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Today is Matty's one week birthday! It's hard to believe that it's been a whole week since he entered our lives and stole our hearts. On February 25th at 11:05 AM, Matty entered the world at a whopping 10 pounds 5 ounces and 21.5 inches long.

For the most part it's been a smooth ride with a few minor bumps along the way. Although rocky to start off, Matty has become a champ at sleeping and eating. He lost a pound from his birth weight before being discharged from the hospital, but he's already gained half of that back. We're going to the pediatrician again tomorrow and I strongly suspect that Matty will be back at, or very near, his original birth weight. As far as sleeping goes, we've been able to sleep for 8-10 hours with typically only one wake up - we can't complain!

Although he's a hefty guy, he's not chunky or chubby but just very tall and well proportioned. He's surprisingly wearing new born size clothing and still swimming in anything sized 0-3 or bigger; it's hilarious! Unfortunately we only have a few NB sized outfits so we're recycling through them quickly! We need to get out and do some shopping, but it's been too cold to take Matty out.

He loves to just hang out... he spends lot's of time in either mommy or daddy's arms, unless one of his grandparents are here, then mommy and daddy lose out ;-)

You can view all of our photo's by clicking on the link to the right, but here are some of my favorites.

We have also realized that Matthew has a large number of nicknames already; Matty, Burrito, Bud (Pepere's nickname for Matty), Homeboy (guess who), Chooch (don't ask), and The Boy (we stole this one but it fits so well!). The poor kid is going to have an identity crisis before he hits 1 month.

This has, hands down, been the most exciting, special, exhausting, emotional, and best week of our lives. We have no idea how we ever lived without Matthew.

A special thanks to everyone we've seen so far and we're looking forward to seeing the rest of you real soon.