Happy Birthday Clint

Matthew has had his helmet now for 7 weeks. The Doctor said he'll probably have to wear it for another 5 weeks. We have noticed big changes in his head shape, but the other thing we've noticed is that hair grows fast in 7 weeks. . . . He will definitely need a haircut when he is out of the helmet.


Look at the long hair, and it will only get longer. :)

We celebrated Clint's birthday this week. He got a chocolate pudding trifle cake. It is huge. We've only ate a little bit even a few days later. If you want some stop on by. :)


Landon was SOOOOO excited for Clint's birthday. He watched for him at the window all day. When Clint finally did get home Landon waited by the door impatiently. The first words he could say were Dad, those are your presents. Clint got them and Landon opened them as fast as he could. Ha. Little kids make birthday's so much more fun. We had a great party. Happy Birthday Clint!


Our birthday activity: attaching balloons to Landon's diaper while he ran around the room.


Matthew has turned into quite the funny kid. The other day he wanted to play with the balloon ribbon. He just kept it in his mouth forever. He would crawl around and the balloon would follow him.
Silly boy!

Oh what do we do in the Winter time,

When all the world is white?
We find new clothes in the closet to try on Matthew.

We earn sugary blue bottle candy for going potty. Although, we haven't made it much further than this, we don't know what we are doing.
We take a mini vacation to the Bear River Bird Refuge and Tremonton. Landon was doing his best at a bird imitation.
We get ready to go swimming at the hotel in Tremonton.
Matthew loved swimming in his little baby boat.
Landon loved the hot tub, and not the big pool. Yes that is a picture of my white legs. Clint and I decided not to make a debut in our swimwear since half of the family (Parker side) will be hanging it on their walls come December.

Merry Christmas

I love Landon's smile in this picture


I love Matthew's smile in this picture.


Matthew with his cousin Eve. They are 4 months apart. She loved to hold on to him, and he wasn't quite sure.


Me & my Sisters and Mom at the Annual Proctor Chocolate party. We all make something to bring to be dipped in chocolate. I love this tradition a little too much. I eat too much of the chocolate.


Me and the boys at the City light exhibit. It was very cold, but we lasted for 45 minutes.


Matthew and Daddy on Christmas Eve.


Matthew and Santa.


Landon and Santa.


Christmas baby.


Landon and I decorated a gingerbread house.

We have had such a fun Christmas, and hate to see it end. Landon keeps asking if Santa is going to come again "tonight" every day. We were able to visit all of our family and have some fun. Landon got to play with all of his cousins (except Caiden). We can't wait for next Christmas! This year has brought some trials and a lot of blessings. We are thankful for them all.

Doesn't he look cute?

Mommy's Little helper

Landon has started helping me empty the dishwasher. He loves to do it. Sometime when he can see into the drawer I guess I'll teach him about how to put them in the drawer in an orderly fashion.



These next pictures are from my phone, so a little fuzzy. I love this one. Landon and Matthew woke up in happy moods, and Landon wanted to rock Matthew in the rocking chair.


Matthew has torticollis/plagiocephaly. Which means he has a shorter muscle in his neck which makes it so he tilts his head to one side and doesn't look 90 degrees in the other. This then causes him to get a flat head. We are happy that our insurance company authorized him to get a helmet. He will wear the helmet for about 2-3 months for 23 hours a day, and after that his head will be normal shaped again. We went to get a cast made of his head so they can make the helmet. He didn't love getting a cast made of his head, but he wasn't too concerned about it. Clint's cousin Leno said Matthew might as well learn to wear a helmet because in about 20 years he'll need one when he plays on BYU's football team.

Happy Thanksgiving

We are very excited for Thanksgiving and some to play with our family and friends. For FHE tonight we made turkey hats.

Do you like it?




They wouldn't look at the camera.




Matthew just woke up. He is usually so happy when he wakes up even when he has a cold and a new tooth coming in.



Landon fell asleep really good on the way home from playing with Grandma Jana. He slept like this for 2 hours. I'm not sure what they did over there, but whatever it is it wore him out.


Landon LOVES the snow. He wants to play in it as much as he can. Unfortunately it melted, or maybe fortunately. I guess it depends on who you are.

Halloween

For family night last week we carved our pumpkin. It was fun, Landon loved seeing our Jack-o-lantern all lit up with the candle. Clint did a good job on his part carving, but as you can tell with my part I got a little to hurried to take out the carved part for one of the eyes and took out the whole thing. :) Oh well.




Of course we had Curious George and the Man in the Yellow Hat. We couldn't get a good picture of both of them together. Landon wasn't in the mood, I guess he just wanted candy.




This is a good picture of Curious George because it was taken weeks ago when I finished the costume and he wasn't aware he was going to get any candy.



Matthew is the cutest Man/Baby in the yellow hat I've ever seen.




He liked Halloween because he got a lot of attention. I guess other people thought he was the cutest man/baby in the yellow hat also.



Landon happy to be home with a full bag of candy in the pantry.



A nice older lady in our ward gave me this outfit/pajamas for Matthew. It is girly, but I had to take a picture of him in it. The tag said it was for boy/girl 3 - 6 months. HA. Pretty much anything that can be for a girl is girly. I still think he looks cute even though he may be a little girly. When he is older and sees this picture I will tell him he only wore it to bed, which is true. :)