A Series of Firsts

Hey everyone!  Happy belated Memorial Day!  Sorry its been a bit, the 'rents are trying to make me into a world traveler, more on that later.  First let me catch you up on all things Matthew:
So I had my first big check up with the Dr.'s from Children's Hospital Kings Daughters a few weeks ago.  This visit was in addition to my regular 4mo check up where that strange lady poked me AGAIN with that needle thingy!  Didn't I get poked enough my first few weeks, gesh!  Mom and Dad swear it's for my own good, we'll see about that I guess.  Anyway back to my NICU follow up.  This really nice Dr. Lady didn't poke me with anything at all (see, who said its necessary?!) all she wanted to do was talk to mom and dad about their favorite subject...me!  She also wanted to see me do all of my tricks to make sure I am developing on track with other kids my age.  I don't want to brag but the word "perfect" might have gotten thrown around once or twice ;)  She let me lay on my tummy and hold my head up really high, mom always says I look like a turtle coming out of its shell when I do this, somehow I don't think that is very nice.  Anyway I would have shown the Dr. Lady how I flip myself onto my back but she scooped me up real quick, something about the table being too narrow. Then she dangled this big red ring right in front of me.  She wanted to watch me watch it (not sure why this is exciting but ok).  Lastly I guess she was secretly hoping I would reach up and grab it because boy did she get happy when I did...but then she took it away...this confused me.  Still have lots to learn about you people and your motivations.  Long story short I will see them again in 6 mo.  but they are happy with my development and mom and dad got a chance to really talk to someone about some things that had been worrying them.  
Equally exciting to all this Dr stuff was my first road trip!  We all went to Danville for the long holiday weekend, I don't really remember the trip there, we left around my bed time.  I just know when I woke up I was at Aunt Patti and Uncle Jeff's and their three furry kids were all excited to see me!  They kept licking me and sniffing me, it felt funny, but they were soft and I liked to touch their fur.  Later that day mom and dad took me to this place called a pool.  It looked like a really really big bathtub and I love my baths so this seemed ok to me.  Sure enough, the water was warm and mom and dad could hang out in it with me, I definitely see more of this pool thing in my future.  On Sunday we celebrated the reason for the big trip, my Christening.  I was such a good boy (mom and dad really owe me for that one) even though I didn't really know what was going on I could tell it was important so I smiled and cooed and charmed the pants off all of them.  After the service we had a big lunch at my aunt and uncles, but I was pooped from being so cute all morning so I had my lunch with mom upstairs and fell right asleep.   Later that afternoon we drove to another new place called the lake.  If you people though a pool was big wait until you see one of these!  My cousins were there with a bunch of their friends who were all really nice.  The girls kept wanting to hold me, who am I to refuse a pretty lady??
All in all, it was a wonderful weekend.  I had a little trouble on our ride home, I kept waking up all alone in the back of the car and I didn't like that at all, so mom climbed back and hung out with me which was nice.  We returned home on Memorial Day, this was also my first of one of those.  Mom and Dad explained to me how important this day is and how we use it to celebrate lots of brave & wonderful friends, some that I have met and some that live with Jesus and I won't see for a long time.  Even at only 4 mos. I know how special you have to be to get to live up there, so these must have been some amazing men.  Cant wait to meet them too one day.

Well gotta go make mom work on my baby book...what would she do without me...seriously?  Im having her share a few photos from our weekend with you below.  Hope everyone had a super holiday, Ill be in touch soon~
Love Matthew

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That head is bigger than all of me!

Lazy river style