April's Dusty Trail

Last weekend between Good Friday and Easter Sunday, Matthew attended Horse Show Saturday. His two favorite words at the horse show were "Aunt D", usually followed closely by Ride!

Sitting Pretty

Every time the horse stopped, even if it was just to take a picture, Matthew would rock in the saddle and say ride, or go. Just about the only way to get Matthew out of the saddle was to bribe him with another favorite activity, Bubbles!

Papa helping Matthew pop the bubbles in the wind.

The water bucket doubles as a wash basin

Easter morning Matthew inspected his clothes, books, and treats

After church, he was ready to go see the horses again, and didn't even slow down to change clothes.
Today his parents took him to the Washington Farms Strawberry Festival in Oconee County. Once again, his first stop was the animals, goats, chickens, pig, rabbits, and

Baby Cows, which he said at least 30 times

But then, Matthew found the playgrounds, slides, and finally the inflatable, bouncy castle and he had a blast. His parents have to catch their breath when ever they can, because when Matthew wakes up from his nap, he will hit the ground running.

Spring Outside

The weather has been good enough that Matthew has been able to spend time outside almost every day. The warm weather also means lots of yard work....

Working on the tractor

Re-locating the sand in the box

And moving the rocks around the patio

The base of the big tree has lots of sticks that require Matthew's attention. Finally, there is time to play with the ever popular bubbles!

Matthew's favorite part is to pop the bubbles and say "POP" each time! Pop, pop, pop

Monkey

Matthew not only climbs like a monkey and swings like a monkey. He is also curious, like his favorite monkey, Curious George. Matthew is likely to grab anything he can see, and if it is not within arms reach that is when the climbing starts. Open a drawer and grab a brush, or a cake pan.......

....Or a tape measure?

He has been playing in the sand box outside a lot lately and enjoying the spring weather. His ability to use a shovel to put sand in the bucket has improved by leaps and bounds. These sandbox skills apparently do not translate to the high chair.

Spaghetti still poses the same challenges it did months ago and he manages to miss that great big mouth!
P.S. He also grabbed the can koozie out of a bucket and it ended up on his sippy cup