Meet Matthew

Yesterday morning Kailey came into our room super early. Of course we told her to go back to her room and read some books or play for a little while, but she refused to listen to us. She was talking about a "Matthew" and telling us that he was in her room. She was talking about how he wanted to play with her so she couldn't go read, so finally Chad went to investigate thinking that perhaps she had named another one of her stuffed animals or that maybe we were being haunted by a ghostly visitor. Nope, that wasn't the case. He got in her room, looked around and asked her where he was. She kept pointing to her bed and saying "that's Matthew." After a long moment of confusion, he finally realized she was talking about the headboard on her bed. It has a few knots that sort of resemble eyes, a nose and a mouth. She named her headboard Matthew. So now we have not only a collection of interestingly named stuffed animals, but a name for her bed.