Having all boys for the last 8 years has taken it’s toll on the color scheme of our house. It was blue. With Ally’s arrival, we’ve finally introduced a bit of pink into the mix. Matthew must have got the pink bug too, he’s taken it upon himself to help bring even more pink into our household. Here are a few of the things that Matthew has helped to turn pink.
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The office carpet.
Last week while trying to get our office straightened out after we had piled up all the laundry room stuff in there while installing laundry room cabinets, we were sidetracked long enough to let Matthew find the ink refill kit for our printer cartridges. He somehow managed to open the incredibly tight capped red ink container and made it half way across the office floor before we recognized the problem. Our special spot remover, the carpet cleaner, and Grandma’s special spot remove weren’t enough to help all those little spots go from red back to our carpet’s yellowish color. Instead, it’s now pink there. I suppose I’ll have to cut up some carpet chunks and replace them with spare carpet we have kicking around somewhere. During the mean time, we’ve placed the office chair over the biggest pink spot.
I should add that while we were attempting to clean the carpet, Matthew found a way to wash his hands with wood polish. That wasn’t pink though.
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Food
For whatever reason, Matthew decided to react to something by throwing up his food last night. This morning we found two large pink spots by his door. There were a lot of peanuts mixed in but I managed to clean those up pretty good. I got most of the throwup out but the carpet there is still a little pink. I’m more hopeful for this area though. Perhaps a good carpet shampoo can turn the rest back to the correct color.
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Pink Marker
Of all the markers in the other boys color kits, why would Matthew pull the pink one out. Luckily, we caught this before it went too far. He only managed to turn some of his face pink before we ruined his color party.
If they ever invent straight jackets for two year olds, we’ll be getting a hot pink one for Matthew.
August 31st, 2008
I’ve written before about Matthews amazing ability to get into stuff, make messes, and otherwise keep us busy. He’s something else. We haven’t had a kid like him before. Even Ally Marie, our new born, is not near the work Matthew causes us to endure.
Anyway, a couple weeks ago I found one of my shoes by the back door. The thing is, I don’t just leave my shoes in random places. Well actually, I do sometimes, but if I do, I always leave two shoes together. I can say with a pretty high degree of certainty that I didn’t take off only one shoe by the back door.
This was the week the boys were gone so we didn’t have any suspects besides Matthew. Unfortunately, he hasn’t quite gained the ability to tell us what he’s thinking yet. We were left to our own abilities to try and discover where my other shoe was. We searched all the bedrooms, all the main rooms, and even our basement. We searched behind things, under things, in and around things. We eventually decided that if it was going to be found, it was just going to have to want to be found, because we were out of ideas.
Two or three of the days my shoe was missing, I wore some nicer dress shoes to work and job interviews. By Friday however, we decided that I needed a pair of tennis-shoes and if my other shoe was to be found, I’d just have to have two pairs for a bit. I got myself a new pair of Nike Air Running Shoes that were on sale for $20 off or so. They’re comfortable.
Well, about Tuesday this week, Gayla called me up and said she found my other shoe. It was inside a dresser drawer. We only use that dresser for decoration and to put a lamp on in our main entry way. The drawers are somewhat hard to pull out and we never suspected Matthew could get a shoe in there. Go figure. Now I have two pairs of tennis-shoes!
August 10th, 2008
For any who have had a chance to visit our home in the last few months, you’ll already be familiar with Matthew’s ability to climb on pretty much anything. You’ll also be familiar with the upside down kitchen we’ve become used to. For everyone else, I’ll have to first mention that turning the chairs upside down seemed to be able to keep Matthew off of the counters and kitchen table. Lately however, he’s become a little more brazen in his efforts to get things. Now, in addition to being able to climb on upside down bar stools, he is able to drag them and use them as ladders. Here is Matthew using his newly acquired skills:
You’ll notice that Matthew is using his ability wisely to get something good.
Matthew also uses his ability to climb on things to entertain himself. As I looked over all our pictures, I noticed that most of them that were of Matthew were also of him climbing on something. Here are another couple:
Matthew likes to do what his brothers do and that includes playing the piano.
Speaking of things his brothers doing things, it didn’t take long after Scott parked the motorcycle before Matthew was right on it.
April 20th, 2008