Wonderful Winter Weekend

This weekend we headed to Granny and Grandad's for a FUN weekend with family. Amy, Caleb, and Anna were there too. The boys had so much fun playing with the two Nerf guns that Caleb brought, however, we had a problem... there were only two. Jason ran out and bought two more. Greene, Jason, and I had as much fun playing with them as the kids did. We should have bought even more. We ran all over the house shooting each other. Granny will probably find bullets for the next few weeks.

You better wear your safety goggles!

Maggie just liked to find the bullets and chew on them.

We learned so much about Matthew this weekend. He opened up immediately to Granny and Grandad, and quickly began to act just as Austin and the other grandkids did. I believe he felt accepted, comfortable, and loved. I learned that Matthew LOVES his vegetables! I was shocked! Granny made marinated vegetables... broccoli, cauliflower, tomatoes, and zucchini. Matthew ate FOUR servings! He had three servings of the meat too. When he was all finished I noticed that he hadn't even touched his macaroni and cheese. I hope he positively influences Austin in this area! My fear is that Austin will make sure Matthew knows that you aren't supposed to like those things.

Matthew eating a tomato

For breakfast Granny made biscuits, sausage gravy, and eggs. Yum! Matthew wanted to help Granny. He rolled the dough and cut the biscuits. He did a great job!

Sunday afternoon Jason's family always goes to Great Granny's house for lunch. Austin couldn't wait to take Matthew to see Jesse and Great Granny's cows. It was a beautiful day! We walked with Jesse to feed the cows, and came back covered in mud! The boys thought it was funny to look out for the cow poop. They kept saying it over and over again.

We ended the weekend with a visit with Matthew's daddy Daniel and mommy Angie. We met them at the mall. It was nice to see Matthew with his birth parents, but this is going to get harder and harder. As he is with us more and more, we are learning how to parent him. We discipline him and love on him as he is ours, however, we wanted to step back and let them be with him and parent him. Jason had to remind me to back off and let them do their thing.

Taking him back after being with him for five days was difficult. It made it better knowing we'd be getting him again the next day. He will be spending the night with us tonight so we can go to the dentist on Tuesday. So, since last Wednesday to this Tuesday we have been with him everyday. What a blessing! I am off school again today (something must be going on with the power??), so I could have kept him. As soon as Austin woke up today he asked if Matthew was awake too. He was sad to hear that he wasn't home. We'll go get him as soon as we can this afternoon.