Big Week!

Matty had a very big week! He rolled over for the first time, slept through the night TWICE in a row (hallelujah!), and got his first tooth! Go Matty go! His tooth is just barely breaking the surface right now so I can't get a good picture of it, but will post pictures once it is easier to see.

I also neglected to post the stats from his 4 month check-up (now over 3 weeks ago):
26.5" in length - 75% percentile
15lbs - 50% percentile
50% percentile for head size
And, of course he had another round of shots, poor baby. I was especially sympathetic since I got a flu shot and tetanus booster the same week - shots HURT!

He is now about a week shy of 5 months old - we can't believe how fast the time has gone! We are really enjoying this stage. He can hold onto toys now, so it's fun to watch him play. He's figured out that if he grabs one of the toys on his bouncy chair, it plays music, so he goes right for it as soon as we put him in there. He is also "experimenting with pitch", so we hear funny high pitched shrieks over the baby monitor in the morning.

Here are some pictures from the last few weeks:

Napping with Mom


Literally hanging out in his Bumbo seat


Reading his book


Enjoying attention from Morgan Fu


Having fun with Morgan and Marshall Fu


Smiley boy


Napping with Dad


Sitting up like a big guy

Awwww....

One of his favorite activities - "close talking"

Notice that he put his leg through the green music note hanging off his toy

New Year's Eve

Okay, so I'm really embarrassed that I am just now getting around to posting our New Year's Eve pictures, but oh well! Being back to work full time is cutting into my play time! We hosted the 2nd annual Thurman New Year's Eve party this year, and really enjoyed ringing in the New Year with the great friends we have here in Houston. Thanks to all who were able to make it. We were especially happy that the Barrutia family was in town from Wisconsin and stayed with us for a couple of days.

A big thanks to Max Robinson for being our photographer for the evening!

Us...with my eyes closed


Jaime and Sujey


Jen discovered that maternity clothes are also good for smuggling alcohol!


So are Guayaveras...


Angela and Kevin


Emily and Max


Pablo and Chantal


Kathy, Will and Erika


Ajay, Melissa and soon-to-be-born baby Vargheese


Juan and Max


The Barrutias and Villescas

Christmas in Minnesota

We travelled up to the Great White North to see my family for Christmas. It was indeed white - there was a good foot of snow on the ground! We had a great time staying warm by the fireplace and spending time with my family. My sister and her husband win the medal of bravery for driving to MN from Colorado with their 2 yr old son Sam, and THREE dogs! Suprisingly, there was only one injury requiring medical attention on the trip. Here are some pictures from our visit:

This is how we go outside in Minnesota

Lights in the Heights

A couple weeks before Christmas, we stopped in at our friend Will's house to take in the "Lights in the Heights" festival. Each year, a several block section of the Heights neighborhood in Houston goes all out in their light displays, and hosts an evening festival where the streets are open only to walking traffic, and many of the homes have carolers, musicians, and other forms of entertainment performing on their porches (last year there were belly dancers at one house!). Despite the fact that it was about 80 degrees and humid, we did our best to get into the Christmas spirit!

Here are some pics:

Juan and Theo -it's nice to see that Theo has finally graduated to a sippy cup!

Look out ladies...

Michelle's mom Jean holding Santa Matty.

Sunday, December 9, 2007

Baby Talk

Matty has become quite the conversationalist. We don't know what he's saying, but what he lacks in vocabulary, he makes up for in enthusiasm. Here's some video of Juan and Matty chatting it up.

And, a couple recent pictures...

Saturday, December 1, 2007

Happy Turkey Day!

Well, Matty has had several firsts since my last blog entry - first week at day care, first cold (coincidence? I think not), first airplane ride and first Thanksgiving! We left last Tuesday for El Paso to see Juan's family for Thanksgiving. He was a great little traveler. He got very excited and smiley when we were waiting at the gate both on the way there and the way back - I guess he likes to travel! He hardly made a peep on the flight either way, so no dirty looks for us from the other passengers!

Matty had a great time meeting his cousins, aunts, uncles, great aunts & uncles, etc while in El Paso, including the three other new babies who joined the family this year. It was very cute to get all the babies together. Here's a picture of the four expectant mothers together several months ago in El Paso at the baby shower Juan's family threw for us, ordered left to right from least pregnant to most pregnant
















And, the four of us with the babies now...

















And, the four babies together - left to right they are Angel Sebastian (6 months old), Juan's cousin Tzuni's baby, Jasmine Zoe (4 months old), Juan's sister Darcy's baby, Matty (3 months old), Isaac Nathanial (2 months old), Juan's cousin Citlali's baby.

















Angel saying hello to Jasmine...















Angel saying hello to Matty...















We also got snow while in El Paso! We woke up Saturday morning to about 3 inches on the ground. Here's a nice picture Juan got of the mountains coated in snow -















Unfortunately, Matty's cold got really bad while we were there, so we had to take him in to a pediatric night clinic to get him checked out. They said he had bronchilitis (fancy speak for wheezy lungs) and the start of an ear infection. So, we were set up with a nebulizer for him to breathe in medication for his lungs and antibiotics for the ear infection. Treating him with the nebulizer has been an interesting experience. It takes a good 15 minutes to give him the whole dose of medication, which is a looooong time with a squirmy baby. He's usually reasonably cooperative for the first 10 minutes, then after that he either starts fussing in earnest or gives up and falls asleep. Here's a picture of him hooked up to "The Machine".















Luckily, his cough improved very quickly with the nebulizer, so he was in a pretty good mood after the first day or two and had lots of fun hanging out with Juan's family - here are some good pictures from the rest of the weekend...

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