Recent Matt Labyorteaux picture

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150682267255708&set=a.10150682261895708.447018.386950835707&type=1&ref=nf

I saw this on Patrick's FB page. I love it.

very nice.

I saw it on Patrick's facebook as well. Very nice. His son looks so much like him! And Matt still looks great.

Nice picture of Matt.

he looks good for his age

Awesome! Thanks for sharing.

He looks great, and the boy is just adorable!

Vanesa.

Yep saw this too....That guy just can't look bad can he!??

Nice pic of Matt and Patrick from Patricks Facebook Page...

Who are the children standing close to Patrick and Matthew?

Vanesa.

Dont have a clue......

Lovely pictures

Davetucson wrote:

Nice pic of Matt and Patrick from Patricks Facebook Page...

Nice picture of Matt & Patrick.


Maybe their fans of LHOTP. (the other kids)

Buttercup wrote:

Davetucson wrote:

Nice pic of Matt and Patrick from Patricks Facebook Page...

Nice picture of Matt & Patrick.


Maybe their fans of LHOTP. (the other kids)

I think you are probably right. Patrick said that it was the happiest time of their life.

you know this photo? is a little older. But Matt looks very good

lOOKS A LITTLE OLDER, BUT STILL MATT!

Did their parents only adopt the two of them? Maybe they are sibings?

No; as far as I know they weren't siblings in real life...The Labyortheaux adopted them in different years .

Vanesa.

no, the two are not biological siblings.

Juliane wrote:

no, the two are not biological siblings.

Matt and Patrick are both adopted.
Sister is Jane Laborteaux.

Interesting Article from 1978 about Pat and Matt

This is what Michael Landon told People Magazine in 1978 about the adopted brothers Patrick and Matthew Laborteaux:The two relative newcomers to Little House, Patrick and Matthew Laborteaux, arrived after perhaps the hardest journey of all, aided by their remarkable adoptive parents, Ron and Frankie Laborteaux. He is an interior designer and she a former actress. "Patrick was diagnosed as a schizophrenic at the age of 3 weeks because he was so high-strung he couldn't keep food down," remembers Frankie. "When we got him he was suffering from malnutrition and was exhausted. He would break out in a cold sweat when anyone tried to touch him. With a lot of love and a firm, gentle hand, his symptoms had disappeared in a couple of years. Our success made us want to adopt another child. That was Matthew.

"The adoption agency told us he had been born with a hole in his heart that would heal naturally," Frankie continues, "but they would never acknowledge he was also autistic. He didn't walk until 3 or talk until 5. He slept standing up in his crib, and when anyone would try to pick him up he would scream and try to get away. I spent months on the floor with Matthew screaming and me holding him down telling him that no matter what he did I would love him."
Doctors and psychiatrists held out little hope that Matthew would ever be normal. But brother Patrick had started acting as therapy and by 7 was a veteran of Cheerios and McDonald's commercials. One day Matthew tagged along to a United Way audition. "The lady asked if Matthew wanted to test," Frankie recalls. "I was panicked. He-would throw a tantrum if anyone touched him. But Matthew just got up and followed her into the room. It was like sitting on a powder keg smoking a cigarette." He not only won that part but went on to play Peter Falk's son in the movie A Woman under the Influence. Patrick joined the Little House cast last year, and then Landon remembered a promise he'd made to some friends whose son was killed in a car crash—"that if I ever found a boy who had Albert's qualities I would put him on the show and call him Albert."

Matthew, who had already played Landon himself as a boy in flashbacks, debuts this fall (1978) as Albert. Though the Laborteaux family is still in difficulty—Frankie had a stroke four years ago, and Ron suffers from a serious, yet-undiagnosed illness—the success of their boys is cheering. "It's funny," Frankie reflects. "Patrick is blue-eyed and has light hair, and Matthew is brown-eyed with dark hair, but people automatically know they are brothers. Melissa Gilbert said to Patrick one day, 'Don't you two ever fight?' They really don't. They've been through too much to bother with pettiness."

Davetucson wrote:

Juliane wrote:

no, the two are not biological siblings.

Matt and Patrick are both adopted.
Sister is Jane Laborteaux.

I know that both are adopted. but the two are not biological brothers.
jane labYorteaux was, I think, the biological daughter of Ron and frances, but she does not live anymore

I am thinking after taking the 'y' out of their name for a while, they put it back in.....people will spell it how they want, and yes, it gets confusing....

As far as the kids being adopted, here is the link that talks about their adoptive mother after she had passed away recently....seems ALL the kids were adopted....

Frances Labyorteaux Dies