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