Four Month Check Up

Matthew had his 4 month check up on Tuesday and his pediatrician was excited to see how well he is doing! Matthew now weighs in at 16 pounds and 13 ounces (90th percentile) and he is 26 1/2 inches long (97th percentile), which explains why we are wearing 6-9 month old clothing. Dr. Blair referred to him as "chunk" and I agree with that statement!! Can you believe we were so worried about his weight gain during his first three weeks?!?! Dr. Blair also said we could start experimenting with eating rice cereal and veggies, which I have mixed emotions with. I am excited for this next stage in his life but am sad because it means he's not my "little" baby anymore, he's growing up.

Speaking of growing up, Matthew is learning new things everyday. He is grasping objects tightly now and he is purposely grabbing at things. This morning I watched him take his pacifier out of his mouth and try to put it back in, he's getting so close but can't quite put it in correctly yet. He has discovered one of the buttons that plays music on his activity mat and will push it and smile at it while it plays the music. He recognizes his bottle and will open his mouth when I put it infront of him. Matthew hasn't learned to roll over yet because he HATES tummy time but we are working on this!! He has pushed up on to his side...but only once. He continues to sleep 10 to 12 hours a night; however, his naps during the day are getting shorter which means I get more time to play with him!! And my favorite is he is smiling, laughing, babbling, and he recognizes his mommy and daddy!!

So enough talking, here are some pictures of our "chunk":

Matthew's first Ranger's game, May 12th

Watching the Maverick's game with Pawpaw

Hanging out with Daddy outside

You Can Now Subscribe to my Blog!!

Hey Everyone, My buddy Ben informed me of a cool feature for our blog and I wanted to share it with you guys. Normally the process of blogging would entail me to send out a mass email once I updated our blog letting you know there is new information and for you to check it out. Well you can now subscribe to my blog, which would eliminate the need for a mass email! Less emailing means more time to add pictures and stories to the blog, right?!?!?! If you would like to get email notices when I update our blog click on the link on the right side of this page titled "Subscribe to Stone's Stories by Email" (duh!). You will enter your email address and type in a string of letters to ensure your not spammin'. Then you will get an email where you will confirm you would like to receive updates. Yea!!

And So It Begins...

Well, I have finally given in to "blogging", whatever that means. My good friends are probably laughing as they think "How is she going to keep up with her blog when she is horrible at checking her email". I know my family is thinking "Journaling...yeah right". My grandmother tries so hard to have each of her family members keep a journal and while I really like the idea, it's so hard for me to take the time to write down my thoughts. So you may be wondering why I am doing this whole blog thing?!? I am making this page to update you all on things going on with our family. Matthew is getting bigger everyday and is starting to learn new things. Instead of emailing different people different stories and different pictures I thought it would be easier to put all of them on here and you can just read it as you wish. I will update this page as often as I can but please be patient with me and please, please, please overlook all my grammatical errors (e.G, and i;e: Stacey and Mary!!) (For all you non-Pater's, Stacey and Mary were my clinical supervisors at Pate who had the privilege of reading my therapy documentation before it was sent to the insurance companies...man did they have their work cut out for them, I definitely made sure they had plenty of work!!)