The Land Before Time

These days Matthew is as boy as boys can get. Three major injuries and he's only two, broke a chair today, and the dinosaur obsession....

Ellie has a baby doll that she has carried around forever. Her name is "Baby". Very inventive. Matthew has a dinosaur that he carries around. His name is "Dinosaur". Again. Inventive. Matthew, at two, can identify and say the names of the Pterodactyl, Tyranasuarus Rex, Brontosaurus, and Triceratops. "Dinosaur" is a Brontosaurus, however, whenever we say that name, for this particular one, he always corrects us, "No. Dinosaur". His name is "Dinosaur".

Ellie has loved having a doll house, bottles for her babies, clothes to dress them in, and high chairs to feed them in. I have been on a quest to find some sort of dinosaur paraphernalia to add to Matthew's dinosaurs. I was really wanting something that would be the equivalent of a doll house, for dinosaurs...whatever that would be. A mountain? Cave men to eat? I couldn't find anything I liked so Tony and I set out to make our own. I have to say it turned out great!!!! Tony did the sawing, and I did the collecting, painting and gluing. Here is the finished product....

And here is Matthew's face as he came down the stairs and saw it for the first time...


And the best part....playing.....