Matthew's Month.

Here are a few things Matthew's been up to in the past month or so...

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...building K'nex

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...cheering on his siblings during their skating lessons

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...running races with Geoff during the younger kids' skating lessons.

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...taking skating lessons himself.

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...experimenting with a little rock climbing before his weekly gym classes.

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...trying to grow a yogurt beard.

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...squeezing in some school time.

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...creating, and then flooding, a Nile River model of his own creation (including the 'y'-shaped Delta at the head of it) - a demonstration of why the first farmers of ancient Egypt loved the annual flooding.  We grew the grass seed for about two weeks (it reached about 3 inches tall) until it started to get mouldy.

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...gymnastics.

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...helping with chores around the house...such as laundry, and taking out the recycles on garbage day.

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...attending an art gallery showing of the art that he and his young friends made at their fall/winter art class (that's Matthew in the red jacket, admiring is friends' works of art).

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...holding up the baked clay teapot, teacup and saucer that he made for me!

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...standing with his cousin in front of the tree that he painted on the class' mural.

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Every kid in the class painted one tree...Matthew's is on the far left.

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...shovelling the driveway after small snowfalls.

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...trying to get into the World Record book (!) by balancing juggling balls on top of each other...he was sure that this would make it in!

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...using my camera to experiment with 'self portrait art.'

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...putting together puzzles.

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...and loving on his mama!