Matthew

Matthew has really taken to his skateboard and still talks about going to the skate park at Grapevine Mills (he will have to improve a lot before he can step foot in there).

This was a picture of Matthew on his first field trip. They went to the Elm Fork Education Center at UNT.He told me that I need to pack him everything that he needed for his long bus ride and that I need to put extra food for the long trip. I packed his lunch in a gallon zip lock bag because I did not have a brown paper sack and he was concerned that someone would steal his food because they could see what he had and would like it. He was truly excited about this and sad that I couldn't attend because they did not allow siblings to come along. He kept talking about his first bus ride and going into space.

Matthew's first ER trip.I got a call from school saying Matthew had a 103 temperature and that we needed to come and get him. Once we got home he fell asleep on the bathroom floor while waiting to get into CareNow. They checked everything, They swapped him to death, took blood from his arm, chest x-ray, the works. Then the doctor comes in and says that you need to take him to the ER right away because we think his appendix is about to erupt because Matthew was complaining of severe stomach pain. I was freaking out inside, I really did not want my boy to have surgery. We rush to the ER and after about 2 hours they decide that it is a virus and he needs to drink plenty of water and take Tylenol for the fever. Really not cool CareNow. Matthew is still talking about the blood they took from his arm.

Matthew has become quite the reader. He is one of the top readers in his class and is doing really well at school. He had a problem with rhyming and we had to work extra hard on it, but he finally grasped the concept and went from a 0 to 100 in a four day span.

Matthew loves his legos. His new thing is taking apart the lego creations and putting it all back together with the help of the manuals. Hours upon hours of fun. The only downside is when one small piece is missing and searching for the one piece in a container filled with thousands of other legos.