Three Years Old

Matthew turned three on December 1st. We had a party in Baker Thanksgiving weekend with family and friends. Then on the 1st we had a party here in Bozeman with family and friends. He got spoiled and had so much fun. He went for his three year check-up this week. The doctor says he looks great. He weighs 29 pounds (20th %) and is 39 inches tall (90th %). I am having his hearing tested because although he has an amazing vocabulary, I don't think he pronounces words as well as he should. We are doing that next week.

December 1st, 2007 was the best day of our lives (until April 1st, 2010 came along). Matthew was born 4 years after we started trying to get pregnant. After trying to get pregnant for over a year, we went through 3 unsuccessful intrauterine inseminations from April 2005-July 2005. Then we went through 2 unsuccessful in-vitro fertilizations from December 2005-March 2006. That was all done while we lived in Italy. It was all incredibly heartbreaking and stressful. We moved back to the states and had to wait another year to try IVF again. We doctored in Seattle and in March 2007 had a successful IVF cycle. I was a nervous wreck throughout the pregnancy. After trying for so long it just didn't seem possible we were finally going to have a baby. The day he was born was surreal. He came three weeks early but was a perfectly healthy baby boy. I think it took me months to actually wrap my mind around finally being a mom. He's been an awesome kid since the day he was born. We love you so much Matthew. Now stop growing up so fast!