Thomas' Baby Blessing

Somehow I forgot to post this earlier...

Matt and I were trying to decide what to do for Thomas' baby blessing because we wanted to be with as much family as we could, but it was hard for a lot of our family to travel to us.  Finally we decided to go down to Mesa and even though it was a short trip we loved it!  We flew down an Allegiant flight which Thomas did great on!  I was so grateful.  I really didn't want to be one of those families that everyone secretly hates because their child is screaming the whole time.

While we were in Mesa we walked around the Gilbert Temple, ate at Roy's Hawaiian Fusion as part of restaurant week (fancy and delicious), went swimming (in the hot tub) right before a big storm hit, and had a big dinner with our family and friends after being a part of an incredibly special blessing.  

I am so grateful for such wonderful family and friends who are so supportive of our new little family.  I am especially grateful for a loving husband who is a worth priesthood holder and has blessed my life so much.  I love that he's mine forever and I LOVE that he loves being a dad to Thomas.  He's the best.  

September 21st, 2014

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The whole Schmidt/Calton clan that was in attendance.  Thanks to everyone for coming!

Will and Thomas were blessed on the same day. 

Cute cousins.  Can you believe they're only three days apart?  Yeah, Thomas is a chub :)  Love it!

  

These are my girls.  They made me who I am.

Besties for life.  I miss them way too much.  Maybe we should move to Mesa...

Tara made Thomas this quilt... isn't it sooo cute?!  We love it!

I love our moms.  They're incredible women.

Thanks Megan for taking these cute pictures!  Find her stuff at snaphappymom.com

Pumpkin Patchin' It

Yesterday I had the idea to go to a pumpkin patch with some of our friends.  I was really excited and had this vision of a green field with tons of bright orange pumpkins and cute photo ops with a tractor or haystacks, but no.  It was yellow,super dead, and pretty ugly actually.  We ended up still having a lot of fun, but next year I should go with lower expectations... or just pick a cuter farm.  Until next year I'll just enjoy my pictures with the corn and my sleepy little boy who was wide awake until I decided it was time to take a family picture :).  

My favorite thing about McCoard's was this duck race.  The guys all got way too into it.  

Group photo.  Did I mention I shot all of these pictures in full blown MANUAL?!  Yeah, I know it's not impressive, but I'm proud of myself.  Too bad the lighting wasn't too great haha.  Oh and too bad Matt doesn't love getting pictures taken enough to let me fix the settings and try again before he walks away... hence the dark photo on top.  Next time.  

 

Fall Love

I am loving this fall weather.  It hasn't gotten to the cozy, sweater wearing weather quite yet, but the leaves are changing, it's gorgeous outside, and my house has a yummy fall scent that makes me feel happy inside.  Happy fall, ya'll.

Aaaand... this is how the boys really felt about taking pictures.  Like father like son.  

3 Months

Happy three months, little dude.  We love you more than you will ever know.

Recently Thomas has been a lot of fun.  He's smiling a ton now and it's so fun that he responds to silly things we do.  We have lots of fun singing songs,reading, and playing outside during the day, but he also loves hanging out with Dad when he comes home.  Thomas loves sitting on the couch with us and looking around.  He's growing up so fast and it's crazy!  The other day he STARTED getting a laugh.  He makes all sorts of noises, but that tiny laugh is my very favorite noise ever.  If you can't tell... I'm a little obsessed.

The little guy finally started liking his crib (and his mobile) and he's getting to be a pretty good sleeper.  We put him down at 7:30 now and he usually wakes up twice (or once if we're really lucky) during the night and wakes up for the day around 8.  Another one of my favorite things now is going in when he wakes up and seeing that smiley boy staring at me.  It totally makes my day.

Thomas is starting to get really big.  And I do mean really big.  We were at the doctor the other day getting him checked because he was sick and they weighed him at 15 lbs and 9 ounces.  The doctor said he is VERY healthy.  I didn't realize that people used more polite ways to say your baby is fat at such a young age, but they definitely do. That's ok. We like him fat and happy.  We like those chubby cheeks too.  I'm finally beginning to understand why grannies always want to pinch people's cheeks.  His cheeks are too cute not to play with.

I love how bald he looks.  I swear he really does have hair.  He has cute red hair, but mostly in mullet form.  He rocks the old man mullet. 

This is my view a lot of the time.  He LOVES singing with me.  It's kinda my favorite thing ever, but have you ever tried to take a picture of a baby while trying to move their arms and legs so they laugh?  A little tricky.  This is the best I could get.  Also, please ignore the mess.  It was laundry day and I was mid-basket.

2 Months

Ok I was good about blogging for like... a week and since then I've been awful again.  So needless to say, Thomas is not two months old anymore even though today's the day I'm actually getting around to blogging about it.  Somehow I don't have any extra time.  A lot of people told me that I was going to be bored as a mom because I'd have so much extra time.  Yeah, sometimes it's repetitive, but I haven't had enough downtime to get bored yet.  I live for nap times. Aww nap time... the only time during the day where I get to clean up instead of make more messes.

I wouldn't change being with Thomas for anything, but sometimes I'd take an extra hour (or four) of naps :).

So here's the update of our little guy at two months old...
Thomas is becoming a really cute, smiley little boy.  He loves lying on his play mat and going on walks outside.  Thomas and I go on walks almost everyday and sometimes he even comes to Zumba with me at BYU.  When I first brought him with me he'd sleep the whole time (or cry when he woke up), but now he just lays in his carseat looking around as he "jams" to the music.

Thomas also loves to eat.  Seriously... this boy is a little bit of a chunker :).  Luckily I've always wanted a chubby baby.  It's funny to me to see him around babies that are his same age because he's got a massive head and he's usually a lot bigger than the other babies.  I always thought Matt and I would have big babies, but it's weird to me that he's not that tall yet... just chubby.

Thomas really likes listening to Michael Buble radio with me on Pandora.  I'm pretty sure it's his favorite.  He is starting to become a busy little boy and doesn't love to be held like a baby anymore.  He'll still snuggle with us, but he prefers to be held so that he's sitting and can see what's going on.  I'm pretty sure that if I let him he'd sleep soundly on his tummy, but oddly enough he hates normal tummy time.  Maybe it's that huge head of his that's hard for him to hold us when he's laying down.  You know... the head that gets stuck in his shirt holes and makes him cry?  Yeah... getting his clothes changed is not his favorite part of the day haha.

I had to add this one. Just look at those chubby little legs!

STATS:
Weight - 13 pounds 7.5 ounces  (83rd percentile)
Head - 16.25 inches (98th percentile)
Height - 22.25 inches (21st percentile)


Anyway, things are going great with Thomas.  We love spending our time with him and it's been great for us to become parents.  I know we aren't pros yet, but we definitely learn new things everyday and I'm glad we're starting to get better at this whole parenting thing.  I am so grateful that God blessed us with one of his children.  We are so happy taking care of our little boy.  Life has changed a lot for me in the past few months, but I honestly wouldn't change a thing.  I am so happy being the mother of this little man.  He brings so much joy to my life.