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14Mar2010

Laughing at the Misfortunes of Others

DateSunday, March 14, 2010 at 10:31AM

About a week ago we were watching some cartoons, and someone on the cartoon fell down, and Matthew started laughing.  We were just watching Backyardigans Secrete Agent and Pablo tripped and fell, and Matthew started laughing again.  It reminded me of what happened about a week ago (it may very well have been Backyardigans that we were watching then too) and I've noticed that he's been laughing at people falling a lot more lately.  So basically, he's realized the humour in prat falls, and that it's funny when someone stumbles!  I can't wait to have him appreciate the Three Stooges as much as the rest of my family (or at least the males in my family) do.

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Thursday
04Mar2010

All Warm and Fuzzy

DateThursday, March 4, 2010 at 5:06PM

On February 27th, Matthew was running around in our bedroom, playing with Laurie's Skip-It.  He came to my side of the bed, where one of his feet landed on an air vent.  He stopped and looked down at it, then up at me.  "Is nice and warm on the toes" he told me.  I encouraged him to try the other vent, and then let me follow me to his bedroom to show him the furnace vent in there.  I just thought it was unbearably cute that he not only noticed the warm air, but how he described the feeling!

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Thursday
04Mar2010

His First Date

DateThursday, March 4, 2010 at 5:01PM

On Friday, February 12th we were attending a visitation for Nonno Nicola at Kane's where Matthew ended up on his first date.  A little girl, about 3 years old, named Evie was there, and he took to her immediately.  He was showing off, dancing around with his cute little stomping dance, and we told them to take each other's hands, and they did.  They moved over to the giant fish tank in the office there, and Matthew got so excited he started boucing up and down.  "I having so much fun!" he exclaimed, in such a way that it sounded almost like he was trying to tell her he was having a good time on their little "date"!

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Thursday
04Mar2010

The Ro-Bot!

DateThursday, March 4, 2010 at 4:58PM

A few weeks ago my dad made a key for a vintage 50s style wind-up toy robot he had gotten me for Christmas (the toy had somehow lost the key in transportation, so he made me a new one...check the Frank-It section of the website soon for details on that!).  So I had it sitting in a bag by the side door.  Matthew peered into the bag one day and exclaimed "The Row-Bot!  The Row-Bot!"  He was so excited to see it...and the best part was, we never told him it was called a robot, and he had only barely ever seen it before.  He made the leap of understanding between it and other robots he had seen, probably from a Backyardigans episode, all by himself!

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Tuesday
23Feb2010

A Musician in our Midst!

DateTuesday, February 23, 2010 at 3:31PM

On Saturday February 20th, Matthew had Mommy sitting on the foot stool of the rocking chair in the family room.  He handed her the inflatable microphone and took his plastic drum sticks and started hitting the electronic drums Teta Linda got him.  He was so excited and happy, he couldn't contain himself.  He kept saying "we play wockband!  we play wockband!"

About a month ago or so he started requesting to play rockband, and he'd want me and Mommy to head downstairs and play while he watched, and hammered on the drum pads, or carried around an unplugged guitar to "play" along with us.  He's so musically inclined, apparently: He goes from the Mike-y-phone, to the Gih-Taaaarrrr, to the Pando, and then the Drums, which he says most normal of all...although he almost always says "I play drums!" not just the word "drums."

On Sunday, he also kept asking us for his "monica" after we changed his bum.  We almost left the room, not sure what he was talking about, until we realized it was the harmonica he had been playing after his bath.  He'd blow through it in and out, and then let us know "That's Wowed!"

His latest instrument is the accordion at my parent's house (or, as he prefers to call it, "coy-yoin").  He loves trying to play it, even though it's nearly as big as he is!  I'll have to let him try my single-octave one and see if he likes it better.

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