End of the year update

These pictures are a little late getting posted but still before christmas. Matt had so much fun decorating the tree this year and jacob loved eating the decorations;) matt will look at our tree every day and say "mom our tree looks sooooo good huh?" lol he cracks me up. so here is our year update for anyone who wants to read along.

January-we found out that matt was going to have a baby brother! and josh started working doing the foreclosure cleanouts.

February-matt turned 2 on the 5th

March-nothing really big happened

April-josh and i celebrated our 4th anniversary and softball season started

May-Jacob Michael Hart joined us on the 22nd 3 minutes till midnight weighing in at 9lbs 8 0z and measuring 23 inches.

June-josh started working in st louis 31/2 days a week so we stayed at my parents during the week

July-blessed Jacob on the 4th of July and left for Hilton Head for a 2 week job. (vacation for me and the boys) me and matt stayed in the pool whenever we could.

August- left for josh's family reunion and had an accident almost totally our car the rest of the trip was pretty uneventful after that;)

September-got a new car and headed off for New York

October-not alot happening except for getting aquainted with the area up here and halloween matt was buzz lightyear and jacob was a monkey.

November-jacob started crawling and pulling himself up and walking around the furniture all within about a 1-2 week time period. my parents came up for a visit for thanksgiving!

December- just getting ready for christmas matt is pretty excited this year. Jacob started standing on his own as of today and will be 7 months tomorrow. matt as of today is almost completely potty trained! whoohooo

weighed the boys today matt is 31 lbs and jacob is 17 lbs they both are getting so big and so fun. jacob loves his brother and visa versa they love to play together all the time. miss you all and love you hope your christmas and holiday season is a great one!

this is how i found him watching cartoons one morning he loves his buzz lightyear wings. yes mom he is drinking his reliv for the day there;)

these are backwords but here is the finished product almost to embarassing to put up matts is the a frame and it looks pretty good for a 2 year old course the other one looks like he could have done it too:)

decorating houses this one didnt make it it fell apart as soon as they were finished.

putting the house together he had as much fun doing this as he did decorating it

bowling

This pictures was not frombowling obviously just thought it was cute it was jacobs first actual bath in the tub not the sink cause he could finally sit and he loves it!:)

We all went bowling one saturday and had a blast they had a thing for the boys to use so they could bowl by themselves

matt tried bowling with out the device he finally made it to the end without getting a gutter ball (they had bumpers) but he was going so slow even though he hit pins they didnt knock over :) lol he loved it.

the boys picking out which ball they wanted. everytime we drive by the bowling ally matt wants to go in.

together

I love them all but i especially love the first one with matt kissing jacob on the head, he always kisses him and jacob loves it:)

Christmas card pictures

My mom and dad are here from Missouri for Thanksgiving so I took advantage and had her take some pictures of the boys for our Christmas cards this year, I think they turned out quite good:) we just went to this little park next to our house and these are just a few that we didnt have to fix to make work;) i love these boys and they are getting so big. matt is crazy as ever and loves his brother to pieces and jacob is learning to stand, he can pull himself up now using the table or anything sturdy close enough to the ground for him to use, he still falls but is getting very good ad it.

Strong national museum of play

Saturday we went to Strong National Museum of Play, in Rochester. They have a museum of toys which was fun for Josh and I and also his parents not so much for the boys but then downstairs was a whole area to play in they had a minature grocery store that matt could shop at and put his groceries on a minature belt and check out all by himself, they also had a carousel and train that they rode, the big boys built block buildings, we went to bear country where the berenstein bears live and got to play there, sesame street was there and matthew was able to be on tv with elmo, the count, abby, and another character where they did different things matt loved elmo the best and sang the abc's with him, he couldnt take his eyes off the tv he was so interested, then he got to be on tv and be a weather man. there was much much more that we did there but i only got a few pictures it was so fun we spent several hours there and could have spent way more, we ended up getting a pass so we can go back all winter, it will be a good outlet for matt and jacob (they have stuff for all ages and sizes) on yucky winter days.

just for fun

i cant believe he is crawling already!! although he's not really crawling he rocks and then pounces:) but he gets around non the less. Jacob also has 2 teeth on the bottom and loves them, they are sharp little suckers and he loves to chew on fingers. of course i had to get pictures of matt because i had the camera out, he has become quite the ham and always wants to take pictures which is quite the opposite from just a month or so ago, so being the big brother that he is he held jacob for a group pic then jacob spit up on him and this was the reaction, i couldnt help it:) it would have been much better if i got a video.