Talking to Daddy on the Phone

Bye bye crib

Almost two weeks ago, we decided to give Matthew more freedom in his sleeping accommodations. We started by taking the front railing off his crib. It worked out pretty well except for at least one fall out of the bed and another that we're not sure what happened. And then there was this night when he fell asleep half way out of the bed:

We had a toddler bed from my sister in the garage, and we decided that we needed to get that into use ASAP.  We got it up and functioning over the weekend.  Then on Monday, we got offered a hand-me-down bed from one of my mother-in-law's coworkers.  So we picked it up last night.  I didn't really think he'd be transitioning to a twin size bed so soon, but Matthew insisted on having it be his bed right now.  So basically we've been having an awesome week of musical beds!

Matthew with his latest bed:

How did he learn about jumping on the bed so fast?

A few more pictures



We took a drive into San Francisco to visit my former place of employment: Williams-Sonoma corporate headquarters. The drive was a little hectic, but it was so fun to see my friends there and show off Matthew's latest tricks!



Matthew loves, loves, loves these magnets. They're just orange squares with letters on them,
but he plays with them every day.

Matthew loves to eat his PBJ in the living room.  I'm trying to encourage more eating at the table.

Matthew has started wearing sunglasses in the car every once in a while.  On this day, he fell asleep during the drive.

Picking Peaches

 We went to pick peaches with Matthew's cousins.  They had a lot of fun together!  Matthew is lucky to have cousins living close by!

Those peaches were juicy!  Matthew's shirt did not survive unscathed!

Trip to Idaho Falls and SLC

We just got back from a fun trip to Utah and Idaho.   

We went to Idaho Falls for the wedding of our good friend Chris. 

Here are Scott and several of his closest friends from college:

They did an amazing job transforming the cultural hall in the church:

Also on this trip, we were able to go visit the grave of my grandma who passed away last December.  It was nice to be able to say goodbye to her.  I was also able to visit my grandpa's grave for the first time (at least that I remember).  He passed away when I was one. 

 On Memorial Day, we went with Scott's sisters to leave flowers at the graves of their mom's parents. I didn't have my camera there for that one.

We later visited BYU Provo and checked out the new addition to the Tanner building.  They have added dozens of team rooms including some with flat screens?  This would have made our group assignments so much easier!

 Scott was impressed by this classroom full of trading computers. 

On Tuesday, we visited the Church History Museum.  After teaching about Church History in seminary this year, it was really cool to go there and see some of the artifacts first hand like Emma Smith's hymn book, John Taylor's pocketwatch that stopped a bullet in Carthage Jail, some of the original transcripts of the Book of Mormon, and the stone that David O. McKay saw in Scotland ("Whate'er thou art, act well thy part").  I was really glad I had one more lesson to give to my class before the end of the year so I could tell them about it.

Also at the museum, we had a lot of fun in their children's area.  Building Nephi's ship and going fishing over the side of it:

Celebrating Mexican culture by learning a dance (complete with costumes):

We even got to practice speaking from a replica of the pulpit at the Conference Center (I'm willing to bet its much more fun than the real thing). 

I'm sure no one else has ever done this before:

If you check out the end of this video, you'll see a sample of Matthew's dance moves:

Some pictures from Easter:

Favorite Phrases, ABC Song, Etc.