"Come What May and Love It"

-Elder Wirthlin (October 2008)


Friday, January 23, 2009

Spiked Hair

This is what happens when a mommy does not have a younger brother. I always wanted to spike John's hair, and he never would let me. Okay, he may have let me do it ONCE.
Nathan was sleeping, and I needed to wake him up. SURPRISE, SURPRISE!!! I laid him on some blankets on the floor. He still would not wake up, so I filed his finger nails, which he never lets me do. He also let me spike his hair. His hair is still coming in on the top, and I cannot wait to spike it all.

Thursday, January 22, 2009


Look at all of that hair. He was almost born with all of it, but it has continued to grow a little.


Three different sweet faces of Nathan. He is such a charmer and
loves to have you talk to him. He has his adorable grin with squinty eyes, his serious but happy face, and his mesmerized look.







Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Mommy Trying to Keep Nathan Awake


Nathan loves to sleep during the day and not so much at night. He goes to bed around 12:30, which is a little late for me. He sleeps like a log during the day though. Thus, I am trying to get him to not sleep during the day as much, so hopefully he will go to bed earlier in the evening. This was my attempt to keep him awake. I tried to play games, sing songs, make funny noises, lay him on his back, and finally lay him on his tummy to keep him awake. He ended up sleeping anyway, so I just turned him over to his back again. He slept on the floor while I fixed and ate my breakfast.
We did have success last night on January 19th as he went to bed at 10:15pm and stayed asleep for 4 hours. It was heaven. Of course I could not sleep at that time because I was thinking about buying strawberry plants (I love gardening) and maybe getting to fly to CO to see my family.

Smiles for Daddy

Nathan loves his daddy. Matt can do this about anytime with Nathan except for when he is showing family or friends of course. Matt says, "Nathan, can you smile for daddy can you smile." Then Matt will show a huge smile, and Nathan will copy his daddy and have the biggest grin ever.

Nathan's Baby Blessing

We had Nathan's baby blessing on December 21, 2008. We had many family members attend. Also, during the blessing, Matt felt prompted to change Nathan's name to Nathan Andrew, which we had decided on Nathan Matthew before. His brother passed away in a car accident a few days after Nathan was born. We want to always remember Andrew's great life, and we are so grateful to have a little one join our family in such a hard and trying time. Nathan is truly a miracle and a gift from God.


Nathan slept all during sacrament meeting and all through his blessing. We were grateful that he was such an angel.



After the blessing, all of the family gathered at our home to have a light breakfast of muffins, fruit, juice, and hot chocolate. It was nice to have everyone gathered together. Nathan was not an angel then. He seemed to cry the entire time. I was back in the nursery most of the time trying to nurse him or just calm him down. He was a little pill, but we still love hime greatly.

Thursday, January 15, 2009

Cute Facts about Nathan

1. When Nathan was only a couple of weeks old, I read him a Baby Einstein book with animals and colors. I found out at an early age that he likes frogs and the color orange because he smiled when I read about both of those. Uncle John will be happy to know that he loves orange already.

2. Nathan can be a very confusing boy when it comes to nursing and changing diapers. He will wake up hungry, but he will not eat well until his diaper is changed. Thus, Matt gets to have a screaming, hungry baby while he changes him. He is much better now, and most of the time he will eat for at least 5 to 10 minutes before a diaper change.

3. During the first couple of weeks, Matt and I could not believe how many outfits and diapers we went through because Nathan would always soak through his diaper into his onesie and sleeper. We even went to Wal-Mart and bought two more sleepers, so that we could have enough. We found out later from Christi that we needed to make sure the elastic part around his leg was pulled out. What do you know, the problem was solved.

4. From the day that Nathan was born, he loved to fall asleep and sleep on anyone’s chest but especially mom’s. He curls his legs and feet under him, so he looks like a little ball. Now at seven weeks old, he will grunt, kick, and push off with his legs to move to the position that he most desires. He almost always wants to go over my heart, probably because that is a very familiar sound.

5. When Nathan is tired or nursing, he loves to reach his little hand back and grab onto his hair. Hopefully he won’t pull it all out. Just recently, he has started to grab onto my hair when it is down or in a pony tail, and believe me he doesn’t like to let go.

6. From the day that Nathan was born up until now, he is a grunter. He grunts in his sleep; he grunts while he eats, he grunts when he is being changed, and he grunts and all times of the day. Everyone who has stayed with his always comments at how much he grunts. It took me forever to get use to his grunts for me to fall asleep because most of the time he is on me sleeping.

7. Now at seven weeks, Nathan loves his changing table. He looks up at a couple pictures of Christ and some baby hands that we have and just coos his little heart out. He will stay there for 10 or 15 minutes just smiling and talking.

8. On January 11, 2009 Matt asked Nathan to smile really big. Matt says,"Nathan, can you smile for daddy, can you smile." Matt then would show him and smile really big himself. Nathan would smile back at his daddy with the biggest smile you have ever seen. He did not just do this once but 4-5 times in a row.

9. Nathan enjoys his bath for the most part except getting undressed, getting out of the water, and getting dressed. I guess he doesn’t like to be naked. He definitely takes after his mommy and wants the room as warm as possible and doesn’t like to get out of the warm water. He likes to lap up some of the water, and hold onto anything. He prefers to hold onto someone’s hand or the back of the mesh dilly dally thing that hold him up. We always sing “Splish Splash I was Taking a Bath” and “Saturday is a Special Day.”

10. At 5 weeks old, we found that if we heated up the hot/cold pack in the microwave and laid it on a pillow in the bassinette with a blanket on top that Nathan would sleep decently. Mom came up with this idea. This was especially during his colicky time. He wanted to feel that heat and think that someone was right there.

11. Nathan has always loved a stuffed Mickey that Michele Felton (my visiting teacher) gave him. He will just stare, coo, and smile, while he looks and admires at it in his crib. He also loves his mobile and will follow the animals around.

12. Now at 7 weeks it is a little harder to get Nathan to fall asleep. He doesn’t just nurse and fall asleep. He prefers to have the Children Songbook CD and someone dancing with him. He likes you to pivot in a circle and go round and round. I normally do that with him 2-4 hours a day. That is the only way I have been able to get him to sleep recently.

Nathan's Coo

Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Baby Naten as Bridgette would say













Baby Nathan is a very happy boy, he even smiled
the day he was born. This is a first smile caught on
camera on January 1, 2009 before we went to Gran's
house for lunch.









Nathan making eyes at Papa and studying him up
and down.














Grammy doing her magic again as she puts Nathan
asleep on his tummy. How does she do that?










Nathan loved his first bath and loves to hold onto
your hand during the process. He still loves his
bath as long as he has a full tummy. One time
while Grammy and I were bathing him, he had an
explosion. Poop went all over the towel, his outfit,
and me. I am glad that we had not given him is bath
yet. Mom and I just laughed.













Nathan was about three weeks old and all ready
for church. Mom sat him on the couch, and he
could sit all by himself (just because the couch
slopes back a little bit).










Nathan loves to reach back and grab the back of
his hair.









Fist picture of Nathan and Papa.













Grammy said Nathan kept sliding down farther
on her legs. I guess he likes to be upside down.













Mom and baby Nathan's first picture together.
Nathan is a little over a week old.













My two handsome boys.