Matthew Grant Gardner

One more

2012-02-10T14:12:00.000-08:00

While mom and dad were out here for Sam's birthday we were all in the car and mom went to hand matt something and he said no, matt said no, I said no!!!

Way behind

2012-02-10T13:59:00.001-08:00

But some things I need record and will come back later to tell the excitement as to why these are so important:

During the passing of the sacrament Matt begins singing very loudly the song from Winnie the Pooh, "A Baxson"

Grant and I went to pick Matt up from Nursery another time and couldn't find him. He had slipped out of the door and was in the Chapel where the Singles were meeting. He was out wife hunting already:)

In the last 6 weeks Matt has become very vocal saying I'm just fine or I want my blankie, I need my blankie. Like at JcPenny the other night he said this about his blankie and Grant left it in the car anyway. Later we regretted it because he really did need it to regroup and behave.

One night he was fighting sleep and Grant brought him into the recliner to rock and calm him down on his way back to bed he said night night mommy love you.

He was brought to me from nursery to change his diaper and he was whining on the way back and I put him over the gate and he cried want momma and of course I caved and went in with him.

More b-day and his new favorite song

2011-05-11T15:10:00.000-07:00

Happy Birthday 2 Year Old

2011-04-24T21:00:00.000-07:00

Blue Ice Cream from Braums seems that is the only way I get my kids to realize they like cold sweets.

After getting down about 40 min later he came wandering into the living room holding Sam's piece of cake in his hand and munching on it:) Guess the entire cake wasn't enough for him.

Here is Sam after getting into the black icing.

Growing Up

2011-03-24T15:37:00.001-07:00

Well I haven't posted much in a while on the kids site but wanted to post an update on Matt, we are currently a month away from his 2nd b-day and he is recognizing letters like crazy. He can recognize the T, M, W, O, P, S, D, C, B, A. Even though he doesn't say much as far as words he can sure say his letters. W=dubadu and is learning more and more that he loves books.

Our Huge Boy

2010-11-11T09:23:00.000-08:00

Matt is 18 months now which means he is in nursery. Too bad he loved to go before and now he is old enough he wants nothing to do with it.

Getting Caught up

2010-09-24T14:07:00.000-07:00

Our Boy

2010-07-13T12:28:00.000-07:00

Our Poser

2010-06-11T21:36:00.000-07:00

Circus!!!!!

2010-06-11T11:01:00.000-07:00

We have been BUSY

2010-06-11T09:11:00.001-07:00

Matt has started walking and with that I just want to say we are busy:)

Catch UP

2010-05-24T19:37:00.000-07:00

Nice Pillow

Bubbles

Sam's favorite place to be after Matt wakes up from his nap.

Camping with the Young Women

Well a year has passed

2010-04-22T14:10:00.003-07:00

Can you believe it?????

Our little boy is 1. Where did the time go?

Look at those jawls.

Tough Guy pose

Teeth... He has 7 and one more might pop through before his b-day tomorrow.

Smiley guy!!!!

Am I in trouble?

Such a chewer

Linds and I were talking and next thing we knew he was asleep in the basket. He loves fleece blankets.

Didn't want the grass to touch his skin

Loaf of ciabotta bread we made.

I couldn't find him one day and this is where he was.

He is just about walking. He stands by himself very well for short amounts of time until he realizes it and then he stops.

We have been so blessed to have this little boy come into our life. He is such a joy and a very easy going baby. We love him and can't imagine our family without him:)

11 Months

2010-03-24T12:18:00.001-07:00

Yesterday Matt was 11 months old and he celebrated by standing 5 seconds on his own no prompting from me or anything he stood up with the laundry basket and just let go. By 1 year I am afraid he is going to be running.

Our boy this week

2010-03-23T07:11:00.000-07:00

bread mom and dad made was huge

more faces

tongue face

Smile

hiding behind dads motorcycle jacket

one of his many faces (bulldog face)

Cool guy

Posing

Spiderman

True Boy

2010-03-05T09:33:00.000-08:00

Yesterday Sam came running into me crying. I couldn't figure out what was wrong then here comes Matt crawling behind her. He was chasing her trying to attack her. Oh man it has already started, she better learn to fight back:)

Beaver Teeth

Prisoners in the crib. Sam loves to get in the crib every morning with him

Left him to play while I did the dishes came back and found him like this so I laid him down.

So Happy!! Can't believe he has been a part of our lives for 10 short months.

Big Boy

2010-03-05T09:32:00.001-08:00

Grant and I were cooking dinner last night I turned around to check on the kids and couldn't find Matt. He had crawled from our Kitchen which is on the west side of our house to our bedroom which is on the east side of our house. Watch out!!!! He is definitely mobile:( They grow up way too fast.

Growing up

2010-02-21T07:25:00.000-08:00

This week Matt learned to crawl on all 4's and go back to the sitting position. He also has been going to his knees and pulling himself up. Why can't he just learn to do one a week? AGHHHH they grow up so dang fast.

Smiles

I am busted

Who me?

Standing playing

Cheese

Crawling

Giddee up

He loves Sam and gets excited when she is around.

Is that Mama I hear?

2010-01-29T10:48:00.000-08:00

Way overdue

2010-01-29T09:53:00.001-08:00

Who can guess what I am doing?

Got Milk?

This is how I found him sleeping

And last but not least he is getting mobile.....YIKES!!!

9 Months

2010-01-22T13:32:00.000-08:00

TOMORROW.....I can't believe it where did time go? To celebrate he broke a tooth through. Now he has two big chompers:)

Pic of tooth and more

2010-01-05T12:55:00.001-08:00

after haircut pic below is all the hair we cut off

his tooth on the left right before it goes into shadow

Matt before the haircut realizes it is him in the mirror

Sitting up

2010-01-04T18:51:00.000-08:00

Well Matt has been sitting up for a couple of weeks really well. We would always get him to try and he would fall immediately forward. One day I put a toy up for him to play with and he never fell over. Come to find out he could sit up for we don't know how long he was falling forward to eat his toes.... Silly bulldog boy. (bulldog is his nickname if you look at some of his pics when he sticks out his bottom lip he gets jowls like a bulldog)

Grant takes him during church and yesterday we both got to nursery about the same time to pick Sam up and Matt got so excited he about jumped out of Grants arms for me. He wiggles and moves so much when he gets excited and then starts screaming.

He stands up and goes over Sam's shoulders he is growing so big and is wearing 12 months clothing; on some things he and Sam will be sharing before too long:)

Santa and the snow found us:)

2009-12-25T11:34:00.000-08:00

Our entry into our house. I guess this is what it feels like to be snowed in your own house. Snow is taller than Sam.

See Santa even left snow foot prints on the carpet. Oh and if you go in close enough you can see that Santa won't wait until Christmas eve to put presents together again. There were parts missing on the Kitchen set and so it has no doors.

8 Months

2009-12-24T10:25:00.000-08:00

Wow can't believe he is 8 months already. And he had a tooth break through last night.

BIG MOUTH!! and my sister

2009-12-22T09:20:00.000-08:00

Sister has a new thing of wanting to hold me all the time now even though I am the same size as her.

Picture overload

2009-12-14T09:28:00.000-08:00

1st solids

the best of friends

this will be another picture we will be taking in 14 yrs. Kind of a scary thought

2009-11-20T14:32:00.000-08:00

Light eyes

Faux hawk

Narcolepsy

Finally captured on video - ROLLING!

1st Hair Cut

2009-11-12T10:00:00.001-08:00

Before

After

He looks so grown up and like a toddler now

2009-11-12T08:51:00.000-08:00

Little boys and their dogs:)

He really isn't standing on his head

Who can deny anything to that smile?

Cute kiddos

Growing so fast

2009-11-02T14:11:00.000-08:00

Matt loves to cover his face all the time.

Our rolling thumb sucking boy:)

6 Months

2009-10-23T12:16:00.000-07:00

Where did the time go? I can't believe he is 6 months today. We love you little guy and our family wouldn't be a family without you:) You are the best baby and sometimes we have to remember we have 2 because you are such a great baby. We all love you!!!

Grandma and Gradpa's visit

2009-10-22T11:30:00.000-07:00

KIDS!!!

2009-10-09T19:34:00.000-07:00

2009-10-02T06:02:00.000-07:00

He is getting so big. These are 9 month jammies and he just turned 5 months.

Sorry they turned upside down, but look at those big cheeks and brilliant blue eyes:)

Smiley boy

His eye and hand coordination is amazing

Zoo

2009-09-21T11:25:00.000-07:00

We decided to take a trip to the zoo Sat because it was in the low 80's and the rain stopped after about two weeks straight. We were all going stir crazy:)

Matt and Sam

Lion Cub in the center it blends in really well. This is actually one of those see if you can see/find the image? ha ha

Tigers

What an earthquake would feel like

4 Months Old

2009-09-21T10:46:00.000-07:00

This is how I found him after one of his naps:) Just talking away and smiling so big when I took it off. He is really starting to enjoy Peek-a-boo and Sam loves to play it with him.

Talking

2009-09-07T13:11:00.000-07:00

4 Months

2009-09-07T11:38:00.001-07:00

Daddy's little slugger

Who said they could get so big so fast?

Belly time and loving it.

Rolling or trying too

Chicago

2009-09-02T06:29:00.000-07:00

Check out Sam's blog to see details of our trip.

Matt has done as much as me and all under 6 months of age...TOO BAD he won't remember any of it.

1. airplane ride
2. Subway (L) ride
3. Taxi
4. Public Bus

We laughed and said we did it all Planes, Trains, and Automobiles.

Baby Boy

2009-08-19T12:47:00.000-07:00

Happy and Content Baby Boy

This is how I always find him

Almost 4 Months

2009-08-14T20:08:00.001-07:00

As much as I have tried to stop it...... We have a thumb sucker....It is hopeless he was doing it in the womb!!!

1st night in the crib

Sucking that thumb again

So intense, probably scared to see Sam in the same room as she tends to sit on him:)

Dad holding son before he leaves for Seattle

Who couldn't love this smile?

Cracking himself up.

TOO YOUNG!!!

2009-08-04T07:31:00.000-07:00

Matt has been trying to roll over and made it to his side on Sun...This doesn't show how far he went, because you can never catch it on video:)

3 Months

2009-08-03T16:03:00.000-07:00

Wearing dad's bib from when he was a baby since we both have Grant in our name, I can wear it too.

Brother and Sister

Sucking my thumb

My Crazy Month

2009-07-13T12:45:00.001-07:00

Sorry if there are a few duplicate pictures

Grandma and Grandpa Gardner and the Kiddos

Brother and Sister

thumb sucker

Smiley Pants

4 Generation

My favorite place to sleep

Getting ready to go sun bathing

1st 4th of July

Great Grandma Arthur

Church Clothes

Sleeping

Smiley Pants

Jaime, Kiana and me

In Grandpa's chair

Smiling at mom

Smiles

Sleeping through the fireworks

Sleeping at the park and sucking my thumb

My 1st Sleepover! Chloe Sam Trey and me

Aunt Lindsay

Yawning

Chloe holding me

Colee and Me

Andrew holding me

Aunt Vickie

Great Grandma Floyd

Sleeping

Sister helping me

2009-06-06T13:48:00.000-07:00

I am not sure if she is teasing him or really trying to help put it in.

1 Month

2009-06-02T09:48:00.000-07:00

Just got back from taking two kiddos to the dr for Matt's 1 month well check.. Not doing that again. He pooped all over his clothes and came home in a diaper and Sam screamed the whole time thinking it was her getting the shots

However, he has 2 more lbs and he will weigh half as much as Sam. I think someone is going to have a little big brother. She won't have to fight her own fights, her brother will scare the opponents away.

Curls

2009-05-25T20:15:00.001-07:00

1 Month

2009-05-22T11:01:00.001-07:00

Famous

2009-05-18T12:54:00.000-07:00

BAILEY MEDICAL CENTER, OWASSO

Stacie and Grant Gardner, Owasso, boy.

Link Here
And select April 25th in the calendar

Also, we received in the mail a notice from our Mayor saying that April 23 has officially been made Matthew Grant Gardner Day in Owasso. I will scan the document and attach later.

Like father like son

2009-05-18T11:23:00.001-07:00

Grant's mom gave me some of the clothes Grant wore when he was a baby. Here is one of the outfits:

These two also show the funny faces he makes and why we call him Benjamin Button

2009-05-12T12:22:00.000-07:00

Our crazy last three weeks. I can't believe it has already been almost 3 weeks. We had a lot happen in those weeks. I had a slight case of Jaundice which we cured without having to do the lights. Yeah!! I am still under weight so have to go in for weight checks. We are learning how to not go through 3 or 4 outfits a day with diaper accidents. I am sleeping anywhere from 5-6 hrs at a time during the night. Sammie hates it when I cry and doesn't know what to do to help. I can find my thumb at anytime, but mom and dad are trying to make me use a bink instead. When I was born I had already rubbed a blister on my wrist in the womb from sucking on it.

Mom's side of the family came and I was blessed on May 3, 2009. I took a trip to the Aquarium in Jenks, but slept through most of it. Woke up to eat and back to sleep:) Met Dad's cousins and Aunt Sherri. The pics below are from most recent to past. Enjoy:)

Just chilling

Spikes

Gardner's at the blessing

Cruz's at the blessing

Arthur boys...we forgot to get an entire Arthur pic, but mom and Tricia were there too.

Family Pic at the blessing

Two Arthur Boys. This is also the suit Trey was blessed in

Grandpa's boy

Goth baby. Mom and I had Thrush and so we had to put this medicine in my mouth to fix it.

Grandma's little man

See I can find my thumb

Coming home from the hospital.

Gardner 4 Generation

Grandma and Allie with our own little "Benjamin Button"
We say he doesn't quite fit his skin and so he reminds us of a little man so he is our little "Benjamin Button" or as Great Grandma Hurst says little button.

Thanks to all

2009-04-24T13:52:00.001-07:00

We just wanted to send out our sincere thanks to everyone and let you all know that all is going well.

Matt got a little cut this morning on a small part of his body (hint hint) and he's been just a wee bit testy. But he decided to forgive us when he ate lunch this afternoon and he's been momma's boy ever since. Unfortunately, the laptop that Aunt Allie loaned us for this endevor has been giving us some fits with transferring files from the camera's memory cards, so you'll have to wait till a bit later for more pics.

Getting Hungry

2009-04-23T07:52:00.000-07:00

Someone decided he was hungry from the get-go, and fortunately, that's translating in a simple easy nursing scene. Yeah! So, hopefully that keeps up well.

Right now, mom and baby are doing splendidly. Mom's a little sore and tired, but fighting on gamely.

Please feed me! I'm hungry.

First Meal

The first shots

2009-04-23T07:21:00.000-07:00

Here you picture-hungry people go.

Resting snuggly before his shots.

Stretching and yawning

It a Baby...BOY!

2009-04-23T07:18:00.000-07:00

Well, if you were paying attention to the title of the blog, you knew that already. ;)

Pics coming shortly.