Monday, June 29, 2009

A New Friend...

Last week Matt had to travel up to MA for work and Matthew and I got tag along. We had fun taking our time heading up there on Sunday and had Matthew set in the back with every toy we could shove in the car, his stinky puppy and Blues Clues in the dvd player.

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On our way we saw a sign that said "scenic overlook". I shot Matt a look as he drove right passed it. The next sign that popped up on the road he pulled over for. It was the NY State line and beautiful. A very nice man offered to take our picture, so we got something we don't have a lot of, all three of us in the same picture.

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We got up there late and had some dinner and Matthew had the best time. Since we had a suite he didn't have anywhere to be that wasn't with us so even though he was in his pack n play there was no way he was going to sleep. He played and jumped up and down and talked to us all night until we finally went to sleep too.

On Monday we hung around the hotel and that night went out to dinner and to a mall to get Matthew new shoes since we found out the hard way that his sneakers were too small. Yeah, an hour of non-stop screaming in the car and racking my brains as to what could be so bad made me realize his shoes were hard to put on. The second they came off there was instant silence. His new favorite phrase is to tell us he's "all done" when he's doing something he doesn't want to do. When I was getting him dressed to go out that night he was whining on the bed telling me "all done mama, all done."

On Tuesday we got to meet up with a very good friend of mine who was an amazing support to me when we lost the twins. We actually went through pregnancy together a second time and her little girl was born a couple weeks after Matthew. It was so nice to finally meet and let the kids meet each other. We always joke they're going to get married one day. They were pretty cute together. Sitting at a table at a restaurant they were a huge hit. Everybody stopped to say hi to them and they took it all in like the prince and princess they are.

The highlight of the trip for Matthew was the little boy who lived in the hotel room. He was a good looking kid who was always happy to see Matthew, and Matthew was always happy to see him.

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Animal Crackers

On Saturday we spent the day at the zoo. To put it honestly Matthew was less than impressed with the animals. The other kids at the zoo? A complete and total thrill. We kept showing him the animals and he kept hiding into our shoulders. We weren't sure if he was hot or scared or what, but we weren't too upset about getting the snuggles. It was a fun time anyway and it was nice to be able to take the time as a family and just spend it together doing something fun. Afterwards we went to a local orchard to get some strawberries and gave Matthew his first sugar cookie. Surpisingly he wasn't thrilled with that either.

hiding from the otters
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Matthew and a kangaroo
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Mommy and Matthew checking out a zebra
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Thursday, June 18, 2009

Cherish

As mentioned in previous blogs Matt is in charge of the bed time routine. I relish the time to myself to get a bath and read a book and just relax. But there is part of me that misses that sleepy, cuddly time that happens with Matthew only at night. I put him to bed during the day but there's a different type of cuddle that comes with bedtime.

Every once in a great while when I'm done my bath Matthew is still wide awake and I get to rock him and sing to him. It doesn't happen often so tonight when it did I was thrilled as I was just feeling a tinge of sadness as I listened to Matt reading "Goodnight Moon" that it wasn't me doing it. Matt had even gone downstairs and I yelled to him to bring up the camera for we are nearing one and that much closer to bedtime turning into a little boy's routine rather than a baby's routine.

Matthew is growing up very quickly. And while half of me loves seeing him become more independent and growing up half of me is sad to lose the little baby he was. As I rocked him tonight and sang "you are my sunshine" I was reminded what a gift this child was to me. This sweet little boy is mine. I am his mommy. And it's the best job in the world.

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Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Who Wants to See Another Video?

Matthew figured out how to put the fishy in his fishbowl last night.




Below is a message from Matthew:
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Wednesday, June 10, 2009

How Big is Matthew?

Matt and I have been working a while on teaching Matthew some new "tricks." The latest one we've been working on is the age old game of "so big". He's always enjoyed when we would play it and raise his arms for him. I think he thought that was the end of the game. He didn't realize the real trick was to raise his arms all on his own.

Sunday Christi and I were up playing in his room with him and he did it once for us but not again.

Then today I said to him "how big is Matthew?" and eureeka! The arms went in the air!!!

I cannot tell you how amazing every day with this little guy is. To see him learn new things and play new games gives me greater joy than I ever imagined being.

Without further ado.

How big is Matthew?