21 months

In just 3 months Mateo turns 2! Another year flying by.

Mateo is finally trying to say the words we tell him to. This morning he said Aap (monkey), Essy, Hanne, Leah, Oma, Grandma. I think we have a little Dutch speaker on our hands. The words he often says on his own are Auto (this in excess, think every car we pass on the road gets named and every train/tractor/bus in every book), Kijk (look), Ga Mee (go with), Nog (more).

I did not realize how good he is at pointing to parts of his body. His auntie and cousins are faithful teachers. That is also in Dutch. He gets ogen (eyes) and oren (ears) mixed up, but hair, tongue, teeth, mouth, foot, head, hair, bottom and belly he knows very well.

He is still our little imatator! Sounds, actions, you name it. I really need to film it sometime. It is so precious.

I am glad Mateo's growth is matching up with the season. Most of his long sleeved shirts are pretty short in the arms and his warm pants are getting a little small. We are ready for SPRING!

This month Mateo learned to climb up the ladder alone to go down the slide and to safely get on/off the trampoline (his cousins' of course).

Recently he is acting afraid of the vacuum. He is also scared of toilets flushing, which is just perfectly fine with me. He has not yet discovered that there is water in there!

Mateo is used to the webcam after being on it on a nearly daily basis. He is used that it is Grandma, so he always does tricks for her and comes and brings things to show her. We have also chatted with my aunt and a friend who also has a baby. He is very good about waving and blowing kisses goodbye.

Speaking about those blowing kisses, he blows them anytime I say 'say bye bye'-so he blows kisses to the rabbits, donkeys, cats, houses, people...

Until next month!