Sunday, June 27, 2010

Update


It's been a while since I updated this blog... I feel so lazy! Here is a picture I took this morning with Matt. We were all ready to go to church, can you tell? A lot of things have been happening lately. There's a little unpleasant thing going on in the family but it's helped me think a lot about the gospel and the importance of my own family, my role as a mother and a wife, and my own spirituality as well. I am grateful to have a husband who is spiritually strong and stable.

We have discovered what a smart boy Matthew is. He has been playing with his Thomas laptop toy and one day, we realized that he knows most of the letters. He's been teaching himself the letters and surprised us by pointing out most of the letters accurately on the keyboard. When I ask him where the letter "Q" is, he will say "Q" and point the letter on the keyboard. It is crazy! Today, I wrote down a few letters on a piece of paper and asked him if he knew what those letters were and he will say the letters accurately. It's amazing. So I have a new goal to teach him how to read by the time he turns 3. I know it's not impossible because I learned how to read by the time I was 3 too. So we'll see.

Other than that, things are pretty much the same. We are living in a house and looking for a house to purchase. If nothing, we will probably at least get a rental house by next year. That would be wonderful. We now have a new dining table set, washer & dryer, and a fridge. Now we need to buy a few more furniture but at least we haven't used any credit cards or loans to buy our furniture. We haven't used a single credit card in a year. We have been paying off our debt and only have a little bit now. We expect to pay it all off in a few months. We'd be debt free!! That's the day I am looking forward to. :)

We've been trying to get pregnant but no luck as of yet. I know it will happen when it is the right time. I am anxious but I know I need to be patient...

Well, that's about it. Hopefully I will post more often... But this little update will do for now. :)

Thursday, June 3, 2010

Childlike - that's what I want to be.


Do you see that huge bruise on his beautiful forehead? He got it last Sunday while he was playing with his cousins. Matt loves his cousins Nate and Alex and they adore him too. They play around a little wild sometimes and well, this time, they put Matt on a blanket and dragged the blanket around the house and boom! Matt fell right on his face.... It was sad, yes, but the boys felt so bad for him that they cried with Matt. It was one of the sweetest things I've ever seen. When Matt was done crying, he left my arms and went straight over to Nate and Alex and said "Hi, Sasa (Alex)" "Hi Nate" and played with them like nothing ever happened. It made me think about that one scripture where Jesus says "Be like children" be quick to forgive and forget.. I wish I was like Matt. So innocent and forgiving. We made sure he didn't have a concussion that night. He is fine. He is actually proud of his little bump and he also makes me kiss it better every five seconds. :)


I love him.