Matthew Monday: Matthew’s Tenth Birthday

Yesterday, September first was Matthew’s tenth birthday.  It being Sunday, we went to Mass in the morning, went bowling in the early afternoon, watched a little baseball in the late afternoon, went out to dinner, and celebrated his birthday with cake and candles at his grandmother’s house.  It was a wonderful day if I should say so myself.  Here are some pictures.

We went to Mass with my mother, and we took a picture in front of her house.

Matthew received a present from one of my friends, Mac, through being a Baltimore Orioles fan and he sent Matthew an autographed baseball, signed by a Henry Urrutia, who only played in the majors for a couple of months back in 2015.  Mac noticed how Matthew tried so hard to get baseballs when we were at a game together earlier this year.  He dubbed Matthew “the ball-hawk.”  We took a picture with the autographed ball and sent it to Mac expressing our thanks.

I don’t have any pictures of us bowling but it was pathetic.  I hadn’t bowled in over 30 years and Matthew is all talk.  We played four games and my highest score was 111.  Matthew must have guttered 50% of the time.

After dinner we had a birthday cake over at his other grandmother’s house. 

I have a little clip of him trying to blow out the candles.

Now today, September 2^nd, is Gotch Day.  If you don’t remember what that is, I explained it at the bottom of the blog on his fourth birthday, here.   You can also check out the pictures on his 4^th birthday and see how much he’s changed.