Fancy Nancy dinner at our house

Last night was our first family dinner since July 24th (yes I've been counting the days)....so we decided we would make it special for Mark...and I'm pretty sure we surprised him!

We had a Fancy Nancy themed dinner. Fancy Nancy is a great children's book series that we have fallen in love with at the library. Macy received one of her books for her birthday and has loved them ever since. Nancy is a girl who loves, loves, loves to be fancy and loves to use big words to show off her fanciness (or gaudiness)! We had tons of fun dressing up with high heels, jewelry, dresses, tu tu's, and makeup (us girls anyway).

Here are some pictures...and yes we even let Macy drink out of a fancy cup. She loved it too.

After our fancy dinner we had parfaits (which Nancy makes quiet frequently) and I'm pretty sure that was Matthew's favorite part. Just watch this video..."Want a bite".

Walking around and more

Matthew has this walking thing down! He is all over the house and is just loving his freedom to go where ever he wants. It is wearing me out but it is so exciting to watch his face when he figures out something new.

We went to football practice on Thursday night and I realized that I won't be sitting in the stands at all this year. All he wanted to do was go up and down on the stairs. Looks like we might be sitting on the grass hill this year....I mean walking in the grass hill....we don't sit anywhere these days! :) He loved the football field though...and of course as soon as he saw Mark he wouldn't let him put him down. Not sure who had more fun- Mark or Matthew- walking around the field after practice.

New words for Matthew are ball, Daddy and Papaw. He is working on saying lots of letter sounds so I know new words will be coming soon. He is constantly 'jabbering' using the same inflection and pausing that we do when talking...we have no clue what he is saying but I guess he does! He looks us straight in the eye (and if we aren't looking at him he turns our heads toward him) and jabbers away.

Seems like forever ago that Macy was doing this stuff- I just love this stage!