Yup, he's for real.

I had absolutely no idea that being a mom would be such a hilarious job when I signed up. No one ever told me that I got free entertainment thrown in the deal! Oh this is great. Matthew makes me laugh all the time!

This picture is kind of self explanatory. I had just unloaded a lot of Sam's club bulk stuff into the panty so I had a lot of boxes. Matthew made a giant tower out of them. My favorite part is the proud look on his face.

I can't explain this. He found it in his toy box and decided he wanted to wear it outside on one of the hottest days we've had in a while.

Oh Matthew.

And this is how he unwinds at night. Or maybe he's winding up...I can never remember which direction is which. righty tighty lefty loosy?

What would I do without my Husband?

When I was younger my nose used to bleed fairly often. I have always had a sensitive nose, and when you're young it gets bumped a lot in play. Occasionally I would just get them out of nowhere. I think this happens to most people, but sometimes I wonder if it happens too much to me.

My nose hasn't bled for a really long time. Tonight I just had a spaghetti and bread stick dinner in the works and all of a sudden my nose just started running with blood. Oh yes, it was gross. All of those with weak stomachs I apologize. Needless to say I was handicapped and could not do anything with dinner! Matthew was starving (we all were) and cranky and I couldn't make dinner! Luckily Curt had just happened to come home early today. He was here and he was able to completely take over for me.

Here was a pan of water boiling needing noodles added; meat thawed just needing to be cooked, seasoned, and sauces added; and bread dough about to rise out of the bowl it was so ready to be turned into bread sticks! And I could do nothing. The more I moved around the more blood came gushing out my nose.

Curt said, "Sit down. What do you need me to do?"

So I sat on the couch and gave Curt directions and he did everything!

Dinner was absolutely delicious.

What a man.

On another note, Matthew and I have been trying to soak up as much sun and playtime together as we can! Every day he wants me to come and play in the sandbox with him. And come on, honestly I love it too! We had a sandbox when I was little and I had so much fun.

The other day I was talking on the phone to a friend. Matthew quickly decided it was his turn and was so offended when I told him he couldn't talk right now. He cried and cried and was just in a bad mood when he realized I really wasn't going to let him talk. I felt awful, I really did. So as soon as I got off the phone I called up Vicky and said, "Matthew is really sad, is Adessa or Jexten available to talk to him? Just for a few minutes?" Vicky agreed and handed the phone off to Jexten, who she says loves talking to Matthew on the phone :)

These two had quite the conversation and when they were done Matthew was in such a good mood! Here's a little clip of those two chatting it up.

And finally the baby in my belly is doing good, and if you haven't already seen my pregnancy journal blog, then we find out if it's a girl or a boy on Sep 24th!!!! I'm really excited!!!

This summer

This is pretty much how I feel right now. Summer has been so fun, but I am ready for something different.

I thought I would absolutely love having such a long summer because school got out so early, but it's kind of dragging on. I've always been one to love school. I can't wait to go back.

We have had a lot of fun this summer, that's for sure. We made a lot of memories!

I think summer is a lot harder when you're pregnant. There's so much I wish I could have done but I just didn't have the energy. Poor little Matthew had to just sit inside some days because I was too tired to go do anything super fun. We've had a chance to go outside most every day if only for a few minutes, but I would have liked to do MORE. I thought we'd go to the park every day...but that sure didn't happen. We've been there a handful of times, enough to wear me out just thinking about it. But then again I do get wore out pretty easy!

There's a toddler program on campus that we applied Matthew for. There's no gurantee he'll get in because a lot of kids around here apply, but it would be super fun for him! I hope they accept him. All I can say is I am ready to welcome fall and winter and all of the fun that it will bring!!!

Accident Prone?

Matthew got 3 stitches in his chin last night.

We got to the hospital and it seemed like we had just been there recently...oh yeah, we had. For his toe. Now I can say he's accident prone from "head" to "toe".

The little monkey was climbing on the bar stool up to the counter and he slipped off. Don't worry, his chin broke his fall...as it crashed into the counter.

That must've hurt really bad.

After the initial scream of pain he didn't cry any more about it. He just kept reminding me all the way to the ER that he had an owie chin and how it happened. And he had to be the one to tell the nurse what happened. Matthew was so cute in the hospital and so brave!

He held really still for the doctor while he stitched that little chin up!

Matthew is so proud of his stitches.

Maybe it's because I told him "chicks dig scars"

When I was about Matthew's age I slipped in the bathtub and hit my chin and had to get stitches in the same place.

About the only physical feature I can tell Matthew got from me is his chin. Now we'll even have matching scars on our matching chins!

sweet!!!

Cleaning Day

Matthew loves mondays, and this is why: It is our cleaning day. Some mondays I clean more than others. This particular monday I have to clean really hard because our property management is coming for the yearly inspections. I don't want to lose my SWEET housing, so I'm trying to make this place spotless! Well, at least cleaner. I actually enjoy cleaning too, but I haven't done a WHOLE lot of deep cleaning since I've been pregnant. I don't know, something about feeling like poopie took the clean right out of me. But today we had fun! And Matthew actually is a good helper. You would be surprised. Today I had him washing the walls for me, dusting, and picking up his toys.

I have never seem someone so happy to clean!

And I know, his clothes don't match but we were CLEANING. You should have seen what I was wearing. Well, the neighbors probably saw what I was wearing as I dashed outside to catch an escapee Matthew. Any chance he gets he beats it out the door and hops in the car. It has become a game to him!

I put him to work dusting and he loved it!
Until he got tired. It must've been close to naptime :)
Lucky for him he gets paid breaks.

Curt picked me these gorgeous wildflowers while he was hunting for huckleberries. They (Curt and his brother's family) didn't find any berries (darn bears must've gotten to them first), but I got a reward out of it!

Matthew and I would have gone too, but that particular night Matthew went to bed by 7 pm, which is very unusual for him, but he'd skipped his nap.

Don't worry, we paid for it the next morning when he woke up at 5 am!

More Matthew

Matthew has been into drawing faces lately. He drew this picture all by himself with no encouragement or instruction from anyone. I was pretty surprised. Now he makes sure to put ears, hair and eyebrows on too.

Another bizarre thing Matthew does that I didn't know a two year old would do is in this video. He did all of the other colors first, I just caught him at the end. I had a good laugh at this too, because as soon as he was done I went over and messed them all up. Matthew said "OH NO! A mess! do again." And he promptly went over there and did it all over again only better. Crazy little boy.

Look out Michael Phelps

YOU HAVE COMPETITION

The many uses of Playdough

It never gets old or boring.

What are you looking at?

oh beautiful glasses from the DI. I remember the day Grandma Janet bought you... you are still a favorite.

Montana

We had a fun little visit up to Montana last weekend. We had a lot of plans, but a few of them got rained out and need-to-replace-the-brakes-ed out. But we had fun at McKenzie and Kyle's reception and we're glad to have him in the family! Matthew had an awsome time playing with his cousins! He especially liked following Tanner around copying him. This picture is of them catching butterflies. That was the highlight of Matthew's trip!

We had our traditional visit to teh Sapphire mine (Gem Mountain), but as soon as we got there the rain just came pouring down. So CURT looked for sapphires while Matthew and I played in the car. But we all had fun anyway!

It was a really good trip and it was so nice to see all the family that was there!

Color Happy

The past couple of days all Matthew has wanted to do is color color color!

And there's nothing wrong with that!

Check out these skills!

Just Busy

Matthew likes it when he has a job.

Such a helper!

He says "I a helpin, mommy!"

Poor little toe

This is what Matthew calls his "spongebob toe"

The other day he was barefoot playing at my parents house and he dropped a way too big of rock for him to be playing with on his toe. It pretty much made me sick to see it right after, and we thought it might be broken so we took him to the hospital. Luckily nothing was broken but he's definitely going to lose his toenail and he lost a big hunk of skin on his toe. Believe me, it is healing quick. It has been about 3 days now and it looks about 3 times better than it did the day it happened!

My camera isn't very good, so the pictures are hard to see, but his toe right above the toenail resembles hamburger. I will have to try to take a better picture next time we change bandages again.




Vicky called me the day after the incident happened and Matthew really wanted to tell her all about it. I think he is actually talking to Adessa here though....I'm not sure. Sorry the movie is dark. This is Matthew's explanation of what happened to his toe. I had the hardest time getting him to go to sleep the night he dropped the rock on his toe! Not because he was sad, or in pain, or anything like that. No, it was because he couldn't stop talking about how the rock squished his toe. "Dat daddy rock when SMASH don da toenail!"

THE ZOO

Curt and I (and Matthew of course) went to the Zoo on friday with Cody, Tricia, Wesley and my mom. It was really fun! I remember last year we went about this same time with Vicky and it was so HOT! This year was hot, but not nearly as bad. That made it a lot nicer and there were more animals out instead of snoozing in their shady dens.

This picture is of Matthew and Grandma Janet waving to the huge tortoises.

We got to watch their program for kids (Matthew wasn't interested most of the time). It was cute and fun though.

One of these goats was in a really bad mood. I was busy taking pictures of Matthew and all of a sudden I saw one of the goats with horns put it's head down and try to butt Matthew. I was just barely quick enough to grab Matthew's arm and pull him away so the goat missed.

I was glad I was there and that I have quick reflexes!

Moms develop those reflexes I guess.

We enjoyed the zoo. I was glad we got to spend the week with Tricia and Cody. We'll sure miss you guys!!! Matthew is still talking about "Wekley"