Cereal

On Wednesday matthew went to see the doctor for his four month check up. He now weighs 14 pounds 15 ounces ( 50% for his age ) and is 26 1/4 inches long ( 90% for his age ). So he is a skinny tall thing apparently. I didn't think that he would be the ninety percentile for height, he doesn't seem that tall to me, but i guess since i am his mommy and am with him all day long, i don't really see the growth changes like some people do.
Since he is four months old and can hold his head up very very well, he got to start rice cereal! So on Thursday morning was our first adventure with rice cereal. Matthew was not quite sure what to do with it and it seemed to get everywhere but his mouth. On Saturday night, it was like a light bulb went on, he was like oh i get it and i couldn't shovel it in fast enough for him. But then this morning he acted like he didn't know what he was doing and then tonight he once again was shoveling it in as well as getting it on everything. It seems to me that he likes to eat it more at night and not so much in the morning. He is just kind of like where is my milk. After he does rice cereal for a week we get to start fruits and vegetables, a week at a time. Im so excited for that. I have already bought him some applesauce as his first fruit!
Through this feeding experience i have learned however that we need to get a high chair and soon. Right now he is sitting in his bobby as i feed him and that's not really gonna work for long. He is too excited for the food and kind of climbs out of it toward me and gets cereal everywhere plus we need something a little more secure. Hopefully i can find one soon.

Here are some adorable pictures of Matthew first time trying to eat cereal, taken by his adorable daddy.

There Were Never Such devoted Sisters

So I was looking at pictures that my brother had put on my dads computer from back in the day, and there are a billion pictures of my three older sisters. Its as is they are the sisters and i am the one that came along later. HA HA. So i thought i would dedicate an entire post to them. My sisters. Love you all.

And Just for good measure a picture of all four of us. 

Sun Devil

So I dont normal post about things that i think about, i usually just post about Matthew or things that we have done. But this time im gonna go out on a limb because i was thinking yesterday and i dont really have a journal right now. I was thinking about where i went to college and all the choices i had when making that decision.
    I graduated from Arizona State University in December 2009. This however was not my first choice growing up. All three of my sisters graduated from BYU and when i was growing up my older brother Tim, who went to ASU, would always say to me, where are you gonna go to college, ASU or BYU and in order to be the cool favorite little sister that i loved being, would always say ASU and flash the ASU fork symbol thing. But even though i said this i didnt believe it. I wanted to leave home and i wanted to go to BYU.
    Well the time came to apply and i did. I was super excited, i had everything all planned out to room with my friend Kaytlin and college was going to be amazing! Then doom day came, letter opened, application denied. I cant tell you how long i cried or how upset i was. ( that was the day my hatred of BYU started )  I didnt know what to do. My plans suddenly changed, i had no plans. I decided i would finish 30 credits at ASU as fast as possible and transfer to BYU the following Spring. In order to do this i needed to take summer school right out of high school. So i graduated from Highland High and five days later started summer school at ASU. ( and just as a strange fact, never stopped school until i graduated, man alive i was crazy ). Well december came and it was time to apply to transfer, i started the process and just didnt feel right about it. I didnt feel like i should go there. I didnt really know how to explain the just decided it wasnt for me. Ofcourse i didnt want to stay at ASU either, i wanted to move out. I was sick of being the only college person i knew living at home. So i talked to my parents and applied for the University of Utah. I got accepted and was ready to move and find a place to live. But then a couple weeks before i was suppose to go up to find a place to live, i didnt feel right about that either. Much to my disappointment i felt like i was suppose to stay at ASU. Which i felt like was a terrible decision because i am not a very social person and living at home was not helping me with that at all. But i did what i felt like i should do and stayed.
    Time came and went, and i eventually was ok with my decision. Im happy i stayed because if i didnt i wouldnt be currently married to my wonderful husband or have my wonderful child. But as i was driving in the car yesterday, i realized that i am proud to be a Sun Devil. I am proud to have gone there and graduated and am so glad that i did. When i think of ASU i get all filled with pride and its fun to go to the footballs games and its fun to have graduated where my brothers did. Im the old girl out in my family, they all went to Mesa High and BYU and i went to HIghland high and ASU. But its kinda fun being the odd one out, especially since i have something that i can share with my brothers, especially since i dont have alot in common with any of them. Growing up i alwyas felt like going to ASU would make my brother Tim proud of me and love me more some how, although thats not the reason that i ultimately went it was always in the back of my head and i hope i made him happy.
    Well im proud to be a Sun Devil! And i hope that all you other Sun Devils out there fill the same!

Vay Kay, Thrush and More!

Last week matthew and i were able to take a little trip to Utah . My sister Amy invited us to drive up with them since they were going up for a family reunion. It was nice to have a little getaway and not have to worry about any responsibilities except for Matthew. We did miss not having Nicholas with us though. It was craziness having so many kids in a  car, but fun at the same time. Matthew and i got to visit my friend Sara in Logan, which was so fun! It was nice to be able to visit with Sara and just feel like old times since we only get to see each other about once a year. I miss being able to just call her to hang out or just to come over and make brownies because one of us has had a bad day. Those were the days..... : ) Matthew got to me my Aunt Shelly and Uncle John and their kids, and they all adored him, even though he wont remember it, it was fun. For the Fourth of July, we spent it with my Aunt and her family. We had homemade ice cream and since we were in utah, my uncle set off a ton of fireworks in their backyard. It was freezing cold though, we were all bundled up in blankets and since im used to being so hot, i thought i was gonna freeze to death. I enjoyed it though while i could since i knew the next day driving home i would be able to feel the heat penetrate the car as we crossed the desert.                

       Well Amy noticed on Sunday night that it looked like matthew had thrush. So on Tuesday i took him into Dr. Nove and he did in fact have Thrush. Thursh is : " Oral thrush is a condition in which the fungus Candida albicans accumulates on the lining of your mouth.Oral thrush causes creamy white lesions, usually on your tongue or inner cheeks. The lesions can be painful and may bleed slightly when you scrape them. Sometimes oral thrush may spread to the roof of your mouth, your gums, tonsils or the back of your throat." Its not painful to Matthew, which is good so he is still his sweet self. I just have to put medicine in his mouth and boil everyting that touches his mouth until it is gone, which means alot of switching of binkies and alot of boiling since he loves his binkies. Although its annoying, im glad its not painful. I do like going to the doctor though because then i get to find out how much he weighs. :) On Tuesday he weighed 14 pounds 7 ounces. And in about 2 weeks he will go back for his four month well check so we'll see how much he has gained in 2 weeks!
   Matthew is getting to be quite the charmer. He loves smiling at everybody and is told he has quite the personality. His new favorite things to do are : kick himself around in circles on the floor, roll from side to side ( although he has rolled over a couple times, he is usually too lazy to do it because that require moving his arm out of the way) He loves to suck on his hands and has recently decided that his feet are fun too, watching tv is fun to do and will always turn his head in the direction of the tv in order to see what is on,we are working on getting him to sleep longer at night, he usually goes 3 hours at a time at night, the longest being 5 hours. His daddy set up his new crib and dresser for him and as soon as i get the curtains finished, i will put up pictures!
   I always seem to forget i have a camera, so these are the only pictures i have from the trip, they are when we stopped for lunch at the Glen Canyon Dam. And one of ellis when he was oh so happy to be in the car seat. : )