Category Archives: Fun Stuff

So, I’m laying in bed Sunday morning and Davy comes running into my room and says, “You need to get up, get dressed, pour some coffee, and come outside!  Today is a special day because Matty is learning to ride his bike with no training wheels!”  Sure enough, all three of them are outside at the crack of dawn with Matty’s training wheels off and he is gliding down the driveway.  He did a great job and by the end of the morning he was riding it by himself.  I took a short video and we cheered him on.  He’s almost ready to ride on two wheels full-time, he just needs his legs to get a little longer for better balance when he puts his feet down…  🙂  Awesome job Matty bear!

So last weekend Andy and I got up, flipped on the coffee pot, and then we heard “Hi Daddy”.  Little Matty had climbed out of his crib.  Now, about a year ago he started climbing out, and we were fine with that….but day after day he kept getting up earlier and earlier and that just wasn’t going to work.  So Andy and I ended up turning his crib around putting the high back in the front, pushing it against the corner of the wall, and then pushing his armoire up against the other side.  Now the front was to tall and both of his sides were blocked.  You may be thinking “how high could the back of the crib actually be?”, and well lets just say that I had to stand on one of the kids stools and then drop him over the edge.  I always felt horrible dropping him in, but he thought it was funny and would laugh.

We decided it was time.  We packed the kids up in the truck and went to buy Matty’s bed.  Matty was so excited!  I don’t even know how to describe how excited he has been all week while we were converting his room.  He loves the color blue (even if half the time he calls it purple), so we picked out a nice bright color to paint the walls.  For the bedding I went over to pottery barn kids and bought a Madras quilt and pillow sham.  It definitely looks like him and it will go with whatever his favorite item of the moment is…firetrucks, surf boards, baseball, etc.

It took two days to move, paint, and assemble.  I couldn’t have gotten it all done without the help of Davy.  He painted this wall and he helped build Matty’s toy box bookshelf; thanks Davy!  The walls are still a little bare, but over time he will fill them up…  :O)  We decided to let Matty sleep on the little bed for the first two nights, just to make sure the paint fumes were mostly gone; and then here he is on his first night in his new bed!  So sweet!

Enjoy your new room beautiful boy…