My First...Birthday!!

I think I like this birthday thing. Especially the cake and the decorations. The morning of my birthday I woke up to silly strings hanging down from the ceiling and some other fun decorations. Then I got to play with pretty paper that had stuff inside. Mom and Dad took me to one of their favorite breakfast places where G-Ma, G-Pa, Great G&G were waiting for us. I suddenly remembered that G-Ma and I share a birthday! That's super fun! Mommy had to work since my birthday was on a Tuesday so she planned a big party for me that next Friday. We had everyone there! Aunties, Uncles, Cousins, all my Grandparents, my Great Granparents and some great friends! We had lots of food...did I mention the cake? Yum! Thanks G-Ma for my cupcakes. It was really fun. I tuckered out early but know that the big adults played dominos until late in the night. It was a lot of fun! I'm excited for my next birthday already!

My First...Halloweeeeeeeen!!

Ok, Mom loves Halloween. In fact, she would walk me through the Halloween section in every store every chance she got. I do like her decorations until she actually made me sit in one of them...but that's another story. I know Mom was excited for me to experience my first Halloween but to tell you the truth, I think I might get it more a little next year. But it seems like everyone had fun and people I knew were dressed up like other people and things. I loved when Kelly and Chica had different costumes on. I was a skeleton and my outfit glowed when Mom turned the lights off. It was pretty cool! Especially when Mom brought me back in after the torturous photo shoot she had me doing. I was a little embarrassed but Mom was excited about the pictures she got and turned into my 1st Birthday invitation (look for it in another post soon). Here are some of her favorites.

Hope your Halloween was spooktacular!!

Matty

My First...Catch Up time since my last catch up time.

Since my last adventure in Target, I've had so many things happen. Mom says she can't bear to keep up with all my changes. She says I'm "sooooo bigggg" and I think I am too. I am crawling all over the place and holding onto mommy, daddy or g-ma with only one hand to walk around the house. But no matter where I am, G-Ma, Gramma and Papa's or my house, I can pretty much grab onto anything and walk my way around. It's pretty exciting except when Mommy tells me "icky" or "no no" or "let's go find something else to play with" or worse..."MMMAAAATTTTHHHEEEWWWWWWW - NO!".  I'm eating big boy food like a big boy. Mommy and Daddy eat the same thing I do sometime so I know I'm "sooo bigggg". It's pretty cool how fun everything is once you can start getting around.

My First...Temper Tantrum

Ok, I have to admit...sometimes I don't 100% behave myself. I've always been very vocal about my thoughts and feelings and with two such independent and opinionated parents, I am sure no one is surprised that I'm full of my own ideas.  As I mentioned in my previous post, I haven't been feeling too well this week.  That has made me pretty grumpy.  When mom decided it was a good idea to take me to her favorite store, I wasn't sure how to tell her how bad of an idea I thought it was since I don't know too many words yet.  As Mommy walked me into Target and was busy putting my cart cover toy on the push cart and getting me all situated, she decided to take those fun rattley keys from me. All I wanted to do was chew on them and I didn't like it when she took them at all. Mommy said that everyone in Target heard me and we even had the workers come up and try to help Mommy settle me down.  Well, I forgot I love my little blankey as much as Mommy's keys so I ended up ok afterall.  Mom says I need to learn not to hit and scratch. I'm not sure what that means but I know she didn't like me screaming. I don't like getting that mad so we'll have to work on that... Hey, I'm still learning all this stuff.

matty.

My first...time being sick :(

One thing I know I do not like doing is going to the doctor. I think Dr. Allred is really nice and I love that the blue ocean is painted on all the walls.  I'll always think of my first time at the ocean in San Diego everytime I go visit Dr. Allred. But I'll also know that at the end of my visit, every time I get my legs stuck with something that hurts really bad.  When we went to Dr. Allred that day, I was already feeling really weird and starting to cough and sound funny like mommy had all week.  Mom says Friday the 13th is supposed to be unlucky and I think she's right. I got really sick that night. Mom had to keep a cold wash cloth on my forehead and rub my feet and my body felt achy and hot and sweaty all over.  I did get some pretty tasty stuff from a tube though. Eventually I started to feel a little better but I've been feeling pretty stuffed up the last couple of days. I hope I don't feel like this forever.  Mom is starting to sound normal again so maybe in a couple of days, I'll feel better too.

For now, I'm just gonna feel grumpy.
matty.

My First...time in the sand!!

Last weekend I went to a beautiful place called San Diego with Mom and Dad. I flew on a great big airplane that was really really sweaty and jam packed but Dad let me sit on his lap and look at all the clouds while flying in the air.  I remember I had to sit for a really long time. I sat in my seat on the way to the airplane place, then on the airplane, then I had to get back in my seat only to wait for some strange car mom was driving and so I could even sit some more until we got to wherever it was we were going.  Finally when  we were stopping and I thought, could this be true?  Then, Dad pulled me out of the strange vehicle and BAM! there it was!  The beautiful blue "ocean".  It was so pretty, mom took the machine out that flashes after she says smile.  We had such a great time. Everywhere we went I saw new people and new things. I was really excited not to be so sweaty. I liked the breeze on my face. I even saw my Gramma and Papa, my uncles and aunts and cousins but they weren't on the airplane.  How did they get there?  The next couple of days were playing in the sand and everywhere we went we saw the blue "ocean". I had so much fun! 

What I think I'll remember not to do next time, is eat the fun brown stuff mom sat me in next to the blue "ocean".    

But what fun!  Can we go again? And why can't the weather be like that where I always sleep?

xo-Matty.

I have some catching up to do

A lot has happened in my first 8 months and mom says it's almost impossible to capture everything but we're going to try.  We will have to be better about it from here on out! Now let's see...
November 9, 2009 - I joined this brand new and exciting world. Did you know that I share a birthday with my Grandma?
November 15, 2009 - My first bath at home
November 26, 2009 - My very first Thanksgiving
December 20, 2009 - The first time I slept through the night
December 25, 2009 - My very first visit from Santa! He got me Zoo passes for the whole year!
April 4, 2010 - My first taste of bigger kid food
June 22, 2010 - The first time I said "mama" and meant it. Mom came to pick me up from Gramma's when Daddy was visiting the hospital room for a week.
July 28, 2010 - If combat crawling counts, it was the first time I made my way all the way into the kitchen.  I was very proud of myself!

Some other things like my first haircut - my mom cuts my hair all the time so it doesn't really count; my first tooth - I don't have any yet and it stinks; my first steps...those are to come.

I'm really excited about everything that's coming and what else I'm going to learn.  Mom says I am the smartest little boy she's ever known.