The G-BLog

We've been lucky to be able to go to the pool almost every morning this summer and Matthew is loving it! He loves to swim and he recently has began to learn how to swim without his floaties. He will kick off from the stairs and swim to Leilani who is about 5 ft away. He doesn't have the strength or technique to keep his head above the water but he holds his breath till he gets there and kicks his little heart out. its also been nice because after we get back and eat a snack, I dont have to fight him to take a nap. He will usually knocks right out.

So its been awhile since I have updated the blog, BUT I hope to remedy this soon. The good news is that we are still alive and well. Part of the reason its been so long was I got sick and kind of lost my will to blog.... sorta

About a month or so ago I got a really bad case of Strep throat. So bad in fact, that my throat basically swoll up so much that I couldn't eat or barely drink anything. Lucky for me, Leilani has an AWESOME natural Dr., Dr. Krupka, who fixed me up with some herbal remedy's that, surprisingly enough, started working the next day. The yucky part is that it working meant... *this is the gross part **, that a hole opened up in the top part of my throat to allow the puss to drain out. But with the herbs and the super duper Thieves spray Leilani fixed up for me and of course a preisthood blessing; I was all better within the next few days.
It's probably the sickest I have ever been and I literally thought I was going to die. But I didn't... I was already sold on natural medicine with how it helped Leilani with her epilepsy, but I would never have thought it would help knock out a bad staph infection without the help of modern antibiotics. Anyways, on to better and fun topics!

Leilani is 8 months along now! Time is going by quick; it's go time! We are starting to kick it into high gear to get ready for the birth. Since we are doing a home birth again, it's up to me to get the apartment spick and span for the new edition. This isn't my area of expertise but I'll do my best.


Took this yesterday with Lelani's friend Amy who is about 5 1/2 months pregnant as well. We had a fun morning at the park with them while I took photos of their 1 1/2 year old Timothy. Aren't they Beautiful!


Matthew and Timothy havin fun

4th of July - We went over to our friends the Weismanns, for a fun filled evening of good bbq and fireworks. Matthew had a blast with the sparklers and morning glories, but what kid doesn't!




More updates soon to come... I promise.
- Ailona

I can't believe we have only four months left until the little guy is here. We are so excited!

**The pictures are from 2 weeks ago.

just a few clips from the past week.
Mowing the lawn


quasimoto


Getting the hang of his scoot bike

Time fly's when you're having fun! I can't believe it's already Easter.

We drove up to Dale on Saturday and surprised Helen and the Great Grandparents for an early Easter present. We spent most of the afternoon helping around the place getting it ready for the big lunch on Sunday. Matthew had a blast helping to clean the swings with Grandma Helen and Mow the lawn with me on the riding lawn mower.

On Sunday we woke up early and attended a wonderful Easter church service at the Great Grandparents Church. It was raining most of the morning so we just hung out inside but lucky for us, right about 1pm the sun peaked out and dried everything up just in time for lunch and the Easter egg hunt. One of Lei's cousins, Will, brought along his Girlfriend who has a 4 year old daughter named Ashley. Matthew was so excited to have a Friend to play with. They had fun helping each other out during the hunt. Because she is so much older than Matthew and we figured she could probably find most of the eggs faster than Matty, We divided the eggs up into Boy and Girl Eggs. Matthew could only find Blue and Green eggs, where Ashley could only find Pink and Purple. Surprisingly it worked very well and they even helped each other out.

Thanks everyone for the great weekend!

We finally got to take Matthew to the Rodeo this past weekend. We tried earlier in the week but with over 2 million people visiting it within 3 weeks this year, traffic and parking was horrendous. Matthew had a blast with the animals but the highlight for him this year was the pony ride. He felt like such a big boy riding by himself and he didn't fuss too bad when he had to get off. he mostly got frustrated because they kept stopping so they could take photos of the other kids. we wish he could have gone again but after standing in like for about a half hour and paying 6 bucks for the first ride, He'll just have to wait till next year.

Matthew's Pony Ride from Erich Gellert on Vimeo.

We took Lei yesterday to get a Sonogram to make sure everything was OK with the baby after the accident. Thankfully everything just fine which was a relief. And we were able to find out that we are having another boy! We are so excited to have another boy and give Matthew a Lil brother to play with. Matthew thought the sonogram was "amazing" for about 5 seconds, after which he proceeded to climb up on the chair to look out the window. ooh boy.