-Postponed due to Fires




Matthew's big 4th Birthday Party planned for 2 months at Chuck E. Cheese in Valencia got scrapped at the last minute. The 5 freeway was closed both directions from our house down to the the Valley nearly all day Saturday. I could not in good concious celebrate when 3 of our friends were evacuated and scheduled to attend. Nor could we ask people to go 2 hours out of their way to take detours to get here. We have rescheduled for next Sunday, all but 1 are still coming and most were relieved. Matthew wasn't too upset (especially when I gave him ice cream) and his only comment was "okay, next week but the fire isn't invited!". Perfect sentiment.


2 thomas pics not included in last post




Apparently you can only load 5 pics at a time...


Here are the last 2 from the previous post.


A Day Out With Thomas 2008!
















Last Sunday November 9, 2008, Matthew had a dream fulfilled! He got to ride Thomas the Train and meet Sir Topham Hatt. This of course meant driving for 2 hours to the Orange Empire Railway Museum in Perris CA but he was with his best friend so it was a fun drive.





The pictures show them waiting for Thomas with the Conducter, standing in front of the train after their 15 minute ride, getting a tattoo, breaking a piece off the play caboose, standing in front of one of the museum exhibits, inside a very old downtown LA trolley car and in front of the main sign as you are leaving. Matthew was pooped and skinned his knee twice, hence the defeated look on his face. He had a wonderful time and played for 5 hours with his best friend surrounded by trains. What a day!

Halloween 2008







Here is Matthew getting ready to go trick or treating, after trick or treating on the porch and Ginger our 10 year old bully staying in her matching pirate costume for about 2 minutes. She was not amused.

Harvest Festival 2008







Each year Matthew's school does a Harvest Festival instead of referring to it as a Halloween Party/Parade. This year he wore his Pirate Captain costume and was second in line during the parade. I didn't want to post pics of the parade as there are a bunch of kids in there and I don't know them so best not to put their faces on the internet. Included in this post are pictures of him next to a big pumpkin in his classroom, making a spider out of cream cheese, ritz cracker, pretzels and chocolate chips and a photo of his spelling his name correctly. If you look at all of them on the wall (double click the picture for full view) you will see he is the ONLY preschooler to spell his name correctly! The comments you overheard as parents saw the kids mispelled names and the kids comments back them were priceless. "Why didn't you spell you name right". "Why did you give me such a long name?!" "You spelled your name wrong". "I don't like my name". Kids are awesome!