Blame Jamie the slave driver, she's had me out in the yard building fences instead of writing blog posts! I have a lot to cover, and my memory is not so good, so you're all just going to have to follow along with my "stream of consciousness" blog post.
Hard to believe it's been a month since Easter already. Matt continues to improve his verbal skills at an astonishing rate. As further evidence of Jamie's slave driving, the other day Matt woke up, and Jamie told him I was outside. Very matter-of-fact he simply said "Diggin".
He is also getting to be quite the helper. He will routinely pick stuff up off the ground and take it over to the the trash stating "Garbah!". The other day I had him in the garage with me while I was working and he started picking stuff off the floor "Dirty. Garbah." I blame Jamie. He does do a good job of helping the yard, with "Weedin'".
Helping with putting on baby locks to keep him out of some drawers. He has to have his own tool all the time.
Still a good eater, loving the "Blues" (bluberries)
We have also found some time for fun. We managed to get the boat out, Matt did a good job of driving, when he wasn't spacing out from the motor vibration and the waves.
This is safer than it looks, and he LOVES Wagon rides.
He seems to watch everything we do. The other day he picked up my keys, and was trying to get in the car. I'm pretty sure he was after his wagon.
We spent some time with all the grandparents, Matt has gotten to go see the Johnson's puppies a few times. Jamie is bad about taking the camera however, but we do have one of Matt lounging with GranDan.
GranDan also taught him the "Get 'em" game with poppy. Not sure who 'em is but they had a lot of fun. Get 'em from Virnig Family on Vimeo.
Thanks to Auntie Tina for the cool summertime hats!
Auntie got this for him, the monkey tail is a leash.
He's incredibly mobile, and with as tall as he is, very little is safe. Mommy left her phone a little to close to the edge of the table.
On Mothers day Matt got a haircut after breakfast, it was getting rather long and shaggy. Special note: When cutting the babies hair after french toast breakfast, it's a good idea to wipe them up first. Check out the beard.
After haircut and nap we made the rounds to the grandparents, first a quick visit to the Johnson's to visit and see puppies, then off to the Cougar Mountain zoo to see the Virnig clan.
Matt got to throw some apples to the reindeer, but his throw wasn't quite powereful enough to get all the way to the pen.
Luckily, reindeer are resourceful.
Who didn't see this coming?
They had some regular deer that you could get closer to. Matt had a GREAT time feeding them apples.
After that we headed to the park, where auntie 'lecia broke out the baby quad. He figured this thing out in about 3 seconds, and was OFF!
Well, it's Easter weekend. We started it off Friday by going to the beach and looking for baby crabs again. No pictures, I mainly mention it because all of the pictures highlight the barnacle tattoo on Matt's forehead. He and I took a spill in the rocks at the beach. Don't carry the baby at the beach wearing crocks. It's a recipe for disaster.
Saturday we played it mellow. Donuts for breakfast and Matt got his very own donut. I think he liked it.
Then we went to Grandma and GranDan's for Easter dinner. Auntie arranged an Easter egg hunt that Matt had a blast with. She put a half of a gummi bear in each one. Matt has learned to say "Gummi!" very well.
Sunday we had grapefruit for breakfast. It was hard to tell his thoughts on it.
After Lunch we gave Matt his Easter basket. Jamie bought the ears, I take no blame.
We also got him some new house shoes. Check the style!
Giving them a test run!
After nap time we went to the park with Grandma and Grandpa Johnson and Aunt Ann. Matt had a great time playing on the swings, with the animals, and in the woods. The got him a great ball, some chalk and crayons, and a truck!
It was all lots of fun and very exciting. He passed out in my chest in the ErgoBaby when we got home. When he woke up we finished our Easter with some delicious mexican food.
Poor Matt at the end of the meal had too do some business. Apparently we fed him too much cheese or something this weekend, 'cause after a few seconds of making "that face" he looks at us and just says "help?" Not much you can do for them at that point though. He ate plenty of beans at dinner. I'm thinking it won't be a problem tomorrow.
