Christmas

Oh my gosh where do I start. Matt was a HOOT!!! In the days leading up to Christmas day was really fun. I talked with Matt about Santa coming with presents and we read a few books so he would get used to the idea. He still likes to read the Night Before Christmas which is OK with me...i can read it all year if he wants to. I think he was ready!!!!!



Christmas Eve is our BIG family get together. A few people were missing but it was still a ton of tun. Sadly my camera ran out of juice and i didn't bring the charger so there are no pictures of that night. Matt was totally getting into the hour'derves which was OK...at least i knew he was eating something right. He was able to walk up and down the stairs so he was going up and down playing with all the kids. He was also totally fascinated by the tree (which reached to the ceiling and hat TONS of ornaments on it) but every tree fascinated him this year. He liked to oooh and ahhh over every tree and we worked really hard in his "pretty" word. Of course when it came time to open presents he was all over that and also all over helping every one else. His present wasn't cool enough so he had to play with Austyns and Matts was cool enough for Austyn to play with. All in all he was a trooper.

Matt stayed with me Christmas Eve since I had to work later on Christmas Day and his dad would just take him to his families that eve. It worked out good. So back to Christmas Day.....I was so excited for Matt to wake up I could barely get any sleep that night. I remember being so excited as a kid to wake up and realize ITS CHRISTMAS and not even worry about how early it was or how tired I was. I woke up before Matt so I could attempt to get breakfast going so we wouldn't have to wait on that. Again i will say "attempt" because it did not go as planned and lets just say our house was very cold for awhile. So when Matt woke up...it was game over. I don't know if he was more excited that he was able to see me up first thing or if me being so excited he got excited. I told him in my excited little voice that Santa came...all he could do was sit on the bed with his mouth in a cute little "O" and scramble off the bed as fast as he could. When he walked out into the living room...well that "O" was still there. I grew up opening the stockings first while we waited for my parents to wake up. It was the one thing that we could do without them since we knew what stockings were ours. Matt dug right in and just kept going.

With everything that he pulled out he was just as thrilled as the thing before. Until he got to his "choo choo" everything was great. Once he got to that...well that was the highlight. We waited patiently for Ryan to show up and then open presents from there. Matt was thrilled with every present he got. He is totally in LOVE with his kitchen and I'm so glad that he got it. It keeps him occupied for sooo long and i actually like to play with him and "pretend" to cook food. Matt totally grasps the concept of pretend which is totally awesome for me. Ah the joys of being a kid again. Oh this will be so much FUN!!!



Matt listened and got me LOTS of stuff that I wanted, with some help from his dad (which was very nice of him to do) . I couldn't have asked for a better day to spend with the most precious little man ever and I'm so thankful everyday that i get to spend with him because it is one day more that i can love him just that much more than the day before.

Matt has been working really hard on his words and hes doing a really good job. He is attempting more words and his sounds are getting better. He is still WAAAY behind but slowly he is getting there. Its now a lot more easier than it was before for him to get his point across or even just try to communicate simple needs to us.

The potty training is still going AWESOME!!!! Only a few accidents here and there but he is waking up from his naps dry and most mornings he wakes up dry. I'm so glad that hes totally into the whole potty thing and I hope he doesn't revert back.

I cant wait for the new year and hope that it brings with it good things to make up for all the bad things that have happened to both of us this last year. We both deserve something good.

December?? Are you sure!!!

The months play cruel jokes on me...like the fact that they disappear so quickly!!! Seems like just yesterday we were getting snow....now the snow is gone...got a little more. Ah wells.

This month is going GREAT!! Christmas is just a few days away and I honestly couldn't be happier. Matt is full force into the whole tree, Santa, presents and lights. He loves the lights on the tree and he will "ooh" and "ah" over lights when we are driving. Its one of the first things he notices. But hey the lights are pretty and amazing to look at. Santa...well its a love hate relationship. He loves the idea of Santa but once we see a Santa that hes not fully OK with its game over. He was finally brave enough to take a candy cane from our Mall Santa but that's probably the best you will get. I think this might be the first year that we will have a picture without Santa. But that's OK...I'll be able to look back and KNOW that this is just not the year to sit on Santa's lap.

The presents are piling up under the tree. I think Matt is more in love with the tree than the presents. I think its just because he has no idea what to do with them but he knows that you can take the ornaments off the branches and move them around. I think this will be one of the funnest Christmas since Matt is really into and the things that he is getting....well he'll be in LOVE and i cant wait!!!

So Matt has reached yet ANOTHER HUGE....HUGE milestone. He is potty trained!!! Yes you read that right POTTY TRAINED!! I am so excited i don't even know where to start. We've had a few accidents but there is bound to be more especially when he is not able to communicate with us 100% yet. Hes doing awesome though. He can go all day without having an accident unless we are out and about. He still wears a diaper during nap and at night only because those are the times he still doesn't wake up enough to go (although he crawled out of bed at two the other night to let me know he needed to go). Daycare has been AWESOME about going too. Its just amazing that for a boy hes 2 and going potty!!!!

Matt had his IMPORTANT eye appointment. We are going ahead with the surgery on his eye. Another surgery I know. It sucks to think that he has to go through pain and just going under is SO scary for me from what happened the last two times he was under. We will be prepared though just in case things go wrong at least we will be at a GREAT hospital for children. I couldn't be more confident and it helps to ease my concerns. They are just going to be lifting his right eye lid so it is not in his line of vision. Why so young you might ask? Well because after the age of 8 their eyes have developed and even if you lift it if you wait that long because they are not getting enough light into their eye for 8 years by that time it wont help their vision at all. Cant we wait till hes older?? Yes but why wait?? Its not something that will fix itself with patching and it will always be there. I would rather do it when hes younger so he heals faster and he wont remember it as much and it wont be as traumatic for him later on. It was a hard decision but the fact that eventually it will need done might as well do it now. We just have to wait for the insurance to approve it and then we'll be good to go. Until then we still have to patch his eye and try to keep that eye working the best that it can.

We wish you all a very Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!!!

Winter

Winter is upon us here in the North!!! It came and never stopped. We have had a few days of clear skies but elements have rarely let up. Matt likes looking outside at all the snow. Hes not so sure when its snowing and it lands on him. He likes to borrow my hat though because it covers his whole face thus getting no snow on him. Go figure. He hasnt played outside yet in the snow because he was sick for a while. He has all the gear and we sent it to school with him today so he could play outside. I'm not sure how it went but i'm sure he had fun playing outside with all the kids. I was super excited because i found a steal on boots for Matt. $10....i mean seriously can you beat that deal?? Especially on a pair of good boots!!!!! So I got them about a month ago before the snow came knowing that he would need boots once the snow came. Snow came went to put them on. It took about 4 times but around the 4th or 5th time i put them on i realized that he has TWO RIGHT BOOTS!!!!! Seriously....and to make matters worse the stinking store i got them from went out of business. SO Matt gets to wear two right boots till we can find different ones that are cheap!!

I cant wait till christmas. Were setting up our tree this weekend....it will be so much fun for matt this year to actually be apart of it and understand what is going on. Santa is all the craz right now in his life. Hes getting some awesome presents this year and i just CANT WAIT!!!