Happy Halloween

Happy Halloween! We had a gorgeous day and wonderful weather to celebrate Halloween! Matthew was an adorable monkey and surprisingly he loves being in his costume. He didn't fuss one bit and kept the monkey head on too. Grandma Debi brought him to school in the afternoon to see my kids and be in the school parade. Then he got to play on the playground with Grandma while we finished up out day at school. We decided this year to drive Matthew to some houses for a Halloween visit. First we saw Ann, Wally and Sadee, then we drove to see Aunt Sarah, Uncle Cory, Grandma Julie, Grandpa Dave, and Grandma Phyllis. After that we saw Deah and Sonja from daycare and lastly we saw Pat from school! It's nice that Sarah and Cory's house is in the same neighborhood as daycare and Pat, so it was very easy. Once we got home, we let Matthew help pass out the candy to all the neighborhood kiddos. He really enjoyed that job. He tried the whole one for me-one for you thing with the candy, but he didn't get very far. He kept tying to eat it all so we had to put a stop to it. Thank you to Grandma and Grandpa Genisio for staying at our house and handing out candy while we were gone! As usual we took a ton of photos. Enjoy the Halloween pictures of our monkey!

Sorry...

I am sorry for not writing or updating this in quite some time. Nothing is really new in the Chenery household. Matthew is saying some words, like Momma, Dadda, Deah, Hawa (for Ojala and practically every other dog), No, night-night. He understands a lot more than he can verbalize. He continues to run all around chasing whoever and whatever he can. He has a new fascination for trains, so I think I know what Santa is bringing him.

We have been really busy with work, football, and Halloween. On top of it all out hot water heater broke last Wednesday. After many long phone calls and a few parts shipped to us, Ryan and my dad were able to get it fixed last night! It really makes you take for granted how much we enjoy hot water!! I will be taking tons of pictures tomorrow of Matthew in his costume and doing some trick-or-treating. I will post them as soon as I can. This school year is already a quarter of the way finished! I can't believe it. For the safety of our students, classes have been canceled on Tuesday since our school (and many others in Portage) is a poling sites. We have record's day instead. I will also take Matthew to the ENT for his six month checkup and hearing testing. Hopefully it will all come out okay and if it doesn't, we will deal and work with it. We hope everyone is happy and healthy!

Gull Meadow Farms

We took full advantage of a beautiful morning and went to Gull Meadow Farms with Matthew. We arrived around 9:30 and we were one of the first ones there! That was a pleasant surprise. By the time we left at 11:00, the place was PACKED! Matthew wondered through the pumpkins, tasted fresh apple cider and apple sugar donuts. He walked through the hay maze, started the labyrinth, took a few bounces on the giant pillow and we took a slide down the 40 foot tube slide. To end our day we went on a tractor ride around the farm by the pumpkin patch, apple trees and the giant adult corn maze. Matthew was very tired, so we didn't wonder through the pumpkin patch or apple trees, maybe next time. On the way home we grabbed a bite for lunch and Matthew fell asleep in the car and continued to sleep for three hours! We just got done watching Michigan State beat Northwestern together too. I am glad we had a nice day...last year we went on a horrible rainy day! I am not sure how many days like this we will have before winter comes and I am glad we made the most of it! Enjoy the pictures too!

P.S. I got Matthew's Halloween costume today too. He is going to be a monkey...go figure!

A Trip to the Fire Station

We took Matthew to the Taste of Texas today. It was a very small festival for Texas Township. We got there later in the day, so most of the festivities were getting ready to wrap up. We spent most of our time at the Texas Township Fire Station and Matthew had a ball. He got to "drive" the firetruck, stand in an ambulance and sit on a "stretcher chair" or whatever it was called. Then they started a car on fire to demonstrate how quickly a car fire can spread and the firemen got to put it out for us. We also saw a demonstration with the jaws of life. Matthew was interested the most in the fire trucks and his new fire hat. He tried on the real thing, but his plastic version was much, much lighter. He also met the K-Wings mascot, Slappy. To my surprise he wasn't the least bit scared of the giant green bird! We posted some Fire Station photos at our usual site. Enjoy!