Drill Sergeant Uncle Matt

In a few weeks Matt will officially become the newest member of the Johansen Family. Matt has taken on the roll of "Uncle Matt" quite nicely. He loves them and the kids ABSOLUTELY love him. All Melly talks about is Katie-Matt.

The following story is one reason we are welcoming him so easily into the family. One of the first times Matt came around he gave us the following tip to help Alex learn to crawl sooner, "You should put popcorn down in a path and he will learn to crawl trying to get from one piece of popcorn to the next". It soon became a recurring joke that someone would always suggest "the popcorn trick".

Lately Matt has found it his duty to teach Alex to walk... although he's been telling all of us for the past five or six months that Alex is ready to walk. Kind of funny right, seeing as how that would make Alex about four months old at the time.

Tonight Matt was working on standing drills with Alex. They've been practicing these for three weeks now. Alex doesn't seem to be progressing as quickly as Matt would like.

We started teasing him about being Drill Sergeant Uncle Matt and he proclaimed that he would start his children on this training program at about two weeks old.

We love you, Matt. Welcome to the family.