5 weeks without blogging?
oh my.
you may have noticed that this blog has fallen quite low on my list of priorities these days. i am sad that i have gotten so behind because i find it really hard to get back into the blog groove when i have so much to catch up on. life has just felt kinda busy with matt and i both working again. but don't you fret.. these jobs are both temporary. and, come january, i will be back in rexburg and will have all the time in the world to blog again!
here is my best attempt to catch up on a few things..
there have been 2 celebrations in our family since my last post - matt turned 26 and chet is now 18 months.
matt has been falling in love with golf over the past couple years. but this year his love has really blossomed so it seemed very fitting to celebrate with a golf themed party. almost all of his gifts were golf-y. including the set of clubs he gave himself! happy birthday to the best husband i have ever had.
we booked flights to arizona for Christmas. matt plans on spending much of our time down there on a golf course. and i just plan on enjoying the lack of snow. hopefully. i would really appreciate it if everyone can keep their fingers crossed that i will get to experience my first not-white Christmas.
we didn't do anything to celebrate chet's half birthday. well, we did go out to a movie... without chet. so i'm not sure that counts. we went to see the lion king in 3D with my parents. i'm not usually a fan of animated movies (which is reeeally bad now that i am a mom!) but it brought back so many good memories. and those 3D glasses are hilarious.
anyways, back to mr chet.
he is seriously the cutest little guy. we love him to bits.
we got family photos a few weeks ago and he totally stole the show.
this sunday was chet's first day in nursery. i can't believe he is old enough to be in there. i was a little bit sad dropping him off in there but it was sooo nice to sit through the last 2 hours of church in silence. i think matt and i had forgotten that you can actually enjoy church over the past couple months!
we just took chet to the doctor and i am happy to report that he is a totally healthy, 26 pound, 32.5 inch tall kid. that puts him in the 50th percentile for both weight and height. they didn't measure his head, but we can tell it is still rather large based on the way it looks next to other heads. that's alright though, it just means there is more of it to kiss.
chet is learning to be silly, to pretend, to show love, and to copy others.
he enjoys licking peanut butter off a spoon.
if it were up to him he would eat scrambled eggs every meal of every day.
his favorite toy is a pink stroller.
he still resembles an owl.
he likes to keep things tidy. if he finds a crumb on the floor he takes it to the trash.
he still hates baths. seriously, what kid doesn't like baths?!
he stomps his feet when he is mad.
we haven't figured out if he is right or left handed yet.
he makes us crazy at meal time when he looks us straight in the eye and drops his food on the floor while we are saying 'chet. do NOT drop that on the floor'.
he likes bike rides.
he likes climbing.
yesterday his grandpa leavitt caught him talking to a goose statue in the garden.
his smile is super goofy.
he has 12 teeth.
he has 12 teeth.
every night when we lay him in his bed he says 'bye!'. even after we turn off the lights and shut the door he keeps saying 'bye...bye...bye' for several minutes. it makes us laugh.
everyone tells us that chet is such a 'sweet boy'. and they are right, he really is. his heart is very tender. we picture him being a really good friend when he's older. and that is exactly the type of boy we hoped for. we consider ourselves very lucky to have been blessed to have him in our family.
i love love love my job and my co-workers, and i get a lot of satisfaction out of working. i hope that i get to continue working in the future. but perhaps part time work would be better. this full time stuff doesn't give me enough chetty time. i knew i would miss him, but not like this. i often get teary eyed after i leave him in the morning. and i like to try and push back bedtime so that we get to spend a few extra minutes with him. matt also finds it harder to leave him all day, now that chet doesn't spend all day at home with me. but thankfully chet has been a super good sport about it all, and we have amazing people watching him while we are away. so that takes a ton of stress off us and we are sooo grateful for that.
{thanks babysitters!!}
matt is enjoying his internship. this is his first office job, so it was a bit of an adjustment for him. but he likes coming home from work clean, rather then in the dirty-sweaty mess that his past jobs turned him in to. and he is enjoying the little perks that come with working for a huge company: golf tournaments, going out for lots of lunches, and a supply room! haha.. matt will be embarrassed that i am posting this, but it was too cute not to document.
he came home from one of his first days at work to tell me about this great room at his office that is filled with every kind of pen, paper, post-it note, whiteout, envelope (and so on) that you can imagine. i kept a straight face while pretending to act super impressed by this room he spoke of:
pam: does it have highlighters?
matt: tons of them.
pam: that's awesome. and binders?
matt: ooooh yaaa.
pam: how about one of those giant paper cutters?
matt: yep.
i eventually had to break it to him that it was just a supply room, and that every office needs one of those. but he still thinks it is pretty great that he can pick out a fancy new pen when ever he needs it. and it's free!
ever heard of insanity? it is this 60 day workout program that is...well.... INSANE! matt and i both hate it - we honestly dread it all day - but we committed to completing the whole program. somehow we manage to make ourselves do it. and it actually is pretty fun to have something like this to do as a couple. we are now 4 weeks in and and are looking incredible! haha. not really, but we are definitely feeling much more in shape. wish us luck that we can make it through.
while i am on the topic of exercise, my sister and i did a 5km run together 2 weeks ago. i am really proud of april - that was her first run and she did so great. i am already looking forward to our next sister run.
{i call april my little big-sister. see why?}
we went up to the calgary temple site a couple nights ago. there is still a whole lot of work to do on it, but it was fun to check it out. i just wish that it was on the south side of the city, instead of the icky north side :)
well, that's all for now. i will try to be better at blogging over the next couple months. but, no promises.
