Matthew's 10th birthday

 Matthew turned 10! That's pretty incredible. He enjoyed his day. He chose to have waffles for breakfast, an egg salad sandwich for lunch and mac and cheese for dinner.

Singing Happy Birthday to Matthew. (Notice how he points to himself just like U does when we sing Happy Birthday to U.)

Opening his gifts. He received the Knight Bus Lego set and some batteries for the ATV he and Megan bought.

Excited about the batteries.

Matthew spent as much time as he could riding the ATV. Megan joined in as well. We went to the park a few times so that they had more space to drive around.

Matthew with his delicious pumpkin pie.

Happy kid!

Update from pediatrician:

Height: 52 inches (15%)

Weight: 54 pounds (4%)

He is continuing to grow! 

Zoolights

 We went to the zoo for Zoolights the day after Christmas. We enjoyed walking around while looking at the beautiful lights and listening to the festive music. We also enjoyed watching the holiday safari show where we learned about the animals associated with different holidays.

Megan, Me, Matthew, U and Sarah on the Arizona Trail.

Megan hugging a (fake) saguaro.

Matthew and Me dancing to the music.

KOALAs. The new wildlife lantern safari was really cool.

Sarah and Lucas with some meerkats

Me, Megan and Matthew

Megan hanging out with a tiger

Megan, Matthew, Lucas and Sarah taking a rest.

The light show on the lake.

Lots of butterflies

U and Me

Beautiful elephant

Christmas 2020

 We enjoyed a nice Christmas at home.

Our tree on Christmas Eve.

The kids on Christmas Eve. You can see that they are not super awake.....(Matthew did have a long day due to a peanut exposure earlier in the day that resulted in lots of Benadryl and a visit from the fire department but thankfully no Epi-Pen or hospital visit.)

The kids in their new jams. They seem much more awake. They enjoyed opening their sibling gifts as well.

Christmas morning.

Letter from Santa

Lego mini figures from our stockings.
Sarah, U, Matthew, Megan, Me

Matthew with his Santa gifts. He was excited to get the Chase truck and really liked the Mandalorian Legos.

Megan with her Santa gifts. She loved the Rescue Lego sets, especially all the sea turtles, and her new wrap.

Sarah with her Santa gifts. She liked getting new shoes and lots of food.

Me with her Santa gifts. She liked getting very soft socks and new eye masks.

U with his Santa gifts. He was excited for the possibilities with his new meeples.

We ate some breakfast and then opened our family gifts. We spent the rest of the day putting together Legos and puzzles, listening to Christmas music and just relaxing.

Matthew with his gifts.

Megan with her gifts.

Sarah with her gifts.

Me with her gifts.

U with his gifts.

U's birthday

 U had a birthday, Shout, "Hooray!"

His parents were able to come over for a bit before they started driving back home. U opened his gifts while they were here. U received nice presents including tissue paper (he always get very excited about this). He also received Legos and games. For dinner, we had yummy ravioli with cinnamon rolls for dessert. After dinner, we played some games.

U with his gifts.

Opening the Lego set from his parents

Star Wars Unlock games

Singing with his birthday cinnamon roll.