One of our standby Matthew amusements is to cover half of our kitchen table with butcher paper and sit him on top with a box of crayons. He's usually good for 10 or 15 minutes with that. Today was the first time he's drawn circles instead of just zigzag random lines. Rachel also showed him to draw controlled straight lines and he copied her.
Matthew takes after my brother David in being a very kinetic individual. David loved burning off energy on a "hoppy ball" as a kid. We tried to find one in Matthew's size, and thanks to the magic of froogle, we found this: http://store.yahoo.com/byardhealth/jollyball.html. (Life before ecommerce must have sucked.) It's meant to be some kind of horsey chew toy, but it's just the right size for a smaller-than-average two year old kid to hop on.
I got this for him a week or two ago and he didn't really take to it, but today he was hopping around on it like a pro, grinning like a maniac. That's one more arrow in my entertainment quiver -- when you have a Savage Peanut you need a lot if you want to stay sane.
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