Another Matthew Story

This morning I turned on the news to see the weather for the day. I rarely watch the news when the kids are around. Lately we've been talking to Matthew about rain and saying that that's how God waters the earth (because he's always asking "why?" it's raining). Today while the meteorologist was talking, Matthew asked me, "Is that God?" :)

Jacob log rolled across the room this morning....and was laying on his belly and moved his arms back and forth like he was trying to crawl. Uh oh....here we go!

Matthew Stories

Matthew has made me laugh three times today. The first was at about 3 a.m. (and it's hard to make anyone laugh at that time of night!). He came in our room. Usually he will stick his nose in one of our faces and talk to us. Last night he must have decided he needed a good snuggle because he just randomly crawled in our bed and snuggled in behind me. He never sleeps in our bed, so I thought it was funny. I let him lay there for a few minutes and then I carried him back to bed asleep.

The second was at about 6:15 this morning (again, a difficult time of day to make me laugh). He came in our room again. David was downstairs getting ready for work. Matthew was talking to me, but because I was pretty much asleep, I have no idea what he said. I just kept repeating a groggy "uh huh. uh huh..." to whatever he was telling me. Finally he told me, "No, mommy. Use real words."

The third was at lunch today. It was in the middle of a tantrum (once again, a difficult time to produce a laugh). He kept saying "Mommy hold me." I kept saying no because I was eating. Finally, in a desparate plea after I had said no numerous times, he said, "You're not understanding me, Mommy. Hold me!!!"

Special Shoes

Here are Matthew's new special shoes. And here he is walking in them.

Our Little Ham

Jacob has figured out the camera! No matter what he is doing that we are trying to capture, the second he hears the little beep of the camera, he stops, looks up, and smiles! I love it! Here are some shots from our recent trip to the zoo. The first one is self taken of the two of us on the train. Not bad - both of us are in the picture and both of us are smiling!

We had the chance to feed the giraffes. It was our first time. Even Jacob got to try!


And here are some other fun shots from our adventure with Melissa, Natalie and Bradley.

Finger Painting Fun!

Today we finger painted with chocolate pudding. Here's the difference in the development of our children:
Here's Matthew, the typical first child, often doesn't want to get dirty (but then at other times is all boy and has no problem finding every mud puddle in the city!)He painted with "tools" and barely had any pudding on him by the end.



And then there's Jacob...who is currently at a very messy stage of eating, naturally. He had no problem diving right in (literally...) He was delighted to discover the tasty nature of the gooey stuff. He was equally delighted by the bathtub immediately following our activity. So was Matthew - he never passes an opportunity to spend ridiculous amounts of time increasing our water bill!

Freebies

Here are some recent good deals, if anyone is interested.

1. You can get a free 8x10 print from Walgreens today only (Wednesday). Type "MOTHER" in the coupone code spot. They also have "buy 25 get 25 free" for normal prints.

2. If you like KFC (and even if you don't, most people would like it if they didn't have to pay for it!), go to http://www.unthinkfc.com/ and get a coupon for 2 pieces of grilled chicken, 2 sides and a biscuit for free. Print the coupon out 4 times for each computer you have (although mine let me do more)! Good from 5/5-5/19

Precious Picture

I have this picture hanging on my fridge. It was taken when Jacob was 4 months old. I love it. It makes me smile every time I open the fridge. I thought I'd share it with you.

I hope I'm not being illegal by posting this...I'm not reproducing it, just showing it to you, right?

Matthew Tricks

I did a post with Jacob's special talents. Here are some of Matthew's...

The other day I was sitting, feeding Jacob breakfast, and Matthew wanted to go outside on the porch. He closed the door. And when I looked over, this is what I saw.

Mini Milestone

Jacob has really been studying his hands lately. Often while I'm feeding him, he'll hold up his hand in the air, wiggle it around, then slam it down to his side. He's been trying to figure out how it works. Well today at breakfast I had given him a large chunk of bread. He had demolished it and it was all over the place. As I sat down to help him, I watched him pick up a small crumb and actually get it in his mouth!! Go Jacob. For awhile he's been able to pick up small bites with his hand and move them to his mouth, but could never let go and get it in his mouth. But today was the day. He did it over and over and over. Then after doing it a couple times, he held his hand in front of his face, wiggled his fingers, stared for a minute. I could tell he was thinking something like, "I wonder how my hand did that...." We were both so proud!!