Happy New Year!

Like every year, the holidays go  by more quickly than we want them to and we are left with a very cold (and currently snowy) winter ahead.  Mateus enjoyed spending his days visiting and playing with Grandpa and Grandma Heiman and his Aunts.  He went to his first church service (and began saying "all done" less than 10 minutes in), had more sweets than his mother has ever let him have, touched snow for the first time, and has spent a lot of time in and out of his new tunnel.  He just today figured out how to crawl up the entire flight of stairs and nothing is safe in our house as he has an obsession with putting things in the garbage.  We're beginning to see some language growth (making his mama proud!) and he is now signing "milk" and walking over to the refrigerator to get it.  We are working on "yes"  and "fish" as he loves to look at animals books.  I think Mom needs to practice her signs for all zoo and farm animals.  He can't seem to get enough!  Here are some photos from the holidays.....

                                                    Exploring the kitchen on Christmas Eve

                                                         Aunt Sara's baking helper

                                                                 Loving his tunnel

                                                             Car race anyone?

                                                               Hangin' with his Aunts

                                               His stuffed Hedgehog-Thanks Uncle Charlie!

                                                                 Laying with Grandma

                                                                 Grandpa's buddy

                                                                           Snow!

                                                   Discovered his interest in cars at the mall