Matthew Pacitto

All Warm and Fuzzy

Jeff — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 22:06:18 +0000

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!

His First Date

Jeff — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 22:01:30 +0000

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"!

The Ro-Bot!

Jeff — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 21:58:47 +0000

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!

A Musician in our Midst!

Jeff — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 20:31:30 +0000

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.

I Draw Number Oh!

Jeff — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 18:28:13 +0000

On Sunday I think it was, Matthew was having some fun colouring with his markers, and started drawing what looked like upside-down "U" shapes. He seemed to take a little more time when doing it than his normal scribbling, the kind of time he takes when he's trying to draw sharp corners to make what he thinks is a Triangle. After a few of them, and a couple with closed bottoms so they looked almost like "0" shapes, he started getting excited and telling us "I draw number O!" I tried correcting him that it was a zero, not an "O", but then I realized that he just had the definition of number wrong, and that he was indeed making "O"s, as in the letter, just calling it a number. He is so smart sometimes!

I'm Thinking!

Jeff — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 02:51:00 +0000

When my parents came to get Matthew this morning, Laurie asked him a question. He didn't answer, so she asked him another, and he looked at her and said "I'm thinking" as if to say "I haven't answered your first question yet mom, because I'm thinking of my answer!"

Out of the Mouth of Babes

Jeff — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 16:04:39 +0000

Last night we had a fundraiser to attend, so we brought Matthew to my In-Law's place for the night. We were leaving their house around 1 in the afternoon, and Baba was at the door saying to us "have a good time tonight" and Matthew came running up to the door, looked at both of us, and said "be careful." We said pardon, and he repeated it, and then he kept saying it, staring off into the distance, "be careful"! It was so cute, we both just wanted to take him right there and not stop hugging him!

Later, when Baba put him down to sleep at about 9:30, he kept talking to himself while she got her house in order. She peeked in on him at about 10:30, to see if he was still up, and he sat up in bed, looked at her and said "Hi Baba, I Matthew...Matthew Pee-toe!"

Mah-SHEEENS!

Jeff — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 12:31:46 +0000

Matthew's been obsessed with a show called Mighty Machines ever since his Nonna first bought him a DVD about a month or so back. That is to say, he's obsessed with the theme song to it, and he rattles off almost all the objects in the intro (including the demolition of two water towers - he says something along the lines of "crash" and "fall down"). A few days ago he came to us with his a DVD case, asking for "Mah-SHEENS" and when we got to see what he was holding, it was the case for the Metal Slug game for Wii. He saw the tank-like vehicle on the front, and put one-and-one together, and figured it out all on his own!

M A T T H E W spells Matthew!

Jeff — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 15:05:27 +0000

Matthew got a magnadoodle for Christmas, and i was drawing pictures on it for him yesterday when I decided to writ MATTHEW on it. I asked him "hey buddy, what's that say?" After a moment's pause, he said confidently "Matthew!" Unbelievable to me! At 1 1/2 he can recognize his name! It seems only a month or two ago that he started even saying the full name Matthew! Teta Karen said he had also recognized it a week ago at Laura's christening. I think its from his name written on his charicature in the stairwell...but either way, he's such a smart boy!

Scare #2

Jeff — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 15:16:52 +0000

On Thursday morning, we woke up to a bit of a fright. Matthew had been cranky the night before, not eating well and generally being uncomfortable. When Laurie asked him at one point if he was okay, he leaned into her and in a teary voice said "no, mama". We let him sleep with us, because he just wouldn't have it any other way. I was in the bathroom getting ready for work when Laurie called out "Something's wrong!" I went running out to find Matthew lying on his side in the middle of our bed, his eyes staring blankly, his mouth open making tiny gasps, almost imitating a fish. Laurie was already on the phone with 911, and he fell asleep withing a minute of me seeing him in that state. Two ambulances arrived, and a police car, and a firetruck, all for our little man. Apparently he had had another febral convulsion. The doctor at the hospital told us it didn't sound normal, so we had to see our family doctor right away, because he had double the chances of developing epilepsy. Thankfully, our doctor told that wasn't true, and it sounded pretty normal to him. Either way, he's fine now, just ran fevers for the day following, but now he's been fever free for a whole day and a bit! It's scary, but reassuring that these kinds of convulsions are somewhat common and rarely if ever pose long-term problems. 5 1/2 hours at the hospital was a little crazy to wait for urine test results and to see a doctor, but at least they were there for him, so I can't complain too much.