Tulips and Trucks

Yesterday Matt, Jamie and I headed out early to go up to La Conner to meet with Grandma GranDan, Auntie and Uncle Ryan to see the tulips, then go over to the PACCAR open house to see the big trucks.  Matt was suitably impressed with both events, but I think the highlight was getting to "drive" the big trucks.

They woke me up too early!

Breakfast on the go!

He kind of looks like a garden gnome here.

Checking out the tulips

Ridin' the frog.

Grandma got dragged around a LOT at the tulips.

I asked him to pose.  This was the result.

Hang time with GranDan and Uncle.

These guys were smoothing out the parking lot and were kind enough to let Matt have a turn.  I think this was his favorite part of the tulip farm.

And on to the big trucks!

Who's that kid?

Checking out the logging truck.

What's up there?

Driving the fire truck.  I'm kind of surprised he didn't figure out how to get the siren going.

Guys this hat is cool and all, but it's kinda chocking me!

Driving the big truck!

Spinning the free wheel.

Grandma holding him back from getting in the "Matty sized" truck.

An excellent place to stop for a snack break.

I'm not sure we were supposed to get in this one, but nobody stopped us.

S'cause!

Ask Matt a "Why?" question, and his most likely answer lately will begin "S'cause....", which Jamie and I both find highly entertaining.

He's working hard on his pronouns now, finally hearing the occasional "I" instead of always referring to himself as "you", though it's been really entertaining watching people that don't know him get really confused when he would point at some thing and proclaim "You want that please!" .

This kid is growing up fast!  He was "working" on my truck the other day when Auntie called.  He can carry on quite the phone conversation now.

We headed to our favorite pizza place in Mukilteo a few weekends ago, it scares me how much this 2 year old eats!

Waiting for pizza

Where's my Pizza!

He LOVES lemon.  Anytime somebody gets one in a drink he's after it.

Rain? Wind? Cold?  Who cares, there's rocks to be thrown.

Gotta love the rain gear.

2 barrel water bottling.

 Pupcakes are messing!

Stupid cat thought he could hide in my closet.

We took a Sunday to go to Tolt-McDonald park for a few hours and let Matt do some playing.  Matt had a good time throwing rocks in the river for about an hour and a half.  He had a lot of fun, and was soaked by the end.

Crossing the bridge.

Having a good time!

Checking out the BIG bolts.

Almost didn't make it to the water, the trail had lots of good throwing rocks.

I was amazed by the size of some of the rocks that he was able to pick up and throw.

On the bridge headed back, dropping some rocks in the river.

Working out some energy before lunch at a restaurant.

Jake