One Year Old!

 I can't believe my little Braelyn is a year old! She is 20 and 1/2 inches tall and 20 lbs. I love her and her cute little personality. She is very smart. She blows kisses, waves hi and bye, and runs all over the place. If you ask her where her nose is, she will point to it and squish it up like a pig. She will also point to her mouth, ears, and belly button. If you ask her where her belly button is, she will lift up her shirt and bend over to try and find it. She will fold her arms and do a lot of signs too. She signs please, food, more, all done, up, down, outside, and sometimes she will sign thank you. Her vocabulary is expanding as well. Some of the words she knows are pop, (She loves to pop bubbles) daddy, ma ma, keys, please, shoes, Papa, Nana, whee, dat, (that) and she babbles a lot of things that almost sound legitimate. She walks around the house holding a phone or remote or pretty much anything of the sort to her ear and acts as though she is talking on the phone.  She also loves books. Her favorite one is her bedtime book that is a touch and feel book. She will grab it and bring it to me all day long. He favorite foods include chicken, macaroni and cheese, crackers, string cheese, fruit of any kind, mashed potatoes, milk, apple juice, and pudding. She doesn't really care for vegetables, so I'm trying to figure out ways to get her to eat those more. She loves dogs and starts to say oof oof everytime she sees one. All in all we are doing very well. She is getting so big and we are loving every minute of it. We are having fun and making memories day by day. 

Cheese!

Getting so big!

4 Month Update

So now that Braelyn is 4 months old, I thought that I would give an update on how she is doing. At her doctor's appointment on Friday, she weighed 12 pounds 11 ounces and was 24 inches long. her 3 month clothes are fitting great except for the fact that her jackets are a bit short on her torso because it is so long. She is starting to get the baby chubb and it makes me sad because it means she is growing up.

As my previous post says, Braelyn is now rolling over. Only from her back to her tummy though. She rolls to her belly and a couple minutes later she crys because she is stuck... It is so much fun to see her interact with Tyler and me. She is always happy and giggles for us. It is also fun to listen to her jabber to herself. She grabs toys now, and she loves her toy keys.

I've tried giving her rice cereal a couple times, but she isn't so sure what she thinks of it. The last couple of days, however, she has been watching me eat and opening her mouth with mine and acting as though she is chewing. It's really cute and funny to watch.

Her favorite game right now is swinging with daddy. She giggles everytime. She also likes to "bouncy bouncy bouncy" on the bed. Tyler puts a hand on either side of her and bounces the bed a little bit. It's pretty silly. She has been spending more time with daddy since I have gone back to work. I think she enjoys it, but she really misses her mommy. Tyler tries to keep her awake so I can see her when I get home. She gets a huge smile on her face, no matter how tired she is when I get to see her. It makes my whole evening.

I can't believe how fast the time has gone. She is so precious and such a blessing in our lives. We love her and can't imagine our lives without our little Braelyn Rose.

We were at Grandma Mickelsen's house for Adri and Kelsee's combined baby shower. This was a super cute picture with Braelyn, Bekah, and Trinity.

I rolled over Mom! Here was a picture of her right after she rolled. Yay!
Braelyn holding her bottle. She would not let me take it away to burp her ;)

The first time eating baby cereal. She didn't know what to think of it...

Daddy and Braelyn. I thought this was such a cute picture of the two of them playing together.

Braelyn (3 months 11 days) and Cousin Caydence (3 weeks 2 days)

Hi Mom! What is that thing you are holding above me? Don't I just look SOOO cute with my curly hair? I love you mom!

Rolling Over!

Braelyn has become a rolling queen. Starting yesterday, she has been rolling every chance she can get. She still only rolls from her back to her belly, but hey! I'll take it! I am so proud of her. She is getting so big. We have hit the 4 month mark. At her appointment, she was 12 pounds, 11 ounces and 24 inches long. She wasn't too happy to get her shots, but she did really well. Tyler is still working hard at Enve and we actually just found out that he was awarded a ton of financial aid for Spring and Summer semester. We were really excited because now we can afford for him to go to school! He plays with Braelyn every chance he gets and they are so cute together! I just started my job at Deseret Book in the Layton Hills mall and I absolutely LOVE it! I look forward to going to work every single day! It is so rewarding and I love working for the church!

Braelyn Rolling Over



Tyler Playing with Braelyn

Updates on the Matsons!

It's that time again! Time to update everyone on the Matsons. Everything is going well with us. We are working hard and trying to keep everything going in the right direction. Tyler just finished the cycling season. Last weekend he rode in a relay race called Salt to Saint (Salt Lake to Saint George). He rode the first leg of the relay which included some really big climbs. He actually dropped a PROFESSIONAL MOUNTAIN BIKE RIDER!! It was really awesome to hear about. His whole team worked really hard and they actually won the relay overall. They completed over 420 miles in 20 hours and 1 minute. Tyler was so tired, he actually fell asleep in the middle of eating a piece of bread. Yesterday Tyler had his last race of the season. He took 9th in the Harvest Moon Criterium Race. It was so much fun to watch him race!

Last weekend, I went to lunch with my Mickelsen family for my grandma's birthday. Then we went and bought peaches and on Saturday, I bottled peaches and went to a baby shower for Kelsee and Adri. Adri had her baby this week...a week sooner than expected. She is a little cutie! Yesterday, Tyler took Braelyn with him in the morning and let me go to the Celebrating Sisterhood Party and Seagull Book and Tape. Then I went and watched him race along with Kaytie, Toby, TJ, Chase and a bunch of other cycling friends. Tomorrow I have a job interview for Deseret Book. I'm really excited and hope that I can get the job!

Braelyn has become my little chatterbox! She loves to talk and sing and squeal. She is so much fun. She is getting really big and growing so much. I love playing with her everyday and I never get anything done anymore. But I won't take back the time I spend with her to clean. I can always clean when she is napping or asleep at night. But I can never get the time back if I don't play so I'll cherish it while I can!

She Did It!

Yay! It finally happened! Braelyn rolled over on September 12th! It was so exciting. I went downstairs t put in a load of laundry and when I got back upstairs this is how I found her! I dropped what I was doing and squealed "You did it!!" Then today, September 19th, she rolled over onto her belly while I was sitting next to her. Then she rolled back over onto her back. I was cheering and she giggled and smiled. I love my little princess!

Braelyn at 3 Months Old

That's right! Our little princess is 3 months old. She had grown so much! She smiles all the time now. She is trying to roll over, but hasn't figured out that she can't suck on her fingers and roll over at the same time, and I think she prefers to suck on the fingers. She has really started giggling and it just makes Mommy and Daddy melt. She is so sweet and I don't know where we would be without her. She completes us! One of her favorite things is getting raspberries. It makes her giggle so much! She also loves when daddy gets home from work. She knows when he is a little late, and she gets really fussy!

Tyler is doing well. He is recovering from Lotoja and preparing to do a relay race with three other people from Salt Lake to St. George. The next weekend he is going to try and win the Harvest Moon Criterium.

I am just keeping busy as ever. Between baby, cleaning, and errands, I don't feel like I even have time to eat. I am in the process of trying to find a part time evening job. I love being a stay at home mommy, but we need a little something more so that we can have a savings account. Well that is the like of the Matsons!

Here we go again!

Well it was that time of year again this last weekend. Our ANNIVERSARY! Which also means LOTOJA! All in all it was a very good weekend. On Thursday, I made Tyler's favorite dinner. (Our Anniversary is Friday.) Then that night, we went to give our little Braelyn her bath. I am always telling Tyler to leave Braelyn's diaper on til just before it is time to put her in, but he rarely does. On this one occasion, I was getting everything ready for Braelyn and Tyler was holding a bare naked girl. You probably just guessed it...Braelyn peed on him. Maybe now he'll take my advice about the diaper! I couldn't stop laughing! Friday morning, Tyler and I spend time together getting everything ready for LOTOJA. He went for a short bike ride and came home with a very funny story... He was riding and a bug hit his shoulder. He didn't think much of it until he got a sharp pain in his lower stomach. The bug was a bee, and it had stung him! I felt bad, but at the same time I thought it was pretty funny. That afternoon, my mom came to pick up Braelyn and Tyler and I left for Logan. After check in, we made our dinner in the Walmart parking lot... He were just going to stay in our car, but our friends Chelsea and Ryan Ottley invited us to stay at their house. Saturday morning we were up bright and early and to the starting line of LOTOJA. Tyler was so excited and looked so sharp in his jersey. The race didn't turn out the way we had hoped. Tyler was sitting top ten and was doing really well. Then he flatted coming down Salt River Pass. His replacement wheel wouldn't tune correctly, so by the time he got to Afton, he was bonked because he had to work twice as hard on a partically unfuctioning bicycle. I love him so much!! We still went to the finish line and supported all of our Simply Mac Teammates. Sunday we went to pick up Braelyn from my parents house. When we were getting her dressed, we were giving her raspberries on her tummy and she was giggling so hard. She did this for about five minutes. Daddy and I were laughing so hard that we were crying. Well, that was our weekend. Now it's back to reality and life! Gotta love it!