Mateus at 11 months....

Is finally crawling! (or crawl/scootching) but he's moving nonetheless!  And now he seems to gravitate towards Nala's food, TV chords, cable box, and bathroom drawers.  Who needs toys when there are so many more interesting and unsafe things to play with.

Mateus had his first birthday photo shoot the day before we tried to take this picture.  This was the only decent picture I could capture and I think he is telling us "enough already with the pictures!"  He was however a trooper at the photo shoot and quite the ham in front of the camera.  He then proceeded to flirt with the sales girl at the Body Shop and "talk" (or sqawk) to try and get another child's attention.  Just a typical Friday night at the mall with Mateus. :-)

          He was more interested in watching other kids play on the playground than looking at the camera.

 It was a beautiful weekend and so we took advantage and went to the park.  I wanted to let Mateus have the opportunity to walk around (with my assitance) the playground and explore the big climbing toys.  Just after a few steps this is the pose he took as he has not yet become comfortable wearing shoes and stepping on the ground.

Did I mention that he is fascinated with other children?  Again watching more kids run around.  He couldn't get enough!