Happy Thanksgiving!

I just took some pictures of Matt yesterday when he was goofing around and posing for pictures... Unfortunately he didn't like the turkey hat that he got in nursery the other day so I wasn't able to get good pictures of him in the hat... but the one below was the best I got.... Just wanted to say "Happy Thanksgiving everyone!"

Isn't the hat so cute though?

That's Matt saying "Happy Thanksgiving!" :)

He has the funniest facial expression sometimes.

I love his smile.

Matt and me.

Wrestling

Sean's parents are in town for Thanksgiving. So we hung out with Sean's family a lot during the weekend. Matthew loves his cousins, especially the two little ones, Alex and Nathan. They play with Matthew all the time. While Sean and I were out for our anniversary last Wednesday night, Alex and Nathan took good care of Matthew for hours! They put Matthew in a box and drew license numbers and headlights on the box - and I guess Matt just loved it! He stayed in the box for about an hour while his cousins pushed the box around the house. :) So whenever we go over to his cousins, he gets so excited. Last night, he was having fun with his cousins. Mostly they wrestled. Yup, they sure are boys.

Alex and Matthew

Alex, Matthew and Nathan

Alex, Matthew, Nathan and Brandon

Starting to play...

When Alex pretended to be dead, Matt did the same thing. :)

Just walking away from the two wrestling boys...

Matthew trying to give Nathan a hug.

Matthew was hugging Alex to wake him up. :)

Too cute :)

Isn't this the cutest picture ever?

The best cousins! :)

Alex pretended to be dead all night. :)

Two big boys giving two little ones horseback rides. I love it. :)

Matthew thought it was hilarious!

Alex survived this. :)

I'm busy talking on the phone with daddy

Sean always calls on his way home from work. I talk to him for about 5 minutes until I have to go to start getting dinner ready. And Matt reaches out for the phone, insisting to talk to daddy. So I hand him the phone and start cooking. We've repeated this for about 6 months now. Matt absoltely loves talking to daddy on the phone. So when he gets the phone from me, he usually walks over to the couch and sits there and just talk in his language. I have no idea what Sean says. (He probably asks some questions, then sings? I will have to ask him what he actually says when he's on the phone with Matt because they talk to each other for quite a while.) I have been meaning to videotape Matt talking to Sean on the phone but I still haven't gotten a chance to. But I managed to take this picture one day. Instead of going to the couch, he went and climbed the chair and stayed there for a long time. The thing that he is holding in his hand, that's my phone. And he remained the same position until Sean hung up. He laughs, talks, and sometimes sings "twinkle, twinkle, little star" It's really cute. I love this stage that Matt's in. I am going to miss it a lot!

I love wearing mommy's shoes

Matt must want to grow up fast because he has been trying to wear my and Sean's shoes lately. Whenever we are about to go out, we say "Go get your shoes, Matty!", and Matt always manages to find shoes, only shoes that belong to Sean or me. He grabs my flip flops, Sean's work shoes and sneakers. It is pretty funny. When I saw him wearing my shoes (he does this on his own) I just had to take pictures. He's growing up, isn't he? 

Our Halloween

How was your Halloween? Ours was fantastic! We dressed Matty up as Dracula and Sean and I were his victims. It was fun. We took Matt to Jodi's neighborhood so that he could go trick-or-treating with his cousins. Matt had a lot of fun! He took a big bag and by the end of the night, he had to drag it because he got so much candy. There weren't a lot of kids out though, probably because the Halloween was on a Saturday. It would've been much more fun if there had been more kids out. Maybe next year...

Everyone at the door was very friendly and nice except this one guy... he didn't even open the door and yelled "We don't have any candy here" and turned off the lights.. It was sad. If you don't want to give out candy, turn the lights off or open the door and say it nicely instead of turning off the light on kids and yell at them!! But it was alright. The kids moved on fast anyway.

Matt only picked out ones with shiny wrappers. He wouldn't take any suckers. What a good boy! :) He loves kit kats! He also got some snickers and lots of different candy. We're saving some for Christmas. :)

Anyway, I hope you all had fun too!

The Family is of God

This is my new favorite primary song. I heard this a few months ago when Sean was getting ready for a ward primary program for sacrament. It is a great song. It defines a family well and basically about the proclamation to the world. I love it. I hope you like it too!

Click here to listen!

Click here to get the sheet music

The Battle...

Lately, Matt has been fighting to nap.... He used to fall asleep really fast if I sang to him but now, it takes at least an hour and a half for him to finally asleep for naps. Is it already time to cut naps from his schedule? I don't really know. But if he doesn't nap, he will get really fussy for the rest of the night until he sleeps and his fussy noises are my least favorite sounds in the world! I have little patience when it comes to the fuss... So it's been a little frustrating.

We are in the market for a new toddler bed. We looked at Walmart and Sears but haven't found one that we liked yet. We'll see.