"Love follows knowledge."
"Beauty above all beauty!"
– St. Catherine of Siena

Monday, June 3, 2013

Matthew Monday: Truck Heaven

I've been tied up with work lately and it's not going to get better.  I have a very important review (perhaps life and death of the project) scheduled for Thursday.  Those kind of reviews bring on a lot of stress, especially when you don't have good news to tell.  I'm also going to have to see if I can reschedule for the following week since I don't have all the information I need for a proper review.  That's only going to add an additional week of uncertainty, which is more stress.  Engineering is a stressful occupation. 

Which in a odd way ties in to today's outing.  There are two skills that I perceive that Matthew seems to have.  Since I don't have any other experience with children, I don't know if Matthew excels at them or he's just normal.  One is music; he just seems to have a great recall for the melody of a song, and he'll even create his own lyrics to common children's songs.  The second is a mechanical ability.  He's watched me assemble household items and can put things together himself if their simple, and he loves cars, trucks, trains, his pedal wagon, his bicycle.  He's always asking to drive my car, and I've put him behind the wheel with the car in park, and he plays with the steering wheel, the windshield wipers, the blinkers, the power windows.  He's fascinated by the mechanical devices.

Today they had a "Touch A Truck" day at the local ball field.  It was an collection of real trucks, and children were able to climb in, sit at the driver's seat, and play with the various trucks.  They had them all: steamrollers, garbage truck, cement mixer, fire engine, ambulance, dump truck, police van, backhoe, and so on.  There must have been one version of every kind of truck.  Well Matthew was in seventh heaven.  He loved every single second of it.  I think we have a budding mechanical engineer here.  He could not get enough.  Let me share some pictures.

Here he is in a backhoe with a plastic hard hat.


 
I don't know which truck this is, perhaps the dump truck, but he's certainly trying to do something...lol.



 He really enjoyed the cement mixer.  It had an air horn and it was really loud. 






Inside a military truck.




And finally he's really trying to start this antique delivery truck.




He's my little boy!


13 comments:

  1. Well, he certainly is a boy, isn't he?! A word of, not advice, exactly, but perhaps caution: when our first boy turned 4, my husband thought it would be a good idea for him to have his own tools, since all men like tools and all that. So he got him a little tool bag with your basic starter tools.

    Within a couple of days, every toy and even some things that weren't toys had every screw removed and scattered Lord knows where. He caught on to screwdriving - or unscrewing - reaaal quick. :)

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    1. That is too funny, Jan and brings back memories of those little things we think as parents our children should have...LOL

      Brings to mind a set of small golf clubs purchased at age 5 and a broken school window (we back up the elementary school were my children were educated). I was never happier to have insurance and a good rapport with the staff at the school.

      and...Manny, it looks like Matthew had a great time!

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    2. Ha! I'll remember that Jan. Last year we gave him a set of plastic tools. He enjoyed that but like most kids toys grow old after a while.

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  2. He must have been SO excited! Sometimes children change when they grow up, but he seems to have a real talent for these things that you describe!

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  3. Thank you all. Yes, he seems like a natural sitting up there in those seats.

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    1. Oh my goodness, that certainly was a little boy's Seventh Heaven. He even got to blow the air horn! Lucky and much loved little boy :)

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    2. And the horn was really loud! Thank you Joyce. :)

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  4. Sound like he's going to have many great avenues to choose from in the future and being loved certainly is not going to be a set back for him.

    I could go on and on telling you stories about our seven grandsons and one great grandson but this post is about Matthew Monday and how lucky he is to be so loved.

    God Bless

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    1. Victor, I had no idea you were a grandfather, and a great grandfather at that. I pictured you as a young man...lol. Thank you for stopping by. :)

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    2. "I AM" a kid her, "I" mean a kid at heart if that makes a difference NOW? :)

      God Bless

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  5. That's so fun, look at him with this truck! Well, engineering dad, you will have to get him involved so he can develop that mechanical ability and maybe design new trucks or design things to improve trucks. Have fun doing guy things together!

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  6. Matthew is so handsome. He is having a ball with those big red vehicles. I think he is a natural and will someday drive them all. My son loved the little trucks - diecast and I still have some from his childhood I kept for him. Doesn't look like a boy is in their future though so I will give them to him soon and he can do what he wants with them.

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  7. Janine, thank you for stopping by. Now we have a Jeanette, a Jan, and a Janine who stop by the blog. I'm sure that's going to confuse everybody...lol.

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