Merry Christmas

I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas, I know we did! We went up to Cheboygan to celebrate Christmas with Grammie, Grandpa, Aunt Lindsay (with baby Amelia) and Uncle Mack. Matthew joined in on the choir of babies making noise at the Christmas eve service at church: Ryan said they are like dogs when one barks they all bark! Matthew had a wonderful time playing with everyone but he REALLY likes to playing with uncle Mack. Mack let Matthew pull himself up by using his hair, what a wonderful uncle! Here is a couple of videos from this weekend. I will have some photos when i get my camera back from up north :(.

Christmas Morning

Don't pay attention to Ryan!

Opening my present!

Thanks for my presents!-Love Matthew

BIg Week

So this week has been a really big week for baby man. Matthew has started to feed himself, hold his own bottle and crawl forward. He started to do all these things since last Monday. Where did my little baby go?

Being a BIG boy and holding his own bottle

We are going to have a pretty busy week this week with our work schedules and Christmas. We  are planning on going up to Cheboygan to celebrate Christmas. Stay tuned for more pictures soon. If I don't talk to you before, I hope everyone has a wonderful Christmas

A couple months in review

So I know that it has been a SUPER long time since I have posted anything. Well lets see what has happened since I have posted last. The week before Halloween we went out the see Chris, Laura and Brynnlee. It was great time. Matthew did well on the 7 hours that we where in a plane (we had a lay over in AZ).

Matthew on the plane

the 2 Matthews

@ the apple orchard

with "grandma" Linda

Brynnlee and her baby

 Then there was Halloween, we had a fun time. We went down to Temperance to see my parents and Jeff, LeAnna and the girls. Matthew was a puppy dog, he hated his costume.

Cora and Matthew

 The weekend before Thanksgiving we went over to Grand Rapids to celebrate Thanksgiving with Ryan's family

Del sleeping on thanksgiving

and also throw a baby shower for Amelia, my soon to be niece ( Ryan's sister Lindsay is pregnant).

The weekend after we celebrated Thanksgiving with the Hooper's we  put up our Christmas tree. Matthew LOVES the lights on the tree and he also likes to push himself under the tree (Matthew is trying his hardest to crawl but he only goes backwards right now, he can only find reverse not drive)

Last Sunday Matthew made his acting debut as baby Jesus in the Christmas program at church. Mary (a member of the teen group) said that baby Jesus was a tank, her back started to hurt by the time the program was done.

Finally this week Matthew was able to get his 6 month vaccinations and well-baby check. It took us 1.5 months to get his shoots since we have been fighting an ear infection and colds. Matthew is 20lbs 8 oz and 27.25 inches

This weekend

We had a very busy busy weekend this past weekend. We celebrated Ryan’s on Saturday and then Matthew and Cora got baptized on Sunday. It was great to have all our families in town for both celebrations.  

Playing and Talking

Another video

Here is a video of Matthew eating Cereal. When I get so time in the next couple of days I will post some more pictures and up date everyone on what has been going on the past month or so.

here is a new video of Matthew playing

Sorry it has been so long since i posted

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnnNMWPvGz0

click on the link above if the video doesn't play

Another video

Sorry

Sorry it has been a long time since I have posted anything but here is a short video of Matthew playing

Growing boy

Here is a picture of Cora and Matthew on May 2nd and another one of them on July 21. He is starting to catch up to her. Cora is 10 weeks older then Matthew

New Trick

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8PWxg3e_Dc

Matthew has a new trick! He is just full of new tricks. There is nothing really new going on here. We are going to go for 3 month pictures on Wednesday this week. He is still growing like weed. The last time we weighed him here at the house he was 14lbs!!

More Videos

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdOSacV97xc

Sitting up like a big boy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=757tWyGynrc

Matthew's new trick

Sorry!!

Sorry that it has been a long time since I have posted anything. Everything is going well here. I went back to work 24hours a week. I wouldn't have thought that 24 hours a week would be a lot to work but with drive time it makes for 2 LONG days away from Matthew :( Matthew is doing well, he is growing like a weed. The last time Ryan and I weighed him he was 14 lbs, he is our Chunky Monkey :). We finally got our video camera back and they where able to save all the videos. I have a couple of videos from Hilton Head. Here are some of the most recent pics I have of Matthew. I need to get some more recent video and pics of him.

Sitting up in his high chair for the 1st time

I love those big bright eyes

"talking" to his friends on the play mat

playing is hard work

Matthew's 1st time in a pool down in Hilton Head

(sorry about the blue color of the video, this is when it broke)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ldm1Tk-XYuY

Updates

Not too much has been going on since the last post. Matthew got his 2 month shots on Wednesday and has been running a low grade temp on and off since then. He is fine other then the low grade temp. Ryan had his first 3 day trip as a captain, he just got home this afternoon. Ry said that all went well ( He is passed out snoring on the couch right now  :)) I have to go back to work on Monday :( I am really not looking forward to it. We shall see how much sleep I get and how it goes. I never thought I could be a stay at home more but now I really think I could.

More pics from the 4th

Wide awake

1st time in Burt Lake

Passed out 

Pic of the day

All the Reynolds Babies

The 4th

We had a good time over the Fourth this year! We went up north and spent it with Ryan's parents and family. Matthew meet some more of his family this weekend. He meet Great Grandma Smith and his cousins Kris and Allyson. Ry and I got to play on the water, while Matthew spend some quality time with Grammie and Grandpa Reynolds. The weather was beautiful up there, 80's and sunny without a cloud in the sky. Here are a couple of pictures I will have more when I get them from Grammie  

 Matthew with GG Smith

Matthew on the 4th

It has been a long time!

Sorry that it has been sooooo long since i have posted anything on here. The big news in the Reynolds house hold is that Ryan is a CAPTAIN now!! I am so proud of him, he did should a good job with all his training. He is all done with training now and home for good! :) We all had a good time down in Hilton Head on our first family vacation. Ryan was able to make it down to Hilton Head for 5 days, which was very nice. I would have some videos to post but... it was so dang hot down there that it took it's toll on the camera and the camera is in the shop right now getting fixed :( Here are some pictures from Hilton Head I will have more when I get them from Dad and LeAnna.

Matthew's 1st time at the beach (he slept the whole time :))

At the beach again

Cora "talking" to Matthew

The whole family at the beach. If you look behind LeAnna you can see my mom

Cora and Matthew with their toes in the ocean

Hanny and Dad having a good time

The Reynolds family on the dolphin watching cruise

Happy Father's Day



Happy Father Day to Ryan and Del. Hope everyone is having a wonderful Father's day. Matthew and I are having a wonderful day down here in Hilton Head with my family. There will some beach pictures to come soon.

Here is the link if the above video doesn't work: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9C9DjQJ8nI0

More Talking!

(the link to the video is below if this one doesn't work)

We really don't have much going on today other then packing for Hilton Head, SC. I'm learning that I pretty much have to pack the whole house for Matthew :) It should be interesting to see how much stuff he needs compared to how much I need. My parents are leaving tomorrow so I need to be packed by tonight so they can take all mine and Matthew's stuff down since Matthew and I are flying. Here is the link of Matthew "talking" more:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_sqxiT0HI0

Bathing suit

the bathing suit that "fits"

normal shorts

Sorry I haven't been on here for a little while. I have had a very gassy baby for the past couple of days. Anyways, getting ready to go to Hilton Head i was trying on his bathing suits to see if they fit. Well it fits around but it is just a little too long :) 

Talking

Check out the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUvgsJHu5t8

Pic of the day

Sorry that I wasn't able to get a pic on yesterday. We had an early morning yesterday because we had to go to the doctor's at 9. LeAnna called me on Monday afternoon and told me that Cora was running a fever and had a virus similar to Hand, foot and mouth. So Matthew was a little warm all day but i just figured he is normally a hot box so i didn't think anything about it. After LeAnna called me and told me that I ran to target and got a thermometer. After I got home I took Matthew's temp and it was 99.3 and then went as high as 99.8 (low grade fever) I called the doc to see what the dose of Tylenol was for a 6 week old and he said do not give any and to come in in the morning so he could check him out. Long story short Matthew is okay the doctor says that he might be fighting a bug but no fever since. Anyways here are some pictures from today

Mommy I give up

Nap time

Pic of the day

Matthew on his play mat today 

Matthew and I don't have much going on today. We are just trying to get back in the swing of things with it just being the 2 of us here.

very late Pic of the day

Sorry I wasn't able to post all weekend. We went to my parents lake Friday night till Saturday evening. The whole family was there Saturday (My parents, Jeff, Leanna, the girls, Ryan, Myself and Matthew) Saturday afternoon aunt Lindsay met us at the lake for dinner then she came back to Monroe with us and spent the night :). Sunday we spent time with Lindsay, Deanna and Eric (Eric met Matthew for the first time). Then Sunday afternoon we had to say goodbye to daddy again :(. Ryan went back to Memphis for more training, he is going to try to come home next Sunday for the day :) Matthew and I had to get back in the swing of just the 2 of us yesterday. I can;t wait till Ryan is able to come him for good, we don't like this daddy being gone business. Here are some pictures and a video from this weekend.

Here is the link to the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBhvdWMhxTo

Matthew resting on the couch after a long day yesterday