Off To Work

I do have lots to post, including pics from a recent baby shower and a very insecure Matthew. But right now I am about to head out the door to work and thought I would just post for a bit and say hi! Hi!

Wondertastic News!

Sean got a job!!!! Yay!!! He went in for the interview yesterday and got hired on the spot. Apparently it's the "real deal"--no Cutco stuff. He will be working for a plastic surgery company in Rancho Cucamonga, maintaining this website, search engine optimization on that website, and other super cool job skills. He works with a couple other people, and he'll have lots of help and hopefully a promotion to full time is close at hand.
I am now especially planning on taking my vacation and going back east from about June 10th-24th. After going part time, I lose all my vacation time (and benefits). So if I didn't take it, that's two weeks paid vacation I missed out on. It'll be enough time to go visit everyone on both sides of the family.
I'll tell them I am going part time after I get back. Sneaky, but oh well.
The pay isn't awesome, but the experience will be! Plus I will be full time for a while yet, so we should be ok financially. The interviewer pretty much offered Sean the full time position, but stopped himself and said that he'd just see how part time went first. When he goes full time, I can go part time. In August we will probably move somewhere closer, probably Lake Elsinore or somewhere close. I just learned how to link with words, how cool am I? The real question is, what took me so long?
Okay, I'll stop.

Matt's First Painting!

This will be a short post, just wanted to post and say that Matt did his first painting this morning!

All by himself! This one is titled: "Toddler's Mood Before Naptime"

Here's him making the final touches.
And as always, here's a video!

Anyway, nothing else to report. Everything is normal here! Will probably post again soon, I have some really cute pictures to put up.

Matt...Is...Human? Impossible!

Well, not much going on here still, everything is normal, etc. So what this means for the blog is:
MASSIVE MATTHEW MANIA!!!!!!!!!!!!

Whenever I don't have any news to report, or have nothing to talk about, it's always nice to have a living conversation piece to draw inspiration from.
This conversation piece has had the light bulb in his head turn on, and now he has full grasp that things do have names. It really was almost like the scene in The Miracle Worker, when his eyes lit up and he began excitedly pointing at things and naming them (in his own baby-talk way).

Here he is, playing with his cousin Evelyn

And him and the infamous wagon (whose cupholders don't work, by the way!)

See? Taught him how to use chopsticks before a fork. It's all the rage according to Neurotic Parent Weekly.

Matt "helps" Sean with cleaning blinds. I wonder how long it will be until I feel comfortable dropping the quotation marks from the word "help"? Probably a long, long time!



Me and Matt at a park. I can climb higher than him--yay!

Matt goes to get his haircut.

He just loves it!!!! No crying at all! In fact, he took the clippers from the guy and began doing it himself!
(april fools)

In a distorted space-time continuum, the ball is three times the size of Matt, Matt is a flower and the fountain is a symbolic reference to the universe.
(at least, that's what Matt said)
And lastly, here is Matt this morning.
Just thought I would take a video of him going about his daily discoveries of the world. As corny as this is, it really is amazing to watch. Also amazing is how much of a daddy's boy he is! Watch his face light up when he sees Sean!