Matson Family Memories: September 2013

We had our anatomy scan ultrasound on Thursday and it went really well. Because my sweet little niece has a heart defect and some other things, the tech took extra time checking my baby's heart and brain. His heart looks beautiful and everything looks great with his brain. There were also no signs of cleft lip. It is such a relief to know that he is healthy as far as we can possibly tell. Braelyn loved seeing her baby brother on the TV. She kept saying he was "so cute" and "so sweet." She will pull my shirt and say "open him" then will listen to him do somersaults or swimming. Hopefully this love will continue once baby brother is actually here. I have officially hit 21 weeks, so a little more than half way there. I feel like I am in my third trimester though. I have no energy or motivation to do anything. I just want to nap. I am getting uncomfortable, so I have a hard time getting to sleep and staying asleep. Hopefully that will change soon, or it is going to be a long 4 1/2 months. We took Braelyn to the Dinosaur Park on Saturday. It was her reward for doing such a good job with potty training, plus on Friday she went poop in the potty. Then yesterday she told me she needed to go poop in the potty, so we are making progress on that front!

We celebrated our 4th anniversary last night. Nothing fun, just dinner at a pizza buffet and a movie at home. We even had Braelyn with us all night until we put her to bed. We are having a date night with Aaron and Kinnley this weekend when they are up, so hopefully that one can be a child-free night. Other than that nothing is really going on with us. We're kind of boring :-P Have a great day! Oh by the way, we caught our mischievous little mouse, and we haven't seen any more since, so hopefully we are done with them.

Dinosaur Park

Triceratops

RAWR!

Nick, Marilyn, and Dale at the SLC Temple

So it has been awhile...a long while. So here is the update. Braelyn is 2 years old now, and we are 20 weeks pregnant with number 2. We are having a boy! Tyler is so excited. We have an appointment tomorrow, so he is keeping his fingers crossed that our little man doesn't magically turn into a little lady. Things are definitely changing in our lives. Tyler was accepted into the University of Colorado-Boulder, but due to not finding a job in Colorado, we decided to stay around here for the next year and a half ish and try again later. In the meantime, he is going to try and finish up his bachelors degree at Weber State. He is working for a couple great friends of ours at Turf Pro Lawn Care/Night Lights Christmas Lights and Snow Removal. It is a great full time job that is giving him experience that will help us in the future and allows for frequent pay increases. We just moved to an apartment in Sunset, and other than the little mouse we can't seem to get rid of, we love it.
Braelyn keeps us busy. We have been potty training this last week, and she has done AWESOME! The only drawback is pooping in the toilet-she hasn't seemed to get the concept. Other than that we rarely have an accident. She even made it through a trip to St. George and back with only 1 accident. (we couldn't get to a stopping place soon enough after she woke up from a nap but she was in a pull-up so it didn't get all over the car.) She is a smart little stinker. She can count to 11. She speaks in multiple sentences and can even remember places and things after only being there or driving by there once. Today my grandma took us to a pizza place that she had only been to once before. Aunt Mamy's friend Krysta works there, and as soon as we walk in it was "Where's Krysta? Where's my Krysta?" She loves her baby brother and gives him loves and kisses all the time. This weekend we got a little glimpse of what she will be like when baby brother is here. We spent some time with Aaron and McKinnley and baby Claire for Claire's baby blessing. Braelyn wanted to feed Claire and hold her and was really sweet with her. We kept having to remind Braelyn to "be soft." It's a good thing babies are resilient...
It was really good to see Aaron and Kinnley. I was able to sit in the hot tub (just my legs) and visit with Kinnley for probably close to an hour. It is good to be getting to know her better and being able to relate more. I wish we lived closer so we could spend more time together.
This week will be a busy one. We have our regular doctor's appointment and our Maternal Fetal Medicine appointment where we will get to see out baby's heart and everything. Then later Nick is going through the temple for the first time because he is leaving on a mission to Guatemala the first of October. Since he is leaving, we had family pictures this last weekend for the Matson family. They haven't been updated since Aaron a McKinnley's wedding-if that counts, and before that it was right after Aaron got home from his mission. I think the pictures will turn out really cute. I can't wait to get the disk!
I am going to try to be better about blogging, but I'm not making any promises...Just harass me on Facebook if it has been too long since I last updated the blog, okay? Pictures-in no particular order-