Three things will last forever - faith, hope and love - and the greatest of these is love. 1 Corinthians 13:13
Wednesday, December 29, 2010
Life as a Stay at Home Mom
Tuesday, December 14, 2010
Little Gym Show
Matthew and his friend Sam
Doing chinups on the bar
Matthew LOVES the balance beam and Miss Kelly!
There's a low beam behind the mats that he walks back and forth on every week
Exploring simple machines - the ramp!
My kid is already a ball hog!
A future physicist?
The award ceremony!
Monday, December 13, 2010
Tuesday, December 7, 2010
Baby Girl Update
Friday, November 19, 2010
Monday, November 8, 2010
My New Hobby
Saturday, October 30, 2010
Monday, October 25, 2010
To find out or not to find out... That is the question!
Sunday, October 24, 2010
Chicago
Last week we were able to visit Chicago for several days for Brian's AAO conference. We had a great time seeing the sites of the city, and made lots of fun memories with our friends. The first night we were there we got authentic deep dish pizza from Lou Malnati's which was delicious! Then on Friday Matthew and I went to the aquarium with Lauren, Andrew, Casey and Taryn. We met Shaun for lunch at the Rainforest Cafe, and then he came back to our hotel to hang out while Matthew took a nap. That night we all walked down to Navy Pier for dinner and had fun exploring. Saturday morning Casey and I took the kids to the Children's Museum which was a huge hit! Matthew and Taryn had a great time playing and running around. We went back to the hotel for nap and lunch time, and when Brian got back around 3:00 we met Shaun and Lea at their apartment. We walked down to the Lincoln Park Zoo and then back toward our hotel. That night we went out to dinner at English for Jeremy's birthday. Sunday we went to Milennium Park to see the silver bean and other sculptures. There was a playground in the park as well, and Matthew, Andrew and Taryn enjoyed playing together again. For lunch we got Chicago dogs at Portillo's and discovered that Matthew doesn't like hotdogs! After Matthew's nap he and I took the shuttle to the convention center to meet Brian and some people from the practices he is looking at. The Wake Forest alumni reception was that night as well, so we took the shuttle over to the Marriott. We hadn't had time to eat dinner, so after the reception we had dinner at Big Bowls with Jacob and Steve. Our last day in the city we got to spend with Brian! We started the day with brunch and then went up in the Hancock Observatory. The views were amazing! We let Matthew have a quick nap and then headed to the airport for our flight home. Matthew is a great traveler and we had an uneventful trip back. We hope to return again soon!
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Matthew at 16 months
Right now Matthew is:
- running all over the place
- walking backwards
- trying to jump by crouching down and walking
- pointing at everything
- doing his "more" hand signal (right hand grabbing left wrist, arm, or shoulder depending on how urgent the need) to mean more, please, help me, I want that, etc.
- doing his "all done" hand signal (hand on his head) to mean all done, stop, get me out of here, I don't like this anymore, etc.
- suffering from separation anxiety when we leave him in any type of childcare setting
- spitting milk (a habit we are working to break)
- making animal sounds (quack - cack, meow - noow, woof woof - foo foo, moo - moo)
- pointing at cars and saying "vroom vroom" whenever he sees one
- points to eyes and says "eye"
- points to nose and says "nose"
- drinking out of a regular cup with assistance
- waving goodbye
- clapping
- blowing kisses
- keys
- milk - "mil"
- shoes - "soosh"
- cracker - "cacka"
- eye
- nose - "no"
- mouth - "mouw"
- ball - "bawl"
- bottle - "bobble"
- bubble
- book - "boo"
- dada
- mama
- cajun - "caja"
- car
- banana - "nana"
- moon
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
3 + 1 = 4!
Tuesday, September 7, 2010
Matthew loves Gymnastics!
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Saturday, July 17, 2010
We have a walker!
Matthew has really taken off walking lately. It's actually very difficult to get him walking on video because as soon as you turn the camera on he comes right at it and tries to grab it and then proceeds to have a melt down when I don't give it to him. So, I managed to get this one because he was preoccupied with following Cajun around with his leash.
Tuesday, July 13, 2010
Apparently I should own a Lexus
Brian is loving his fellowship so far. He was able to do a surgery on the first day, and has done several since then. It's also been awesome that he can walk next door to the office. Because he's so close he's been able to come home for lunch a few times, and when he's done with work at 4:30 or 5:00 he's home 5 minutes later without having to deal with traffic!
Wednesday, June 2, 2010
Renters and Moving
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
Visit to Boston
Sunday, March 28, 2010
Raleigh Rocks Half Marathon
Friday, March 19, 2010
Sunshine Escape
Dad opening his birthday present
Crawling around is so fun!
The kayaker!
About to eat sand... didn't like it so much.
Hanging out with Uncle Scott
Hanging out with Mommy in the morning
Giving a big boy hug to Daideo
Our Coach purses!
See you soon!
Friday, February 26, 2010
Crawling Baby!
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
So far in 2010
8 months old!
Exploring Linville Caverns
Having fun dumping out all my toys!