New Daycare update and A Weekend in Scottsdale

Matthew loved the pool

The Texas Tech game watching crew

 Matthew loves Aunt Lori

Ready for football season

Family photo in front of Camelback Mountain

Having fun with Aunt Lori

Watching the ducks - Matthew was fascinated 

Going down the slide like a big boy - he climbed up and went down 10 times!

Walking in the park with Mama and Dada

Matthew is loving his new daycare at Bent Tree.  He comes home with a summary of his daily activities: Qtip painting, baby sign & sing/dance, tearing and glueing paper, coloring with markers, learning body parts with puppets, and shaking bottles and building blocks.  He is learning so much.  On Tuesday, I took him to the nursing home to volunteer and he was the center of attention.  He was dancing to the music and running around chasing a little dog that one of the volunteers brought.  I was impressed with his dancing skills - he's a natural!

Over the weekend, we went to Scottsdale to visit Lori.  The hot, dry air felt wonderful to us because it has been raining for 2 weeks now in Dallas and all of us seem to be experiencing allergies because of it.  We could definitely live in Scottsdale.  It is beautiful with the mountains nearby and there were no clouds in the sky.  Matthew was a trooper on the plane despite the fact that we arrived after his bedtime.  He was up at 6:30am Central - that's 4:30am Mountain time!  He went to bed early at 8pm C/6pm M.  We had a babysitter watch him while he slept and we went to a bar to watch the Tech vs UT game.  Tech put up a good fight.  We played in the park the next day and swam in the pool - Matthew loved that!  And Matthew enjoyed playing with Sadie, Lori's chocolate lab.  Thanks Aunt Lori for being such a fabulous host.