2 months already?!?

Matthew is 2 months old today!  I can hardly believe it.

He had a checkup today and he weighs 14 lbs 12 oz!  He has almost doubled his birthweight.  He's also 24.5 inches long now.

He did NOT like his shots.  He screamed and screamed.  Poor little boy.  Once he calmed down a little we put him back in his car seat, and he fell asleep on the way home.  He's awake now and back to his normal, happy self.  Hopefully he doesn't have a bad reaction to anything.

At 2 months Matthew:

Has the cutest smile ever

Holds his head up mostly on his own

Rolls over from belly to back
(every time I try to catch this on camera he refuses to do it)

Talks and coos and sometimes it sounds like he's laughing

Loves his swing and bouncer

Is the most adorable little boy ever

Growing like a weed!

In the hospital

7 weeks old

He's getting sooo big!

Who does he look like?

Here's each of us in our blessing outfit.  Most people think that he looks like Connor.  What do you think?

Connor

Matthew

Jenna

Matthew's Blessing

Sunday, November 4th we had Matthew's baby blessing.  It was a great day, and we felt so lucky to be able to spend the day with our wonderful family and friends.

Connor looks very serious in this photo.

It started out a little hectic.  We wanted to get to church around 8:40 to save some seats, but we got there at about 8:45.  Well, there were no rows open up front, with the exception of a few on the side.  So we grabbed them 3, and then someone stole one row.  No big deal.  In hindsight, I wish we would have just sat in back, but whatev.  

We quickly found out that they had four baby blessings that day.  FOUR.  When we asked about it at the beginning of October the bishop told us there would maybe be one other one.  Luckily, Matthew was the first one up.  Matthew was a little fussy right before the blessing, so I was concerned that he was going to cry during it, but thankfully he calmed down.  Connor did a wonderful job with the baby blessing.  

Then during church, Matthew did pretty well.  He was a little fussy when I held him, but I passed him off to Connor and he did much better and fell asleep and slept the rest of the time.  After sacrament meeting, Connor told me that Matthew had pooped.  After some inspection, he hadn't just pooped.  He had a blow out.  I was concerned because I thought it was going to ruin his cute white blessing outfit, but amazingly it only got on the onesie.  That was easy enough!  I took him out of his blessing clothes and wrapped him in a receiving blanket.  We went home, and I changed him and put him back in his cute little outfit.

At home we had a little brunch with family and friends.  We had never had that many people in our house, and it made it feel very very small, but it was fun regardless.  Of course, everyone wanted to a chance to hold the cutest baby ever.

And we took some family photos:

Crystal did a little photo shoot with the three of us:

Once people started to go home, I was exhausted.  My mom was nice enough to clean up and make us some dinner while I rested upstairs with Matthew.  

It was a really great day.  Matthew was worn out after it, too.  He pretty much slept all day Monday.

An Adventure

Today we went to P Town (aka Provo) so I could go to the dentist and get some X rays of my teeth.  I haven't had any in over a year since they didn't take X rays while I was pregnant.

(Yes, I still go to my dentist in Provo.  I tried to switch to a local one once, and he tried to tell me I had 5 cavities that I didn't really have.  So, I go to one that I trust.)

Anyway.....

I was a little nervous about the car ride going down.  Matty is not a huge fan of his car seat, and it's about an hour away.  So, I sat in the back with him on the drive and he actually did really well.

At first he was enthralled while looking out the window, but he eventually fell asleep.

The dentist was good.  No cavities!  Then we headed to the cemetery for a visit.

  

On our way home we stopped at Culver's for lunch.  We had never been there before, but had heard it was good, and it was.  Connor got their custard flavor of the day and it was delicious.  It's probably a good thing that it's so far away because I would want to go there every day.

After lunch we drove the rest of the way home, and Matty slept really well until we got off the freeway.  Then he was done and wanted out of his car seat.  We really timed that perfectly.