8 weeks old

Here are some of the things Matty likes to do.

She loves to be wide eyed at you.
She loves her baths. She never cries when shes in the warm water.

She loves sticking her little touge out.

Its sure cute now but she better not do that to me when she is older.

Most of all she loves to sleep. She has been sleeping through the night for 2 weeks now and its great. Also when she was 6 weeks she starting looking at us and smiling.

Just 8 weeks ago today our little Matty blessed our lives with her presents. We were both very surprised to find out she was a girl. I was guessing boy and I was very much wrong. We love her so much. It will be really hard to go back to work in 5 more weeks but I am so lucky to have the time off work with her.

Baby Mattalyn

Mattalyn Viola Reed

October 27th, 2011

5 lbs 12 ounces 17 1/2 inches

Matty's first bath at home.
We were so lucky to have Matty right before all the holidays so she could spend them with us.

Here is her on Thanksgiving.

She even got to tell Santa want she wants for Christmas.

BUMP to BLOB

May

July
September
end of September

October

Baby Time!

I know that my last post was from August but seeing how that I am almost a year behind and decided to just skip to the present. We decided that we have been married for just about seven years and it was time that we start a family. I found out on February 27th...but it was such a faint line that I just couldn't believe my eyes. So the next morning I took another one....and that evening. By now I was like maybe its just cause these were the dollar ones. On Tuesday March 1st when I got off work I invested in a pregnancy test that said PREGNANT or NOT PREGNANT. Well this was the fourth test that I had taken in the past three days and the fact that it said PREGNANT I decided to believe it. I waited for Matt to come upstairs so I could tell him. I showed him the test and he look at me and said, "Cool, that's what we were trying to do." HAHA Matt makes me laugh. He was so happy inside that I guess he just couldn't express it all at once. I needed to tell someone else so I went to go call my sister so we could start planning when and how we would tell our families.

We waited till April 1st after we had our first appointment and because it was April Fool's Day and I wanted to see if they would believe me. This picture was taking on Matt's birthday (April 11th) we had a very nice meal that soon after I ran to the bathroom to throw up.

Telling Matt's Parents:

Telling My Parents:



The first 14 weeks of my pregnancy were not my favorite and I thought that being sick would never ever ever end. I was throwing up at least three times a day. At home...at work...at peoples houses...need I say more. Now that I am over that part it wasn't so bad I guess.

My belly was barely showing at 15 weeks (picture may 8th)

Then BAM at 17 weeks (picture may 21)

23 weeks (picture July 2)

I have now gained about 20 pounds and I am only 5 month along. I am getting kinda scared about working all this weight off after but I will :)

"me dancing" (standing/clapping)

golden gate drive

vacation part 6

We toured the Winchester Mystery House. It was big and built very strangely. But it was fun to tour and see all the crazy stuff.
We went and hung out in Santa Cruz at the beach.

We walked the boardwalk.

Under the boardwalk there were a ton of seals. They smelt and were very load. They were so huge and I have no idea how they got up on those boards.

On our way to Half Moon Bay we saw all these windsurfers. We watched them for a bit but it got really cold so we left.