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

Catching up again...

Man this kid is growing fast.  In a matter of two weeks he went from just tall enough to reach the lower edge of a light switch to turn it off, all the way to easily turning them on and off without stretching much.  He went up ~1.5"! 

We had some snow over the last few weeks, and Matt had a lot of fun getting out to play in it.

Driving in the snow can be tricky.

Monkey trying to climb the fence.

He also finally got his new wetsuit, so we no longer have to break out the shoehorn every time we take him swimming.

Ready for Sea World

How deep is that tub anyway?

Not much narrative for the rest of the pictures, just some cute ones from the last few weeks.

Art projects with Mommy.

Lunch at SushiMe with Auntie and Uncle.

Playing with trucks.

Self Portrait

Who's shoes ARE those?

Matt looks happy.  Chicken not so much...

Hanging out in the garage.

"Cinnamon rolls you say?"

Best toddler cleanup system EVER!

Working on some potty training.

Until next time,

Jake

Music

Matt has been getting into music a lot more lately, so Auntie made him a CD of children's songs.  I'm amazed at how fast he memorized parts of them.  This clip contains a little bit of "Pizza song", I think some "old mcdonald" and most of it is "the alligator song"  (I don't know the real names to any of them)

It your wondering why he sounds a little funny singing it, the singer on the version we have has a sort of a NY accent, and Matt copies it.


Singing from Virnig Family on Vimeo.


Jake

Catching up

Seems like sometimes life is to busy that time just gets away from you.  Here's a few photo's from the last month or so.  He's growing up fast!

Making Log Cabins from rice cripies

 We call this the "Muddy Park" for obvious reasons

It's getting deep!

Matt and this baby gorilla had some fun looking at each other, but I was of course to slow to get any good pictures of it.

Havin' fun at the zoo

Tackle Daddy

"What?"

I believe the quote was "Matthew's Loungin'"

We have the hardest time getting pictures of the eyes open lately.  Check out that hair getting wild!

Playing with the new marble drop

More eyes closed, but he got a haircut!

Looks like trouble!

Who?  Me?

More eyes closed...

I don't know!

Too much energy

Matt had way too much energy the other night after dinner, and needed to burn some off before bed.  I still can't edit HD video, so enjoy some raw footage!


Matt after Dinner from Virnig Family on Vimeo.

Jake